HOW I STOPPED WORRYING & LEARNED TO LOVE THE ELMOS

I will always love Times Square because it's one of the few parts of Manhattan that is completely honest about what it is — a depraved tourist trap, surrounded by some of the most soulless neighborhoods and business districts American capitalism has crafted. It is ultra-commercialized, offering the most dense, tall, bright, exciting version of what you find at any suburban shopping mall. And it isn't sorry about it for a second.

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