Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Come on, the Freshkill Mountain isn't so bad. You just close the window and put on recirc and drive as fast as possible! I biked down to the Island when I was in HS (Stuyvesant '80). It was quite beautiful then. I couldn't believe all those green just miles from the Caves of Steel. Geographically, SI is closer to NJ anyway. They should just give it back, but keep the Statue of Liberty of course :-) (apology to my two brothers who live in NJ) On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Vince Passaro <passaro.vince at gmail.com>wrote: > Oh Larry. > I lived on SI from 1980 - 1982. I have a son living there now, god help > him. > > > Larry, where your folks had a place? It's the largest landfill on earth > now. > It's a landfill so big it can be seen from outer space with the naked eye, > apparently. > > And I mean, that's just the beginning. > > Nowadays all you can say is it's ugly it's crass it's nasty it has a high > cancer rate and it votes strictly Republican. If you mixed Margaret > Thatcher, Tony Danza and the alien from the first Cameron Alien movie, > you'd > have a typical 21st century Staten Islander. > > VP > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com > >wrote: > > > Vince writes: > > "Actually the part of NYC that's closest to Philly is Staten Island and > on > > > > that, the less said the better." > > > > > > Vince, > > > > I can't believe you really mean that. I'll bet you have never been to > > Staten > > Island. I lived there from 1963 through 1965. It was before the Verrazano > > Bridge was built and the only connection to New York City was the Staten > > Island ferry. Except for the built up area and the docks adjacent to New > > York harbor it was quite pastoral with large green belt areas and parks. > It > > reminded me of a small town in the Midwest. My future in-laws had a home > in > > the central part of the island, surrounded by woods with a working farm > > just > > down the narrow street. Of course the home also had no city sewer > > connection > > and a backyard outhouse. But it was very quiet. > > > > Larry Z > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> blog: < http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> // portfolio: <http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/PICS/AnotherCalifornia2> // mailing lists: <http://www.imagecraft.com/contact.html> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]