Pizza,
I am also very new but not a troll
Welcome aboard, Sal
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My question is this: what woukd a very naive tourist exploring the neighborhood have encountered had they gotten anywhere near the Ravenite in the 80s? I know they would never make it in, but can you speculate what may have been the method of 'deterrence'?
You would have been politely chased away. The first time. Really no other way to put it
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And the thing about the Ravenite is, even though it was in Little Italy, and on Mulberry Street, it was just a bit north of the touristy restaurants, up by Prince Street. So if you wandered over there, and you weren't a local, you really stood out.
