Who here is from NYC and who here is a transplant?
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devincf wrote: Maybe. Maybe there's a lot of overly defensive and sensitive people running around here.
I'm pretty sensitive. I cried at the end of "In the Mood for Love".devincf wrote: And will anyone call you out on a lame personal attack? I mean - that one is just unimaginative and boring.
I surprised myself. -
qtrain wrote: [quote=devincf]Maybe. Maybe there's a lot of overly defensive and sensitive people running around here.
I'm pretty sensitive. I cried at the end of "In the Mood for Love".
Braveheart... gets me every time... "FREEDOOOOOMMMMMMMM!!!
Damn the English, jacking up the rents. Property values went though the roof, priced most of the Scots right out... most of them had to move to the highlands... Or, *shudder* Ireland. -
Hey, y'all, happy weekend!
Maybe we can pick this thread back up on Monday. -
Born in Kings County, NY 1965, died in Clarks Summit/Scranton, PA 1983. Resurrectied in Kings County, NY 1985
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devincf wrote: I think transplants are a problem in that most of them don't come to New York to stay. They rush into "cool" areas, jack the rents up and then blow out back to the suburbs.
I spent thousands to move to New York just for that purpose, then next on to Boca Raton, Florida to do the same! Who knows where I'll strike next!
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devincf wrote: I think transplants are a problem in that most of them don't come to New York to stay. They rush into "cool" areas, jack the rents up and then blow out back to the suburbs after doing their three to five obligatory years in NYC. Obviously that's not every transplant, but my experience is that most who come to NY don't come to spend their lives.
actually - isn't a transplant is someone who comes to settle down and stay? -
I grew up in Queens, moved to Manahattan after college (having commuted to college in Manahattan from Queens), then, just four years ago, moved to Brooklyn.
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caaahyoko wrote: From St. Charles, Missour-ah.
OK, that's strange...my wife is from St. Charles...
(and so is Santino from "Project Runway")
I'm from the metropolis of Piffard, NY...
We've been in Brooklyn for ten years (Fort Greene, Park Slope and now, Prospect Heights) -
Candicissima wrote: Oh gee. Another hipster conversation. There are like 10 of "them" in the whole freaking neighborhood. Talk about obsessing over something that isn't there! :roll:
Hey! Born in a Brooklyn hospital to parents from the Bronx and Brooklyn who were residing in Manhattan, but raised in Queens. Brooklyn since 2000.
But on topic, Brooklyn-born and mostly bred (with stops in *shudder* Queens). -
Subject: bklyn born!
Brooklyn-born
i was born in Greenpoint Hospital (Kingland & Maspeth Aves) which has been a homeless men's shelter and low income housing since the early 90s. we lived all over gpoint & wburg...
Havemeyer & Hope
Kingsland & Nassau
South 1st btwn Marcy & Havemeyer
Driggs at Monitor
Jackson & Kingsland
im on prospect place btwn franklin & bedford now for 7yrs... -
Born and bred in NYC/BK.
I was born at NY Hospital, lived in Manhattan until I was 13 and then lived in Gravesend, Park Slope and now the PH!!!! WORD!!!!!!!! -
Born and raised in Kansas (insert Dorothy joke here) and been in Brooklyn since the late 90's. Lived in that hell hole people call Williamsburg and finally came to "paradise" (PH) in 2000, my how things have changed...
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sterling2000 wrote: [quote=caaahyoko]From St. Charles, Missour-ah.
OK, that's strange...my wife is from St. Charles...
(and so is Santino from "Project Runway")
I'm from the metropolis of Piffard, NY...
We've been in Brooklyn for ten years (Fort Greene, Park Slope and now, Prospect Heights)
Haha! I had no idea about Santino! I just sat and watched the marathon a couple weeks ago and got hooked.
Your wife is from St. Charles, too, huh? You and my fiancee should start a "married to Missourians" club. Have you been there to visit? I'm taking my man for the first time this May...should be interesting.
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11238 wrote: Born and bred in NYC/BK.
Born and raised in Brooklyn
I was born at NY Hospital, lived in Manhattan until I was 13 and then lived in Gravesend, Park Slope and now the PH!!!! WORD!!!!!!!!
Born at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital, (someone probably rents where I was born) Grew up on Eastern Parkway. College in Ohio, Lived in Chicago, and now back on Eastern Parkway. -
caaahyoko wrote: [quote=sterling2000][quote=caaahyoko]From St. Charles, Missour-ah.
OK, that's strange...my wife is from St. Charles...
(and so is Santino from "Project Runway")
I'm from the metropolis of Piffard, NY...
We've been in Brooklyn for ten years (Fort Greene, Park Slope and now, Prospect Heights)
Haha! I had no idea about Santino! I just sat and watched the marathon a couple weeks ago and got hooked.
Your wife is from St. Charles, too, huh? You and my fiancee should start a "married to Missourians" club. Have you been there to visit? I'm taking my man for the first time this May...should be interesting.
I've been there many a time...we got married down on Historic Main Street about 10 years ago...always like going and partaking of the glory of Shnuck's and Dierbergs... -
sterling2000 wrote:
I've been there many a time...we got married down on Historic Main Street about 10 years ago...always like going and partaking of the glory of Shnuck's and Dierbergs... -
E.B. White's essay, "Here is New York," is often described as a love letter to the City. In part of it, he talks about "three New Yorks." First, the natives that he describes as taking its wonders "for granted." Then, commuters who travel far to keep coming here but end up actually seeing and experiencing very little. Then, the transplants who come here "in quest of something" and give New York its "high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements." I like how he brings it all together pointing out that all 3 contribute to making it the City we all love (or on this thread - argue over who loves more?)
“Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it its solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.†-
devincf wrote: 1. i hate PBR. PBR makes me feel like i'm at a frat party. typically in williamsburg i drink stella or guiness.
Everyone hates PBR in his or her heart. I've swilled dozens of non-ironic PBR's in the dirtiest mill-town taverns of New England, and I'll never touch another one now that I can afford better. The AMAZING thing is that PBR isn't even cheap (at least in NYC) now, which was its primary attribute.
Here is the real crime of hipsters - just as they have done with old-time Williamsburg residents, they have priced the non-ironic Pabst drinker, the poor schlub that can't or won't buy better, out of the market that is rightfully his.
And that's a G-d-damned shame. -
Anyone here know about the Magic Garden?
Kind of interesting:
http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2005/12/05/zoe_schneider_w.php -
devincf wrote: They rush into "cool" areas, jack the rents up and then blow out back to the suburbs after doing their three to five obligatory years in NYC.
Nice way of looking at it. I am sure we "transplants" rushed in and jacked up the rent. Maybe the ass-hole NY landlords are the ones you should have a problem with. They seem to be taking advantage of "transplants" at the expense of the locals. Then the locals blame the "transplant." Nice simple-minded thinking. -
devincf wrote:
I think transplants are a problem in that most of them don't come to New York to stay.
The head swims. People from all over come to New York b/c every industry, every culture, every other thing you can think of is here. I will always be a Philadelphian at heart. And at the risk of making your blood boil, I plan to move back there some day. But for now, I belong in PH.
Seems like you want to live in a gated community that is a replica of Prospect Heights. Maybe you're in luck, they could be working on one in Vegas right now. -
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Subject: Re: Who here is from NYC and who here is a transplant?
devincf wrote: I am curious as to how this affects perceptions. I get the impression that people who want to make a big deal out of police parking or the handling of a mugging by the cops may come from somewhere where things work.
I'm a peripatetic cosmopolit. I think I'm becoming a New Yorker but I'm not an American. North America is my third continent; I arrived in 2004. Oh, and my spouse is moving here soon full time, and is from a different continent and language and culture from me and from here. We're proud to call Prospect Heights home.
I came with no expectations about how things should work here, and wouldn't make a big deal of such things... at least not without listening and watching and learning for quite a while yet. -
Grew up in Greenwich Village.
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Grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio
Lived in Cleveland, Atlanta, Charlotte, Philadelphia, London, Paris, & Los Anegles.
Been in NYC since '86 - came here to live 'cause John Lennon did. -
born in guayaquil, Ecuador
left when i was 7 for the boogeydown bronx of 1973
grew up with blackouts, riots, son of sam, reggie's yankees
and continued to manhattan, queens, jersey, florida et al
-- been living in brooklyn for about 7 years
i WUV crooklyn - even as thoughts of living
in barcelona are never far away -
Born in Pittsburgh. Still where I'm from.
Other places I've gentrified:
Philly (4 years total)
London (2 years)
St. Andrews, Scotland (6 years)
Boston (3 years)
Lived in PH my whole NYC life (4 years). Don't wanna leave ever, but hey, I'll go wherever the pbr is cheap and the jeans is pegged. -
quijibo wrote: born in guayaquil, Ecuador
you. are. badass. props.
left when i was 7 for the boogeydown bronx of 1973
grew up with blackouts, riots, son of sam, reggie's yankees
and continued to manhattan, queens, jersey, florida et al
-- been living in brooklyn for about 7 years
i WUV crooklyn - even as thoughts of living
in barcelona are never far away -
bored at work-attempting to revive the thread.
born and raised in Arkansas
couple of years in Chapel Hill, NC
a little over 2.5 years alternating between Park Slope (just off Flatbush) and Crown Heights (I think this averages out to Prospect Heights )
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