Any New Yorker worth her salt knows a thing or two about how to get a manicure. Unless you have been lurching around under a rock for the past week, I assume you have read the New York Times nail expose.  “The Price of Nice Nails” and “Perfect Nails, Poisoned Workers” hit a chord with me as a die-hard, manicure-loving New Yorker.  The picture included in the article (see link) highlighting the staggering abundance of nail salons “in one New York City neighborhood” is actually a picture of MY New York City neighborhood.  As I grew up I watched David’s Cookies shops and locksmiths and crackhouses where homeless people hung…