Praise the Lord Dental

A pillar (of some sort) of the neighborhood is no more. Praise the Lord Dental has undergone a name change, a change of dentists and management, and -- perhaps -- a change of business. It may actually now be a dental office, for there were a number of people sitting in its storefront waiting room as I walked past with Sam a few minutes ago. We always had our doubts about Praise the Lord, which never seemed to be open except during the oddest hours, like nine o'clock at night, and even then never had anyone in it who looked like they might be waiting to see a dentist. These suspicions were only deepened once when our daughter and son-in-law walked by and saw a dumpster-like container parked in front and, because its top was slightly ajar, they could see inside it a pile of slot machines. Anyhow, just another mystery of New York that we will never learn more of beyond its wonderful name.