This is the thread where we complain about New York.

-- ken c (pykachu10...), March 30th, 2005.

I know. *Rich* is the new *bohemian*.

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.

OTM.

haha xpost

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.

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.

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.

"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.

HAHAHASHAHAHAHAHAHAHA that story is great.

Je4nne getting people to go to the bronx for anything besides a Yankees game has proven impossible to me over the past, oh, two years :(

no, you did not jbr -- yer love of NJ is longstanding and much appreciated ;-)

:-)

Hey, someone didn't want to go to the zoo. That person wasn't me. Plus we have LAX games up there.

so it's definitely not the worst. I can't believe I'm admitting this!

Ok then. STOP OPENING PRETENTIOUS TRENDY OVER-PRICED BISTRO/CAFE THINGIES WITH NO DISCERNIBLE CUISINE STYLE AND ONE-WORD NAMES LIKE "CLOUD" OR "QUIXOTIC".

See, ladies and gentlemen, I was spoiled because I went to school at F0rdh4m IN THE BRONX NOT LINCOLN CENTER THANK YOU VERY MUCH. For all the shittiness of the Bronx, and believe me, there were plenty (muggings anyone?), I ate so well up there, hot diggity. But the locals kind of hated us. My heart was broken when I found out a Starbucks opened on F0rdh4m Road after I graduated.

JBR, yes, we are married.

Not while they stand RIGHT IN FRONT OF subway entrances / staircases / pathways checking their fucking pagers / phones every fucking 5 minutes.

agreed -- pedestrians are teh SUXOR. esp. pedestrian tourists -- tourists should be killed!

Also Kenan if you were any more boring you'd be a sloth.

xpost I've been to Wyoming, it sucked! My dad thought it was awesome.

My girlfriend's dad loves Jackson Heights. He discovered a great Indian place there and insists on going there every time he's in a 100 mile radius of NYC. Once he drove us around the Indian district afterward and waxed poetic (in a thick Israeli accent): "Look, you see? LIFE! People going to markets! Women buying dresses! Children staring in the windows at toys. So much life!"

COWBOYS AREN'T DEAD!!!

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).

Feb 2014: get me the FUCK outta here!

maybe we can make Super Bowl weekend the occasion of our first Cranky Politics Thread Regulars cruise to the Bahamas

subterranean homesick cruise

I don't understand, what about Feb 2014?

NB: I don't watch the news so....

The Super Bowl is coming to Giants Stadium.

Rent out your flat and make $$$.

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!

oh wait it's in new jersey nvm

this is a thinly veiled attempt at getting lebron to sign with nyk/njn, yeah?

why would NFL owners want that? if anything, the NY football industry probably benefits from fewer basketball fans.

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.

Our time has come, apparently via an asshole Yankee fan.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ACJqCecCUPE/U1FHqw4f-SI/AAAAAAAC0OM/U-v12MWGsAU/s1600/JudgementalMaps.jpg

'bagels' is not otm

Now endangered in NYC: grocery stores.

http://ny.curbed.com/maps/map-nyc-grocery-stores-disappearing