Owen Lucas
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Anyone notice the Concord just floating down the river?
Awesome shots.
Awesome shots.
NYC ... My view from the past two weeks
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High taxes, traffic, "Gold Bar Bob" Menendez. I was born in Kearny NJ, grew up in Newark NJ, all my higher education in Newark NJ, worked in Newark NJ for 10 years. Escaped to Vermont 21 years ago enjoying the clean air and no traffic.
Owen Lucas
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Must have been fun living there during the Sopranos years.
Funny because my wife was born and raised in Brooklyn. Her parents retired and moved out of NYC into a home in the Margaritaville community in SC which I've spoke of before.
I noticed that too, but it my case it worked out. I loaded the swipe card and for the last fare, the turnstile jammed, well I had no money left on the card and my family was already on the platform. I panicked and then went in with someone using the handicapped entrance (buzzer sounding). If questioned, I would have explained that I paid my fare; check the cameras.
I disagree. It has smelled that way for years!
I graduated high school in Bloomfield NJ. One of our hangouts was Holstens Restaurant, where Tony Soprano went dark in the final episode.
I spent a few weekends in New Jersey back in the 1980's while going to ET school on Governors Island. Had a classmate that was from Princeton? New Jersey. Spent a few weekends with his family there. Very pretty. As a matter of fact, once you got away from the immediate NYC/Newark area it was quite a pretty place. Also liked the beach in Wildwood. Atlantic City was dismal in those days.
Well it has been a few months, and my buddy brought me back to work doing another project for his NYC client. I took a quick early lunch break and decided to look out the window to see this ship sailing by, the USS John Basilone DDG122. The view for today:
The mast is not swept back. Hmm.
I worked in NYC for decades loved it made great money. Food,sights the chaos right up my alley
What I meant by this is that Arleigh Burke Class vessels have a swept-back mast. In the first picture the mast appears rather vertical due to the viewing angle but in the second picture the mast is clearly swept back. No Twilight Zone theme required.
The New York International Auto Show is usually a good time. The last time i went, parked quite a distance away, so had many experiences along the way (smells, trash, weird people, etc) to the Javits Center. You can’t get those experiences just anywhere. Oh…wait. Wal-Mart can be like that.
West side was always a little shady down by the javits center but they built Hudson yards over there it's really nice
I grew up in Brooklyn 1959-1968 by the time we moved out the city was on the way down, I went to college there in the '70s (Manhattan campus of Fordham Univ) and it was just awful by then, we were hardened to it, but after Guiliani came in things were MUCH MUCH better, then the fool Di Blasio un-did all of that, which has continued to the present time, and no one knows what's going to happen with the present administration. I would not go there unless I absolutely had do. It's an insult.
This is funny to see on here. You stay right next to the garage I work at.