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To: razorback-bert
I apologize if I sound rude, but that's just a very bizarre question.

People live and work here. For example, my mother grew up in Queens (north of Brooklyn) but went to high school in Upper Manhattan (on the VERY Upper West Side). How else was she going to get there? Public schools here don't run school buses. Kids take the subway or public buses. What about the person who lives in Queens and works in Lower Manhattan? How else do you propose they get to work? Or the person from the Bronx who wants to take in a Staten Island Yankees game on Staten Island? Or me, the Manhattanite, who wants to see the Mets in Queens or the Cyclones (Mets single-A team) in Brooklyn? How else would I get there?

The overwhelming majority of us don't have cars. How else do you propose that we get around?

12 posted on 06/24/2006 7:02:39 AM PDT by kellynch (I am excessively diverted. ~~Jane Austen)
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To: kellynch
It's a stigma associated with your locale brought about by various movies, crime shows, etc.

I'm an old-time Detroiter, and I can tell you that Detroit is viewed by most as the seventh circle of hell...mostly by people who have never been to Detroit.

I have called it an "armpit" in the past, but I still have a soft-spot for the city.

It's a nice place to be...just be in the right place.

16 posted on 06/24/2006 7:22:12 AM PDT by Recovering Hermit (Apparently, most who protest for peace do so at the expense of hygiene.)
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To: kellynch
When my wife and I lived in NYC, the first time she rode the subway some creep kept touching her on the knees and up. She started to carry 14" knitting needles and knitted on the subway. Problem stopped.

There was a very convenient yarn store off Delancy Street on the J and LL lines. Many women knitted on the NYC subways.
35 posted on 06/24/2006 10:57:38 AM PDT by GAB-1955 (being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Kingdom of Heaven....)
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