A Walk On The Wild Side
August, 1983
It begins with a taxi ride to the West Village in Manhattan, near the docks. Medieval map makers would have marked this space with fire-breathing dragons. To the north and the south are wide streets and warehouses; to the west, the Hudson River. During the day, the area is a center of commerce. At night, it is something else again.I have heard about this place from a friend who has been covering the New York sex scene for 20 years. "I thought I had seen everything," he told me, "b...
