New York just for teenagers
Forget MoMA and the Staten Island Ferry, said Julie Myerson in the Financial Times. Out-of-town teenagers, having seen countless TV shows set in New York, bring their own ideas about what to do when they visit Manhattan. We strictly ruled out a stroll through Central Park at midnight, but did join them on a tour of the “scuffed record stores” on Greenwich Village’s Bleecker Street. On Broadway, they were particularly ecstatic at discovering Yellow Rat Bastard, a cavernous store stuffed with the kind of inexpensive clothing that kids today crave. Canal Street, on the other hand, turned out to be mostly a string of tourist traps. A highlight was a subway ride to Shea Stadium in Queens to see a ballgame. In the final inning, we felt just like native New Yorkers as we rose to our feet and enthusiastically joined “their screams of ‘Cheat’ and ‘Steroids’ and ‘Disgrace.’”
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