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Times Square was once a ****** place; You wouldn’t go alone there. When darkness fell, you held on or You’d lose all that you owned there. Today, though, it’s like Disney World, With tourists, loud and surging. There’s not an inch of space unfilled Since everyone’s converging: The families from Idaho, The hawkers giving passes, The Elmos and the messengers, The bused-in high school classes… The lunch-break workers, homeless dudes, The theater geeks and shoppers, The food carts, cabbies and the cops And all the teenyboppers. I love New York; don’t get me wrong But oftentimes I wonder If gentrifying Broadway Might have been a whopping blunder.
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May 17, 2017
May 17, 2017 at 5:59 PM UTC
Times Square
Times Square was once a ****** place; You wouldn’t go alone there. When darkness fell, you held on or You’d lose all that you owned there. Today, though, it’s like Disney World, With tourists, loud and surging. There’s not an inch of space unfilled Since everyone’s converging: The families from Idaho, The hawkers giving passes, The Elmos and the messengers, The bused-in high school classes… The lunch-break workers, homeless dudes, The theater geeks and shoppers, The food carts, cabbies and the cops And all the teenyboppers. I love New York; don’t get me wrong But oftentimes I wonder If gentrifying Broadway Might have been a whopping blunder.
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ilene-bauer
Manhattan
May 17, 2017
May 17, 2017 at 5:59 PM UTC
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