Life, food, events, and community in Albuquerque, NM

Does Westchester count?

or would I have to be NYC proper?

Permalink Reply by Talia Freedman on December 12, 2007 at 7:22am: Of course it counts. Anyone who as an appreciation of The City is welcome. The more the merrier. There are things about the whole area that are so location specific, like, bagels and lox, or thinking nothing of having to travel 2 hours by train to get to work.

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Permalink Reply by Diego on December 12, 2007 at 12:00pm: The only two hour train ride that I am familiar with is the two hour ride out of the city to Fire Island. Ok you have to to come back. It leaves out of Penn station right nextr to K-mart. How funny one would think they don't exist in Manhatten but there it is. Anyway I miss NYC so much, plus the train rides in and out of the city.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Aunt Money on December 12, 2007 at 12:52pm: Thanks! Katonah is a little under an hour on the train. I'm heading back next week for the holidays and will be there for three weeks. Who needs bagels? lol...

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Permalink Reply by ayax on December 12, 2007 at 2:39pm: Get me some pumpernickel bagels from the 'Bagel Buffet' on West 72nd.
I frequent the place whenever I'm in town. You hear genuine Yiddish spoken there, well, that was a while ago. I like Yiddish. Sounds like Dutch/German, which it is, I think.
Kvetch!

Westchester is OK, i.e. the ONE hour train ride made it OK.
I still have a WCC towel somewhere.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by sophie on December 12, 2007 at 5:26pm: WCC? That takes a girl back. Were you BOCES?

My train ride was only a half an hour, which made the city a perfectly reasonable place to go to the orthodontist and the dermatologist when I was dealing with both of those issues (not that they ever really go totally away -- sorry kids!) And which is why I worked in the city some during high school.

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Permalink Reply by sophie on December 12, 2007 at 5:28pm: Wait -- did you mean Westchester Community College or Westchester Country Club? The towel thing just dawned on me.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by ayax on December 12, 2007 at 6:24pm: The Country Club.
(once as a guest...)
Otherwise Apawamis, Rye.
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Permalink Reply by Talia Freedman on December 13, 2007 at 11:25am: O.K. Truth is, I've never been to a country club in my life. That's the thing about living in Manhattan, things that are accessible elsewhere are too expensive, and things that don't exist elsewhere are all over the place.

There are many 2 hour train rides to the farthest parts of Queens, or from Brooklyn to the Bronx. Once you're in "The City" it takes so much longer to get around, but only 1/2 hour to come from parts of Long Island. I knew a lot of New Yorkers who rode at least 1.5 hours or more each way to work, within the 5 borroughs. Crazy place, but we love it nonetheless.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by ayax on December 15, 2007 at 9:57am: You know, I'm mixing up a year in NYC, a long summer in Rye, NY, and many vacations spent in NYC. The CC scene (and the towel collection) is from that summer in Rye, Westchester Cy.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Aunt Money on December 15, 2007 at 1:00pm: I always stayed on the outside of the country club scene for the most part. So with WCC I did think you meant Westchester Community College at first! Ha. Didn't know you got towels there.
There is more than country clubs up there, believe me. I guess I'd be considered a townie rather than a country club girl. Swam in the reservoir and lakes rather than the country club pool.
Katonah is still beautiful, although very different than when I was growing up there. But it was a wonderful place to grow up, being so close to the city and we were allowed to go alone on the train once we turned 14. Less than an hour on the train each way and then back in your bed in with the stars and the crickets and the quiet. Not sure how the schools are now, but the public schools really emphasized the arts, so we had killer field trips all the time. Super lucky, we were.

Permalink Reply by Noel on February 1, 2009 at 4:36pm: H&H on Broadway. Those were bagels.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Noel on February 1, 2009 at 4:34pm: It has to count. I lived in NYC (67th off Central Park West) for seven years, then moved to Westchester. It took less time to get to work on the east side from Grand Central then from just across the park and up a little.

I spent a total of 25 years in the NYC area. Most of it on Madison Ave. (euphemistically speaking ... )

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