By Bob Shuman Even in a gentrified East Village (now old news), there is an abandoned mattress on Second Avenue, police barricades at the crossing, the trash of paper shopping bags, and plastic deli containers, strewn across the pavement. It’s fifty years since the Bicentennial—where does the time go?; now it’s Americas 250th birthday—and fifty […]
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:20PM on August 3, 2026