A friend of mine was lamenting about the lost treasures of New York.
"NYC has been thrown into a blender and homogenized into a bland and boring urban pastiche. This city once had character and disparate neighborhoods. Now it's just numbingly the same wherever you go. I was driving around the city yesterday and occurred to me that downtown-uptown, west-east, it all looked the same now. Same store fronts, same hideous developer apartment buildings, same gourmet coffee, same gentrifications, same same....shame."
I know how he feels, for I was in Times Square the day Guiliani closed the XXX shops on 42nd Street.
Their patrons stood outside in tears chanting, "Fuck Mickey Mouse."
Really.
But I think that my friend was speaking about egg creams and luncheonettes.
Vanished without a trace.
All of it for Starbucks.
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