― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 07:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 07:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 07:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Good Dog (Good Dog), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 08:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― scout (scout), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 09:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 09:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 12:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― scout (scout), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 12:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 14:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 14:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 14:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― jody von oy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 14:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― jody von oy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link
New York is big.
Most cities are smaller.
I don't have enough money to live large in either.
― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link
Actually, I think NYC's been the epicenter of the universe for so long that it's virtually impossible for it to take itself too seriously, unlike...say....Seattle in the early 90's, which was deplorably high on itself. That party's over. HA!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link
But, it's invariably better than your hometown, haterz!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 14:59 (nineteen years ago) link
http://homepage.mac.com/alexinnyc/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2005-03-30%2008.00.52%20-0800/Image-F65DA8A7A13311D9.jpg
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link
-- ken c (pykachu10...), March 30th, 2005.
I know. *Rich* is the new *bohemian*.
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link
As far as losing a sense of "history" -- I dunno, blame Robert Moses? I'm not sure NYC ever held onto any sense of history for very long.
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― jody von oy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link
OTM.
haha xpost
― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― jody von oy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― jody von oy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link
What I don't understand is the handful of tourists ("handful") who do seem to do that. Like, the ones that go to TGI Friday's or the Red Lobster instead of one of the real restaurants, a few blocks over???
xpost I'M SURPRISED THEY HAVEN'T DONE THAT YET but OTOH Chinatown is a "safe" "wholesome" curiousity, so it's safe. Until, like, the Mets wanna move to downtown NYC or something.
― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link
Sometimes I hate Brooklyn just as much -- the way someone can move there from Arkansas and then scoff at me for living in New Jersey. But I don't really hate it. It's a fucking great place. I'm just jealous.
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link
I used to give tourists wrong directions when I was younger, and chase tour buses all through Soho with my friends, giving the finger all the way. Ah, those were the days.
― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― jody von oy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Poundstretcher (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― jody von oy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link
"I'm a New York City cop. I think that's an important part of the job, not just being a cop, but being a New York City cop. The other day, I responded to a complaint, and there was a man on his doorstep holding an avocado. He wanted help getting a refund because the avocado he bought was too ripe. I told him, 'Sir, there are certain risks we take every day when we buy fruit.' I'm a cop -- sometimes I respond to robberies, sometimes I respond to people with avocados."
The way this cop talks embodies the essentialized New York that I'll always have in my mind. I get it from Woody Allen movies, from my parents' stories about living there, etc. Even though everyone comes there from somewhere else now, people still have this idea of being a "real New Yorker," talk about the moment when the first felt this.
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― jody von oy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link
HAHAHASHAHAHAHAHAHAHA that story is great.
― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― jody von oy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― jody von oy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― jody von oy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 23 October 2005 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link
I missed this before, but yeah, I used my unlimited metrocard thingy and got on for nowt.
― JimD (JimD), Sunday, 23 October 2005 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 23 October 2005 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― jw (ex machina), Monday, 24 October 2005 00:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― geeta (geeta), Monday, 24 October 2005 00:50 (eighteen years ago) link
they only just recently switched over to metrocards. for a long time they were the last station in the city (well, last two stations if you count the roosevelt island side) that used subway tokens. meaning if you had an unlimited-ride metrocard you'd still have to pay $4 for two tokens. which was dumb, but it was cool for people who'd never actually held a subway token in their hand to experience a bit of old-school.
― katrina vanden roffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 24 October 2005 01:23 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/photography/changing_new_york/
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 24 October 2005 03:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― ShawShank Rambo Connection (Carey), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link
how about IN new jersey?!?
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link
Straphangers.org just found that 29% of subway payphones don't work, which is about a third of what I've found. (I know the rest of you carry phones, Luddites roar)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jimmy Mod is a super idol of The MARS SPIRIT (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 00:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Man Man (kenan), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 00:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 01:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 01:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 01:51 (seventeen years ago) link
Do you know anyone who lives in the Bronx?
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 28 July 2006 02:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 28 July 2006 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link
so what date do the landlords have to turn the heat on? is it Oct 15?
fucking premature 40-degree weather (you coldies can stifle yourselves).
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 October 2009 16:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Feb 2014: get me the FUCK outta here!
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 11:43 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe we can make Super Bowl weekend the occasion of our first Cranky Politics Thread Regulars cruise to the Bahamas
― in which we apologize for sobering up (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 12:48 (thirteen years ago) link
subterranean homesick cruise
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 13:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't understand, what about Feb 2014?
― the soul of the avocado escapes as soon as you open it (Laurel), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
NB: I don't watch the news so....
The Super Bowl is coming to Giants Stadium.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 13:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Rent out your flat and make $$$.
― Excelsior the Facebook (kkvgz), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 13:56 (thirteen years ago) link
YOU GUYS THE SUPER BOWL IS COMING TO THE GREATEST CITY ON EARTH. NEW YORK SUPER BOWL. AFTER ALL THESE YEARS IT'S COMING TO NEW YORK CITY! NEW YORK! NEW YORK!
― iatee, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link
oh wait it's in new jersey nvm
― iatee, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 14:21 (thirteen years ago) link
this is a thinly veiled attempt at getting lebron to sign with nyk/njn, yeah?
― Face Book (dyao), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link
why would NFL owners want that? if anything, the NY football industry probably benefits from fewer basketball fans.
― iatee, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link
dyao w/ non sequitur gag of the week.
I don't know whether this news is heavier on Roman Empire-style elitism or terror-baiting stupidity.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Our time has come, apparently via an asshole Yankee fan.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ACJqCecCUPE/U1FHqw4f-SI/AAAAAAAC0OM/U-v12MWGsAU/s1600/JudgementalMaps.jpg
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 April 2014 19:05 (ten years ago) link
'bagels' is not otm
― mookieproof, Friday, 18 April 2014 19:23 (ten years ago) link
Now endangered in NYC: grocery stores.
http://ny.curbed.com/maps/map-nyc-grocery-stores-disappearing
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 March 2016 18:23 (eight years ago) link