As Holland Cotter wrote in The New York Times of ‘David Wojnarowicz’ in ‘NY’ (1999): “[…] frantically pacing around the colossal family-fun sports-and-entertainment center called Chelsea Piers, which has replaced (the) old, illicit haunts, […] for better or worse, and probably some of each, the time of living on “the cold and sharpest blade of a knife” is over.”