[tcrlaf]

I remember when Times Square was full of porn shops, and drug dealers were standing in long lines along the walls hawking their wares...

[Focault's Pendulum]

I remember when Times Square was full of porn shops, and drug dealers were standing in long lines along the walls hawking their wares...

Yep! Things were better then.

[tflabo]

Overrated, expensive, cluttered, glitzy on crud stained concrete-—a morass of foreigners gawking after vapid midtown vanities of little lasting value.
They can have it...pony up the cash suckers as NYC drills deep into the multi-diverse wallets as a univeral equality of extortions.

[oh8eleven]

I remember when Times Square was full of porn shops, and drug dealers ...
After I got married I took my wife to NYC for her first visit. She was born and raised in Rochester.
While driving thru the Times Sq area for the third or fourth time my wife asks me,"Why are there so many women standing in the doorways ... it's not raining?"
I said they were waiting for the bus. She followed that up with - "I'm seeing the same women over and over. What time does the bus come?"