one for the l.e.s.

I've lived in the east village on and off for almost 10 years. When I was in Highschool I spent a million nights down around avenue A trying to get in to night spots, half the time wound up passing the time smoking cigarettes, drinking and watching the crazies pour out of Tompkins Square park. Things are different now, some say for the better, some say for the worse... like all of New York, it's becoming more and more unfamiliar...
Here's to a time that I caught the last tastes of in the Lower East Side. It's hard to believe these are the same streets...