So either NYC or Chicago, there is no park across the street. Both have a park behind that entrance and Chicago also has one to the immediate north. By using this description the author does not get bogged down in specific geography which has nothing to do with the story line.
Refers to when in our youth, your metabolism allows you to stay slim and weight lower. Later in life that is no longer the case and the scale provides definitive proof.
I once attended a funeral where the family got a ‘rent a preacher" for the occasion. After interviewing the family and friends the “eulogy” he came up with amounted to: Well he didn’t kill anyone………………..that we know of!
One person’s treasure is the next person’s waste. Most of the "tags’ in the city are merely gang markings. If you cannot get the permission of the owner of the "canvas’ then your treasure might be only in your own mind.
All graffiti artists think that they are undiscovered Cristo!
So either NYC or Chicago, there is no park across the street. Both have a park behind that entrance and Chicago also has one to the immediate north. By using this description the author does not get bogged down in specific geography which has nothing to do with the story line.