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COPYRIGHT 2003 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
Two dollars doesn't buy much--half a hot dog at Yankee Stadium, one shined shoe outside Grand Central--but it is twice as much as one, and everybody, unfortunately, is acquainted with the value of a dollar. Two dollars will get you a roll of hockey tape, or a Budweiser tall boy, or a few .9-millimetre rounds, or a bet at OTB. At the Brighton Clean laundromat, on West Fifteenth Street, it buys an hour and twenty minutes of dryer time; at Show World, the peepshow palace on Eighth Avenue, it's good for six minutes...
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