Can it be spring in the East Village without the "young, tattooed visitors carrying backpacks and bedrolls and wearing clothes so stiffened as grit that they have come to be known in the neighborhood as crusties" in Tompkins Square Park? It might have to be, because the group has been largely absent so far this season, according to the Times. EV Grieve hears that the decline of Crusty Row is the result of an NYPD crackdown. Locals have already taken to lamenting this through poetry, so all may yet be right with the world. [NYT]
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