Can’t Stop the Bleeding: Where’s The Mets’ Compassion For Jane Jarvis?

Instead, prompted by the below story from the New York Times’ Glenn Collins, I’ll pose the following question : if the Wilpon family can find a way to help Darryl Strawberry so many years after he left the Mets, where’s the organization’s love for Shea’s longtime organist?

To a larger group of Mets fanatics still mesmerized by the team’s glories and miseries in the 1960s and ’70s, she is legendary for the renditions of “Meet the Mets” and “The Mexican Hat Dance” boomed on the mighty Thomas organ at Shea Stadium.

But now, at least temporarily, Jane Jarvis is something else: a displaced person.

Last Saturday’s crane collapse forced Ms. Jarvis, 92, to leave her apartment building at 311 East 50th Street, adjacent to the four-story brick building that was crushed in the disaster. She lived in one of 300 apartments that were evacuated, and thus entered a small population of Manhattanites who, while not injured in the collapse, have found themselves living in the odd twilight between victim and survivor. Some have found refuge with friends, others in hotels, others in shelters.

“They got us out of the buildings so fast,” she said, “all I had was my pajamas and a fur coat.”