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Thursday, May 9. 2013

Most interesting city in the world: NYC links

23 Signs You've Lived In New York City Too Long


People mostly wish to leave when they realize they will never be able to afford to live comfortably there. Too many other people want to live there.


New York’s War on Food Trucks Rolls On


Everybody loves the food trucks. Amazing variety, ethnic, cheap, and in NY nobody has time to sit for lunch.


The Incredible Talking Weiner


Amusing, from Derbyshire. Weiner's a dick and everybody knows it.

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Some of those were funny. The one about appreciating the breeze from the approaching subway train - oh yeah. Sweet relief.

When I lived in Brooklyn I could almost never get Manhattan-based friends to come over, even though I only lived a 15 or 20 minute train ride away.

My next-door neighbor was a third-generation Brooklynite; his father lived in Cobble Hill (pretty much right next to Brooklyn Heights). He told me he hadn't been to Manhattan in fifteen years. "I got everything I need here. Besides, if I want to see it, I can see it fine from home."
#1 T.K. Tortch on 2013-05-09 12:16 (Reply)
Food Trucks: Ain't nothin' good enough for New Yorkers except higher taxes and more of Bloomie's regulations.

Derb strikes gold with "exophthalmic glare".
#2 Sam L. on 2013-05-09 14:03 (Reply)
I briefly lived in Brooklyn in the late 1960s at beautiful Naval station Brooklyn on the corner of Washington and Flushing ave. I was transfered from a destroyer at Pearl Harbor to NYC. I had requested duty in Japan or the Phillipines, so somebody in Naval personel obviously had a sense of humor. After I got over my anoyance at being sent in the wrong direction, I really enjoyed New York.
#3 Ray on 2013-05-09 16:15 (Reply)
I left a loft on Greenwich Street below Canal in 1981. Never looked back.
#4 JimK on 2013-05-09 20:00 (Reply)
http://deoxy.org/gnosis10.htm

Derb's no dick compared to THIS guy.
#5 buddy larsen on 2013-05-09 21:01 (Reply)

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