Just beneath the 7 Hour Cleaners billboard (and right across the street the police station) stood the entrance to The Point. (Today that entrance is beneath the South Mall Arterial.) The business had been closed by the State Liquor Authority the year before the building was appropriated by the State of New York. Before it was closed, the Point was a place where gay and lesbian patrons were free to mingle and where "B-girls" plied their trade, convincing men at the bar to buy them overpriced drinks.