Great Snippet

I am reading a novel called "Design Flaws of the Human Condition" which a friend of a friend of mine wrote. In it I came accros a great short paragraph and wanted to share:
"... he was born on the Lower East side while it was still Lower East side before it went out one day like a surly adolescent and came back with its nose pierced and announced that from now on it would only answer to the name "East Village".