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| In the summer of 1978, eight NY Times staff photographers, who had some time on their hands because of a newspaper strike, set out to document people using NYC’s parks. They took almost 3000 photos, which were recently rediscovered in a pair of cardboard boxes, forgotten and unseen for decades. |
I can still remember going on the side streets after Yankee games and seeing them lined with burning cars on cinder blocks. The city really was a hellhole in the 70's.
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NYC may have gentrified from what it was but it's not all Disneyland. You'll still find the occasional pig roast (if not directly in the ground then using a Caja China).
Hell, I was out by Breezy Point fishing at night a few years ago and stumbled on a Santeria ritual. Ritual killings of chickens pale make the pig roast look like microwaving a Cup of Noodles.
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This was the era of my formative times in NY. My extended family still don't get it when I wax poetically about a city that was, essentially, a toilet.
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I'd love to see someone roasting a pig over a pit in a public park nowadays...
NYC may have gentrified from what it was but it's not all Disneyland. You'll still find the occasional pig roast (if not directly in the ground then using a Caja China).
Hell, I was out by Breezy Point fishing at night a few years ago and stumbled on a Santeria ritual. Ritual killings of chickens pale make the pig roast look like microwaving a Cup of Noodles.
Irish-American firemen practice Santieria now?
'78 was the year I graduated from law school. As it happens, I took the bar exam at NYU (didn't go there, that's just where the test was - right on that square there in the Village). As you walked out of the bar exam to get a breath of air during the breaks, guys were trying to sell you every drug imaginable!
Yup. And whatever you might think of Giuliani and Bratton these days, they put a stop to that. But that's not to say I don't have great nostalgia for the late '70s ... :-) Despite all the crud there were some great things about the City in those days. Not better, just different. Things were on a smaller scale and less corporate.
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I'd love to see someone roasting a pig over a pit in a public park nowadays...
NYC may have gentrified from what it was but it's not all Disneyland. You'll still find the occasional pig roast (if not directly in the ground then using a Caja China).
Hell, I was out by Breezy Point fishing at night a few years ago and stumbled on a Santeria ritual. Ritual killings of chickens pale make the pig roast look like microwaving a Cup of Noodles.
Irish-American firemen practice Santieria now?
As much as they control the beach passes to drive out on the beach there, it's not just former NYPD/NYFD out there. I'd like to say these folks were Latinos, but I didn't stick around to ask questions.
And just a bit further east, by Floyd Bennett Field, is a campground by Jamaica Bay that's public access and almost entirely occupied by Russians and Guatemalans.
There's still plenty of old NY left, it's just rapidly disappearing. You don't have the lawlessness of the 70's/80's, though. The removal of squeegee guys was the start.
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In comment 13957206 Dunedin81 said:
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I'd love to see someone roasting a pig over a pit in a public park nowadays...
NYC may have gentrified from what it was but it's not all Disneyland. You'll still find the occasional pig roast (if not directly in the ground then using a Caja China).
Hell, I was out by Breezy Point fishing at night a few years ago and stumbled on a Santeria ritual. Ritual killings of chickens pale make the pig roast look like microwaving a Cup of Noodles.
Irish-American firemen practice Santieria now?
doubtful that this was taking place on cooperative property. The national park service has a fishing area on the far west end of the peninsula which, while on Breezy Point, is not located within the co-op.
I guess she'd have won on this board ... it's been a week and no one's topped this.