This book is rather silly but enjoyable. The story of Nathan Seltzer, a man going through what his toddler calls a "mid-wife crisis" as he wanders through the rapidly-gentrifying East Village in the now-legendary 1980s. There's silliness - such as the psychiatrist obsessed with the Mets. But there's also pathos in the squatters getting dispossessed by the young professionals. And it is all described with a great deal of humanity.