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Thu
9
Nov '06

Dateline: Lower East Side

It’s not your father’s neighborhood anymore.

I’ve been coming to visit the lower east side of Manhattan for the twenty years that Davey has lived here. My first visits were to a pretty gritty and rough neighborhood of bodegas and crackheads. No more. I walk around with my wallet in my back pocket, the bruiser son smacking the baseball bat in [...]