Submitted by Ellen, Dec 19, 2006 22:02

"Until fairly recently the Bowery always possessed the greatest number of groggeries, flophouses, clip joints, brothels, fire sales, rigged auctions, pawnbrokers, dime museums, shooting galleries, dime-a-dance establishments, fortune-telling and lottery agencies, thieves markets and tattoo parlors, as well as second and third rate theaters," the director of Eastern Consolidated Properties, Alan Miller, said. Alan Miller? More like Luc Sante. That's direct quote from his book 'Low Life'. But, as much as any error can be appropriate, it is; that book came out around 15 years ago, and this entire story is also dated. The hyper-development of the Lower East Side is nothing new. Unfortunately.

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