With the construction next door at 505 Haggart Street, I’d thought things were turning a corner. But now construction has begun at 503, two doors down from me. On Saturday there were people coming out of 503 with debris and throwing it into a dumpster in front of my building. Which was distressing, because at least at 505 there has never been weekend work, except once for the emergency chimney intervention. Whereas at 503 they’re doing off-hours work right off the bat, in the demo phase, which bodes poorly. Of course, saying that 505 Haggart is next door is not really adequate. The preposition that can capture the relationship between my apartment and 505 Haggart Street doesn’t exist. The only thing separating my apartment from 505 right now is about three layers of lead paint. That has been true since the first day of the demo, when they stripped out the walls on their side, leaving a negligible and highly permeable barrier.…