The Remnants Of Old New York In The Modern Day Metropolis
Old New York. It still exists. Like a magical faery world only visible to those with the gift of special sight, Old New York prevails even in the present day metropolis.
Think about Times Square, for instance. It’s one of the most rebuilt places in all the city. In its latest incarnation, it’s something of a Disneyland version of urban America. Yet past all of the glitz and glamor, all of the suburbanesque clean-and-scrub of gentrification, Old New York lives on.
Not simply as old-time stereotypical New York electronics retailers like Lafnac Digital Computers, and not even in the form of Broadway’s Great White Way. No; Old New York lives on in the quiet lives of the few remaining residences of Times Square, where people in fact live inside apartments right around the corner from all of the sights and sounds. Regrettably, if increased property values have got any say, old and new will soon meet in the form of heavily gentrified housing – even in Old New York.