The purification and commercialization of New York City incites two strong reactions from long-time New Yorkers. On the one side, we have those who credit Rudy Guiliani for "cleaning up" New York City (establishing anti-bum barriers around tourist sites, sweeping hookers out of Times Square, fortuitously presiding over the end of the Crack Era) and making the city a "safer place" (unless you are poor or of color and your neighborhood has yet to fully gentrify). Others bemoan the city's lost character and singularity.
Check out the comments under this Gothamist photo flashback for a demonstration on the disparate opinions.
Regardless of one's take, New York City, especially Manhattan below 125th St., has homogenized. Yet, Penn Station remains a homeless shelter with Duane Reades.
I went to the bathroom at the NJ Transit terminal and saw a giant with six bloated shopping bags shaving at the sink. He snarled at me while I stood at the urinal.
"All these little white faggots coming into these bathrooms trying to suck n - - - - 's dicks. City's not like it used to be."
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