Posted on 11/21/2004 5:19:43 PM PST by dukeman
Yep. In God, all things are possible.
As a New Yorker, I can tell you that generally the city is a great place. It is way too liberal, but I usually try to think of that as an unfortunate downside, rather than the whole picture. I say any place that has Central Park, The Metropolitan, St. Patrick's Cathedral, the Bronx Zoo, etcetera can't be all bad.
New York used to be a crime-ridden cesspool, but it's improved tremendously over the past decade or so. That's mainly on account of Rudy Giuliani. Yes, he's a social liberal (that's what made him electable here) and I wouldn't really want him in power in the federal government, but he was great as mayor.
Hopefully, as time goes on, the Big Apple will evolve away from the left-wing ideology. Oddly, growing up here, I never really thought of it as "liberal", not the way I think of, say, LA of Frisco as liberal. This isn't a place in which liberal ideas are generated or even really expounded upon; they are just accepted with an cynical inertness. Maybe that will change one day. To me, a conservative NYC would be nothing sort of a paradise.
Churches have always played a role in poor neighborhoods. In East New York, they have actually built some housing, etc. And for the record, most people in Manhattan believe East New York is somewhere in Jersey.
Amen! NYC is sometimes more of a pleasure than the suburbs.
Redeemer rocks. Join us when you're next in NYC.
One of the pastors mentioned in this article, A.R. Bernard, was a guest on Laura Ingraham's show last week. Sounded pretty conservative, and either said he supported the President, or strongly implied it.
Nobody, in the history of modern times, has ever said that in reference to East New York.
I've never been to East New York :-)
Thanks for the invite. We'll try that! When we were in NYC in 2001 we stuck to all the classic tourist sights and stops (whadda ya think red state rubes are supposed to do, anyway?). Next time, I'd like to get much more of the local flavor for life in a big city.
Livonia Ave. in 1976 was the flat out scariest street I've ever been on for any reason. Now, after Rudy there are garden apartments in the area.
You're lucky. I spent two years there...
The sound of gunfire, off in the distance
I'm getting used to it now
Lived in a brownstone, lived in the ghetto
I've lived all over this town
-- with apologies to Talking Heads
Where exactly IS East New York?
Those are probably the Nehemiah houses you're talking about. They are church based with federal money.
Brooklyn...all the way out on the A train. For a scenic version, the next time you go to Kennedy Airport ask the driver to take you up Atlantic Avenue. You'll get the idea pretty quick.
Is Livonia like Brownsville? I just remember my mom driving through there one night telling my sister and I scrouch down in the backseat.
Oh okay *lol*
Take the inter-boro to the south end, take a right onto Atlantic then a left onto Sheffield and voila!
Interestingly, East New York is where Fortunoff's started -- for you NYC trivia buffs -- it's also where brooks bros. had its shirt manufacturing facility, until they took operations offshore.
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