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Kids finished Flushing Rec Center street hockey and basketball with tournaments.  Played a bit with Chris Kotsopoulos.  Junior Nicks and Junior Rangers.

New Yorkers are not known for their kindness.   Ok, we have a reputation for the opposite.   And, I’ll be honest, I’ve experienced that negative reputation when a stop light turns green, or when thinking in line at a Deli counter (don’t think, order!).    But I’ve experienced the opposite too.   New Yorkers are regularly exhibit random acts of kindness.   I’ve seen people chase someone down to return something that another person dropped.   I’ve seen multitudes of people give money to complete strangers who are begging on the sidewalk or subway.   I regularly see people offer their seat to others on the subway.   Often, I observe strangers helping strangers up the stairway with their luggage or baby strollers.    These random acts of kindness don’t get our attention because of the random acts of rudeness that   If one person is rude, two are kind, and seven are ambivalent, which do we remember?   The one rude person is the most memorable and moves the rude reputation forwa