On Jul 3, 3:29*pm, George > wrote:
> On 7/3/2010 12:07 PM, Kris wrote:
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> > On Jul 3, 6:40 am, > *wrote:
> >> On 7/2/2010 5:28 PM, Pete C. wrote:
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> >>>> On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:55:33 -0500, Pete C. wrote:
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> >>>>>> * *"Pete > * *wrote:
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> >>>>>>> Let me preface this by saying that I hate NYC and think overall it is a
> >>>>>>> festering dumpster of pseudo-humanity. Beyond that however, if you have
> >>>>>>> to go there for some reason, there is indeed very good food pretty much
> >>>>>>> everywhere if you avoid any sort of national chain place. I've had great
> >>>>>>> pizza from a hole in the wall place across the street from B&H Photo, a
> >>>>>>> great Ethiopian dinner at Queen of Sheeba Ethiopian Restaurant somewhere
> >>>>>>> on the way back to the bus station, and various other great food
> >>>>>>> elsewhere.
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> >>>>>> I hope you waved hello to all my money when you walked by B&H Photo. ;=}
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> >>>>> Actually, B&H was the target, to visit their store after dealing with
> >>>>> them for years on the phone and online, and to pickup some film for the
> >>>>> photo shoot that brought us to NYC. After taking the bus down from CT
> >>>>> and hiking over to do our thing at B&H it was about lunch time and the
> >>>>> little hole in the wall across the street had really good pizza.
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> >>>> not bad for pseudo-humans, huh?
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> >>>> blake
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> >>> Good food - Check
> >>> Clean streets - Fail
> >>> Clean buildings - Fail
> >>> Reliable infrastructure - Fail
> >>> Elbow room - Fail
> >>> Sane traffic - Fail
> >>> Reasonable parking - Fail
> >>> Friendly people - Fail
> >>> Low crime - Fail
> >>> Reasonable COL - Fail
> >>> CHL - Fail
> >>> etc.
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> >> Sounds like you haven't been there for quite some time. After one
> >> liberal administration after another worried more about hurting the
> >> feelings of the riff-raff folks who were raising a family, had a job etc
> >> had enough and hired Giuliani and within a few years there was a major
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> > I do hear that the subway crime is way down, as is crime in most areas
> > that visitors would go. Heck, the village is practically mainstream
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> Major difference, wasn't that long ago when every car was dirty and
> covered with graffiti (both the outside and from riff-raff scratching
> stuff on the glass). People had enough of being nice to and trying not
> to hurt the feelings of riff-raff and they really cleaned them out. *Now
> the the cars are clean and well maintained, many stations have been
> re-tiled and repainted and they even vacuum the tracks.
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> If you want to see the closest thing to what the village used to be go
> over to St Marks Place in the evening.
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> > Much better than the late seventies, I would think.
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> Yes, we were out there maybe a month ago enjoying a drink @ 1 AM in the
> pavilion in Gramercy Park that is sponsored by Southwest Airlines.
> Gramercy Park is impeccability maintained which people now respect.
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> There is no way you would ever think of being in a park at night not so
> long ago.
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Will definitely keep St. Marks on the radar!

Thanks again,
Kris