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Holiday Shopping in SoHo
“Fuck you, pay me!” — Henry Hill describing Paulie’s attitude in Goodfellas. The new shopping plan from our dear leaders in the DOT where widening the sidewalks to accommodate shoppers (buying from African immigrant sidewalk “shopkeepers”) is what we deserve on Canal Street, right? Well, at least, that’s what we’re going to get. As it…
Mental Health in New York
“Insanity is contagious.” ― Joseph Heller Having worked as a therapist in a NY State psychiatric hospital decades ago and treated mentally ill clients whose psychopathology ranged from schizophrenia to drug addiction, I was not please that a profit-making organization was planning on taking away my ticket to ride. After all, I’d spent years in classes,…
DOT Redux
“You’re either on the bus, or you’re off the bus.” — Tom Wolfe Twenty years ago I was a member of Community Board Two. I was assigned to Traffic & Transportation committee. The DOT sent a few of Bloomberg’s Harvard boys to the meeting to describe the changes that would be implemented in SoHo, the…
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