mark binelli the new york. he told me on friday if he hadn't had a dispute with this detroit landlord he would still be part-time or half-time in detroit. i'm sorry that happened. i'm sure you can find some good housing stock in detroit if you're really motivated. first, mark is going to read a passage of his book in the set it up. >> great. thanks, everyone, for coming. i wanted to meet a very short section. it's pretty self-explanatory. it's a description of a neighborhood near where i was living in detroit. you guys probably have seen photos from detroit and hard about how depopulated the city is. it went from 2 million to about 700,000, so there's some neighborhoods that are really no longer neighborhoods, or they are barely neighbors. just a couple houses on every block. i'm going to read you a little bit about one of those neighborhoods. people like to compare the amount of vacant land in detroit to the equivalent sized spaces. all of this could fit into detroit's 40 square miles of nothing or to manhatta