…in all around I see. It broke my heart, and the heart of many another New Yorker, when the old Scribner’s bookstore on 5th Ave at 48th was bought up and turned into a crack den. Still, you at least had the consolation that the big Barnes & Noble opposite was there for a couple of hours’ browsing when you were in midtown. Then, walking through midtown yesterday afternoon, early for an appointment & with some browsing in mind, I got to the Barnes & Noble… and it has gone! Bought up and turned into (to judge from the decor) a gay bath house. There is nothing permanent. We live in a world of shadows.