” ‘Across the street was the New York Doll Hospital,
a toy repair shop,’ he told Lenny Kaye in an interview
for the Bob Gruen photo book New York Dolls (2008).”
See as well other posts now tagged Smiley’s Neighborhood
in honor of the novelist known as John le Carré.
The novelist’s nom de plume suggests another tourist’s tale —
“Before 1788, the French Quarter encompassed the entirety
of New Orleans. Today the ‘old square’ (Vieux Carré ), a
six by twelve block parcel of land set on the inside of a bend
in the Mississippi River, remains New Orleans’ most definitive
area.” — https://www.frenchquarter.com/sightseeing-in-the-old-square/
