After a while you start feeling like the pervert: At Sunset Video, when I asked why anyone would still use a public-private masturbation booth like that, one clerk said maybe people can't do it at home.
Indeed, the few patrons I saw didn't give me sheepish glances or avert their eyes.
David Covucci One shop was closed at the appointed hour I was set to meet the owner, despite a sign attesting to its 24-hour nature.
Description: Underneath the Gowanus Expressway, in an area generously included in Sunset Park but really not much more than a detritus-strewn, completely forgotten, and rarely traversed stretch of 3rd Avenue, sit a curious collection of shops, glass windows and brick walls routinely rattled as 18-wheelers hurtle by just 10 feet above.