Sublet on Thompson St
A friend from high school told me about a sublet on Thompson Street. It was a perfect location for a student at NYU. Norman Fayne, a heavy man with stringy hair and wire-rimmed glasses, showed me the apartment on the second floor. It was the one just above the barbershop with the large, sun-faded headshot of teen heartthrob David Cassidy. The apartment was tiny; a small kitchen area with a metal stall shower that was raised a foot off the floor and an old-fashioned water closet with a chain pull from a toilet tank mounted above the commode. There was a loft just large enough for a queen mattress and a wardrobe closet beneath it. The window opposite the closet looked down onto an alley and into the empty... Read more...
