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In article "Is the Best Western at 17 West 32nd Street OK?"
<380B7037.24B618F8@ucla.edu>, Lucy Lisam <llisam@ucla.edu> wrote:

> I'm planning a business trip to NY for November for a convention and
> this place is supposed to be close to it (besides being pretty cheap).
> 
> How is the area?  And is it close to any resturant/bars, things to do?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --Lucy

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The area is kind of special.  Let me explain why.

There is a young, white couple.  She has long, dark, "fried spaghetti"
hair (like Chelsea's).  He (rude, stupid-looking face, and with
lighter-colored hair than she has) used to have a haircut that was either
a short, normal haircut or maybe a flattop haircut that had gone a long
time since a trim.  His hair is now very short.  They get off a
Manhattan-to-Queens subway train at the same Queens subway stop I do, and
they seem to live near me (or maybe one of them lives near me, and the
other lives at least sometimes with that one).

One time, in the daytime around lunch, I ran into them at a bagel place on
the northeast corner of 32nd Street and 5th Avenue, a short walk from the
Best Western Hotel you inquire about.

If you stay at that hotel, you might meet them!


That hotel is in the infamous Manhattan South police precinct.  That
precinct is where there were many cops who, for years (decades?),
feloniously extorted sex from a madam.  In fact, I think that the
whorehouse(s?) involved was (were?) on 32nd Street.  That precinct is
where FDNY firefighters in uniform got into a big brawl (some called it a
small riot) and the only person that the NYPD police arrested was an
innocent (black?) security guard who was lawfully trying to do his job.  I
could go on (and I probably will sooner or later) but I think you sense by
now what kind of cops work in that precinct.