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OLD NYC

I was recently in NYC and I had a chance to walk around my old neighborhood. For some reason I felt a bit chocked up as I walked the cobble stone streets of Soho. For me one of the signs that the NYC I grew up in was not the same was that I went to the old CBGBs. I wanted to get a CBGB shirt for my son who is a moody musician. The old place is gone replaced by a John Varvatos store which I must... moreI was recently in NYC and I had a chance to walk around my old neighborhood. For some reason I felt a bit chocked up as I walked the cobble stone streets of Soho. For me one of the signs that the NYC I grew up in was not the same was that I went to the old CBGBs. I wanted to get a CBGB shirt for my son who is a moody musician. The old place is gone replaced by a John Varvatos store which I must give credit for keeping the graffitti walls the way they were in the days of David Byrne, Patti Smith, and of course the Ramones. view page