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Here is one more of interest to some..,

If you love the strange in New York, you will LOVE what these folks do in "forgotten" link.

https://www.forgotten-ny.com

John

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i like the time landscape (before european settler's garden).  nyc has some neat stuff.  someday!

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It does require a certain dedication, I guess...

But if you spend some time here, in: "Street Scenes", you will find many great things...like...the  bridges in Central, and other parks...Many near slum street areas, and factory/industrial/rail areas...etc...Some really great scenes...Old houses and other buildings...

John

[pianonut]

yes!  pennsylvania is the same way.  i wish i had a guide to tell me about all the stuff and what it was like 'in the old days.'  a bit about the buildings, landscape, and especially about what it was like 200,300,400 years ago.  i always imagine the native indians - when i look at the forests here.  my imagination is too active, but i imagine that when white settler's first appeared -there wasn't really that much hatred and strife.  only when they started taking land, and killing each other.

i'm crazy in another way, too, because when i garden i'm always looking for arrowheads.  i thought i found one, and a cutting tool.  very interesting rocks here!  lots of headstones (you know you're living in a populated area when you find a lot of those).  you know, headstones are a field in themselves.  people actually pay on the internet for others (in a certain area) to charcoal the headstones and e-mail pics so they can trace ancestry.  was interested in geneology of my family for a while, but lost interest because i have both sides back about 6 generations now (my husband maybe 10 generations)

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I think part of my interest,

Is a result of where I live. I live in NW Florida, and have enjoyed the history here, and it is very ancient, BUT the area of city development is of course, miles behind the North East...and THAT is what attracts me...

I love the nooks and crannys and the rough and tumble and gritty parts of large cityscapes..Can't tell you why, but they DRAW me as the prov..moth to flame....I never really get chances to look, but I did get some of Chicago done, and it was really great...!!!

It may surprise you and others to know...I have NEVER been to New York....Just passed by when in the mil....so it is through venues like this web site that I have enjoyed New York...

I hope someday to get there, before I die...

John

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you surprise me, because you seem to get a 'feel' for what nyc is actually like.  from my limited two trips (field trips with class - piano) nyc is full of surprises.  one trip (to julliard school) they were filming a movie near central park.  another, the metropolitan museaum of art (gotta go there!!! lots of instruments and pianos).  then steinway hall.  that was FANTASTIC.  there are not only great instruments but PAINTINGS of composers that are breathtaking, and also, pics of artists.

the food in nyc is wonderful, too.  and well, everything!  yes.  BUT, it is eXPENSIVE to live there, my teacher said.  he said maybe 3000. (if i remember right) per month for some of those small highrise apts.  just for the view and to live in the city.  i'd rather live outside the city and have more space and land.  parking is difficult,too.

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Yess,

!! Very expensive...but a great place if you can do it....even out of the city is too high....I would love to have a second home in the northeast...just a vacation spot where one would be able to enjoy nearby communities, as I am retired....

I still intend to make it up  there.

Worth telling before leaving this somewhat eclectic subject...As a youth at ages 14 to 17, I lived for summers at times (From perhaps 3 or 4 weeks to a whole summer and a half a summer...my last chance...), with my sister and brother in law..who was stationed at the Pentagon for a good long space...right after WW II..:

I was able to ride the buses and walk all of downtown and suburban Washington....(Something I am certain you might think several times before trying these days....).

Most churches were open, or would be opened with a knock to the right place, and I bet I played 30 or 40 different pipe organs in different churches...!!! Met some organists ranging from "misguided" to brilliant also...made some friends...and stumbled into the "Armed Forces Medical Museum" quite by accident...thinking it would be just so much more Smithsonian...I had nightmares for months!!......(Many terrible things on display, and I was only 15.... )

But the organs ...I saw from a small Moeller unit organ, to hugh four and five manual including Hook and Hastings, Wurlitzer, Wicks, and other early american organs...There sure seemed to be a lot of churches in and around Washington!!! From Virginia to Maryland..(Inc. one short trip to Baltimore one day...) It was a high point im my musical life, and I actually had some lessons for a period from one of the better organ teachers there...

John