"On Every Block in NY City" part 1

what's next to be nailed?

one time a friend had some profundity wannabe that i have a feeling he got form some jerk comedian, that held that  on every block in NYC is a gun store, an Off Track Betting, and some other vice related place i think, maybe a pawnshop but i wasn't paying attention by then. 


of course it was bullshit then (90s i think) and bullshit now: NY has always had strong gun laws believe it or not (supposedly our guns in crime come from states with weaker laws). 


and OTB wasn't hugely prevalent then, and it's i think completely gone recently. for better or worse. something that became a bit of an institution;  almost bitter sweet that it's bust now. as i've written before: in NYC, there's no such thing as too big to fail.


seems to have  come in continuation of  the NYC  war on vice: strip joints moved and closed, cigarettes taxes thru the roof, now the betting parlors.