[jboot]

JH is in a regular hellpit. Like most urban combat zones it is fairly safe in the morning while the thugs are still crashing. But when the thugs are away a lot of really pushy beggars and prostitutes come out to play. Most of them won't hurt you. But they will follow you right up to the door.

At least the squeegee kids are gone. Twenty years ago you needed $20 or so in small bills if you intended to get to and from JH withot your car being scratched up.

[EDINVA]

Yes, it never ceased to amaze me that I could stand in the lobby of the nation’s preeminent hospital and think of its being totally surrounded by nothing but rot. It really is a fortress when you realize all of its buildings that encompass city block after city block, are connected internally, and there’s no need to step outside (fortunately).