“It felt anticlimactic. I was so depressed that I walked past I don’t know how many bars and liquor stores without even thinking about going in. Eventually I reached a subway station. I let my feet carry me down the stairs. I wasn’t in the mood to jump the turnstile. The three dollar bills I found in my pocket looked as if I’d put them through the laundry. I probably had. I bought a Metrocard, hopped the first train that came along, and went home. Home was a fourth-floor walkup in an old-law... tenement on Second Avenue. It was located just a little too far north to be on the fashionable Upper East Side that the old Yorkville neighborhood where Jimmy and I grew up had morphed into and a little too far south to be considered Spanish Harlem. I had a railroad flat. One room led right into the next. I used the room looking out on Second Avenue as a living room. The decor consisted of a battered couch, a faux leather recliner with a temperamental mechanism, and a TV with a few knobs missing.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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