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BenedictGomez said:
I lived in NYC and had a car. I dont miss the "moving the car" routine several times per week.

Funny thing about it though, paying parking tickets is cheaper than paying for a garage. The garages on the UWS were at least $600/month, and IIRC the tickets were something like $65. Goes without saying that I paid lots of tickets during the roughly 10 years I lived in Manhattan.
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That’s amazing but not surprising. Every damn thing is expensive here. I live in Brooklyn and from what I hear, the area around me has gotten worse in terms of parking.
 
DevilDoggo said:
That’s amazing but not surprising. Every damn thing is expensive here. I live in Brooklyn and from what I hear, the area around me has gotten worse in terms of parking.
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Oh, it's not surprising, it's a strategy. NYC absolutely LOVES their parking ticket revenue.

On the UWS, they have these little buggies that zip along RIGHT at 10am (because if they dont move fast enough, god forbid someone could move their vehicle at 10:11 and they'd lose $65) and dole out tickets. There were a few times when I was home and forgot, and got out there at 10:05 or 10:18 or something and there'd already be a ticket on the car. LOL. At the same time when Mayor Bloomberg majorly decreased the size of the NYPD, he hired a TON of additional parking meter people. SMH.
 
Yeah I priced it out and it's cheaper for me to take the Alternate Side Tickets ($45 a pop) than to pay for parking at JFK when the missus and I take a four day weekend in October.

Also, having a car in NYC is a luxury but a really awesome one. I don't think I could handle it in Manhattan, but in Brooklyn it's awesome. I can drive to/from big stores and not have to pay for a car home with my stuff. Works especially well for Ikea trips.
 
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devilsblood said:
Took Meteorology 101. Really interesting class.

Considered taking it on as a minor, but it required Calc 3. I struggled through Calc 1. So that was the end of that.
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Screw that. I got an A in calc 1 but my professor was so easy and let you make test corrections to get points back. He didn't teach 2 or 3 so I would've been screwed.
 
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Scorcho said:
I really want to go stay at the bed and breakfast out on that tower now...
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I think $500 for the weekend is dang cheap (though is doesn't say if that's a pp fee or not). Even if it's $1,000 for a couple, that's not completely insane given the novelty, rarity, location.

I would spend the entire weekend drinking craft beer, fishing, and cooking whatever fish I caught. With all that structure it's probably amazing fishing, and not too far from the gulf stream I bet.
 
BenedictGomez said:
I think $500 for the weekend is dang cheap (though is doesn't say if that's a pp fee or not). Even if it's $1,000 for a couple, that's not completely insane given the novelty, rarity, location.

I would spend the entire weekend drinking craft beer, fishing, and cooking whatever fish I caught. With all that structure it's probably amazing fishing, and not too far from the gulf stream I bet.
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plus a helicopter ride out to the tower
 
Bleedred said:
I don't know the backstory behind it, but that Dead Milkmen song was probably in reference to a line in the original Rocky. After Rocky asks out Adrian, his boss's (Mr. Gazzo) personal driver (Buddy) tells Rocky ''I hear she's ******ed'' and then says ''Take her to the zoo, I hear ******s like the zoo''. That song had to be coined from that line. Especially since they're a band from Philadelphia.
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good catch man
 
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DevilDoggo said:
Red Hook... as far as I’m concerned, if you’re not close to the subway, you might as well not be in NYC. My girlfriend is in East Flatbush and it looks like a suburb out there.
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Red Hook is so cool! Great restaurants and bars, great views, nice neighborhoods, Ikea (I love Ikea), and a sick distillery. And the bougie people who think taking the subway from Manhattan to Brooklyn necessitates getting a hotel don't go there. It's awesome. I'd live there happily if there was a subway line that was less than a 15 minute walk.
 
Devils Dominion said:
Really?

Not too long ago Red Hook was to be avoided unless you wanted to get mugged
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The gentrification of Brooklyn is quite widespread. Yes, Red Hook, too.

My buddy lived on the edge of Park Slope where it was more Gowanus than Park Slope. The whole Brooklyn waterfront from Williamsburg down to Bay Ridge is an attractive place to live now. Even Greenpoint isn’t bad.
 
^I attempted to learn Urdu some years back.

I had 2 lessons and was doing great. Until her overbearing sexist husband found out she was teaching for $$$ and forbid her to do so. Thus ended my lessons.
 
New Jersey said:
The gentrification of Brooklyn is quite widespread. Yes, Red Hook, too.

My buddy lived on the edge of Park Slope where it was more Gowanus than Park Slope. The whole Brooklyn waterfront from Williamsburg down to Bay Ridge is an attractive place to live now. Even Greenpoint isn’t bad.
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Hopefully downtown Newark is next to gentrify
 
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