Al and TwoShoes at the Grand Luncheonette in 1994, the year 42nd Street began its flip, and got gentrified. Under Mr. Guliani, the template and birth of large-scale gentrification would unfold, and a large part of it was crime and safety. If the Deuce could be tamed by Gullianis’s new policies, then any neighborhood could be flipped.
And that’s what happened.