The Way Rich People Protect Themselves Now

“Has the number of bodyguards and plainclothes police and private security in obvious public view on New York’s Upper East Side dramatically increased since, say, the last time your editor was in town about a year-and-a-half ago? Because it was outrageous yesterday. We are reminded of Russian Mobsters with their dozen musclehead black-suited thugs outside every ‘luxury goods’ store or ‘hooker nightclub’ in Eastern Europe, in the 1990s.”