New York City memories (Alexander, Naples: neighborhood, school, live in)

[analyticalkeys]

Originally Posted by Rachael84

I think it was just a grassy area beside an apartment building, from what I remember. Back then everything was a lot bigger to me since I was only 4, so small grassy areas were probably like parks lol

Hmm.. there's something like that on 24th and 8th, I'm pretty sure!

[bmwguydc]

Originally Posted by Rachael84

I think it was just a grassy area beside an apartment building, from what I remember. Back then everything was a lot bigger to me since I was only 4, so small grassy areas were probably like parks lol

Yep, that's probably the gardens of Penn South development, a few blocks up 8th from the McDonalds? The Penn South complex starts at 8th & 24th and there are small parks interspersed in the grounds, not unlike Stuyvesant Town.

[Rachael84]

I just looked on google street map view and saw the Mcdonalds is still there I'm sure they've renovated it by now though. Right by 25th & 8th is where I used to go and feed the pigeons on the way back. There's a park-like area (though not officially a park) that I remember very well

[009]

Subtle things like when tokens were still in use and the black turnsiles that accepted them, MTA had the old "M" logo(which occasionally can be seen faded on some trains and bus drivers wearing their old badges and uniforms), the NYPD had their livery in baby blue and white and had all their patrolmen used light blue shirts, the FDNY experimented with a lime-green fire trucks(eyesore), FDNY EMS was part of the HHC and used white and orange ambulances and when Keyspan was known as Brooklyn Union and their old gas tanks stood tall, seen from miles away

Felt like crying when those things went down. It was a local landmark of sorts. I had a lot of sentimental attachments towards them. It was brought down in '01. Two others that stood side by side also met their fate that year...

[Moderate Guy]

Originally Posted by analyticalkeys

This is extremely odd, and may not relate to NYC directly, but I was thinking about this while walking to the train this morning..

When I was a kid, pigeons used to fly away as soon as you got anywhere near them.. now, they seem to just walk alongside you without a care in the world. Has anyone else noticed this?

Pigeons have become a menace on the UWS too. I can't even use a terrace because of them - so I'd say I prefer the NY memories when they would just fly away. Some people follow a strange religion that demands that they feed the pigeons on the street each day, then the pigeons never leave for the parks anymore. They settle on people's terraces, use it as a bathroom, lunch room, and bedroom with their mates.

You try to clean your terrace, but they come back with siblings and friends to throw a party and it's back to square one. I've actually given up and don't use the terrace anymore.

Oh, for the good old days when they would see a human being and at least fly off a little. Now they actually laugh at me when I try to shoo them off the terrace. They even bring their friends to join in my humiliation and to do a song and a dance right in front of me.

[id3ntidycrisis]

I don't know if it's just me but Mr. Softie's trucks are hardly around anymore here in flushing queens. Where'd they go? =(

[eihab]

hi
somehow it's weird to write in this issue... "New York City memories"!!
but I don't live in america, even I didn't travel to america yet, and maybe I will never go to america. so why? what is attracting me to write in.
It's the magic of memories word. I have always loved this word "memories".
and I have also menories related with america!
It's amazing.. Squirrels in streets
I still remember the first mickey mouse magazine which my grandmother sits beside me on the bed and read it to me until the Drowsin comeover me.
I still remember statue of liberty appears in a lot lf movies, that I loved both of them.
I still remember the first time went alone to american restaurant.
I still remember the old dream to Immigrate to america, that dream will never Happen, now I have two Children and already move to another country. but nothing compare to america.
that is why I want to write..
because of memories..
best wishes to you
sorry for my bad english.
eihab

[Fred314X]

A LONG time ago, there was a kids' show on one of the local New York City stations. It featured a sad-type clown named Tommy Seven. Does anyone else remember this?

[Andysocks]

Originally Posted by 009

MTA had the old "M" logo

ohshi.... blast from the past.

I'm too young to remember when it was in full effect, but I was born in Douglaston, so my two cents is the color-coded street signage, specifically the blue on white. Out that far in the early 90s it was still all over the place even after everywhere else became green... you can still find the occasional one in that hood, but it seems like the DOT got on the ball sometime when I lived on LI before I moved back.

The words "DONT" and "WALK", haha.

Not NYC, but when I first moved to LI, there was an awesome storefront candy shop, bakery and pizzeria (among other things... like a liquor store) walking distance from my house in a shopping strip on Merrick and Front in E. Meadow. The Waldbaum's that shared a parking lot with the strip decided to expand, and since the Town of Hempstead requires x amount of parking spots for x amount of retail square footage, all the local businesses were ripped out to make room, even though the expansion of the Walmart itself did not encroach upon the storefronts themselves or the existing parking lot, just expanded out into a useless freight alleyway. I think that single-handedly molded my impression of the 'burbs, haha, and not positively. The sad part is I'd never seen the new parking lot more than half full, ever.

[Fred314X]

Somebody mentioned Good Humor. How about Bungalow Bar?