Bump.
Mandami is the symptom. The cancer has been taking the body over for years.
Through its history, NYC has had dark ages. Here comes another.
I still recall visiting NYC with an older neighbor/friend who was going to attend college there in 1977.
We were walking through Times Square in the middle of the day. I was 15 or 16. A very large Black woman axed us : “You boys want a date?” We were boys from the country. We just shook our head and said no. thank you.
I also remember going there the spring(2002) after 9/11 on a company trip. We stayed in a nice hotel right on the west side of Times Square next to Madame Tousos Wax Museum. It was clean. Cops were everywhere.
You could walk around at 1am and feel safe. My boss felt it was our patriotic duty to go spend money in NYC. It was REALLY quiet on the weekends after 9/11.
For a company picture we all assembled in front of PEEPORAMA. “Having a great time in NYC”
This was the last peep show place left in the Times Square area. All the others had been closed down.