I was lucky enough to finally make my way to frequenting Ave A by the time I was 25 and made frequent trips and extended stays between 1986 and 1989. Then for reasons of imposed reality I became stranded in my midwest cornfield between '89 and 2000. I came back to find that toll into the city was actually admission to a perverted amusement park. It was sad to see the cool creative people I knew needing to run like maniacs to afford their space, when they were the one's that made the city the place to be in the first place. Anyhow, it's still the only place like it and maybe eventually the most shallow of the tourists will decide that they really like the corporate shopping malls in the own hometowns better than trivializing a place that's nature is 100% originality.