Perspectives on my life: Unexpected Chances ---- Chapter 1 Part 2

Several well-known corporations had moved into the downtown area, and millions had been spent to renovate Pennsylvania Station, which now boasted a shopping mall, several office towers, and the Hilton hotel. ... Sandwiched between two busy thoroughfares, ensuring the constant noise of vehicular traffic always hummed in the background, the street was lined with dilapidated homes that bespoke of the era before white flight, and was surprisingly clean and quiet. ...