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This one consists of three different images from my archives...The background is actually from a wigless mannequin image that was given a street mural flair and a brick texture...The newspaper dispenser image was re-colored and re-labeled with Artopolis' favorite news circulation, and the edition inside is from the earlier Artopolis Times - Belly Up...The name of the composition is derived from some alley in New York City where supposedly the first attempt to gun down the infamous Prohibition-Era gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond took place...He survived that one, along with quite a few others until eventually the mob caught up with him and succeeded...up the Hudson River, at his hideout, a rooming house in Albany ...sometime in the early 30s...