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Mrs C and I happened upon Slim Goodies Diner in the Garden District and had brunch there. Was very good but not fancy schmancy like Commander’s Palace.
oh yeah – and how bout those jets?!
i believe i said before the playoffs started i wouldn’t want to be a team playing the jets.
i believe our good old buddy EAST NEW YORK said “one and done”
WRONG!!
Donatella, James Lee Burke is one of my favorite authors. He is an absolute master of words. He and Frank Conroy are able to paint a descriptive image that is so layered and rich that you can feel the breeze and smell the air. Burke’s characters are also so alive.
I always picture Dave Robicheaux looking like Burke himself. An early movie adaptation of one of his books cast Alec Baldwin. No.
I won’t comment on the cleanliness of NYC compared to other cities (beside my comments regarding NOLA). I will say this, however: New York City is FAR, FAR, FAR cleaner than it was when I was a kid, in many ways:
-when I was a kid, one of my household chores was to sweep up the soot on the sidewalks around my house, and this was a weekly task. At that time, apartment buildings were allowed to burn their garbage AND burn coal for heat. The level of soot on the sidewalk was palpable.
-the level of litter and griminess was much higher. If you ever get a chance, watch the movie “The French Connection” which was shot on location throughout Brooklyn in the early 70’s. You will be AMAZED at the level of filth in the streets.
Benson, yes, stuff does come in here and historically that is really true, NY was an extremely important port city. That is why the Coffee, cotton, Cocoa and Sugar exchanges were organized in NY, but NY as a port has really diminished in importance. Brooklyn does take in some commodities but NJ is much more important (note the piers along the West side of NY are no longer in operation…)
and NOLA is an important port city because it can transport stuff up and down the Mississippi and throughout the heartland.
“It’s a nice place to visit once every year or two, but I could never imagine living there.”
Well, that’s already more than one can say about most cities.
David Brooks in today’s Times: Amy Chua is a Wimp
“Oil industry back-office jobs have moved to Houston, the chemical factories have moved upriver to or to Houston, general cargo shipping has moved to Houston, and ship building has moved overseas or to Mississippi.”
yeah – this would have been my best shot to get a job down there. 🙁
Donatella;
Doesn’t most of the cocoa and coffee come in through the Port Of New York? As I told you, I have a friend who works for a cocoa brokerage house, and he told me that most of it comes in through our port. In fact, cocoa in particular is what Brooklyn’s ports specializes in (what remains of our ports).