"You can't be a hustler and a princess"

Drug dealers give THE best quotes. One Washington Square dealer gives his opinion about NYU freshman, Julia Diaco, who was arrested by undercover police officers for dealing drugs in Washington Square Park, her dorm room, and the East Village, to the Daily News: "You can't be a hustler and a princess. You have to choose one or the other." The "princess" aspect of Diaco's life has been played up by the press, with the tabloids referring to her family's home in Rumson, NJ, as a "castle" and a friend describing it as "ridiculous" with "lots of crystal" and "marble tiles, gold-plated lamps" (Gothamist can just imagine the Post editorial staff, trying to figure out how many ways they can drive the point home without getting sued for libel). The Daily News went to the Diaco house, where Julia is hiding out. She opened the door and said, "No comment," but not before the Daily News could describe Diaco as wearing "a white tank top and a fashion-fad Von Dutch baseball cap," which confirms that Diaco was desperate to fit in any way possible.

For a different era of Washington Square, read Washington Square by Henry James, made into the William Wyler film, The Heiress, with Olivia de Havilland, and later, Washington Square, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, directed by Agnieszka Holland (Gothamist prefers The Heiress). But our favorite New York drug movie is New Jack City.

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By Jen Chung in News on April 30, 2004 9:35 AM

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Ron Mwangaguhunga

Courtney love: You're fired

Judge: You do not help your case by firing your attorney

Love: rehired

drug users give good quote too.

Matthew W. Caldecutt

Oh, how I long for the old days at NYU. Then, there were fewer students (and fewer dorms) and the only dealers were the ones in the park.

Mike

Today in the subway I saw someone simultaneously wearing a Von Dutch hat and a Von Dutch t-shirt.

Things like that make me wish I had a photolog.

yojimbot

am i my blogger's keeper?

Jen

King of New York is great, but let's face it, when are we ever going to see Judd Nelson and Ice-T in a film again?

chris

Don't forget Scotty aka Ice-T's priceless quote to Nino at the end of the film..."I want to shoot you so bad my dick's hard." Timeless indeed.

King Hippo

Well, SOMEONE's gotta mention Christopher Walken as "King of New York", although Larry Fishburne as the somewhat crazy Jimmy Jump was probably the most entertaining. No one in New Jack City comes close.

editor

Don't dis NJC!

Still works for me. Of its time, certainly. B-movie, definitely. Getting a chance to ask Rock about playing Pookie: Priceless.

And I have a little crush on Ice-T in that film, too.

DBB

Speaking of Washington Square, the Arch is being be dedicated as I type this by Mayor Bloomberg...

Jimmy Legs

but nino brown's hairstyle is timeless.

natis

The sad thing about New Jack City is that it didn't age well. Back in the early 90s, I thought it was a great freaking movie and I would tell everyone about it. About a year ago, it was on cable and my friends and I watched it and I couldn't believe how bad it felt and my friends were like "dude, does the movie reindeer games come to mind?".