Avenue A - Circa 1991

I got here from an article in the times

Love the b&w memorial day pics.

I was turning 15 that year of the riots. I grew up around the corner from the park and by that summer I was long accustomed to madness. Growing up around here in the late 80’s/ early 90’s was, I think, more dangerous than implied by the article-- but there definitely was something magical about it.

We used to blame our problems on the rich suburbanites driving into the city to but drugs, now we blame them for building $1200 psf condos.