Anyway my gritty realistic adult take on Sesame Street is that a stretch of urban brownstones remaining steadily lower-middle-class through both the ‘70s-‘80s nadir of urban decay and the following back-to-the-city gentrification needs explaining, and one possibility is that the rest of the city is neither as full or as accepting of Muppets, and Sesame Street has been a sort of Muppet gayborhood all along