My New York trip!

[Ryazan]

I am sorry. And I am not a goon.

*leaves thread*

 

[editor]

I am sorry. And I am not a goon.

*leaves thread*

Right, that's it. You were warned repeatedly.
You've 'contributed' more posts than anyone else to this thread (14 already) and almost all of them are completely off topic.

24 hr ban.

 

[Zinedine*]

Ooh that photo of Grand central Station reminds me of my New York trip back in February. Kind of sad- Grand Central Station was the scene of me and my boyfriends final goodbye

 

[moonsi til]

Im struggling to sleep,so lurking around the boards...I checked out the 2004 photos and read your blog...sounds cool...I have never been to New York sounds like there is a lot going on. i liked the photos of the river, helps to imagine the size of the place.

 

[sovietpop]

I like the "bronx express" photo, and the grey Battersy park ones, oh and the one of the nuns, the red hook fire escapes, and the one with the statue of liberty and the sunset is just wow!

 

[septic tank]

Gay NYC

What is the gay community like in NY? Is it fairly open? Or is it just a network of tearooms?

Ever since Stonewall, it's about the most loud, proud and out in America, short of The Castro, possibly Provincetown and Key West. Centered around Christopher Street in The Village (that's West) and Chelsea, but really pretty much everywhere except Staten Island, Bay Ridge and other bits of the Outer Boroughs (evidently not that out, I guess). Ever hear of the Halloween Parade?

 

[editor]

Ever since Stonewall, it's about the most loud, proud and out in America, short of The Castro, possibly Provincetown and Key West.

Nice to see you back on the boards

 

[septic tank]

Has the gentrification/transformation of the area spread so far as to push the Chasidim and poor people of color out? I remember that Division Street seemed, appropriately enough, to be the dividing line of sorts.

Oh, Wburg is pretty thoroughly gentrified by now, but the Hasidim are still there south of Broadway (where they own most of the property) and there's still some poor people of color on the South Side, if only because of public housing. East of the BQE, it's still pretty much Dominicans, your genuinely starving white artists and a small but budding Mexican community, but the arriviste artists are all the way out to Bushwick by now.

 

[septic tank]

I promised I'd visit, didn't I?

Nice to see you back on the boards

After all, it's local.

 

[septic tank]

There's nothing in the world like the scale of NYC

Im struggling to sleep,so lurking around the boards...I checked out the 2004 photos and read your blog...sounds cool...I have never been to New York sounds like there is a lot going on. i liked the photos of the river, helps to imagine the size of the place.

...and the editor has a very good eye for it. The beauty of the city is that there are a million different angles you can view it from, and many are breathtaking. It's a photog's dream, but few seem to capture it, whether amateur or professional. Those really are some of the best pics of the city out there.

 

[Ryazan]

Ever since Stonewall, it's about the most loud, proud and out in America, short of The Castro, possibly Provincetown and Key West. Centered around Christopher Street in The Village (that's West) and Chelsea, but really pretty much everywhere except Staten Island, Bay Ridge and other bits of the Outer Boroughs (evidently not that out, I guess). Ever hear of the Halloween Parade?

No, but I want to see what NY is like for gays, out and about in the evenings.

 

[lang rabbie]

Oh, Wburg is pretty thoroughly gentrified by now, but the Hasidim are still there south of Broadway (where they own most of the property) and there's still some poor people of color on the South Side, if only because of public housing. East of the BQE, it's still pretty much Dominicans, your genuinely starving white artists and a small but budding Mexican community, but the arriviste artists are all the way out to Bushwick by now.

Did you see this in the New York Observer ?

 

[D]

Oh my god.

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[loud 1]

great stuff editor!!!!

offline usa!!


ace

 

[septic tank]

Did you see this in the New York Observer ?

Heh. That's pretty good.

Mrs. Tank and I have been talking with some friends about trying to buy a building somewhere (which seems impossible, given our very tenuous grasp on middle-classdom, but worth a look, I guess). The groundrules we've agreed upon are that we'll only displace poor white people. It's looking a lot like Hell's Kitchen, Greenpoint or Sunnyside, if it's even possible. I don't know how long I can hang on without brie at the local bodega, though.

 

[D]

Did you see this in the New York Observer ?

Heh. That's pretty good.

Mrs. Tank and I have been talking with some friends about trying to buy a building somewhere (which seems impossible, given our very tenuous grasp on middle-classdom, but worth a look, I guess). The groundrules we've agreed upon are that we'll only displace poor white people. It's looking a lot like Hell's Kitchen, Greenpoint or Sunnyside, if it's even possible. I don't know how long I can hang on without brie at the local bodega, though.

Some friends of mine are clinging to the quasi-middle-class-with-utopian-anarchistic-inclinations dream of buying a big warehouse in Williamsburg.

Good luck to all of you!

 

[Boluda]

Loved the photos. Got my travel juices flowin'

Heading west myself, reckon I'll load up my camera and take a few pic's as I go.

Cheers

 

[ronny]

Fabbo photos. I hit NY around April after China so now can't wait!!