Scenes from New York

[Kiwiwriter47 472]

Engine 33, on Great Jones Street, is a fantastically-built firehouse. I think I still have one of their t-shirts from when I was going around after 9/11, buying FDNY t-shirts.

[RobertLM78 1,598]

4 hours ago, Kiwiwriter47 said:

Must be an Italian Alpaca 

 

[Kiwiwriter47 472]

On 2/22/2021 at 5:08 PM, RobertLM78 said:

Must be an Italian Alpaca 

 

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

[Kiwiwriter47 472]

Here's a police station in Manhattan that's well worth copying in SimCity.

 

The most beautiful police station in Manhattan | Ephemeral New York (wordpress.com)

[Kiwiwriter47 472]

I ate here a few times as a kid...it was an interesting place. Purchase coins at the cash register, put the coins in slots, next to miniature doors with windows, to select your sandwich, open the door, take the sandwich, and go. The staff behind the walls of doors made replacement food.

In my lifetime, they dropped the coins in favor of regular quarters, and then went out of business, sadly.

But not in SimCity!

 

When everyone in New York ate at the Automat | Ephemeral New York (wordpress.com)

[RobertLM78 1,598]

6 hours ago, Kiwiwriter47 said:

I ate here a few times as a kid...it was an interesting place. Purchase coins at the cash register, put the coins in slots, next to miniature doors with windows, to select your sandwich, open the door, take the sandwich, and go. The staff behind the walls of doors made replacement food.

In my lifetime, they dropped the coins in favor of regular quarters, and then went out of business, sadly.

Interesting business idea.  I suspect the traditional type of restaurant is more desirable.

[Kiwiwriter47 472]

Don't make your park look like this!

The original plan for Prospect Park in Brooklyn. 

Instead, the City of Brooklyn (now the Borough) went with a plan submitted by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux (pronounced "Vpx"). The two were on a roll after successfully building Newark's Branch Brook Park and New York's Central Park. The Prospect Park Olmsted and Vaux created is better.

It also has a Quaker cemetery, and among those buried there: Montgomery Clift. Truth.

The Viele Plan, the Flawed Original Design of Prospect Park in Brooklyn - Untapped New York (untappedcities.com)

 

[Kiwiwriter47 472]

Take the No. 7 train to Queens to watch the Mets or the US Open, and you will pass by the Hall of Science on the edge of the 1939-1940 and 1964-1965 World's Fair site, whose facility includes these fine rockets from the 1960s. They include a Mercury Atlas, a Gemini Titan, a Lunar Module, and a Mercury spacecraft. All are replicas.

A smart SimCity builder should build a rocket park as a museum!

Rocket Park, a Space Age Remnant of NYC's 1964 World's Fair - Untapped New York (untappedcities.com)