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...couple of years. The fifth floor is gutted. He and his crew now use it as their clubhouse. Baby Love uses the roof as an escape route from police. He jumps across a yawning chasm to the next building, then he is down the stairs and away. "We be doin' this when we drunk," says Baby Love with an impish smile. A born hustler, he is slick at pool and dice. He gambles Friday nights in front of BeeGee's candy store with men who feed him chiba chiba, a Puerto Rican expression for an especially potent kind...
...first, fireworks went off, 3,631 balloons were released and Stan the Man himself was making his way across the infield to offer his congratulations. In the locker room afterward, Pete was handed the telephone. "This is Ronald Reagan," said the voice at the other end. "How ya doin'?" grinned Rose. Said the President: "I've had so much trouble getting this line. I think I had to wait longer than you did to break the record." Replied Pete: "We were going to give you five more minutes and then that...
...York City was never in a sorrier state. Increased crime, impossible subways, broken-down buses, messed-up schools, filthy streets. Are these the accomplishments of a great mayor? My answer to Ed Koch's "How'm I doin'?" is "Not good, buddy, not good...
...black hat, who is holding a letter, perhaps conveying bad news. The room is a trove of bric-a-brac: a bogus Oscar inscribed to "Ed Koch, Mayor for Life"; a trophy from the Friars Club; sheet music of an old song called "How'm I Doin'?" (Koch seems curiously remote from these toys, as he does from the bizarre Pee Wee, a giant black-and-white wooden rabbit that sits in his bedroom in Gracie Mansion.) There is a sculpture of Romulus and Remus under the wolf, and a photo of the mayor on top of a camel...
Shopkeepers and street vendors have not tempered their renowned surliness; cabbies don't bother to ask "how ya doin', how doya like da city?" as they did in Detroit. The streets, even way downtown in Conventionsville, are dirtier than ever. City Hall's half-hearted promise to round up prostitutes and other undesirables has resulted in increased police presence and improved arrest statistics but little substantial change on the sidewalks and in the alleyways below Times Square, where New York's regulars push and show to keep pace--whether or not there happens to be a convention at the Garden...