Lexington Club bathroom scrawl

My neighborhood dyke bar called the Lexington plans to close due to the gentrification of the neighborhood. I found this scrawl in the bathroom and captured it because it reminds me of the character that I like in dive bars, the character that I'll miss as more dives are closing in the city.

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A few years back my rent was raised to market rate, and though it was difficult, we seemed to weather it at first. But as the neighborhood continued to change, we began to see sales decline, and they continued to do so. We tried new concepts, different ways of doing things, but we were struggling. When a business caters to about 5% of the population, it has tremendous impact when 1% of them leave. When 3% or 4% of them can no longer afford to live in the neighborhood, or the City, it makes the business model unsustainable.

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