At a small Friday night dinner party, the whole table ruptured in loud laughter with the following revelation, I only hope my retelling is able to do it justice. A co-op building in the upper Bronx has for years been able to very carefully screen the buyers, keeping them to a very narrow ethnicity, well until just last month. A recent college grad type looking couple, on appearance seem to be able to past their very restrictive appearance test, was invited to purchase a top floor apartment, so they did. What the governing building board committee did not know, nor could they ever know, is of the diversity of the couple’s family and friends. So, it was not unusual, for some long-time residents for the very first time in this building on weekends and sometime late at night, having to spend a few anxious jittery moments, in a small enclosed elevator with people of who knows what ethnic background,  some in extreme religious or cultural garb, at least until the next building shareholders committee meeting is able to find an excuse or reasoning for their eviction, and voting them out, making up some mitigation that will be able to withstand what could be a long term pending lawsuit. It has to be noted that open hostility only invites a hardening of ‘stay put’ newly purchasers, hoping for an expensive ‘please go’ buyout payment…first the table went silent for a long time, continued eating, then opened with loud rowdy laughter all around, that could even be heard as far away as Queens County…