To me, downtown is still more interesting than the suburbs will ever be. I don't know, but the flying horse seems to be a good sign of a less provincial downtown. Courthouses are daytime buildings. As long as anyone around today can remember, people have always worked on the block where the flying horse now floats. There were apartments above the small businesses that occupied the block.
Nobody lives there now but the flying horse.
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