Comments about new yorkers

There are 35 comments about "new yorkers"

Peter: youre right, rich. just up the block, more or less, from my old place at {park place} and {washington}. seems like some of brooklyn's oddest ride that shuttle train, ha. people-watching around there is lots......

in response to: NYPD by Peter

anon (142.128.203.205.in-addr.arpa.net): I have moved back to the Upper East Side after a few years away and I am so happy to be back. I lived on 77th St. and then 3rd Ave./73rd St. for much of......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

Peter: heh... its so true, though. my reality indicates that just about every new yorker i know winces upon hearing the name "mccain", wanted to punch giuliani every time he over-invoked 9/11 while campaigning and basically......

in response to: Preaching to No One by Peter

Peter: The funny thing is... as far as I can tell, a huge minority (if not most) new yorkers actually ##despite## giuliani precisely because of his draconian seizure of the city ("crime reduction") and his laughable......

in response to: Preaching to No One by Peter

Ender: I though all New Yorkers revered Guliani as some sort of beloved royalty after all but vanquishing crime from New York City and guiding New York City out from the Trade Centre tragedy?...

in response to: Preaching to No One by Peter

Peter: heh, these are the only voting machines ive ever used in nyc, for every election since 96, the first i could vote in. these are also the same type of machines pictured in the original......

in response to: Voting in Brooklyn by adam

Robert O Byrd.: Imagine my amazement when i bought the movie jumper and seen thishotel in it as it was a good cheap place to stay while i handled some bad legal issues i do want to thank......

in response to: Dinner and a Bed by jack

Edward LAMB: I am very familiar with this tunnel having personally "discovered" the place way back in 1969... The following, if you please, is an excerpt from my own story : I had, one day, roaming through Riverside Drive......

in response to: The Freedom Tunnel by Peter

luna park: there are actually large swathes of brownstone rowhouses in brooklyn, where the houses are set back from the street and allow space for front yards. in many cases, the yards have been paved (as is......

in response to: Beware of Owner by luna park

Peter: are you crazy, or just seriously uninformed? nothing rebuilt, nothing touched? thats not true at all! i commute through the WTC site/station every day, and theres so much going on there... sure, its a slow......

in response to: Ground Zero: lower Manhattan as it looks today by Peter

elaine: i stayed in an apartment on tompkins square park when i went to new york for the first time. i got up crazy early because of the time difference and walked around. i saw a......

in response to: A Tree and Resident in Tompkins Square Park by jack

jack: thank you little ukraine, i never knew about that ceremony, i thought new yorkers forgot about that fire, seems when i read the book about it many years ago i became emotionaly tied to the......

in response to: Walking Through Washington Square Park On My Way to Dinner by jack

indykid: Looking at the last photo made me think - from photos of building sites in NYC that I see, the WTC site springs to mind here, it seems if a new building is going up,......

in response to: Anyplace, Brooklyn by CartLegger

little ukraine: speaking of Sunset Park... Here is Third Avenue, once a vibrant street full of shopping and dining (New Yorkers, think Steinway Street, Fulton Street, Roosevelt Avenue). The Gowanus Express, the southern leg of the BQE,......

in response to: Robert Moses Photo Collective by CartLegger

Anonymous: Coney Isalnd has alot of family memories for me and many others. It has been there for many years and i enjoy taking my children to a place where my parents once took me......

in response to: Coney Island Low by Peter

Toze: All graffiti is born from biting, someone creates a style and others copy it, that's how it spreads and artists develop their own skills, we learn by copying and emulating others, it's in our nature,......

in response to: Graf Trainz 3: South-East London: Aroe by Jamie

Peter: and the talking toilet reminding you to not drink and drive (for all those new yorkers who drive to tonic, lol) really add to the experience. especially after those 8-12 beers......

in response to: Tonic Graf Bathroom by Peter

jack: catherine it makes me want to sing, i like new york in june, how about you, see this is what new yorkers love springtime. of course, they love fall also, autumn in new york......

in response to: Trapped Blossom by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Peter: also fun: calling the payphone at the boathouse in central park (212-650-0786) and asking how the weather is. its nice; sometimes, you can chat up a passerby for about a half hour, if youre bored.......

in response to: Bored at Work by Peter

EvilGentleman: I dunno about this... My {Things I Hate About...} series is about those little things you encounter in everyday life that drive you nuts, thus giving people an outlet to release some of their pent-up......

in response to: Bored at Work by Peter

jack: instead of tearing down the west side highway with all that wonderful cobblestone, they should have made it a pedestrian way. new yorkers should have more green and more free walking space....

in response to: The Highline Debate... by Nick Aster

Peter: lol jamie! check the comments on [[1680:this entry]]. blech! {yummy taco} is one of zillions of "ghetto-chinese" places that are a phenomenon in {brooklyn}, that though they serve cheap, fast (and often low-quality) chinese take-away,......

in response to: Building Slice by Peter

Peter: i have it. every so often, when i move or rearrange, it turns up. in a box. on a shelf, under the desk, in the nightstand drawer... i do not display it or make any......

in response to: Kinematics by Peter

EvilGentleman: 24 - Too many people in Montreal drive like Quebecers, too many people in New York drive like New Yorkers. We should all drive like Italians - **Full Speed!** LOL, just kidding, they already do......

in response to: Things I Hate About... Traffic by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: cool-tsk, it is a shame that you wish to suppress freedom of speech when your chosen art form (and YES, I can see the artistic merit in your work) is all about freedom of speech.......

in response to: Destruction of Lisbon City by cool-tsk

jack: the village, little italy. my family lived on mulberry and also broome streets in the early 1900's. i remember many summer days sitting on a stoop on broome street looking at the asphalt......

in response to: A Few More Bits & Pieces by Lawrence

B.B. Melbourne australia: Hi Peter I lived @504W 126ST. N.Y.C. for 18 months but being a British Merchant Marine I had to return to the U.K. much to my regret. I now live in OZ.but theres not a......

in response to: Westside Market: NYC by Peter

Morgan: thank you....new yorkers are so nice...

in response to: Prospect Heights: by Peter

Laura : Hool's photos always remind me how much New Yorkers really like to wear black. Its amazing the variety of coats in other places. Although I'm noticing a little diversity in the coat color pallatte this......

in response to: Nov 20 2005 Toronto by hool

Peter: ##"...Some 30 billion pounds of steam every year flow beneath the streets of Manhattan from the Battery to 96th Street. While it is unknown to most New Yorkers, Con Edison's subterranean steam system is the......

in response to: Road works by barry

Peter: new yorkers love halloween cause its a chance to be stupid, dress up, and generally do all the stuff you cant do on other days, from eating candy to dressing wierd to tossing eggs, heh. i......

in response to: Liquor and Candy by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Peter: many of us new yorkers are disgusted by this increasing commercialization of public spaces, actually... ...

in response to: TennEx, anyone? by kc

jeeff: i've noticed a lot of sponsored events like this whenever i've been in new york. it's natural with such a concentration of resources & people. but i've always imagined that new yorkers must......

in response to: TennEx, anyone? by kc

jack: i was 17 when i stepped out of the subway at rector street in june of 1960. i walked down to washington street and cedar street and started working in a printing shop which......

in response to: The World Trade Center Site by Peter

James M. McDonald, NYC: For me, Riverside is for the residents and Central is for the tourists. When in Central Park, you're in a circus-type atmosphere, where people are showing off and exhibiting for the out-of-towners. When......

in response to: Riverside Park by Peter