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Hie, Romy and Foxy just stayed here at Fingernails for a while on their way back East! I heard alot about the bad new changes.

I was horrified to hear they cut down all the trees around Grace Church, Broadway at 10th Street...as they are building a new gym there.

She said there were posters saying that the trees had 'lived out their full cycle' or something like that... to justify cutting them down. HOW HIDEOUS.

And that "they" tried to tear down (or have continued to tear down) St. Brigid's Church on Avenue B. Smashing stained glass windows and rolling over pews fom the 1820s with bulldozers. The only people who protested were Catholic in Ireland...?

And now there is a whole new thing being zoned called a "Condo Hotel.." Meaning you own a cubical, that you only live in now and then, that you can then rent out to tourists...?

It sort of sounds like living in an elevator.

So NY real estate continues to proliferate as a money-sucking entity. Is there any place like 'home' there?

Romy is a treasure-house of these kinds of horror stories.

Finally I said, Let's try not to think about all this horrible crap and just gaze at the mountainside. She concurred.
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