Transit Strike

Seeing famous people here is like seeing anyone else. They are all over the place and only the tourist hound them.

As far as shopping-when I speak of shopping I am not talking about street vendors or tourist shops- I am talking about 5th Avenue, Madison Ave., 57th St, Henri Bendels, Bergdorfs, Soho, The East Village, 8th street for shoes (where the BEST SHOE STORE IN THE WORLD IS WWW.PETITPETON.COM ) amonst many other ares- there are amazing shops here for vintage, designers goods, consignment, specialty shops- whatever you can imagine.

ANd of ocurse if we are talkign about discounted desinger goods- Century 21, Loehmans, Filene's Basement, and The Designer Shoe Warehouse- just to name a few.

Ah, but be fair, Allanah: Filene's Basement originates in Boston! (Another fair city, not so big and busy as NYC, but the world leader in education, life sciences, and among the greatest cities for music, arts, and sports in the country--ya know I hadda plug Bahston!)

there's no place on this earth that's free of prejudice or hatred. but NYC is as close as it comes to tolerating everyone.

You can be any race, color, or sexual orientation here. We'll hate you, but it will be cause you're a loser, not cause you fall into any category.

that's why I'll never live any place else.

Been to NYC twice huh...well no woner you don't get it! As for someone calling you mental, I can't say if anyone did (I know I didn't, don't know you to make that kind of judgement...probably not qualified to even if I did know you).

I've been to Montana twice (same part both times...loved it...but couldn't assess the rest of the state by those two visits (hey, it's Big Sky country...but I was in the NW corner where it's big glacie(but getting smaller by the hourr/mountain country). You can however get a "does it suit me vibe" from the minute you enter a place (for me Salvador, Bahia San Fran, Seattle/Bellevue did that)...other places take a little time to sink in Miami Beach for instance, still others just don't cut it or I'm completely neutral about - too many to mention here.

Point is no place is perfect, and everyone has their own tastes.

I like where I live, partly because of its proximity to NYC (I wouldn't live there either, and for some of the same reasons Vickie cites...but that's my preference, I'd not even bother questioning why people live there.

As a matter of fact, I'm done with this...carry on...but don't CARRY ON!

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Originally Posted by Ecstatic

Ah, but be fair, Allanah: Filene's Basement originates in Boston! (Another fair city, not so big and busy as NYC, but the world leader in education, life sciences, and among the greatest cities for music, arts, and sports in the country--ya know I hadda plug Bahston!)

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Don't you mean "Bawsten", E? :)

Ah, Filene's Basement, claustrophobia central. The original was on Washington Street, across from Temple Place (There was another side street there, name which I forget, that was swallowed up by the mall/hotel complex built there in the 90's).

You'd enter the store at the corner and just opposite the doors was a stairway down to a landing and another ten steps or so down from that, to left and right. The sales floor was huge and occupied by all of these big wooden bins. I don't recall there being any racks, but they may have had them along the walls. It was a typical commercial basement, full of pipes and conduits and the old pneumatic transfer tubes running all over the place. As a kid I loved watching those tubes in action, shooting the Addressograph charge slip up to the credit department and then whicking the approval back moments later, landing with a bang next to the hunormous National cash register (With a hundred keys, a backup hand-crank, and =FOUR= departmental drawers, oh my!). Veri-Fone, eat your heart out. :)

After my having almost gotten trampled on an early trip across the sales floor, my mother later left me at the rail on the stair landing with instructions not to move. I've never been to a wrestling match, but I think the sight of the original Filene's basement on a sale day was much akin to one, sans beer. The landing afforded a bird's-eye view of the entire sales floor with only the occasional four-foot-wide column blocking the view (These would later take lots of dynamite and jackhammers to bring down).

Oy. Mildy on-topic, Filene's, Jordan's, and Raymond's all rose in the late 1800's - early 1900's in the era when buildings were designed for the ages. Though many worried about their stability during the construction of the Washington Street subway a hundred years ago, the Transit Commission project didn't so much as make the paint chip on the walls of those stores and their neighbors, even though the subway ran not more than a couple of feet from their foundations.

Vicki, Give Boston A Shot Sometimes. Cool, Young City. Great Nightlife.
Champion Sports Teams. Great Food. The Best Colleges In The World.
Filene's Basement. One Of The Oldest Transexual Niteclubs in The Country; Jaques. Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard.
All Cities Have Their Own Personality. I Like Going Down To NYC. It Has
The Best Of Everything And The Worst.
The Downside About Living In NYC And Boston Right Now Is That It's
Really Cold.
Right Now It's 23 Degrees And It's Time To Walk To Dunkin Donunts.
Brrrrrrrrrrrr.

Have you guys heard Madonnas new song "I love NewYork"?

She's got a great line in it "New York is not for Pussies"!

New York is not for everyone it has the best and worst of everything.

Its the melting pot of the world.

One thing I havent heard anyone mention is that in New York you dont need a car . You can get around everywere at anytime using MassTransit or a taxi.
Well...except for now.

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Originally Posted by flabbybody

You can be any race, color, or sexual orientation here. We'll hate you, but it will be cause you're a loser, not cause you fall into any category.

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LMAO. So true.

-Quinn