My Town a/k/a Da Big Apple

FastTrax · Feb 14, 2021

Part 1: Citywide overview

terry123 · Feb 14, 2021

Would love to visit New York before I pass on but I don't see it happening. Thanks for the links.

asp3 · Feb 14, 2021

I

NY but London is still my favorite city.

FastTrax · Feb 15, 2021

Part: 2 The Bronx

Pepper · Feb 15, 2021

No No No
Those Bronx pictures are history. The Bronx today is unrecognizable from those pics! Let's set the record straight!

Pepper · Feb 15, 2021

It's so nice they named it twice...............

jerry old · Feb 15, 2021

Trax, was watching a detective show with several chase scenes through the streets of N.Y.-nothing but wall-to-wall people, crowds
crowds, crowds...how can you live there?

Aunt Bea · Feb 15, 2021

tbeltrans · Feb 15, 2021

I was born in Queens, but we moved to San Francisco when I was going into first or second grade (don't remember which now). When I need my birth certificate, I have to get it from NYC.

Tony

FastTrax · Feb 15, 2021

Pepper said:
No No No
Those Bronx pictures are history. The Bronx today is unrecognizable from those pics! Let's set the record straight!

FastTrax · Feb 15, 2021

tbeltrans said:
I was born in Queens, but we moved to San Francisco when I was going into first or second grade (don't remember which now). When I need my birth certificate, I have to get it from NYC

I lived in Jamaica Estates. I practically lived at Stuart Electronics at Parsons and Hillside which was the biggest scanner store in the city. Pete Guggenheim hired off duty NYPD cops and everythibg was friendly. If you bought a 10 channel scanner they gave you 10 free crystals and so on.

BTW: Do you need the address and phone number of the NYC Bureau of Records? If not PM me. TTFN

tbeltrans · Feb 15, 2021

FastTrax said:
I lived in Jamaica Estates. I practically lived in Stuart Electronics at Parsons and Hillside which was the biggest scanner store in the city. Pete Guggenheim hired off duty NYPD cops and everythibg was friendly. If you bought a 10 channel scanner they gave you 10 free crystals and so on.

BTW: Do you need the address and phone number of the NYC Bureau of Records? If not PM me. TTFN

Thanks FastTrax. I have two birth certificates since I ordered both the last time I needed one. I googled the NYC Bureau of Records when I needed their contact information and they were surprisingly fast at getting the birth certificates to me.

I have been back to NYC a few times, but that was in the mid-80s when I was working on a military contract with AT & T. We did a board and software for a Sun computer system for the "paperless ship" project for the Navy. On that project, I would spend time in NYC and then out at the Navy Missile Command just north of Los Angeles.

Then I ended up doing similar for the British Air Force. It was interesting stuff. The only problem is that when doing that kind of work, there is very little time to go sight seeing. When I would go to England, I would take an extra weekend or few days to go to London, but when I would go to New York, I would just head home when the work was done. When in California, I did take extra days to drive down to Los Angeles to see some of my family, since curiously, several them stayed in Southern California. Also, I stayed in a New Jersey "bedroom" community and drive across the George Washington bridge into NYC for work when working with AT & T.

Tony

katlupe · Feb 15, 2021

My favorite city! Been there many times. Thanks for the memories!

FastTrax · Feb 15, 2021

jerry old said:
Trax, was watching a detective show with several chase scenes through the streets of N.Y.-nothing but wall-to-wall people, crowds
crowds, crowds...how can you live there?

As a native one get's used to it. A lot of people relocationg to, passing thru or visiting Noo Yawk for the fisrt time have serious culture shock which can lead to paranoia. One of the best tips for out of towners is never look up, walk like you live there and never ask for directions from anbody except a cop (IN UNIFORM) Please tell me you're not watching Blue Bloods and even if you are just say you don't watch it, lol.

FastTrax · Feb 15, 2021

katlupe said:
My favorite city! Been there many times. Thanks for the memories!

My pleasure, my pleasure.katlupe.

Pepper · Feb 15, 2021

FastTrax said:
Pep it was a 60's to the 70's historical perspective but I am willing to post a second updated Bronx post gentrification perspective. Do you want me to post under this existing Bronx post or compile a new docu after the Staten Island wrapup? Let me know and I am good with your suggestion. Either way it works for me. TTFN

Oops, sorry for intruding. What a gentleman you are! You do whatever you want, 'cause whatever you do, it's working!

Lewkat · Feb 15, 2021

Loved it when I lived there. Not far from there now, but seldom go since it just isn't what it used to be. Neither am I, for that matter.

jerry old · Feb 15, 2021

FastTrax said:
As a native one get's used to it. A lot of people relocationg to, passing thru or visiting Noo Yawk for the fisrt time have serious culture shock which can lead to paranoia. One of the best tips for out of towners is never look up, walk like you live there and never ask for directions from anbody except a cop (IN UNIFORM) Please tell me you're not watching Blue Bloods and even if you are just say you don't watch it, lol.

Damn! Sounds like you need to be packing a gun, but then all the bad guys already are

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It is all beyond me, wouldn't come to N.Y. without my deer rifle

Blue Bloods-never watched it, though it was supposed to be taking place in Boston.
Haven't been happy with N.Y. since the Dodgers left.

FastTrax · Feb 15, 2021

jerry old said:
Damn! Sounds like you need to be packing a gun, but then all the bad guys already are ...
It is all beyond me, wouldn't come to N.Y. without my deer rifle

Blue Bloods-never watched it, though it was supposed to be taking place in Boston.
Haven't been happy with N.Y. since the Dodgers left.

Naturally the cops legally carry and 99.9% of the cabbies are strapped too. A great many residents get target permits and carry them in cases apart from the bullets accoring to NYPD license dept guides but that's better then nothing. In the end some or maybe most just pack heat and take their chances of shooting somebody in self defense and take the minimum 1 year bid in Rikers. At least they'll be alive.

i remember the Dodgers playing at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn and when they left town the stadium was demolished and replaced by Ebbets Field Housing.

jerry old · Feb 15, 2021

Down hear'a it's legal to carry your pistol in your car; your supposed to leave your pistol in your car when you exit-yea, we do that

I can't walk without a rolling walker, sure i leave my pistol in the car

I can be knocked down with a feather, but i will put fire in your ass on the way down

FastTrax · Feb 15, 2021

jerry old said:
Down hear'a it's legal to carry your pistol in your car; your supposed to leave your pistol in your car when you exit-yea, we do that
I can't walk without a rolling walker, sure i leave my pistol in the car
I can be knocked down with a feather, but i will put fire in your ass on the way down

In the land of the skeeters and the gators and the Devils children the scorpions from HELL itself you can carry an unlicensed handgun in your home or car but to carry it in public you must have a concealed firarms permit. In shoreline fishing areas you are allowed to carry any type of pistol, revolver, shotgun or long barrel rifle without a license. Now can you imagine that in NYC? Either NYC would witness the lowest violent crime rate in history or they'd have a serious population deficit. NYC you gotta love that place.

jerry old · Feb 16, 2021

"Devils children" will use that

tbeltrans · Feb 16, 2021

A drunk woman, stark naked, gets into a taxi in New York City.

The cab driver, an old Jewish gentleman, opened his eyes wide and stared at the woman, but made no attempt to start the cab.

The woman glared back at him and said
"What's wrong with you, honey? Haven't you seen a naked woman before?"

The old Jewish guy slowly answered "Let me tell you sumsing, lady. I vasnt staring at you like you tink. Dat vould not be proper."

The woman giggled and responded "Well, if you're not staring at my boobs or my butt, sweetie, what are you doing then?"

He paused for a moment, then told her
“Vell.... M'am, I am looking, and I am looking, and I am tinking to myself, vair in Da hell is dis lady keeping de money to pay for dis ride?"

Tony

tbeltrans · Feb 16, 2021

A Cowboy from Ft. Worth, Texas walked into a bank in New York City and asked for the loan officer.

The Cowboy told the loan officer that he was going to Paris for an international festival for two weeks and needed to borrow $5,000 and that he was not a depositor of the bank.

The bank officer told him that the bank would need some form of security for the loan, so the old cowboy handed over the keys to a new Ferrari. The car was parked on the street in front of the bank. The ole cowboy produced the title and everything checked out. The loan officer agreed to hold the car as collateral for the loan and apologized for having to charge 12% interest.

Later, the bank's president and its officers all enjoyed a good laugh at the cowboy from the south for using a $250,000 Ferrari as collateral for a $5,000 loan. An employee of the bank then drove the Ferrari into the bank's private underground garage and safely parked it.

Two weeks later, the ole cowboy returned, repaid the $5,000 and the interest of $23.07. The loan officer said, 'Sir, we are very happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you were away, we checked you out on Dunn & Bradstreet and found that you are a Distinguished Alumni From Texas A&M, a highly sophisticated investor and a multi-millionaire with real estate and financial interests all over the world. Your investments include a large number of wind turbines around Sweetwater, Texas . What puzzles us is, why would you bother to borrow $5,000?

The good 'ole Texas boy replied, 'Where else in New York City can I park my car for two weeks for only $23.07 and expect it to be there when I return?'

Tony

tbeltrans · Feb 16, 2021

An Amish family takes a day off to visit New York City

An Amish family takes a day off to visit New York City.

They drive their wagon all the way into Time Square because they want to find a hotel with a room overlooking all of the cool sights they have never seen. The husband drops his wife and kids off at the front door of a super fancy hotel and he drives off to go look for a parking spot.

His wife is enamored with everything she is experiencing. There are blinking lights, and giant advertisements and so many sounds she has never heard. She eventually heads toward the hotel lobby and is startled by the doors that open automatically as soon as she walks near.

In the lobby she notices there are so many machines that do seemingly magical things! She sees a few people approach a machine, put a cup underneath and press a button, and it fills the cup with steaming hot coffee. She thinks to herself, ‘I’ve gotta try this.’ So she walks up to the machine, inserts a cup, and presses the button. Sure enough, there’s hot delicious coffee.

She also sees a machine where you put in a few quarters and it gives you a pre-packaged snack or soda. She is in awe, so she tries it. After a few dollars and pressing a few buttons, she has a coke and a bag of cookies. She can’t believe how awesome this place is! To her, it seems like they have a machine that can do anything.

After getting a room, the person at the front desk points her and her kids toward the elevators. Having no idea what they do, but too embarrassed to say, she walks over and decides to watch and see what happens.

Yet again, to her surprise, this machine seems to do the impossible.

As she watches, a frail 80 year old man presses the button, and with his cane, he walks through the open doors into the little room. The doors shut and she is left waiting to see what happens. 30 seconds later, a 25 year old, buff and gorgeous man walks out of the little room.

The woman looks to her son and says, “I think I know what this does. Go get your father.”

Tony

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A drunk woman, stark naked, gets into a taxi in New York City.​

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A Cowboy from Ft. Worth, Texas walked into a bank in New York City and asked for the loan officer.​

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An Amish family takes a day off to visit New York City​

A drunk woman, stark naked, gets into a taxi in New York City.

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An Amish family takes a day off to visit New York City