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    "comment": "Lou Reed was born on March 2, 1942!\n\nLou Reed's song “Dirty Blvd.” from his album New York (1989) represents an indictment of the disparity of wealth in New York City at the end of the Reagan era. The track provides a glimpse of the life of Pedro, an abused Hispanic boy living in the dilapidated Wilshire Hotel on West 58th Street amid luxury residential buildings.\n\nReed contrasts Pedro with the Manhattan elite, empowered by a resurgent Wall Street and a booming real estate market. Pedro is emblematic of the failed American Dream, of the betrayal of the Statue of Liberty to offer opportunity for immigrants.\n\nAs the crack cocaine epidemic batters poor neighborhoods, Pedro dreams of escaping his environs but is destined to end up on the dirty boulevard, where illicit activity is rampant. Blunt and candid, “Dirty Blvd.” is a commentary on inequality in the city, narrated by one of New York's great storytellers. https://tinyurl.com/3a3u4rp4",
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