The television, for example -- less a television, in the conventional

sense of the word, than a phosphorescent radio. More dire, to my

way of thinking, was the lack of a bathroom. I had access, by

arrangement, to the bathroom in the two-bedroom apartment

under renovation on the same floor. On the third day, however,

someone locked the apartment. A sporting goods store across

the street from Macy's on Herald Square was offering a two-week

membership to the New York Sports Club with any purchase

of a hundred dollars or more; having read somewhere that gyms

have restrooms and showers, I somewhat solved the locked

apartment problem with the purchase of some shoes and t-shirts.

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