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Re: Battery Park City? - 16 years ago
If I could move back to NYC tomorrow and choose any neighborhood I fancied, Battery Park City would be IT, Hands-Down!!!!!!! The Water-front there is so exhilarating! So vast and open and vital, it adds to one's over-all quality-of-life hugely, just to spend a few hours out on the promenade, let alone, as a resident, experiencing that "Whole Other" part of lower Manhattan that fewby Lucia - Ask a New Yorker :
Re: Favorite NYC Movie - 16 years ago
Agggggggggggggh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "The Out-of-Towners"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "Oh, my Godddddddd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'" (My mother wanted to moidelize my father for taking me to see that when I was just a kid coz it was where I learned that expression...!!!" He's long gone now, but I always think of him sooooooo fondly whenever I'm lucky enough to see a few momby Lucia - Ask a New Yorker :
Re: Camera Shop - 16 years ago
HA! The somewhat-fairly-recently left description of the staff at B & H was not only apparently excellent and to the point according to more recent visitors, but to the point for visitors from even more than a decade and a half ago as well! I bought more than one camera there (which was later either stolen or pawned while I survived my ca. 1979-1982 Lower East Side phase.... - WOOPS! I did itby Lucia - Ask a New Yorker :
Re: What's not to miss in NYC ? - 16 years ago
For a grand sunset-enhanced view of the Statue of Liberty, head down to the promenade that runs along the hudson down below the World Financial Center, and then walk, walk, walk south along this wonderful walkway until you come to this terrific iron sculpture that was inspired by the head of Lady Liberty herself. If I remember correctly, there is a arching, semi-spiral stairway on each side leadiby Lucia - Ask a New Yorker :
Re: Restaurants and bars with a jukebox - 16 years ago
Aw, shucks, Mod, thanks! I LOVE this joint! And, Maura - lucky you! Movin' back....mmmmmmmmmmmmImissitsooooooomuch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll def hafta look up the Limerick when I make it back - another old fave was McHale's on eighth ave. (though I have sadly heard that it has closed). Back when I usta work in the old McGraw Hill building on w.42nd, my boss kidnapped me and one oby Lucia - Ask a New Yorker :
Was anyone in new york back before the world financial center was built? - 16 years ago
I am wondering if anyone reading this post remembers when the west side just above the battery was still just raw land-fill created from digging the foundation for the WTC? Before they built the World Financial Center (this would've been somewhere between 1980 and 1982), this fill stood exposed to the river and empty for a number of years(!!). At some point a group of people created &quoby Lucia - Ask a New Yorker :
Re: Restaurants and bars with a jukebox - 16 years ago
You said: "We love little dive bars with great jukeboxes!!", and immediately, I thought of one of my favorite old dives. I don't remember the name of the place, but, it was on the south side of Houston Street, somewhere between, say..... 1st Ave. and The Bowery. I can't swear to it, but it mighta had an Irish name. It was just a tiny little joint with a tiny little bar and mayby Lucia - Ask a New Yorker :
Re: Top ten reasons why I love NY - 16 years ago
owmygod, you TOTally READ me! ;o}}}by Lucia - Ask a New Yorker :
Re: Top ten reasons why I love NY - 16 years ago
Thanks, Salsa ~ I love this site! It is making me verrry nostalgic...it has been waaaaaay too long since I was there! New York is calling me and I can't go, but this site is soothing my soul - "Great Stuff!".by Lucia - Ask a New Yorker :
Re: Shopping & Food! - 16 years ago
americancraftmuseum.org Wonderful museum in midtown with an amazing collection, not to mention every shopper's delight: a GREAT gift store!by Lucia - Ask a New Yorker :
Re: Top ten reasons why I love NY - 16 years ago
Top Ten Reasons Why I Love New York: 10. Those little sparkles in the sidewalks 9. Insanely cool opportunities to see things I've never seen anywhere else (like the inside of the clock tower in the court building downtown or the weird sculptures on the roof of the old McGraw Hill building on west 42nd street) 8. Pizza delivered to my door at three o'clock in the morning! 7.by Lucia - Ask a New Yorker :
Re: Best cannoli? - 16 years ago
DiRoberti's on first between 10th and 11th (or was it 9th and 10th) for not only the best cannoli and cappucino on the lower east side, but also for the kindest crew and caretakers - once when I lived on east thirteenth street (1980-ish), my toilet was broken for some days in a row(!) and the folks in there never once gave me grief about my going in there repeatedly over the course of severby Lucia - Ask a New Yorker :
Re: Roosevelt Island? - 16 years ago
I'd love to hear from someone who has lived there (or does) or who has spent a lot of time there! I've always been intrigued by Roosevelt Island - went there with my bff once in 1979 for a wild night and early morning at a new friend's place. First there was the tram ride over the river - LOVED that! Then there was the spot where Wellington showed us a view of manhattan that made tby Lucia - Ask a New Yorker :
Re: Best New York Moment - 16 years ago
Hey, Everybody - just tumbled onto this zany site today and have been totally absorbed for hours, missing manhattan and being both soothed and made teary-eyed by various passages I've read..."Best New York Moments" really seized my attention and seemed the best place for my first post. I like to think of my BEST NEW YORK ADVENTURES.... Here goes: Sometime in the late eighby Lucia - Ask a New Yorker :
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