“If these walls could talk in this car, oh my God”
On a recent Thursday afternoon at the corner of 86th and Park, a 2021 Honda Accord is idling, kneepadded with bumper guards. Contained inside, barely, is a compact Guyanese woman of 60 with a hasty slash of pink lipstick wearing a Calvin Klein sweatshirt. This is Shanti Gooljar, and this is her fief.
Shanti seems to know everyone who is anyone but can’t yet drive, and she doesn’t mind a little gossip. “Do you know Hamish Bowles?” she asks as soon as I slide into her driver’s seat. “Do you know he wrote an article about me inBut to really know Shanti, I had to learn from Shanti. I too grew up in Manhattan and could use the lesson. Once we’re on the road, Shanti slips off her shoes and directs me to drive to a Dunkin’ on 122nd Street for her afternoon coffee.
We are tootling up Frederick Douglass, then over and around through Harlem, a route she often brings her students on. Some are astonished. “Shanti, where are we?” one asked recently, she reports. “I’m like, ‘This is how the other half lives.’ She’d never seen nothing like this. Isn’t that something?” Stopped short at a light, she switches instantly from commentary to instruction. “Move up, baby. Move up, move up,” she coaxes. “Stop. Clear? Turn. Turn again. Now gas.
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