Tower Records: Going out of Business - Beyond Tiki

D donhonyc Tiki Socialite The Quiet EAST Village Joined: Jan 13, 2003 Posts: 1196	D donhonyc Posted posted on Tue, Feb 20, 2007 7:38 AM On 2007-02-19 21:23, TikiGardener wrote: I remember visiting NYC in about '88. I stayed in the NYU dorms on tenth and broadway. When I told my friend I was going over to St Marks, they emphatically told me not to go beyond 1st avenue. A venture into alphabet city was strongly suggested as a one way ticket to trouble. Then I moved there in 91 and lived on 5th between A an B. Moved there a day after they shut down Tompkins. I left in 2001. Just before that I heard Britney Spears had a loft on Ave C. I knew it was over. The Mallification of NYC is tragic. While it was good when certaing thngs like Whole Foods showed all of those crappy ass NYC grocery stores like Key Food what a grocery store should look and SMELL like, its just gone too far. I remember the Key Food on Avenue A smelling like rotting dead animals and no one seemed to notice.... Good times... I-hear-ya! Wow..your friends said don't go beyond 1st Ave.? I always thought Ave. A was the cut-off back then. Only a block difference, so pretty much the same as what they were telling you. I lived on 5th between A&B as well, moved there in '95 and stayed until '97. Even at that time I felt like I was taking a risk moving over there. I'm sure you remember that huge two building squat near the end of the block, That was across the street from my building. Right around the time I moved off that block that place got demolished. What went up? You got it! A nice luxury apartment building for the first influx of shiny, happy, people. Good old Key Food. Still there. Now there is an awning in the front and they have a sidewalk florist. Right before I moved to St. Mark's bet. A&B in '93, I lived with some friends on 4th and B, right down the street from Key Food, except back then it wasn't Key Food, it was just a shuttered building. I mean nobody wants to live in a crime ridden neighborhood and have to watch their back all the time, but when you take out all of the desolation and riff-raff, the neighborhood just gets BO-RING. That combined with alot of people that look like they just walked out of an MTV 'Real World' casting session. That's what the East Village is pretty much like now. [ Edited by: donhonyc 2007-02-20 07:40 ]

On 2007-02-19 21:23, TikiGardener wrote:
I remember visiting NYC in about '88. I stayed in the NYU dorms on tenth and broadway. When I told my friend I was going over to St Marks, they emphatically told me not to go beyond 1st avenue. A venture into alphabet city was strongly suggested as a one way ticket to trouble. Then I moved there in 91 and lived on 5th between A an B. Moved there a day after they shut down Tompkins.

I left in 2001. Just before that I heard Britney Spears had a loft on Ave C. I knew it was over. The Mallification of NYC is tragic. While it was good when certaing thngs like Whole Foods showed all of those crappy ass NYC grocery stores like Key Food what a grocery store should look and SMELL like, its just gone too far. I remember the Key Food on Avenue A smelling like rotting dead animals and no one seemed to notice....

Good times...

I-hear-ya!

Wow..your friends said don't go beyond 1st Ave.? I always thought Ave. A was the cut-off back then. Only a block difference, so pretty much the same as what they were telling you. I lived on 5th between A&B as well, moved there in '95 and stayed until '97. Even at that time I felt like I was taking a risk moving over there. I'm sure you remember that huge two building squat near the end of the block, That was across the street from my building. Right around the time I moved off that block that place got demolished. What went up? You got it! A nice luxury apartment building for the first influx of shiny, happy, people. Good old Key Food. Still there. Now there is an awning in the front and they have a sidewalk florist. Right before I moved to St. Mark's bet. A&B in '93, I lived with some friends on 4th and B, right down the street from Key Food, except back then it wasn't Key Food, it was just a shuttered building.

I mean nobody wants to live in a crime ridden neighborhood and have to watch their back all the time, but when you take out all of the desolation and riff-raff, the neighborhood just gets BO-RING. That combined with alot of people that look like they just walked out of an MTV 'Real World' casting session. That's what the East Village is pretty much like now.

[ Edited by: donhonyc 2007-02-20 07:40 ]

Post #286913 by donhonyc on Tue, Feb 20, 2007 7:38 AM