Fears Attack At Night
To The Editor:

It's 6:30 p.m. I am just getting off the water taxi from Manhattan, after a long day of work. The water taxi pulls up to the Long Island City (LIC) dock. The few people who are also getting off with me have a fast walk about them, each heading towards their parked cars and racing off, leaving only dust in their tracks and leaving me at this totally dark and lonely place, the water taxi parking lot. The only lights that I see are flickering from afar and the moon above, which lights up the night sky, is what lets me see the ground I walk on. As I walk, or should I say "speed walk", I am surrounded by shadows lurking all around me, shadows that are images of what's already there, but for me they are scary shadows that are moving all around me, but these are just the shadows of parked cars, overgrown bushes and the shadow of myself leaving the water taxi parking [lot]. The shadow that I see of me greeted by the street light which illuminates the entrance to the unknown, which is the entrance of the water taxi parking lot. This lighted area I call my "safe zone". I call the entrance to the parking area the "unknown" because you don't know what you are going to find once you enter or before you exit the water taxi parking lot. The only lights in the area that work are located on the street. My greatest fear, and I am sure the fear of so many others, is upon entering or before exiting the water taxi parking lot, when those shadows turn out to be an image of someone attacking me. Can someone help?

A concerned LIC resident. Jimmy Vargas Long Island City