Richard Kuh, in one of his forensic flights, once described Lenny's hotel as "the Marlton on elegant Fifth Avenue.” The Marlton was, indeed, just a few doors west of Fifth Avenue, but it belonged exclusively to the honky-tonk world of Eighth Street, which it fronted with a façade so narrow-shouldered and a lobby so inconspicuous that you could walk up and down the street for years and never notice this tiny fleabag.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Richard Kuh, in one of his forensic flights, once described Lenny's hotel as "the Marlton on elegant Fifth Avenue.” The Marlton was, indeed, just a few doors west of Fifth Avenue, but it belonged exclusively to the honky-tonk world of Eighth Street, which it fronted with a façade so narrow-shouldered and a lobby so inconspicuous that you could walk up and down the street for years and never notice this tiny fleabag." in the context of "Albert Goldman, (1991), Ladies and Gentlemen—Lenny Bruce!! publisher: Penguin Books, ISBN: 0140133623 (1st edition 1974; based upon the journalism of Lawrence Schiller) 1st part of quote 2nd part of quote" to mean that wisdom is timeless.