October 09, 2003

WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO

WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME: "At least I learned where the Duane Reade drugstore got its name: there are two consecutive streets named, well, Duane and Reade. Duh" -Lileks, from Day 4 of his New York diary. I made the same discovery last year, on the first Length of Manhattan Walk; before that I'd just assumed it was named after some guy named Duane Reade.
Lileks also left a penny in a copy of one of his books at the Barnes & Noble in Rockefeller Centre; I feel like going this afternoon and trying to find it. Sort of like that stunt Michael Kinsley pulled, where he put a note with his phone number in several bookstore books, offering $5 to anyone who found it- in order to prove Kinsley's long-held point that people like buying books more than they like reading them. No one called, of course.

Posted by Stephen Silver at October 9, 2003 08:22 AM
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