[miserare]

It’s a shame. This area was so great in the fifties, and also the nearby Village. In the summer, strolling the neat clean streets, shopping at Klein’s on the Square. Lunching at fantastic restaurants.

On a summer evening , going to the music clubs, enjoying improv comedy or the pickup dixieland bands. Then later, slumming at places like Mona’s. A late night coffee at a quaint bistro.

You could meander through the streets, take in the ambience, then go home with your girlfriends on the Subway after midnight, unafraid.

You saw the Boys in Blue on foot patrol all over, chatting with the residents, keeping an eye out for the tourists, and sometimes flirting with a young Audrey Hepburn look-a-like.

NYC will never be like that again.

[Safetgiver]

SO!! You are saying Audrey Hepburn screwed everything up. ???? THASS RACIST!!

[frank ballenger]

Thanks for the vivid post. I went to the area on vacation a few times. Too bad things devolve.