Re: CHAPTER EIGHT
Stuyvesant Square Park turns out to be two parks, side by side, one mirror-imaged from the other, on each side of 2nd Avenue, between east 15th and 17th Streets (and blocking/getting in the way of east 16th Street).
There's a nice smallish round reflecting pool in the middle of each park, and paved walkways, and lots of trees and bushes and flowers and statues and stuff.
(Scraps notes that that smell he smelled on the note that was being passed around is here, very faintly. Especially around the pool on the west side of 2nd Avenue. The person the smell belongs to hasn't been here for days, but Scraps is sure they were here, just long enough ago that their odd smell hasn't quite disappeared yet.)
Apparently, on the date in question, Blackjack is supposed to meet someone here... Probably at night, if Blackjack can't pass for a normal human, but we don't know enough about him to know if he can or not.
In any event, by Scraps' sniffing the air and barking, this must be the place...
Nothing to do now but come back and stake the place out (in disguise?) on the date in question...