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Manhattan and its surrounding islands and lands have definitely changed over the years...
PVW said:
Manhattan and its surrounding islands and lands have definitely changed over the years...
Thread drift: this picture makes me think of the book 1776 by David McCullogh, that I listened to a few years ago. So much of the revolutionary war action in the book takes place in and around New York Harbor and the New Jersey Palisades. It’s pretty fascinating.
I don't know the exact date the drawing is meant to be, but clearly very early on in New Amsterdam's history. It was founded in 1624, so let's say around 1626. That's 150 years before the Battle of Brooklyn, so for perspective that image for Washington would be like us looking at an image of New York from 1873!
sac said:
Some of us came from somewhere else besides Brooklyn ... just sayin'.
We moved to MAPSO from Texas.
You all had priced out SOMA before I got here. And Brooklyn. Midwest -> West Coast(ish) -> Upper Manhattan -> QNS -> W.O.
Never lived in Brooklyn... was the child of immigrants, and grew up on the other end of the D-train line in the Bronx. What's funny is I always saw Coney Island on the other end of the D-train's map.. and I've still never been there.
Bronx -> Northern NJ -> DC -> SOMA NJ.
When I was employed, I spent a great deal of time driving through Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk. The first brew pub that opened in Park Sloop (5th Avenue) was our customer, so I spent time there. Flushing Ave, Metropolitan Ave. The Soul Food place on Atlantic Ave. --- all of it. I dated Connie whose apartment was walking distance from the east river. Then I dated Shelly who lived on Orient Parkway.
For some reason, I particularly liked Red Hook. We had a couple of customers there
Our house is in one of the "low rent" sections of Maplewood and we see houses that recently sold from $500 - 800lK. And I see the Moms with their strollers and that makes me happy
Juniemoon said:
My son was born in Sunset Park! We crept over to Lutheran Medical Center one Feb morning when there was at least an inch of ice over everything -- 8 degrees below zero as we navigated at 2 MPH. (And when we got there, I found I hadn't brought my OWN pillows, which all the books said to do. Poor then-hubby had to creep home and back at @ 8 AM to get them while I checked myself in. And sonny-boy didn't arrive until 10 PM!)
I think the big changes have been in Bushwick, Crown Heights, Brownsville, Ft. Greene. (I'm astounded at where some of the kids' friends are living -- and making good money in Tech. You wouldn't even drive through some of those neighborhoods [back then].) Bay Ridge ruled! We really liked it there, and we each spent time in Carroll Gardens and Boerum Hill. Dumbo didn't exist yet. Who knew Sunset Park was so huge? -- but all industrial, at least back then. (And no one's really concerned about preserving history around here, either -- I was on the SO Hist. Preserv. Comm. for a few years, but it became too deflating. They don't care! (e.g. Old Stone House -- condemned.)We sold our house in MW in 2010, too!
Was born in Flatbush and raised in Ft Greene and Crown Heights during the era that most people wouldnt set foot those neighborhoods. My parents and their siblings have started selling their brownstones and enjoying life. Kids who grew up with no running water inside the house retiring as millionaires with just HS educations in spite of all the roadblocks and obstacles placed before them.
Maplewood -> South Orange -> Tianjin -> Beijing -> Maplewood -> South Orange -> Hong Kong
Birds Landing, CA> Stockton CA> Santa Cruz> Berkeley>NYC>Austin>South Orange>Edmonton
Sheepshead Bay > East Longmeadow, MA > Mahopac, NY > West Point, NY > Lawton, OK > Pacific Grove, CA > Monterey, CA > Manhattan > San Francisco > Pleasant Hill, CA > South Orange > (coming soon) Jersey City & Asheville, NC > (eventually) Asheville, NC
Juniemoon said:
marksierra said:
I think it was more a case of the game-players slowly running out of steam.
As well, if a game thread is not visible in the first page or so, it tends to be forgotten and sinks out of sight.
That's another thread drift in the making.
Never ran out of steam playing all those great games, especially with our "Down Under" neighbors chiming in. Mark, I think you've kept one or two going......
I do, occasionally, stick my nose into the Games section and wonder which of the games I can continue, and then I get distracted and forget about it until next time.
However .... 
Juniemoon said:
My son was born in Sunset Park! We crept over to Lutheran Medical Center one Feb morning when there was at least an inch of ice over everything -- 8 degrees below zero as we navigated at 2 MPH. (And when we got there, I found I hadn't brought my OWN pillows, which all the books said to do. Poor then-hubby had to creep home and back at @ 8 AM to get them while I checked myself in. And sonny-boy didn't arrive until 10 PM!)
I think the big changes have been in Bushwick, Crown Heights, Brownsville, Ft. Greene. (I'm astounded at where some of the kids' friends are living -- and making good money in Tech. You wouldn't even drive through some of those neighborhoods [back then].) Bay Ridge ruled! We really liked it there, and we each spent time in Carroll Gardens and Boerum Hill. Dumbo didn't exist yet. Who knew Sunset Park was so huge? -- but all industrial, at least back then.
We used Maimonides instead of Lutheran. My first job was in sunset park industrial complex 33 st. I remembered all the cars being stripped down to the chassis underneath the BQE, rough neighborhood back in the 80’s.
My daughter now lives in Williamsburg… how times have changed.
joan_crystal said:
Point of Information: When MOL started there were very few native Brooklynites posting on the message board.
I think when “people from Brooklyn moving to Maplewood” is brought up these days, it’s not so much “native Brooklynites” (from Brooklyn), as people who had first moved to Brooklyn from elsewhere, and then here (via Brooklyn).
Oh wow! I hadn't checked in the last few days and wasn't expecting this many responses! I think there was a thread drift from my original question toward where everyone comes from. Fine by me!
Is there any way we can get alerts to updates via text?
nohero - You are so right. At a neighborhood block party a few years ago I was speaking to new neighbors. I asked where they were from. They had moved from Brooklyn ,but then hesitated to say he had grown up in Maplewood. I have only lived in Maplewood longer than anyone on MOL. Nevertheless anyone born in Maplewood then would really be born in Orange in Orange Memorial Hospital. The empty building is still there. St Barnabas had not moved up to Livingston from Newark.
jimmurphy said:
Sheepshead Bay > East Longmeadow, MA > Mahopac, NY > West Point, NY > Lawton, OK > Pacific Grove, CA > Monterey, CA > Manhattan > San Francisco > Pleasant Hill, CA > South Orange > (coming soon) Jersey City & Asheville, NC > (eventually) Asheville, NC
That is quite a list. I would think Lawton OK would seem like an outlier. Were you in the Army?
GoSlugs said:
That is quite a list. I would think Lawton OK would seem like an outlier. Were you in the Army?
Yup. Artillery Officer’s Basic Course. Served out at Fort Ord, just down from your neck-of-the-woods in Santa Cruz.
Have you read about the sea otter stealing, and riding(!), surfboards in Steamer Lane?
My cousin’s kid just got her BA from the CSU that opened at Ft Ord after the 4th Infantry moved out.
I did see about that otter. I had a friend who got bumped by a shark at Steamers once but no one ever got their board snaked by any aquatic mammals.
galileo said:
nohero - You are so right. At a neighborhood block party a few years ago I was speaking to new neighbors. I asked where they were from. They had moved from Brooklyn ,but then hesitated to say he had grown up in Maplewood. I have only lived in Maplewood longer than anyone on MOL. Nevertheless anyone born in Maplewood then would really be born in Orange in Orange Memorial Hospital. The empty building is still there. St Barnabas had not moved up to Livingston from Newark.
Our youngest son was born at OMH on July 10th of 1967.
‘I’m sure you recall what erupted that summer. Back then, maternity patients got to stay in the hospital for five days! The window in my room overlooked an interior courtyard. It was anything but restful! all day and night, sirens and comings and goings were to be heard.
My husband and family members would not speak to me of the riots — didn’t want to upset me! The nurses (starched white uniforms and caps) kept mum as well.
After I got home to my three other kids, 1, 3 & 5, Springfield Ave, at one point, had National Guard soldiers manning barricades at the Irvington time line!
I was at OMH in 1965 and 1969 so avoided the noise there but heard the riot sounds in Maplewood coming from Newark. I was familiar with the hospital territory as I taught school just a block away for many years. .Also instructed some of the young children at the orthopedic which was part of OMH.
GoSlugs said:
We moved to MAPSO from Texas.
Same, but from Houston, where I grew up.
galileo said:
anyone born in Maplewood then would really be born in Orange in Orange Memorial Hospital. The empty building is still there.
This is me - born in Orange Memorial '67, came home to Maplewood Ave. Then went elsewhere for a while. Maplewood > Ware and Belchertown, Massachusetts > Berkeley Springs, West Virginia > Winchester, Virginia > Maplewood (in the same house as before)
Far Rockaway-Cedarhurst-Hewlett-Syracuse-Greenwich Village-Bronx-Upper West Side-Montauk-South Orange-West Orange...
BTW: If this logo is new to you, you may consider yourself fortunate to have discovered an internet gem right in your nabe. So be good to MOL & watch yer 6...
-s.
It's been so long I'm not sure who the designer of the above was, but I can think of two possible artists, one of which is Mary and the other Joy.
dave said:
It's been so long I'm not sure who the designer of the above was, but I can think of two possible artists, one of which is Mary and the other Joy.
Mary designed it. She hasn’t posted here in a very long time. I often wonder how she’s doing with all the good works she does.
My son was born in Sunset Park! We crept over to Lutheran Medical Center one Feb morning when there was at least an inch of ice over everything -- 8 degrees below zero as we navigated at 2 MPH. (And when we got there, I found I hadn't brought my OWN pillows, which all the books said to do. Poor then-hubby had to creep home and back at @ 8 AM to get them while I checked myself in. And sonny-boy didn't arrive until 10 PM!)
I think the big changes have been in Bushwick, Crown Heights, Brownsville, Ft. Greene. (I'm astounded at where some of the kids' friends are living -- and making good money in Tech. You wouldn't even drive through some of those neighborhoods [back then].) Bay Ridge ruled! We really liked it there, and we each spent time in Carroll Gardens and Boerum Hill. Dumbo didn't exist yet. Who knew Sunset Park was so huge? -- but all industrial, at least back then. (And no one's really concerned about preserving history around here, either -- I was on the SO Hist. Preserv. Comm. for a few years, but it became too deflating. They don't care! (e.g. Old Stone House -- condemned.)
We sold our house in MW in 2010, too!