I miss New York City.

[George II]

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[PJMcK]

1. Come for a visit!

New Yorkers will welcome you with open arms.

It's a great, diverse and wonderful city.


ETA: Just don't bring your car into town!

[George II]

3. Thanks. I lived in NYC (born Brooklyn, lived in Queens, Bronx, Manhattan) for 40 years....

...less three years in Fort Lee and one summer in Ohio.

When I lived on the upper West Side I had a car and always parked on the street.

When we visit, it's usually on Sunday or better yet the Sunday of a 3-day weekend, I drive down there and park for free on a residential street in the '70s. But we haven't been down there for more than 10 years. Age is getting to us.

But photographs like that one really makes me miss it.

[PJMcK]

5. 40 years?

Yep, you're a New Yorker!

[George II]

16. If you ever heard my parents or my brother, you'd KNOW I was a New Yorker..

My father was born in Brooklyn, my mother came down from Toronto to Brooklyn when she was five or six. Neither of them ever lived anywhere else after that. The six siblings are all scattered now, none of us live in NYC and only three live in the area. I'm about 100 miles away up in Hartford.

I went through the NYC public school system, probably the best in the country, attended both high school* and college in Manhattan.

*Jerrold Nadler and I were classmates in HS!!!

[Steelrolled]

9. Street parking is great

But wasn't it like having a 2nd part-time job moving it back and forth? I love how everyone has their own strategies.

[George II]

13. When I got home from work each night, I'd always park on the side of the street....

....that didn't have to be vacated the next morning. Almost always I found a space within two or three blocks, no big deal.

When I got home later sometimes I had to drive around for 10-15 minutes. One time, though, I had to park about ten blocks away, and every once in a while I had to park in a garage (we had one in our building).

And then there was once that was really scary, I walked out the front door and stopped........I FORGOT where I parked the night before! I went up and down every block until I found my car. That took forever.

[pangaia]

17. That's why I bought a bright RED car in 2017..

I can even find it in the grocery parking lot !!

[George II]

18. That's funny! When I was driving up and down streets looking for a parking space....

....I always had my eye out for a pedestrian with his/her keys in their hand - a sure sign someone was about to get in a car and drive away.

[pangaia]

20. I was born in NYC and grew up in teaneck...

played a gazillion jazz gigs in the city as a teenager and later....

still love it, although don;t know it as well as I used to.. i can easily get around ok, know the good clubs, Japanese and Chinese restaurants... wonderful place...

[not_the_one]

2. although born and raised in the south

I spent the last 20 years living in Manhattan.

I love that city, and will ALWAYS consider myself a New Yorker.

Now I have retired to the Poconos (it is turning out NOT to be as Trumpian as I feared..., and it IS just as beautiful as you have heard), and am still only a couple of hours a way from my mecca. I can live with that.

NYC is the epitome of America's hopes and desires, and a good stab at what we SHOULD be, as a country.

NYC

[UniteFightBack]

4. We miss you too! nt

[peacebuzzard]

6. Me too. I was transferred to Atlanta from NYC

you can imagine what I have to deal with.
love NYC

[YOHABLO]

7. Atlanta, (the city) is not all that bad. It's what surrounds it.

[peacebuzzard]

14. that is true. I do live inside the perimeter

in the most walkable area. Decatur.
and I am adjusting.
The traffic is really frightening.

[YOHABLO]

21. Yes, Atlanta does have bad traffic, but so does many cities.

Atlanta is still evolving. I've lived in some great areas including Midtown, Buckhead, and Decatur. I had to move out of the city because of personal family matters. Just 35 miles out, but it makes all the difference. I've always wanted to visit NYC, but still haven't been able to get there. I may not the way things are going. I know I would just love love it.

[peacebuzzard]

24. I have thought about it.

I think its the combination of poor street lighting, pot holes, narrow streets, construction.
I drive an older car, 2010, just because its still in great shape, I don't drive often or very far. I think it would be helpful to get some safety features installed like back up monitors, and an object warning device.
There are many pedestrians walking around in the dark streets. I have to be more than vigilant.
I do like taking the train to work though. It makes my life a little easier.
I did not even drive at all in NYC. The mass transit system of NY is probably the best in the world.

[YOHABLO]

25. I lived in Decatur for years. Took the train to GA St.U all the time.

[HAB911]

8. Well peace

I am from Atlanta, Norcross actually, and worked in NYC for a year back in the early '80s for NYNEX. I feel your pain. My office overlooked MSG, 1 Penn Plaza, and I lived across the street at what at the time was the Southgate. I came to love the city and the people and to this day defend both from any disparaging remarks.

My wife and I talk of having a pied-à-terre in the city if only she would win the lottery, sigh.

love NYC too

[Grasswire2]

10. I found a fabulous pictorial book on OLD NYC at the library used book sale.

It's HUGE.

"The World On Sunday: Graphic Art In Joseph Pulitzer's Newspaper"

I paid five bucks for it. You can see a photo on amazon where one is listed for $59 new.

I am not a New Yorker, but I LOVE this book for the history of the city.



[link:https://www.amazon.com/World-Sunday-Graphic-Pulitzers-Newspaper/dp/082126193|

[elleng]

11. Ditto.

Born there (as were my parents.)

[patphil]

12. That's a great picture.

I live about 50 miles or so from the city and have been there many times. It's an amazing place. But this is one view I have never seen before.

[lambchopp59]

15. Someday I'll visit. I'll hire an escort....no... not like that sort of...um, well

Just someone LGBTQ who knows their way around, can prevent my 60-something confused head from getting on the wrong train maybe.
I'm from the left coast peninsula city through college and love it still although I don't reside there anymore.
I was paying 380 a month on a Pacific Heights flat with a roomate when I left.
It would take 1 and 1/2 paychecks for me to pay rent there these days. So that's okay, I'll BART in.
The very best Star Trek movie (number 4, save the whales) was filmed in my college years, I know one of the extras dressed as a nun in the aquarium scene.

[busterbrown]

19. Best years of my life

A big one bedroom overlooking Charles and Bleecker near the police station..1973..
Fairly new building..$350 bucks.. My girl went on to bigger and better things.. So I took occupancy on the 4th floor... Studio apt looking directly off of Bleeker..$289..

Best years of my life... Saks Fifth Ave hired me 1974.... Was walking past Saks..new absolutely nothing about retail.. walked in and immediately immediately saw John and Yoko running up the stairs.. I knew right then that I definitely wanted to work there..Was hired as temporary xmas help...first position was in the Stationary Dept.. My first customer?? Vivian Vance... (I love Lucy)

Best times of my life... I am/was straight as a can be.. But the only friends that I found that were fun... were gay...The straight guys like me were so boring.. I'm still straight as can be.....Within 2 years I was sent off to cali to run a store in Lajolla Cali..... then it was to Woodland hills..Found a girlfriend who did temporary modeling there...we then opened our own cool boutique in Burbank.... Hope I didn't bore you too much.. P.S.. still see my old N.Y. friends frequently

[George II]

22. My brother lived on Bleeker Street for a couple of years in the 1980s. Being gay he loved it...

One of the best times I had with him was a Saturday night when we went out to one of his clubs together. No one hit on us since they thought we were a "couple" (I'm straight)

Damn, in their own element without people looking down their noses or shunning them, they have a GREAT, unabashed time.

If you ever watched "The Birdcage", that was the atmosphere. We had a great time that night.

PS - not bored at all, I never expected that photo and my OP would generate such an interesting discussion.

[Duppers]

23. My 32yo son has been living in NYC

For 1yr now & he just ❤s it. He'll call & say "damn, I LOVE this city."

Works in Manhattan, lives in Brooklyn near the big park & botanical garden. Upside is that he gets to telecommute 1 to 2 days a wk. But says he doesn't know if he can keep up the 10-12hr days & the hussle to get into work for another 10yr tho. His social life is hectic too since most of his friends live there. (Does everyone go to bars there?) It's an expensive place to live.

[guillaumeb]

26. I had no idea that it was missing.

I visited one time, as part of a week long training.

[stonecutter357]

27. I Miss Childersburg Al .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childersburg,_Alabama In the fall of 1540, the Spanish Hernando de Soto expedition rested here for about one month during its exploration of the Southeast.[9] Childersburg calls itself "The Oldest City in America"