Kudos to Transfer for digging up this fun fact with which to impress your enemies and scare your friends:
Manhattan has 25 percent more banks and 80 percent more national pizza chains than it had five years ago.That's from a Washington Post article with the label "Dispatch from an Uncivil City" about NYC's efforts at enforcing quality of life ordinances. The verdict? A mixed bag. Still, don't miss this little shoutout to the paper's hometown readers from downtown resident Bill Dobbs:
The worst of Rudy's prudery has passed, but large areas of Manhattan became very vapid. If that kept up, New York City was going to be as dull as D.C.· New Yorkers Don't Let a Few Laws Get in the Way [WaPo]