Dark Days: Life in Crack City

Michael A. Gonzales @ The Weeklings - It was a chilly spring night in 1984 and I was returning uptown from my cashier job at Miss Brooks, a fast food coffee shop located near Rockefeller Center. Working from four to midnight, after closing a few of the staff usually went out for drinks. By two a.m., I'd downed one more pint before walking over to Columbus Circle with the short order cook Xavier.  Read more.