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My feeling is that perhaps you have taken this image a half a step too far in your manipulation. I really like the composition and the harmonious, low key color but the graininess bothers me a little although it could be argued that it fits in with the overall grime of the setting.

Jack, grime and grit were what I was after.  I wanted to make a viewer cringe at the seamy side of life in the Big Apple.