Re: Alt Coffee RIP

On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:21:48 GMT, Jeffrey Pawlan
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Marshall wrote:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/08/nyregion/08coffee.html?em&ex=1176177600&en=1b8e4248fceb7a28&ei=5087%0A

Thank you for posting this and also thank you for the interesting
replies. It gives me some insight into one of the differences between a
New Yorker and me who was born and raised in California. I don't
appreciate the grittiness aspect of any city and did not realize that
others value it and even seek it out.

"Grittiness" has always attracted creative and/or rebellious young
people. It's what made legends of Greenwich Village, Montmarte and
Soho. It's affordable and doesn't remind them of the suburbs in which
they grew up. When they begin to raise children and look at private
school tuition, most return to their dreaded suburban origins.

Marshall
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