his grandmother lived at 54th st
she was a russian immigrant and had been
in the same apartment for 47 years
his grandfather had been a tailor
and then he opened
an art gallery
he knew a lot of emigres and 
he made a lot of money selling
russian paintings and russian icons
in the sixties he bought hundreds and hundreds of
russian propaganda posters from
a friend in Leningrad
most of them had rotted
in a flooded warehouse in Hoboken,
his older brother stole the rest after the grandfather died and sold
them for heroin.
he subsequently overdosed and died.
the older brother had been the grandmother's favorite.
she doted on him and refused to believe he stole the posters
even after they found several in his apartment.
" Grandpa must have geeven dose to heem."
He rang the buzzer and waited.