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<p>[QUOTE="Howard Black, post: 3157847, member: 97119"]PS: I used to get White Castles where Allerton and BPR met. A block or two W. on Allerton was the world's best Pizza -- 15 cents a BIG slice, real pizza, unlike the crap they <i><b>call</b></i> "pizza" here in the midwest. A couple of real fish markets on Allerton, too. I'd sometimes get up real early, walk down to the fish store, get some fresh flounder caught that morning and fry it up in butter for breakfast. There was also a bagel bakery (wholesale, but they'd sell if you'd walk in), SO much better than the bagged stuff "sold in stores" out here. I've read that the secret to NY bagels and pizza is the water, there's something about NYC water, which is piped in directly from the mountains.</p><p><br /></p><p>I finally got my now late father to leave the area around 1980, maybe a year or so later. He'd moved to "da coops" after he gave up his fight with city housing to keep the apartment (a single person living in an apartment? Unthinkable, can't have <i>that</i>! So what if he pays his rent!</p><p><br /></p><p>The best government money can buy...</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, by the time I finally persuaded him to leave, the place made Beirut (during one of their wars) look like a vacation resort town. Murders, rapes, 13 year old dope dealers armed to the teeth. When I was a kid back in the 50s I'd wander around deep in Bronx Park, alone, taking landscape pictures, picking wild berries (blackberries, thimbleberries, mulberries), perfectly safe. By the time he left, you were literally taking your life in your hands just walking down the paved path 20 feet in from the stone wall at BPE.</p><p><br /></p><p>The city went to hell so damn quickly... I hope it's better where you are, one of the few remaining safe enclaves (I've heard that a few blocks of Allerton were considered "off limits" to the gang bangers, but that was a decade or two ago, so who knows now).</p><p><br /></p><p>Not to digress from the digression... I knew a guy named </p><p>Tony who lived in the same general vicinity as BPR/GHR (back in the 70s), he worked for New York Life, was a Health Underwriter, IIRC.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Howard Black, post: 3157847, member: 97119"]PS: I used to get White Castles where Allerton and BPR met. A block or two W. on Allerton was the world's best Pizza -- 15 cents a BIG slice, real pizza, unlike the crap they [I][B]call[/B][/I] "pizza" here in the midwest. A couple of real fish markets on Allerton, too. I'd sometimes get up real early, walk down to the fish store, get some fresh flounder caught that morning and fry it up in butter for breakfast. There was also a bagel bakery (wholesale, but they'd sell if you'd walk in), SO much better than the bagged stuff "sold in stores" out here. I've read that the secret to NY bagels and pizza is the water, there's something about NYC water, which is piped in directly from the mountains. I finally got my now late father to leave the area around 1980, maybe a year or so later. He'd moved to "da coops" after he gave up his fight with city housing to keep the apartment (a single person living in an apartment? Unthinkable, can't have [I]that[/I]! So what if he pays his rent! The best government money can buy... Anyway, by the time I finally persuaded him to leave, the place made Beirut (during one of their wars) look like a vacation resort town. Murders, rapes, 13 year old dope dealers armed to the teeth. When I was a kid back in the 50s I'd wander around deep in Bronx Park, alone, taking landscape pictures, picking wild berries (blackberries, thimbleberries, mulberries), perfectly safe. By the time he left, you were literally taking your life in your hands just walking down the paved path 20 feet in from the stone wall at BPE. The city went to hell so damn quickly... I hope it's better where you are, one of the few remaining safe enclaves (I've heard that a few blocks of Allerton were considered "off limits" to the gang bangers, but that was a decade or two ago, so who knows now). Not to digress from the digression... I knew a guy named Tony who lived in the same general vicinity as BPR/GHR (back in the 70s), he worked for New York Life, was a Health Underwriter, IIRC.[/QUOTE]
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