Back in the day, the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City wasn\'t hip, chic, expensive, and yuppified, with a Starbucks on every block.
It was in.
Populated by gangsters, muggers, grandmothers with baseball bats, and parents working long hours on the wrong side of the law to pay for tenement apartments with no view, the place was also colorful, with memorable characters straight out of a Damon Runyon novel.
In fact, it was such a lousy place to live, you could hardly give the real estate away.
Back in the day, the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City wasn\'t hip, chic, expensive, and yuppified, with a Starbucks on every block