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Wow, I don’t even have a moment to catch up with all of this, but will do so at home in a few hours. Great to see familiar faces again, and meet new people and have my assumptions about them proven wrong. I was sure Arkady was male. Maybe we’ll even get CG ups’ bf and the artist/teacher at their table to log in and comment sometime.
Biff Champion – I mean, Ben Cohen – glad you got home and then to the Death Star alive and well.
Kensingtonian – hope you had a good flight even though US-based airlines suck these days. Sorry we missed you but I’ll see you on Cortelyou. BTW all those rough experiences in K-town in the ’90s make you a “pioneer” in some gentrifiers’ books.
In other news, we’re done grading the US History Regents. Winning sentence (written by an American-born student): Workers were forced to return to their pitiful homes, which were usually located in slums where sidewalks broke and sank like reenactments of the Titanic and buildings resembled fecal matter of the apocalypse.
Obviously What you never set foot in the Bronx. Plenty of us lived ALL OVER the Bronx. We lived more north but I had friends who lived further south. But maybe thats too complex a picture for you to grasp? (oh, I’m so afraid of you and your ak47. )
What happened to yesterday’s HOTD on Grand Ave? Just glimpsed it on the blackberry yesterday then when I went to take a closer look today, it was gone.
gem- because the taxes were too high for the income, and most of the buildings were in terrible states of disrepair- it was just a horrible cycle of no money-no repair- no high ent- no repair, etc. At some point landlords decided they would make money from their insurance policies and everyone be damned.
Bxgrl/Denton – thanks! -always was so curious as my mom and I used to speed down the Cross Bronx Expressway in her Buick Skylark on our way to visit family in NJ and would marvel at the burned out shells of buildings that stood there vacant for at least the entire 80’s!
Wow, I don’t even have a moment to catch up with all of this, but will do so at home in a few hours. Great to see familiar faces again, and meet new people and have my assumptions about them proven wrong. I was sure Arkady was male. Maybe we’ll even get CG ups’ bf and the artist/teacher at their table to log in and comment sometime.
Biff Champion – I mean, Ben Cohen – glad you got home and then to the Death Star alive and well.
Kensingtonian – hope you had a good flight even though US-based airlines suck these days. Sorry we missed you but I’ll see you on Cortelyou. BTW all those rough experiences in K-town in the ’90s make you a “pioneer” in some gentrifiers’ books.
In other news, we’re done grading the US History Regents. Winning sentence (written by an American-born student): Workers were forced to return to their pitiful homes, which were usually located in slums where sidewalks broke and sank like reenactments of the Titanic and buildings resembled fecal matter of the apocalypse.
um ok totally dropping the Bronx topic
so on to kittens and flowers…. – anyone?
I’m guessing the Grand Ave. owner walked across the street to Mr. B’s and told him to take down all the negativity or he’d …
“because the taxes were too high for the income, and most of the buildings were in terrible states of disrepair”
How old are you?????? Seriously how old are you because you’re talking out of the ass..
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
Obviously What you never set foot in the Bronx. Plenty of us lived ALL OVER the Bronx. We lived more north but I had friends who lived further south. But maybe thats too complex a picture for you to grasp? (oh, I’m so afraid of you and your ak47. )
What happened to yesterday’s HOTD on Grand Ave? Just glimpsed it on the blackberry yesterday then when I went to take a closer look today, it was gone.
What…you’ve got your eye off of treasuries today with all this crap. My TMV is up 5.4%!!!!
gem- because the taxes were too high for the income, and most of the buildings were in terrible states of disrepair- it was just a horrible cycle of no money-no repair- no high ent- no repair, etc. At some point landlords decided they would make money from their insurance policies and everyone be damned.
Bxgrl/Denton – thanks! -always was so curious as my mom and I used to speed down the Cross Bronx Expressway in her Buick Skylark on our way to visit family in NJ and would marvel at the burned out shells of buildings that stood there vacant for at least the entire 80’s!