As you may recall, I started My NYC To Do List not long after moving back here after ten years in DC. My attention to The List has been, well, haphazard at best.
But I’m focused now. Ready to tackle stuff and add new To Dos.
1. Check out Sleep No More – accomplished!
2. Eat at Traif – achieved, more than once.
3. See the Radical Camera exhibit – missed. That will teach me to pick things with realistic deadlines. Maybe.
There will always be complaints about New York City: that it’s too gritty, that is too cleaned up, something.
People who live in new condos on the Bowery – previously home to CBGB – complain about noise from area clubs.
Via therealdeal.com
Recently Martin Scorsese lamented that the neighborhood of his youth has been taken over by Whole Foods, towering skyscrapers, expensive hotels and the like.
On the other hand, consider this gem of a video shared by BensonhurstBean and Curbed showing what it was like to ride the subway in 1987.
Thanks to BensonhurstBean and Curbed for sharing the subway video.
I agree with Scorsese that homogeneity is lamentable, but really – is he going to move back to a studio in his old building on Elizabeth Street anytime soon?
Via urbanedgeny.com
I don’t think so.
Change is painful, but inevitable.
Other posts about life in NYC:
In all of the year – six – I lived in NYC the first time, I never made it to Coney Island. Maybe this time.
Have you been to the Mermaid Parade? If I can recruit anyone to go with me, I suspect it will be @stackmack.
Check out these pics.
Forget the Cyclone. There’s a sideshow.
And finally, it’s the birthplace of Stephon Marbury. That should be reason enough.
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