Editorial issues There are points where Highsmith betrays her lack of familiarity with 1980s New York City I d like to find a source that comments on this I find it distracting and careless and I wonder why her publisher UK or US didn t think these things worth fixing No New Yorker has ever ordered a white coffee or handed someone a fiver or written The Bronx with a capital T By the 1980s the police were not the fuzz even ironically and Chelsea is Chelsea or perhaps the Chelsea neighborhood never the Chelsea district The video arcade where Ralph works is on Eighth Avenue in the 80s which doesn t exist since that s Central Park West Then without explanation it s on Broadway in the 80s And nowhere in the West 80s would one have found anything like the arcade as described not even in the 80s when NYC was going through a very rough period