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Not discussed by the group but written in a club capacity. One reviewer criticises constant name-dropping. New York, in seedier times, is brilliantly captured. You slept until noon, put up with seemingly interminable strikes, and wore a whistle around your sortie in case you were attacked in the street. The author admits to selective memory.

He is ion sex late sixties writing about his life in his twenties and thirties. Our apartment was robbed once, despite all the gates on the windows and the police lock usa stout metal standard that fitted into a socket on the floor and braced the door against intruders. Everyone we knew had had his or her apartment burgled.

The thief had torn the inner pocket out of his overcoat and was able to point the pistol inconspicuously at us, the gun shielded from view by the bulk of his coat. Not that anyone would have helped us in any event, even if he or she had seen the weapon. Whenever we went out in the evening, we always left the radio and a light on to discourage thieves.

We walked in straight lines down the sidewalk and only at the last moment did we veer off toward our door, not gay to signal our intentions or our vulnerability to a watching mischief-maker. Subway toilets were always being locked shut. Bars were constantly raided. I remember one, the Blue Bunny, up in the Times Square area near the bar where they first danced the-twist.

There was a tiny dance floor at the back. I can remember a two-story bar over near the Hudson on a side street south of Christopher that was only cruise a week or two. When the cops rushed in, we all jumped out the second-story window onto a low, adjoining graveled roof and then down a flight of stairs and onto the street.

It was filthy and everyone said it was owned by the police. When the building caught fire inseveral customers died. There was no sprinkler system. It was a summer weekend. In the os New York was so shoddy, so dangerous, so black and Puerto Rican, that the rest of white America pulled up its skirts and ran off in the opposite direction.

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Tourism was way down, and guests on talk shows would quite regularly laugh when New York was mentioned, as if that querulous, bankrupt cesspool should be pushed out to sea and sunk. The opposite was true. No one loved New York except us, the gay and artsy misfits from the Midwest. Native New Yorkers hated their own city and were saving up to move to California.

Corporate officers who were transferred to New York demanded hardship allowances and barricaded themselves in expensive suburbs such as Greenwich, Connecticut, and forbade their children to go into the city. Sometimes at the chemical company I met pink-collar workers from Staten Island who took the subway and the ferry back and forth to work.