Posted on 05/08/2022 4:25:35 PM PDT by The Louiswu
Wife and I are planning a weeks trip to NYC, I’ve never been so I’m looking for recommendations on things to see or do. We’re planning on at least 1 broadway show and the MOMA but if you know of a cool thing or something really interesting I’d love to hear your suggestion, thanks in advance.
The jump was planned. We were a professional freefall parachute demonstration team sent on a mission. Thanks Pentagon and thanks U S Taxpayers. Some of my teammates at one time or another, have also jumped into Yankee Stadium, and to think of it- the Statue of Liberty.
NYC seems like this place that is a fantasy land to those of us living a normal life elsewhere, or more accurately TODAY, it’s a dystopian nightmare!
I totally get where you are coming from, and where you are today (in your head and in NYC). Also, the downrange in Iraq thing... counts for plenty in my book, elevating your opinion from others, just a tad. Know what I mean Vern? INCOMING!
There has been pessimism about NYC for a long time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isG3qkQXBic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_2017_(Seen_the_Lights_Go_Out_on_Broadway)
The release of Turnstiles followed Billy Joel’s return to his hometown of New York from a brief foray in Los Angeles which resulted in the albums Piano Man and Streetlife Serenade. Several of the songs are linked to this transition, including “Say Goodbye to Hollywood” and “New York State of Mind.”
Joel has described it as a “science fiction song” about an apocalypse occurring in New York as a result of discussions that the city was failing in the 1970s.[1] Speaking at the University of Pennsylvania in 2001, Joel explained that he wrote the song while living in Los Angeles in 1975, when New York City was on the verge of default: New York was bordering on bankruptcy, and after asking the Federal Government for help, they were denied assistance; this resulted in the famous headline on the New York Daily News, “Ford to City: Drop Dead”.[2]
MEGA DITTOS!
STRIKE HARD AND FAST!
Wow. I’m glad you got to do that.
I’m scared of heights, but my BFF talked me into going up on top of the Empire State Building one clear summer morning when we were on a NYC trip. There had been a storm the evening before, ushering in a lovely summer cool front. We spent almost an hour up there, looking through the telescopes and taking pictures from all sides. Among the pictures are a couple of good ones with the Twin Towers in them.
When we got back down on the ground, I was so thrilled that I’d lasted that long up there without getting vertigo (I never looked down, of course, only out.) My friend said “World Trade Center next time?” I said “I think I just might!”
The date this took place was July 8, 2001.
(Sigh…)
Chillbumps, FRiend.
Very nice that you got some pics.
It’s strange and sad watching movies with the Twin Towers in the scenes.
Almost seems impossible that they’re gone.
I told hubs, recently....movies about NYC (the older and happy ones) are great....you get all of the best of NYC....without the smell!
You want to visit Broadway and go to every ‘woke’ show....
Also go view the “The Naked Cowboy”
Git er Done!
https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/lovedforaday/1533136/327003/327003_original.jpg
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What an experience! Did you do a lot of jumps?
Also, the downrange in Iraq thing... counts for plenty in my book, elevating your opinion from others, just a tad. Know what I mean Vern? INCOMING!
LOL - there’s a commercial that comes on TV once in a while with that “alarm” sound that sounds a lot like the C-RAM. Every time I hear it, for a split second, I feel the impulse to hit the floor.
LOL - love that!
I even have a couple of DVDs of movies with the towers in them that I can’t bring myself to part with. “Working Girl” is one of them. Besides, Harrison Ford was hot back then. 😏 I think the first couple of “Men in Black” movies are on that list too.
Jazz? JAZZ!!! AIN’T NOTHING ever been, nor EVER WILL BE AGAIN like ARTHUR’S TAVERN, ON GROVE ST, when MABLE GODWIN, THE GRAND MOTHER OF JAZZ, HELD COURT WITH HER TRIO AT THE PIANO AND EVERYBODY IN THE JAZZ WORLD, LOCAL AND NATIONAL, DROPPED IN TO PAY HOMAGE, AND JAM!!!...EVERYBODY!
BUY A DRINK, GET TO THE PIANO BAR, AND NOT JUST LISTEN, BUT EXPERIENCE! UNBELIEVABLE PLACE! PIANO, BASS GUITAR (PLAYED BY MABLE’S HUSBAND IIRC), AND ONE SNARE DRUM, AND EVERY INSTRUMENT ANYONE BROUGHT TO PLAY!
I’M SITTING THERE ONE NIGHT IN THE EARLY 70’S (WEEKDAY ‘CAUSE THE WEEKEND WAS STRICTLY FOR AMATEURS, CROWDED, AND TO BE AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS) AND SOME GUY COMES IN SHMOOZIN’ AND SMOOCHIN’, BREAKS OUT A SAX AND STARTS WAILIN’. I TURN TO MY BUDDY AND TELL HIM (LIKE HE DIDN’T KNOW IT) “MAN, THIS GUY’S GOOD, GREAT ACTUALLY!” “YEAH, THAT’S SONNY ROLLINS. HE IS GREAT!” AT THAT TIME I HAD NEVER HEARD OF HIM. CAUGHT PETE FOUNTAIN, THERE TOO, AND THE BEST DRUMMER I EVER HEARD (NO NAME) TOTALLY WHACKED OUT ON COCAINE GOING INTO A SOLO ORBIT ON THE SNARE WITH A COUPLE OF BRUSHES, AND JUST WHEN IT SEEMED HE WAS NEVER COMING BACK AND HAD NOWHERE ELSE TO GO, THE BASS GUITAR STEPPED IN AND BROUGHT HIM BACK FROM WHERE EVER HE WAS. ALL THESE YEARS AND I STILL REMEMBER THAT.
ARTHUR’S TAVERN, ON GROVE ST, NYC...BEST MOST AUTHENTIC JAZZ JOINT I’VE EVER KNOWN. WOW!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T6gqM4vSvQ
CHECK IT OUT!
I haven’t thought about that movie, in ages!!
He was hot...and, Melanie was so pretty...before all of her weird ‘work’.
What about You’ve Got Mail....aren’t they in a scene, in that one? I can’t remember....it’s been a while since I’ve watched that one, too.
Agreed. It’s a shit hole. Loved on Long Island for 3 very long years as a kid. It sucked,, they sucked, it stank, it looked like a bad Lebanon, people were racists (Italian, Jews, Irish, PR, blacks, fags, trannies, in between, middle eastern faction 1-10, …. ). Only place I ever got asked what are you. I was a dumb kid, I answered American. Lol. Granted that was 35+ years ago. What’s funny is the stereotypes, looking back, fit.
Hated it and so damn glad to go back to the south. Poor and not poor. Your house got wheels ….
Anyway the city was worse than LI.
Didn’t notice. Was raising kids lived up state NY, and didn’t visit the city anymore.
You’re literally making my mouth water! Don’t forget the marvelous street foods...Sabrett hot dogs with red onion relish, gyros, and I’m sure a lot more different ethnic varieties with the change in demographics, but I bet it’s all good. A whole day just going from cart to cart would be wonderful!...if it wasn’t in NYC!
I thought I was going to choke up and get sad, but what I got was furious.
Wanna hear an interesting reaction to paratroops?
32 jumpers on a warm Sunday afternoon coming down in Alexandria, VA, many miles from their drop zone each with a PAE bag (Personal Arms and Equipment) filled with an artillery box, I think, with sand bags in it weighing 110lbs. attached to a rope that I think was 18’ long (after it’s released from the harness in front of you under the reserve chute) looking for a safe place to land. We were ALL stunned!
By the time I realize what’s going on ( we’re not all as sharp as we think we are) I’m coming down in the backyard of a house surrounded by a chain link fence with a cookout party going on with I don’t know how many people there, tables and chairs all over the place, and they’re just staring up at me with their jaws dropped.
“Get those tables and chairs out of the way!”
They’re still just staring at me, dumbfounded! (I can laugh at it now.)
Well, I’m not riding this bag in! I pull the quick release on the rope attached to my harness, start yelling for them to get out of the way, that I’m dropping my bag, I pull the safety pin out of the bag release, punch the release, and the 110lb. bag drops away from about 100-150 ft. It hits the edge of a redwood table full of food, shattering it, throwing food and dishes all over the place, as well as the table! NOW, they ALL move in a panic hurrying to escape from any further bombardment, but leaving the rest of the tables and chairs in place! I land. I don’t hit anything. I’m not hurt. I am grateful, and still stunned.
A few guys and civilians got hurt. One guy broke his hip, and damn near drowned, landed one foot on the edge of an in ground pool and the other in the water.
One guy somehow rode his bag in and landed in the back of a
convertible with its top down that was stopped at a red light, severely injuring the two teens he landed on. The driver apparently had the presence of mind to NOT move the vehicle. Lots of guys landed on hard suburban streets. Out of 32 guys we had about 8 or 10 injured, legs, arms, shoulders, and most of the rest bruised up pretty good. I got off lucky, was just terrified a bit.
We were miles off the drop zone! I don’t know of anyone who ever found out how come.
Ah, the good old days.
Good for you! Sounds wonderful. These moments are what life is made of.
G-D BLESS!
Thank You.
Good to have another jumper aboard.
The very first time I ever flew on a plane when it landed I wasn’t there anymore. It was long ago, but seems like yesterday. It was a 119...
Keep the Faith.
The museums are an absolute must! Enjoy!
*I could spend a month in the Natural History Museum and still not see it all. It has amazing exhibits!
*The Cloisters is a must if you are into medieval history.
https://www.metmuseum.org/visit/plan-your-visit/met-cloisters
*The Metropolitan Museum of Art
*Museum of Modern Art
Final thoughts...let us know how the visit went after you return home. Again, stay safe.
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