I’m reading a book about Sonic Youth and dreaming I were in the NYC of late 70s/early 80s populated by painter/musician/performance artists fueled by post-punk reactivism. Still hard to believe that even in apocalyptic NY, Soho was already unattainable and in Alphabet City you could just barely rent a crap room looking out on junkies and prostitutes. But SY thrived in that environment.