What You Miss Most From Where You Live- Page 2

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 2/7/10 at 12:31am

Q, I worked at my college library I know that smell!

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 2/7/10 at 7:16am

Jane2, I was pretending I was still living in NYC*!! Everytime I walk on Bleecker Street I mourn the loss of Cottonwood Cafe. I remember going there one Saturday in anticipation of their pancakes, only to find out they had gone out of business. I think that was 1997.

*Although I haven't lived there in 10 years, NYC will ALWAYS be my home.

Updated On: 2/7/10 at 07:16 AM

[tommyboy]

Posted: 2/7/10 at 7:47am

Ted Hook's -- 8th and 44th.

Great music, great pickups.

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/7/10 at 10:38am

Dottie, me too. There isn't another place with those pancakes, and now I must have them!

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 2/7/10 at 12:01pm

Crescent City Beignets in Chicago. I loved it in Houston and was thrilled when I moved to Chicago to live just a few blocks from their location, but it closed a year later.

One thing I definitely miss about not living in Houston is Shipley Donuts. If they opened in Chicago, they'd make a FORTUNE.

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/7/10 at 1:47pm

Dottie - shame on me! I just made and ate 4 large banana walnut pancakes with maple syrup. YUM. Now where's that insulin when you need it?

[uncageg]

Posted: 2/7/10 at 2:34pm

Denver, CO - Capitol Hill - I miss the feeling of "community" in my area. So many transplants now and the people aren't friendly. This is why I have decided it is time to move back east in a few years.

Singtopher, I will miss the landscape also. I spend time in the mountains and there is just nothing like being up there.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 2/7/10 at 2:39pm

uncage, DC's lack of "community" is one of the major reasons I regret moving here.

[Q]

Posted: 2/7/10 at 2:57pm

unca - that makes me sad to read. Cap Hill was so wonderful - it's a shame to have lost that.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/7/10 at 10:00pm

Virgin Megastore

[uncageg]

Posted: 2/7/10 at 11:40pm

Q, The Hill has changed. It started when a lot of the gay community moved out. A lot moved over to Stapleton after the airport closed and they built that huge housing development over there. After that, a lot of families with young kids moved in. That was cool. Everyone got along. They were aware that the Hill was a predominately gay community. But then a lot of youn adults moved in. They aren't as friendly. It seems that nobody under the age of about 45 even speaks to you on the street. They just look through you or look away. The Hill was never like that. It seemed that everyone knew everyone if not personally than from some sort of event or party, etc. It makes me sad. It is still a pretty safe place to live and is still relatively quite but the social climate has changed and a lot of people, including myself, tend to just stay at home a lot. It is now very hard to make good friends. And it seems that whenever you suggest having a gathering at home, nobody wants to come because they HAVE to go to the bars.

My 2 reasons for wanting to move back east (I am from Philly) is because my family is back there and I am feeling a need to be near them. I want to move to NYC because I just need to be closer to theatre there. I have been very active with the DCPA here, and I cover theatre here for BWW, but I know I have to get to NYC. It may only be for a few years. Who knows. I feel that I may end up back in Colorado though. Even with what I explained above, this is a wonderful place to live and I can see myself retiring here. I can't get enough of the mountains and am lucky to be able to spend time up there at least 4 or 5 times a year for weekends.

Dottie, I don't think I could live in DC. I have 2 friends that love it but I know it would drive me crazy being so close but yet a bit far from NYC!

[StockardFan]

Posted: 2/8/10 at 7:20am

Jane, I don't live in NY, but I've been to a few of those clubs you mentioned. The night we went to the Tunnel they were filming a movie there and there were some of the weirdest looking people there ever! It was awesome!

[gcontini2]

Posted: 2/8/10 at 9:40am

I lived in a few places, so starting with
New York where I live now:

New York: Bendix Diner in Chelsea and most of the lost edginess in that neighborhood

Boston: Jamaica Plain area of 15 year ago

Maryland: the horse farms; I was reminded during Superbowl yesterday that the Colts (originally the team from Baltimore) took their namesake from all of the Maryland horse farms that have mostly been turned into suburban subdivisions now.

[kec]

Posted: 2/8/10 at 2:21pm

"Although I haven't lived there in 10 years, NYC will ALWAYS be my home."

I second this... although I haven't lived in NYC for 20 years now. I grew up on Staten Island. What I miss about there? On New Dorp Lane there used to be a little "soda shop" for lack of a better word, run by two brothers. They made the best Egg Cremes. When the brothers retired, they sold the place. Don't remember what's there now. Also on New Dorp Lane, the Lane Theater. It was a movie theater when I was a kid and young adult; I remember taking my younger brother to a Disney film festival there one summer. The inside was very art deco. The building is still there, but I understand it's now a club.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 2/8/10 at 2:39pm

Now I'm really sad after a drive today. I had to take one of my cats to an animal dermatologist (Don't laugh) this morning, and the office is all the way in Riverdale. I used to live in the town just south of there.

Anyway, going south on Rt. 23 in a certain area, someone had put random objects on top of the utility poles. I'm talking about lawn ornaments, a metal watering can, a bowling pin, and whatever else they decided to put up on them. They were up for over a decade, I don't know how long. But, unless I just didn't pay enough attention today, I think these are gone now. It was one of those things where nobody had any ideas who did it or how they did it.

If I didn't have the cat in the car with me, I think I would have driven down the Boulevard a little to see if things have changed a lot or stayed the same. I'm really afraid of what has happened to my childhood house. I know they changed the color of it years ago, but who knows if anything else had been done to it recently. I'm also aware, but never seen the developments they built onto the one end of my street, and the fact that the road now goes under 287, I believe.

[Stagedoor2]

Posted: 2/8/10 at 2:41pm

The "downtown" strip of my small-ish hometown. A lot of the big box stores came in and are on the outskirts of town. Although there are still a few shops downtown, I miss the Mom & Pop establishments.