What makes New York New York

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MC Johnson

Market of One
#21
#21
Flatiron Building
ABC Carpets
Chumley's
McSorley's
Gage & Tollner's
Woolworth Building
The changing colors on the Empire State Building
The World's Fair globe & towers in Flushing Meadows
The Brooklyn Heights Promenade
Katz's Deli
Duane Reade
Jaywalking across 5 lanes
The Strand
Co-ops
N,R Trains: The Rarely & the Never
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
The Public Library & Bryant Park
Prospect Park
Pushy old ladies on subways
People who get on subways before everyone has gotten off
The return of spring brings the return of urine stink
Big black rat balloon at strikes
The beautiful buildings of SoHo (hard to appreciate because of the narrow streets)
Cruising down Broadway through canyons of glass and steel, realizing this was once an indian hunting trail through the forest of Manhattan
 
D

dorothy

your morning commute
#24
#24
"fuck yous" that carry no meaning
gum scars on the sidewalk
loft parties
leonard cohen
coffee carts
the muslim bodega owner on my corner. we are in love.
improv comedy
dark, crowded theaters
cute boys
beautiful girls
rocca wear
wind from the east river
brunch, brunch, and more brunch
brooklyn ale
grand central
the pan-pan diner and sylvias
getting wasted on half-day fridays with publishing people
loud rock shows
seeing someone famous and not caring
rolaids
under-eye cream
cigs
films, not movies
sweat
men in suits reading the wall street journal
trash
the feeling that i get from living here.
 
Todd Simmons

Todd Simmons

amazed
#26
#26
Subway performers
Juniors'Cheesecake
The Wooster Group
Famous Rays'Pizza(THE Rays')
Fairway Market
Porto Rico Coffee
Odessa
The Grassroots Tavern
The Weinstein Brothers
The Talking Heads
Velvet Underground
The Strokes
The Ramones
Television
Blondie
Liars
Interpol
Yeah,Yeah,Yeahs
Sonic Youth
John Lurie and The Lounge Lizards
Umbertos'Clam House
The Gotti Brothers
Timothy"Speed"Levitch
The Corner Bistro
Brooklyn Lager
Electric Ladyland Studios
Nightclub Flyers
The Rockettes
Sylvias'Soul Food in Harlem
The Whitehorse Tavern
Pre-recorded,celebrity"buckle up for safety"taxi-messages
The Dakota
Shakespeare in The Park
Brown-baggin'it(R.I.P.)
Naked Lunch
Basketball Diaries
Elaines'
BAM
Bed-Stuy
The Naked Cowboy
"2nd acting"Broadway shows
Crazy Eddie
The Tenament Museum
Ethan Hawke sightings
rodenticide
"Fleas the size of Rats, on Rats the size of Cats"
 
Tess

Tess

New Member
#27
#27
...the fact that I don't know what the rest of my neighborhood looks like because I have a deli, laundromat, pizza joint, chinese take out, diner and blockbuster all in one block.

...and the mixed cuisine, probably the only city where you could find a jewish/cajun fusion restaurant.
 
PatBaer

PatBaer

hey, that's me
#28
#28
Black-marker cocks on subway movie ads
horse punching protesters
wholesale stores you wish you could buy from
homeless people dressed nicer than you
bars with movie rental stores in the back
McDonalds that deliver
The (now closed) Porn house with the sign "Welcome to Times Square"
 
D

DeManti

someone
#30
#30
freezing cold winters and hot, humid summers
the preachers on the ferry and subways
the cowboy-underwear guitar playing guy in times square

-angela
 
M

Mindy

New Member
#31
#31
my favorite

un-related famous/infamous places located really close together

The Triangle Shirtwaist fire 10 blocks away from where Sid Vicious killed Nancy
 
C

Car

Na
#32
#32
Re: my favorite

Originally posted by Mindy
un-related famous/infamous places located really close together

The Triangle Shirtwaist fire 10 blocks away from where Sid Vicious killed Nancy
Click to expand...
sorry but your geography is off. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was at Washington and Greene, what is now an NYU building (the Brown building i believe, connected to Main).

Sid allegedly killed Nancy at the Hotel Chelsea on 23rd btwn. 7th and 8th.

The distance between the two is almost a mile.
 
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S

Syrup

Combed Thunder
#35
#35
garbage bag mountains at night
Paitence & Fortitude
St. Mark's Bookshop (remainder table)
Gotham Book Mart (the Gallery)
Coliseum (welcome back!)
any newspaper or trade mag you want
North, South, East, West
staring at the schedule in Penn Station
skating rink at Rockefeller Center
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Here is New York
the chef at your local QNS chinese place went to a notorious French cooking school
and so did the Qwik Kart guy on the NW corner of 45th St. and 6th Ave.; you eat at both places for under 6 dollars
the Mitzvah Tank (do a Mitzvah!)
art & police academy students eating together (20-22 St./2nd Ave)
city maps in taxicabs with the WTC site poked out
or with pennies and nickels stuck behind them (?)
or covered with stickers for porn sites
 
Maddy

Maddy

Shark
#36
#36
Is this New york?

Digging those Pennies or Nickels out from behind the map when you take a cab home late at night because you are drunk.
 
the white flagg

the white flagg

burning bridges
#37
#37
Manhattan is an island. So it can't get all spread out like LA.
You don't need a car.
You can get away with crap like riding a unicycle and dressing like a fool without rednecks beating you.
Everyone wants to be like us.
 
Alex

Alex

....::::""""::::....
#39
#39
Gray's Pappaya
Al Green
The Williamsburg Bridge
The Roosevelt Island Tram
The Queensborogh Bridge
Big Allice
"What'a gonna do?"
Domino's Sugar Factory
The Staten Island Ferry
The Yankees
Coney Island Whitefish
Graffitti
Parrallel parking
Scrachitti
Street stencilling
Domsey's Warehouse
Throwing rocks through windows of abandoned buildings
Subway spelunking
Justified animosity towards the population of NJ
Jaywalking
Spitting
Forgettabout it vs. whatever
Nissin Staming Cup o' Noodles
Astor Place Cube
The Statue of Liberty (no we're not going to give it back you fucks)
NY Post Headlines
SNL
 
Maddy

Maddy

Shark
#40
#40
Longshoremen

Purnell said I should clarify. This doesn't mean "I likes the mens" My grandfather was a longshoreman, he worked at the Domino Sugar dock
 
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