Moving there in 2007 and living around here in 1991 are completely different things.
-- burt_stanton, Tuesday, December 4, 2007 1:43 PM (Tuesday, December 4, 2007 1:43 PM) Bookmark Link
yeah dudes, if you were really cool you'd be living a decade and a half in the past like turd_scranton or whoever.
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link
burt stanton: racist, chauvinist, prick.
― ian, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link
oh god that's creepy
― remy bean, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link
i meanm, i doubt you'r really a racist (at least in any active way), but it sure is fun to attack people!
born in Midwood, then moved to some shithole in NJ (the place where Lean on Me t was set)
i wouldn't admit to living in paterson, either.
― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link
burt, are you sure you don't live in astoria, queens?
― sanskrit, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:53 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't think it's spock....but he seems familiar
― bell_labs, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Also re "urban": I can't think of anyone more urban than someone who's grown up without the benefit of being able to escape the city whenever they wanted to via travel or other opportunities. And in Crown Heights, that means Black West Indians, really, many of whom are still living on the same blocks where they were born & grew up, and a fair number of those people have seen that neighborhood right through the '80s and '90s without going to summer camp in the country or family vacations to the Grand Canyon or much of anything, really. And since I've lived there and witnessed whole families being served dinner on the C train, that's the experience I drew on to comment.
If you paid attention to ILX much you'd know that I'm highly likely to go on screeds about public transit behavior, but do you really want to take the side of gabbneb in this thread, who thinks you shouldn't even carry CLOSED food containers from other neighborhoods on the subway, lest your seat-mate inadvertently smell it? Good thing he apparently has every kind of cuisine he might want available within walking distance of his apartment.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Nah, Williamsburg.
― burt_stanton, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Truce, Laurel. Let's go to Soca Fest 2008.
― burt_stanton, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:56 (sixteen years ago) link
i am down [unwanted shoulder rub]
― sanskrit, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:56 (sixteen years ago) link
xp You know, you've got really strong hands
― burt_stanton, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I would like to meet Burt Stanton. Put a face with the name. Piss on his leg, tell him it's raining. Hide sausages in his pockets. Grab his nuts, unasked...
― ian, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
let's get bizzy in the e-sauna
― sanskrit, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
fizzy in tha hot tub
― remy bean, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 20:01 (sixteen years ago) link
If I want a soca fix, I'll work out at the Curves on Flatbush.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 20:01 (sixteen years ago) link
At least the other customers there will be awesome and no one will crepe on anyone else.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link
oh no you DI-INT
― remy bean, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link
do you really want to take the side of gabbneb in this thread, who thinks you shouldn't even carry CLOSED food containers from other neighborhoods on the subway, lest your seat-mate inadvertently smell it?
i think you shouldn't carry food in your stomach on the subway.
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link
-- bell_labs, Tuesday, December 4, 2007 7:54 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
New York City is becoming Ayn Rand's dream metropolis - a city where the power of wealth is wiping the scum from the streets (poor people, middle class people, writers, designers, public interest workers) and replacing them with mailboxes, coffee carts, and Thai Fusion restaurants. let us all hail our banker masters. So many people I know are starting to get priced straight out of the entire city ;[
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New York City ILXOR)RS - Is this city becoming 100% exclusive to the elite? ?
― dmr, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link
hate to break it to you laurel but Curves is a Royal Video now
― dmr, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Awwwww noooo! That is so sad for the people who owned it, Irma was awesome.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 20:06 (sixteen years ago) link
been closed for a while actually but nothing new moved in until now
― dmr, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 20:07 (sixteen years ago) link
ooh good call dmr
― bell_labs, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 20:08 (sixteen years ago) link
whoever wins gets an all weekend free pass into my narrow cut jeans
― burt_stanton, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link
dudes that open their legs really wide and take up two seats
Since we've already mentioned farting, when one of these charmers is next to me I usually try to fire one up.
so when will G train be extended? cuz otherwsie I really wanna move the fuck away from Church Ave.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link
2008 I think, and they say it's going to be permanent. Regular service through Queens wouldn't be bad, either.
― burt_stanton, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Fried chicken on the train smells okay. It's shrimp and McDonald's fries that get to me.
I have occasionally eaten Corn Nuts on the train, since they're the most inoffensively food-like item available from the platform newsstand by me (you know, late for work + killer empty stomach), but then the other day I was in a car with a woman eating some of those and the whole place freaking REEKED of Unpleasant Corn-Nut Stank. I had never EVER thought of Corn Nuts as having any kind of powerful aroma (WTF), but now I feel like all my fellow riders must have been really annoyed.
(Slight thing in my favor: I think the woman had some sort of gross nacho Corn Nuts going on, whereas I always went for the lime chile picante.)
― nabisco, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't actually ask if i can share ppl's food, but if one of these dudes decides their space is more important than mine, they have to get more gay with me than they might like
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link
If a woman tried that strategy with most of those men, I think they'd consider it a win/win. Hence bell's and my agitation on that topic.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 20:26 (sixteen years ago) link
http://bp1.blogger.com/_CQyU4ayBifw/R0oT7oT7vPI/AAAAAAAAAsY/wgQinZOVi4A/s1600-h/rush+hour.JPG
― sanskrit, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link
MTA votes on hikes Wednesday.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 17 December 2007 18:45 (sixteen years ago) link
HOW DUZ I SHOT F TRAIN
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 14:45 (sixteen years ago) link
no congestion charge and more money to ride the train
WIN WIN
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
F train: same shit, diff year
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 14:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Morbius, take the F or whatever it takes to see "There will be blood".
― Zeno, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
..1..
my wife took the kid to school today and half-hour later the phone rings "oops school starts TOMORROW" so I run out to the subway and the 1/2/3 dwntwn is fucked up..thx MTA . ah but LOL whatre ya gonna do huh?
― m coleman, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
F train One of the freebie handout newspapers had something about the pros and cons of the V train last week.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link
when the trrains start talking they could evaluate the pros and cons of the freebie newspapers
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link
the G train fuxup the F in Brooklyn, the V does it in Manhattan.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
"we have a train in front of us" NO SHIT
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I read something about NYC trying out a system to make subway better by assigning line managers to each line and putting them in competition with one another. Is that correct or am I on the pipe?
― Jesse, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Ha, I just went on the JaxHts board and accidentally found link to the V train article http://www.amny.com/news/local/transportation/am-vtrain1231,0,6068788.story
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link
god bless the g train. the f line should be discarded and replaced completely by the g. blesssssed day
― burt_stanton, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link
ban burt stanton
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
one day, my g train bretheren, you will inherit the earth
― burt_stanton, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:31 (sixteen years ago) link
i live off the 4 now - easily the most reliable line i've ever lived off.
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
We're #1! We're #1!
No, you're No. 4.
Oh, right then.
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Ok, is the F train normal btwn 7th Ave and Hoyt (or Jay) this weekend, or not? The signs in the stations say no, but the MTA website sez yes this weekend, no March 1-3.
http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/subsrvnweekend.htm#f
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 22 February 2008 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link