What's Life Like in New York City?

[br6205]

Lovely.

 

[mikeyank]

This is a picture from 1954, of lower Manhattan from Brooklyn Heights. It was a magestic city then as it remains today. Different but in many ways the same today almost 70 years later……..

 

[br6205]

No Trump muddying the city back then.

 

[mikeyank]

My part time job is closed this week for Passover, so I have been off but today is the first really beautiful spring day, currently 73 F at 3 PM. I took my first spring walk this year, down to Brooklyn Bridge Park, which is where the old Brooklyn docks used to be thirty or more years ago. It is still early spring and most of the greenery has not yet emerged, but it was real pretty just as it was today.

I know that I have shared many of the pictures of Brooklyn Bridge Park on this thread before, but I just couldn’t help myself from taking pics today and now from posting them here……

 

[mikeyank]

Scrolling up on this thread I posted a pic of the same waterfront in 1954, while the docks were still being used for their original purpose of unloading freight from New York Harbor. Quite a contrast almost 70 years later as the area is a public park with recreation, nature, picnics and sports. Here is a similar angle from then and today.

 

[GoneWithTheWind]

Scrolling up on this thread I posted a pic of the same waterfront in 1954, while the docks were still being used for their original purpose of unloading freight from New York Harbor. Quite a contrast almost 70 years later as the area is a public park with recreation, nature, picnics and sports. Here is a similar angle from then and today.

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Glad to see you enjoying the outdoors, I’m probably going to trek thru some mud and bring my drone later.

 

[br6205]

Everyone needs to enjoy it as long as they can. You never know when it will end.

 

[mikeyank]

Everyone needs to enjoy it as long as they can. You never know when it will end.

I am extremely aware of that and try my best to do as much as I can, while I can. The clock is running on all of us.

 

[GoneWithTheWind]

Everyone needs to enjoy it as long as they can. You never know when it will end.

Way to stay positive.

 

[mikeyank]

Glad to see you enjoying the outdoors, I’m probably going to trek thru some mud and bring my drone later.

Please do. And besides enjoying the fresh air and the beauty I am also getting some exercise. According to my iPhone, I walked 8,385 steps or 3 miles today. Some videos came into my YouTube feed recently that speak about walking as a benefit to all including seniors.

 

[br6205]

I am extremely aware of that and try my best to do as much as I can, while I can. The clock is running on all of us.

I know you are

 

[chac54]

Amazing pics Mike! I still have to make a treck down that way and visit

 

[mikeyank]

Amazing pics Mike! I still have to make a treck down that way and visit

I sincerely hope you do. I’d love to show you around. It is a beautiful city and I love playing tour guide.

 

[mikeyank]

Today I ventured to Central Park to check out Cherry Blossoms around the Jacqueline Onassis Reservoir. Turns out that many had already peaked. But it was a beautiful summer like day close to 90 degrees, but with a nice breeze off the water. And I did get some nice pics too.

 

[GoneWithTheWind]

Today I ventured to Central Park to check out Cherry Blossoms around the Jacqueline Onassis Reservoir. Turns out that many had already peaked. But it was a beautiful summer like day close to 90 degrees, but with a nice breeze off the water. And I did get some nice pics too.

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Cities are pretty even if they are pure chaos.

 

[br6205]

Cities are pretty even if they are pure chaos.

Does that include slums?

 

[GoneWithTheWind]

Does that include slums?

I'm sure there are diamonds in the rough, maybe harder to find something to appreciate but they are there.

 

[br6205]

I'm sure there are diamonds in the rough, maybe harder to find something to appreciate but they are there.

Part of my studies were spent in the Bronx,the area was a slum area with overhead subways, crowded tenements. It was very noisy and polluted. Now I was there for only two years but imagine having to grow up & live your life there. I am not saying all parts of a city are like that but every city So while most cities have their crown jewels has an underside & too many people are trapped in situations of poverty with no way out. So while most cities have their crown jewels the ugly areas are usually far larger.

 

[GoneWithTheWind]

Part of my studies were spent in the Bronx,the area was a slum area with overhead subways, crowded tenements. It was very noisy and polluted. Now I was there for only two years but imagine having to grow up & live your life there. I am not saying all parts of a city are like that but every city So while most cities have their crown jewels has an underside & too many people are trapped in situations of poverty with no way out. So while most cities have their crown jewels the ugly areas are usually far larger.

That is just the world we live in, the poor areas are always larger. I grew up fairly privileged, but I am very aware of my surroundings. The middle class is already gone and I don't see how it will ever make a comeback with all the automation going on.

 

[br6205]

Sadly education does not guarantee monetary success. I have a PHD in the sciences, that did not keep me from having to work as a house cleaner, not that house cleaning is a bad thing.