Former Yaffa Cafe

 This is a picture of the former Yaffa Cafe, on St. Mark's Place:

Former Yaffa Cafe.

The Yaffa Cafe opened the same year I moved to New York. I went there a couple of times with friends of mine. It was new, we were new… it was the thing to do!

Eventually, we stopped. I mean, it was just a cafe. There was nothing special about it.

Now it's gone, and so are the people we were then. Fortunately, our shells don't remain behind, like cicadas, and like Yaffa Cafe!

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