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Here's some uniqueness......My high school cross-country team would train around Sheep Meadow in Central Park (couple of laps around = 1.8 miles each). Anyway, I still remember the dude who came up to me and asked, "Wassup, my brotha? What do you want, greens, purples, blues....??????"
Looking back, the boldness of a drug dealer steppin' to a naiive 16-year-old high school runner and offering drugs.....!
I went to kind of a hippieish alternative high school, and instead of gym, we would take walking trips through the village. I'll never forget when someone in Washington Square park asked my teacher if she wanted a nickel bag... this was in '93 too!
I have heard different things from different people in my family. Some always talk about when they first moved there in the mid 70's New York was extremely cheap to live in and are trying their best to get out because how expensive they think things are. Other family members like it better because they say they can actually leave their houses/apartments at night unlike in the 70's.
Grew up in Queens. Was 13 years old in 1976. The 70s were the best time of my life. I felt completely happy and safe. I even took a bus and two subway trains ALONE to go to high school in what was then a rough area of Brooklyn (Fort Greene), and never had a problem. I guess it's all about your perspective. Today NYC is supposedly safer, yet everyone is afraid to let their kids off the leash. Makes no sense to me.
Oh hell yeah, now you were talking fun. Plus all the clubs were on the West side where it was seedy and desolate and all the places your mother did not want you to go. Oh what fun that was. ofcourse i am older than dirt, so I remember all the fun we used to have.
now it is all condos and park, not that that isnt nice, but being young and going to the seedy city, oh yes, fun fun fun !!!!
i feel bad all the younger kids of today missed that.
used to sun bath on the broken down piers, oh yeah, those were the days, dance all night long, amoung other things that i will never admit too.
Oh hell yeah, now you were talking fun. Plus all the clubs were on the West side where it was seedy and desolate and all the places your mother did not want you to go. Oh what fun that was. ofcourse i am older than dirt, so I remember all the fun we used to have.
now it is all condos and park, not that that isnt nice, but being young and going to the seedy city, oh yes, fun fun fun !!!!
i feel bad all the younger kids of today missed that.
used to sun bath on the broken down piers, oh yeah, those were the days, dance all night long, amoung other things that i will never admit too.
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