Originally Posted by
WhyFi
What timeframe was this? Having only lived in NYC in this millennium the uh, grittier days are interesting to me. In my time, everything between PP and the BB has been pretty well-to-do, but I imagine that it would have been very different then.
Would have been the summer of '77. That route wasn't particularly gritty except a few stretches under the FDR drive and Park Slope was always pretty elegant.