“Why not?” she asked, looking hard at the building. All she saw was an ancient house.

“Well…supposedly there’s a gang in this neighborhood and rumor has it that that’s their meeting place. Besides which it’s just sketchy looking. And I know that people go there to shoot up, buy drugs, etc. Just…try not to go anywhere near it, especially at night. There have been a few murders in that house, and right around it.”

“Oh…ok,” she said, staring even harder at the building. Despite what she knew about it now, it still looked beautiful to her, in an odd way…like something she wanted to take pictures of.

“Here, come on. We’ve got one more stop before we can go back and watch your movie,” he said, grabbing her wrist to catch her attention.

“Ok. So where is this mysterious place?”

“Well,” he said,”it’ll take awhile to get there. We’ve gotta take the subway again. But you definitely have to see this if you’re gonna live in New York.”