Game Thread for Feb 10-12.

[Russell Jaslow]

I know it must be Hells Kitchen because nobody goes to my old firehouse in the South Bronx.......did ya have fun great place to hang now-a-days..

Yes, Hell's Kitchen, Port Authority, Times Square, Diamond District, MSG. I just walked all around.

My mother grew up on the Lower East Side -- Knickerbocker Village to be exact.

[bakdraft21]

Re: Game Thread for Feb 10-12.

Yes, Hell's Kitchen, Port Authority, Times Square, Diamond District, MSG. I just walked all around.

My mother grew up on the Lower East Side -- Knickerbocker Village to be exact.

LES has become a haven for up and coming yuppie types who are hippster want-a-bees...Hells Kitchen I now believe is FULLY gentrified.

[Russell Jaslow]

Hells Kitchen I now believe is FULLY gentrified.

I did pass one strip club on 8th Ave...

[bakdraft21]

Re: Game Thread for Feb 10-12.

I did pass one strip club on 8th Ave...

Plenty of now UPSCALE MENS CLUBS in the Kitchen..

[joecct]

Re: Game Thread for Feb 10-12.

It .was my dads old stomping grounds as well back in the 40's 50's,but the neighborhood took a big change with white flight to the burbs in the late 60's early 70's and it became...The Bronx is Burning,a documentary made by the BBC,very interesting and can be seen on You Tube,its about my old firehouse back in the day ...my firehouse was on 169th st and Intervale ave if your dad wants to know E-82/L-31 Lacasagrande ( the BIg HOuse )

Tenement 1 was on Melrose Ave.
Tenement 2 was on E 156th St.

After the war, Dad and Grandma moved to Dumont, NJ
Dad passed in 1982