Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
I dunno. Between the guy mowing down people on West Street, and the shoot out in Battery Park, it has certainly been an exciting year. Did I mention this was in broad day light during a work day?
Meh
The area around the Battery is kinda hood too, don't sleep
You'd be surprised on that one too
__________________
"The man who sleeps on the floor, can never fall out of bed." -Martin Lawrence
No I'm serious, you gotta watch urself at night around there
FiDi is dark and lonely at night
Yes, it is, but it never bothered me.
Quote:
Then you have Staten Island's finest hoodrats catching their ferry
Brooklyn hoodrats getting off at Bowling Green to go to Staten Island to meet their Staten Island hoodrats
Staten Island hoodrats going uptown to link wit their Harlem hoodrats
If I am there late at night, I'm not near the terminal. I'm more internal. Like on Stone street, or Wall. There is a nice little Japanese place that has a great happy hour. Haru Sushi. Of course I don't think I was over there past 9. And rarely, I leave the office much later; the office Christmas party.
Quote:
And at night, there's real rats all around there too
That's not scarier than the 34th Street station along the F & D train. Those rats have hubris. They leave the platform and go up the steps to the upper level!
I grew up in the Bronx and had a lot of high school friends who lived in Parkchester. So I spent some time there back in the day. We always enjoyed looking at the decorative accents.
Now I live in Stuy Town, and I'm wondering why we don't have the same terra cotta sculptures. Lack of money, or time? Or both? In many ways, the two complexes are very similar. I joke that Met Life just reused the old Parkchester plans to save money. But the artwork didn't make it here.
I grew up in the Bronx and had a lot of high school friends who lived in Parkchester. So I spent some time there back in the day. We always enjoyed looking at the decorative accents.
Now I live in Stuy Town, and I'm wondering why we don't have the same terra cotta sculptures. Lack of money, or time? Or both? In many ways, the two complexes are very similar. I joke that Met Life just reused the old Parkchester plans to save money. But the artwork didn't make it here.
What both have, besides the same architecture, is the squirrels. As a little girl, I would walk through Stuy town and Peter Cooper to go to the swimming pool. After swimming, we would pick up a HappyMeal and feed the squirrels the cookies.
Parkchester has a lot of squirrels and they are just so cool.... even if they are kind of like rats with bushy tails. But what's different here, and I think it's a Bronx thing is that the squirrels are black.
I live not far from Parkchester condos. We have the squirrels here, and a bit of a cat colony. The other day, I saw a kitten hunting squirrels. He wasn't very successful but it was very cute.
We also have black squirrels in ST. Occasionally they have orangey tails. They are a color morph of the gray squirrel, not a separate species. We used to call them Halloween squirrels when my daughter was a kid. She loved feeding them.
But today the squirrels here have become very inured to people, and that's bad. The squirrels will jump into strollers and look around for snacks. It's freaking out the parents. If we had terra cotta sculptures to look at, it wouldn't be that bad. :-)
I'll try to find a squirrel that's terrorizing a toddler for goldfish.
Now that made me lol irl.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
