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You cop some Hip Hop records at Fat Beats then go into Gray's real quick for a hot dog before heading back into the subway. Great times. RIP Grays on 8th and RIP Fat Beats. F*ck gentrification.
I fondly remember their $.50 franks with choice of onions or chili or both. They were tasty morsels.
Many times the place saved my stomach wall after an afternoon or evening of drinking.
Even panhandlers could afford to eat there.
The place was doomed by housing inflation and greedy landlords. RIP.
In this exact order, I used to take the path from nj to 9th street, go to gray's papaya and eat lunch, then go next door up that narrow hot as hell staircase into fat beats. Buy some vinyl, maybe a stretch and bob tape or two if they had any. Go back downstairs outside, get harassed by at least 3 people to buy their mixtapes. If it was Percee P selling it, I would at least buy it. Then walk up a block to 9th st, go to balducci's, get some groceries for my aunt, then walk down to the west 4th subway stop, I think it was under the cvs or duane reade, can't remember right now and take the F train to 2nd avenue stop to go drop off the groceries to my aunt in the east village. Like clockwork I would do this twice a month, man I miss those days.
Was it also Gray's Papaya at 72nd and Broadway, or was it someboy-else's Papaya?
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