What a neat account! Thank you for posting that. Btw, for years, when I would tell people about the flea circus, they’d look at me as if I’d completely lost it. Nobody who hadn’t lived in NY at that time or at least wasn’t very well read about odd historical facts could even imagine it.
I'm sorry I was never able to see this. But I was able to play against the tic-tac-toe chicken on Mott Street! ;-D