A lot of New York has been sanitized, for sure, and while it's nice not to get knifed in Times Square, you still need some of that grit. There was a time when New York's theme song wasn't by a pretty young blonde girl named Taylor.
When I was last in town, I was surprised to see Wonderland (the card and toy store) still standing only a f…
A lot of New York has been sanitized, for sure, and while it's nice not to get knifed in Times Square, you still need some of that grit. There was a time when New York's theme song wasn't by a pretty young blonde girl named Taylor.
When I was last in town, I was surprised to see Wonderland (the card and toy store) still standing only a few blocks away from where Anthony Faucci grew up. I assumed that Wonderland was a shop that would've been eaten up a long time ago, but I guess that area of Brooklyn is too far away from Manhattan to be attractive for most transplants (or it's simply easier to kick out poor black people from Crown Heights than white people from Dyker Heights, some of whom still have mob connections).
A lot of New York has been sanitized, for sure, and while it's nice not to get knifed in Times Square, you still need some of that grit. There was a time when New York's theme song wasn't by a pretty young blonde girl named Taylor.
When I was last in town, I was surprised to see Wonderland (the card and toy store) still standing only a few blocks away from where Anthony Faucci grew up. I assumed that Wonderland was a shop that would've been eaten up a long time ago, but I guess that area of Brooklyn is too far away from Manhattan to be attractive for most transplants (or it's simply easier to kick out poor black people from Crown Heights than white people from Dyker Heights, some of whom still have mob connections).