I just couldn’t get my arms around what he was talking about– it felt so far-removed and long ago. Maybe he was over-stating it a bit, or maybe I just couldn’t fathom– I’ve never felt unsafe in the city. It was nasty, man.” A chort was about all I could muster-up as a response.
More than a few years back, I was walking up 40th past Bryant Park with my boss at the time, Jay, and he said– “You wouldn’t even recognize this place back in the 70s… you’d have been tripping over hypodermic needles, and fighting off the hookers back then.
