Miss Marmelstein, are you New Yorker, as I have been for that last 31 years? Or are you a New York liberal?
Giuliani did indeed transform Times Square...for the much, much better.
Can I assume that you dream for the old days when Times Square was full of drug addicts, prostitutes, bums, porn shops and petty criminals?
What absurdity led you to connect the incident of the male model to one of Giuliani’s greatest triumphs?
Good grief.
If you read my post in any objective manner, you would see that I disagree with 3 administrations who tried to turn this area around without success. If you think modern day Times Square is a fine place to hang out, so be it. I think it is just as awful as it was in the 1960s - only with worse lighting, terrible chain restaurants, national brand name stores instead of the great mom and pop stores of yore and our own, indigenous bad restaurants. If we’re going to do terrible, let’s do New York terrible: Tad’s Steakhouse, the Kon Tiki Room and the late, lamented China Bowl.
Please keep your personal abuse to a minimum, thank you.