[ConeyIsBabe]

AWww...... y'all are making me homesick :'( Born in Coney Island Hospital, lived in Brooklyn, Da Bronx, The Village, Queens, and left in 1966 :

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by jojo

Boomer and Gracie Girl, As you know I'm a fellow Buckeye. However, I have been working in New York City on a consulting project for the past four years. It was a culture shock. I enjoy my colleagues there after I got used to the abrupt language and straight talk. However, the cab situation is still an adventure. This week I was taking a cab in from LaGuardia and my driver and another cabbie decided to play chicken in the Midtown Tunnel. Mine flipped the other the bird (noted that discussion earlier on this thread). When we exited the tunnel, they rolled down the windows and continued to argue cross town. I would have appreciated arriving with a bit less stress.

JoJo

I know of course that people are the same where ever you are, but I have a New York story too.

For a couple of years I had to fly to New York once a month to meet with department store buyers from here in Cincinnati. (Go figure!)

On one trip I was catching a cab at rush hour in Manhattan to go to the Port Authority to take a bus to the Newark airport. I hailed a cab and one pulled over and some woman came up and pushed me aside and got in the cab. (Actually it was pretty close to a body block)

I was dumbfounded because no one ever would think to do that in Ohio. No one gets in line ahead of you and rarely does anyone cut you off in traffic.

Now. There were plenty of WONDERFUL people, but they spoke differently, just as you described.

They probably thought there was something wrong with ME.

GracieGirl

[Floridagal]

I'm and New Yorker and PROUD of it.

[Donna]

Gracie,

Another funny one..
I have lived in the Pocono's for about 18 years...NY all my life..When ever I talk to someone I don't know, they ask if I like visiting here..Johns friends say I sound like the girl from My Cousin Vinny...

There are always new Delis opening up with the name NY Deli or similar to it..
One day John and I went in and I saw nothing from NY..I asked if they had things I longed for, and she had no clue what I even meant..
NY Deli..I doubt it..
John told the woman, the only thing from NY in here, is my wife...LOl..John never opens his mouth it was very funny to hear him say that..The Deli owner died laughing,...

[stjade]

I also sound like, my cousin Vinny, and am proud of it. Just like i think everyone should be proud of their regional accents,after all its part of our heritage. Staten Island is famous for having a Deli-Bagel store every 1/2 mi. In the morning you can get the bagels hot from the oven. And usually not far from the bagel store is a Pizzeria, or a Nail salon. Steve

[Donna]

stjade ...Where on SI did you live???

[stjade]

Donna--85th st in B'klyn--then Victory b'lvd in westerliegh in S.I.

[Donna]

stjade...

76th Street Bklyn...Then Todt Hill, S.I, then Great Kills.......Small world :bigthumbsup:

[njgranny]

I know many times people in the "city" may seen rude and abrupt, but they're usually in a hurry.

When my mother-in-law passed away there a few years ago, people couldn't have been nicer. Everyone from the funeral director, to the hospital personnel, to the post office personnel, to the bank personnel were so helpful and kind and went out of their way to help us.

While I wouldn't want to live in a city, NYC is a vibrant and exciting place to visit. My grandkids love it, and we are fortunate to be only 100 miles away.

Jan

[Sidney Lanier]

NYVette: While it's true that people give short shrift to the rest of New York State, focusing instead on 'The City,' we who are elsewhere in the state really don't care very much, as we know where we are and what we have. For anyone who wants to see what we see from our house, check out the photo gallery in this link:

http://home.hvc.rr.com/smhp/

And if your sister graduated from SUNY New Paltz in 1967, so did Hyacinth Bucket ('HB'), who is on the SUNY New Paltz Alumni Board and who will be happy to hit your sister up for a donation to the Alumni Association.... '-) Seriously, please PM her or me with your sister's name and email address; they might well have known each other.

[samhass]

I have found most New Yorkers to be vibrant, passionate, fun loving, and opinionated. They're great!!! ;D

[Sidney Lanier]

JoC: We know the purple house in Gardiner well; it was--and may still be--owned by an acquaintance of ours. In fact, we once had dinner there, having bid on it as part of a fundraiser for the Gardiner Library, which I've been very involved with in fundraising and other activities over the years. Not familiar, though, with the cajun dance at the library. Do you mean the Gardiner Library or Elting Memorial Library in New Paltz (which also has fundraisers which I'm also involved with)?

There is indeed a Mid-Hudson Valley Club which we attended a meeting of in March in Pimlico Rec Center; they meet only bimonthly, and when we went, we met people who had for decades worked closely with good friends of ours (now retired teachers from the Wallkill School District). We will certainly be attending again when we snowbirds return for the late fall, winter, and early spring.

The first week we were in our Villages home in Belvedere, there was a knock on the door and a man called in, 'Did you bring any apples from Wright's?' which is one of our local orchards in Gardiner. Turned out to be a neighbor behind us who also retired to TV from Rhinebeck and who, after his retirement from his lifetime career, took a job driving the sports buses for Rhinebeck School District and so knew Gardiner well. Another of our neighbors two houses from us in TV (close friends of ours since 1964!) had mentioned to him where we had moved from.

Definitely a small world!

[Sidney Lanier]

samhass: Thank you, thank you! How could I not agree?...

[Donna]

Originally Posted by samhass

I have found most New Yorkers to be vibrant, passionate, fun loving, and opinionated. They're great!!! ;D

[njgranny]

I have a cab story. When my father-in-law died, my MIL had trouble walking, so we got her a cab to go to the funeral home (which was just a few blocks away). We put our 8 & 10 year old girls in the cab with her and, before we could give the guy directions, he went zipping away. My MIL spoke no English (gosh knows what the cab driver spoke). We were so relieved when they made it to the funeral home.

We laughed later, but, at the time, it didn't seem funny. :-)