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Old New York. It still exists. Just like a magical faery world only visible to people with the gift of special sight, Old New York exists even in the modern metropolis.

Take Times Square, for instance. It’s one of the most rebuilt places in all the city. In its latest incarnation, it’s something of a Disneyland version of urban America. Yet past all of the glitz and glamor, all the suburbanesque clean-and-scrub of gentrification, Old New York lives on.

Not only in the form of old-time stereotypical New York electronics retailers like Lafnac Digital Computers, and not even in the form of Broadway’s Great White Way. No; Old New York lives on inside the quiet lives of the few remaining residences of Times Square, where people really live inside apartments right around the corner from the many sights and sounds. Sadly, if increased property values have got any say, old and new will soon meet as heavily gentrified housing – even in Old New York.