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Old Posted Jul 10, 2018, 2:06 PM
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Walking around Queens (pics from last october) :

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Old Posted Jul 10, 2018, 2:11 PM
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Walking across New York City, the Halloween edition !

A few days ago, I went for a walk in the East Bronx.
I took a ferry from Wall Street to Soundview, then I walked from the ferry terminal to St Lawrence Avenue subway station (a few miles walk), across very suburban neighborhoods with Halloween-decorated homes.

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Old Posted Oct 31, 2018, 6:38 PM
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Old Posted Oct 31, 2018, 6:39 PM
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Then I took the subway back to Manhattan. End of the walk.

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Old Posted Oct 31, 2018, 7:58 PM
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You're probably the first French tourist in history who has ended up in Soundview.

Heck, I've explored all over the Bronx, and never bothered with Soundview, because it's too isolated and not really urban. Good shots, though.

The East Bronx is more like Outer Queens than the rest of the Bronx. Almost none of the midrise 1930's buildings typical of the Bronx. Poorer and more Latino/Black in the SE corner, and more Italian/Albanian/Irish in the NE corner.
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Old Posted Oct 31, 2018, 8:28 PM
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Actually if it wasn't for the new ferry route linking Manhattan to Soundview, I wouldn't probably have explored this part of the Bronx.
Very suburban indeed, and somewhat isolated from the rest of the city.
But I also like to venture in the more outskirtish parts of a city.
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so how was the new bronx ferry? im curious about how this service is going over in the bx. seems very popular elsewhere. about how many people got off at soundview? how many got on?
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Old Posted Nov 1, 2018, 3:53 PM
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We were like half a dozen to get off at Soundview, and there was even less people who got on.
But it was a Sunday, maybe there are more people using this ferry route on a weekday.
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Exploring the streets of Coney Island, behind the boardwalk (pics from october 2018) :

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That is Poseidon, isn't it? The god of oceans or something.

I'll tell you what, I have absolutely zero culture about Greco-Roman mythology, like I've always been confused when they would use some in the French classic literature from the 19th century.

It is poetry, figures of speech, they claim.
Figures of speech, my butt! It is boring, awkward, backwards and was only superstition to impoverish the people.
It gets on my nerves and bores me when I read related things even in Victor Hugo's great novels.

Only people who attended literary education still can get that kind of stuff.
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Old Posted Mar 1, 2020, 12:55 AM
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So I've just come back from yet another trip in NYC where I managed to tick all the boxes in barely one week : I mean, I visited all the five boroughs + New Jersey (though I would have liked to visit Brooklyn a little more and I only set a foot in New Jersey to take pics of Manhattan's skyline from across the Hudson).

So, even if I still haven't posted all my pics from my previous trip (in 2018), here are some from this very last trip... let's start by Manhattan as seen from Hoboken, New Jersey :

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Old Posted Mar 19, 2020, 11:29 PM
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Walking in Baychester, North East Bronx, from Gun Hill Road station to Co-op "dead" City. February 2020.

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Co-op "dead" City.
I must say that walking among the tower blocks of Co-Op City, by this cold and sunny winter late afternoon, was quite an eerie and strange experience.
Never seen such a huge urban space seemingly so empty. You would have thought that the place was already in full lockdown. I mean I have seen many more people in the streets these days than I saw there.

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^ It sort of looks like some socialist housing you'd find in Nanterre, although this in NY must even be much larger, with taller buildings too. This might be closer to the scale of what they've got in Moscow. I don't know, but it's surely bigger than any French socialist estate anyway.

Is it almost completely abandoned? Funny given the tense real estate market over there. It's well known, most people despise that kind of old "modern" planning, but when real estate goes really mad, a lot of them are like forced to buy pretty much anything... Which is wrong.

Most comprehensive NYC thread ever seen on here, isn't it? I bet you went further than most locals themselves ever did. Lol.
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Old Posted Mar 22, 2020, 1:19 PM
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Hehe, that’s co op city and it’s definitely not abandoned

New York’s flirtation with Leningrad . 43000 people, population density 47000 per square mile

Actually houses a fair number of middle income people . It’s definitely not hip so no danger of gentrification
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