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‘City’s Elegant Chinese Dining in Crisis’
The astronomical rent hikes are making all small businesses that meet everyday needs obsolete [Food & Drink, “City’s Elegant Chinese Dining Crisis,” July 11, 2007].
It’s not only the Chinese restaurants described in “City’s Elegant Chinese Dining in Crisis,” which also don’t fit the dining wants of younger generations, but other eateries, especially diners and “coffee shops” many depend upon as a home away from an otherwise isolated home.
As for music, well, Lenore Skenazy’s column welcoming back WCBS old music format, would be better news for the pre-rock generation if the format regularly included music by Frank Sinatra, Bill Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, and other great pre-rock generation singers and, of course, the big bands like Basie and Miller etc. [New York, “Oldies Are Goodies Again in New York,” July 11, 2007].
We lost all that on radio almost a decade ago.
But no effort is made to provide public places such as restaurants or music and entertainment to unite generations.
Age segregation in these and other ways too is the apartheid we most need to overcome.
Saving small businesses and affordable restaurants and other public places is essential to the everyday overall health of the city.
BETTE DEWING
Columnist
Our Town
West Side Spirit
New York, N.Y.
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