All sorts of internal curial squabbling marked what was supposed to be a Roman housecleaning by a German administrator who didn't turn out to be up to that task.
"When we moved here, there wasn't a local supermarket or a drugstore, " said Elias Roman, co-founder and chief executive of Songza, a digital music business based in Long Island City since 2007.
Lining up a Roman archive photo with the ruins of the Coliseum was impossible for Alison Victoria because the original vantage point doesn't exist anymore.