Those who could afford to live in more pleasant surroundings moved out, and the area became one where the vast majority people lived in extreme poverty, and suffered from appalling sanitary conditions.
Those who could afford to live more pleasant surrounding moved out, and the area became one where the vast majority of people lived in extreme poverty, and suffer from appalling sanitary conditions.
Evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice in the borough of Queens, and then sank down himself into eternal blindness or forgot them and moved away.