Tag Archives: Times Square

Hot Pants Back Then

January 17, 2015 – 2:27 pm

This morning the thermometer outside the window of the Fort Greene Observatory read a frosty 18 Fahrenheit. My hand touched the glass. It was colder than ice. I bundled up for my walk to the train station, but was heartened by the toasty warmth of the sun. The strength of its glow was not a […]

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Long Ago The Doo-Wop

December 16, 2014 – 11:39 pm

$2nd Street was synonymous with sin in the 1970s. Fucking Rudy Guiliani closed the porno shops and XXX theaters. Disney moved into the vacated premises. Now 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues belongs to fat people eating fast food. A hell of gross consumption. The Minnesota Strip was no heaven, but I liked it […]

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Wickedness Runs In Vain

December 15, 2014 – 9:51 pm

42nd Street was paradise for sin. Satan prowled the streets surrounding the Doo-Wop. It was wickedness at its best and worst. Mayor Guiliani shut it down like Dorothy chucking a bucket of water of the Wicked Witch of the West. “Who would have thought that some little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?” […]

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Big Cars Times Square

October 6, 2012 – 12:29 pm

Back in 1975 the population of the USA was approximately 220 million. Our cars were big and the price of gas was 60 cents a gallon. Manhattan was slightly depopulated from White Flight, so driving through Times Square was fun in a big Detroit car. We also drove big cars, because they were made to […]

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The Frenzy of the Freaked

May 8, 2010 – 6:10 pm

I stand corrected. The lead suspect for the attempted Times Square was not a member of the Mohawk County Tea Party society, but a naturalized American from Pakistan. The Jihad Live from New York has tourists and native New Yorkers nervous about the next assault on the Big Apple. This afternoon the NYPD cleared Times […]

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