I have completely fallen in love with the Village in New York. Marek, what's the matter with you, living in Brooklyn? Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
My one brush with Sven's world: I personally gave John Lennon and Yoko Ono pinko commie literature, passing out invitations to a lecture at the International Workman's Circle IIRC - standing at the famous intersection of 4th Street and 4th Street, no less! - back in the 70s.
There were definite problems with the East Village with poverty, crime, drugs, crumbling buildings, corrupt city government & all the rest of it.
The West Village, even during my time, was slowly shading into being intellectually dead.
