"The city belongs to the hoodlums, the pimps, and the hookers. Bickle starts hoping that 'some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.'" [via]
Tourists marveled at the multicolored glass skyscraper, but also gawked as evidence technicians took measurements and snapped photographs of the crime scene... "They might have cleaned up some of Times Square," said Jason Fallon, who picks up trash for the Times Square Business Improvement District. "But when I get to work at 6 in the morning, it's still all pimps and hookers and hoodlums."
- "Old Times Square Surfaces in Brawl on Eighth Avenue", NY TimesGangs Of New York gets new release date, Dec. 20 (Miramax prexy Weinstein blinks: "The Souvenir November 2001 debut on the 19th made us nervous.")
