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January 14, 201312 yr Looks rough...but SOMEBODY's gotta live there... (BTW, does this little enclave honor "Squatters' Rights," namely because I'm headed there ASAP.) Thanks for sharing. Like you mentioned, who would have thought such a tranquil, pastoral place as this could exist within the NYC limits?
January 14, 201312 yr Not unrealistic. All those towns along the Port Washington LIRR line are very suburban. I worked with someone who lives in Bayside, the town right before douglaston.
January 14, 201312 yr Not unrealistic. All those towns along the Port Washington LIRR line are very suburban. I worked with someone who lives in Bayside, the town right before douglaston. Very true, and there are some parts of the Bronx, Staten Island, and outer Queens that are downright rural looking. The parts of NYC that look like skyscraper canyons form only a very small of the city's total land area. My friend Kevin Walsh, owner of the Forgotten New York website, has an entire section called You'd Never Believe You're in NYC.
January 14, 201312 yr Not unrealistic. All those towns along the Port Washington LIRR line are very suburban. I worked with someone who lives in Bayside, the town right before douglaston. Very true, and there are some parts of the Bronx, Staten Island, and outer Queens that are downright rural looking. The parts of NYC that look like skyscraper canyons form only a very small of the city's total land area. My friend Kevin Walsh, owner of the Forgotten New York website, has an entire section called You'd Never Believe You're in NYC. Riverdale/Fieldstone and the wave hill area come to mind. That are is very University Hts., Lakewood/Fairview/Rocky River-ish ( I used slashes because I do not know the borders in the area)
January 14, 201312 yr Nice shots of Grandview... wait, what? Are these houses expensive? Not really for NYC/TriState standards, but they are worth more than what you find in other parts of residential Queens, that are single family home neighborhoods, like SunnySide, Jamaica or Astoria.
January 16, 201312 yr did you ever find the oldest historic homes (van wyck, van zandt, allen)? Probably have passed them without realizing who lived there....or the historical nature of the house
January 16, 201312 yr its not New York, its Queens. You may have missed the memo, but Queens has been part of New York City since January 1, 1898.
January 17, 201312 yr its not New York, its Queens. You may have missed the memo, but Queens has been part of New York City since January 1, 1898. ROFLMAO!
January 17, 201312 yr ^ummm....it was a [New York] joke. no one questions that legally NYC is made up of five boroughs....
January 17, 201312 yr ^ummm....it was a [New York] joke. no one questions that legally NYC is made up of five boroughs....
January 17, 201312 yr ^ummm....it was a [New York] joke. no one questions that legally NYC is made up of five boroughs.... Take heart; I knew what you meant.
January 17, 201312 yr its not New York, its Queens. You may have missed the memo, but Queens has been part of New York City since January 1, 1898. The fact is that many native New Yorkers differentiate Queens (and the other boroughs) from Manhattan, which they refer to specifically as "New York" or "the city." http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
January 17, 201312 yr its not New York, its Queens. You may have missed the memo, but Queens has been part of New York City since January 1, 1898. The fact is that many native New Yorkers differentiate Queens (and the other boroughs) from Manhattan, which they refer to specifically as "New York" or "the city." Yes, but in this case, the "joke" didn't translate right!
January 17, 201312 yr ^ To you, it didn't. It was also a factual statement, if we are considering counties. Which is how I think of it when people talk the way EVD mentioned.
January 17, 201312 yr ^ To you, it didn't. It was also a factual statement, if we are considering counties. Which is how I think of it when people talk the way EVD mentioned. I and a few others here have a better sense of humor! Beside nobody cares what the lower Manhattan resident thinks! :P :P :P
January 17, 201312 yr I didn't say it was particularly funny, just that I understood it. The humor comes from the simultaneous truth and untruth of the statement, depending on how you think of it.
January 17, 201312 yr As a former resident of New York, nothing made me roll my eyes more than New York residents (very few of whom actually seemed to be native New Yorkers, oddly enough) trying to outdo each other in claiming how much of a "real" New Yorker they are based on which neighborhood they lived in. Inevitably it would always come down to some Connecticut transplant living in the Village trying to claim he was more of a Real New Yorker™ than the Indiana transplant living in Williamsburg. It's the NYC version of judging who has the bigger dick; in Texas they compare pickup trucks, in NYC they compare zip codes. To the outside observer, it's like watching two mules fighting over a turnip.
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