New York City memories (Harrison: floor, radio, best)

[yhwhshalomjr]

Joe Bama!
Unfortunately I can't i'm a little too far away
and the D train sounds a little creepy (nowadays)
the A train ? or has those areas improved since Clinton?

[yhwhshalomjr]

Joe;
I miss the old Castro billboard on 7th Ave/Broadway I meant
and the Horn and Hardart's (aroma) the coffee yikes!!!!!! Yum
and those doughnuts/cruellers, and Nathan's anywhere
what was the name of the coffee shop and restaurant that stayed open all nite back in the 60's and 70's on the corner of 50th & 7th Ave ( Howard Johnson's?
I have to stop

[nyctc7]

Originally Posted by quelinda

Anyone hang out on specific a corner or park while growing up here? A whole group of us, sometimes 25 kids, used to hang out on 90th street and First Avenue across the street from the gas station that is no longer there. Fun times.. Let's just say my daughter wont be growing up here.

The 93rd Street and C.P.W. entrance to Central Park. That was back in the 1970's. No one seems to hang out there any more. We were mostly pot-smoking, frisbee-playing preppies.

Originally Posted by Joe Bama!

I remember when they we $6 and we used to sing,,,

"Box seats s*ck! Box seats s*ck!
You pay $20, we pay $6,
we are cool and you are d*cks!"

And at The Garden, it was Red Seats Suck! Red Seats Suck! And remember air horns (those hand-held boat fog horns) and the home-made banners? Actually, maybe it's a good thing they banned those, the air horns anyway.

[yhwhshalomjr]

The Knicks in the 70's and 80's Patrick Ewing and the whole crew
I am still a die hard Knicks fan, so sad but it's true

[Joe Bama!]

Originally Posted by yhwhshalomjr

Joe Bama!
Unfortunately I can't i'm a little too far away
and the D train sounds a little creepy (nowadays)
the A train ? or has those areas improved since Clinton?

The D-train goes to my Dad's house in Bensonhurst and then to Coney Island. It does go through a fair share of not so great parts of the city.
The A-train goes through all types of neighborhoods, its one of my favorite lines, especially on the way to Far Rockaway, Queens, best view in the whole transit system as it goes through the marsh area across Jamaica Bay.

Those coffee shops in Mid town are mostly gone now. Mid town is a corporate sess pool of capitalism gone mad.

[Minus]

Originally Posted by nyc2va76

I miss the bus and train passes. I also remember when the bleacher seats in Yankee Stadium was $1.50

Ha, I got jumped for my bus pass twice... I don't miss that

[robert999]

Remember Moondog?

[Fred314X]

I remember Moondog...and Cousin Brucie, for that matter--back in the days when 77WABC meant top-40 rock 'n roll. (I could never stand Bruce Morrow, which apparently put me in the minority, as he was such a big name at one time).

[Viralmd]

I remember Moondog. And the WMCA Good Guys, and Murray the K (the fifth Beatle). And I remember where I was when the Beatles were on the Ed Sullivan show! And how there were crowds around the Plaza Hotel, where they stayed.

[Dark of the Moon]

Originally Posted by Fred314X

I remember Moondog...and Cousin Brucie, for that matter--back in the days when 77WABC meant top-40 rock 'n roll. (I could never stand Bruce Morrow, which apparently put me in the minority, as he was such a big name at one time).

Oh yeah -- Cousin Brucie and 77WABC! (That's an AM radio station, for the younger folks here ..... )