What is a "New York minute", and how is it different from a "Poughkeepsie minute"?

[brentspeak]

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[TZ]

1. Its louder?

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[KamaAina]

2. It doesn't suck nearly as much

I used to visit a fellow activist in Puke-ipsie fairly regularly. At one point I was even considering making it my home (do I even need to mention that the said activist is female?).

So one day she and I were strolling down Main Mall. I'm looking around, trying really really hard to adjust to my new surroundings, and I say, "You know, if they'd just put a little money into this and spruce it up a little bit, they might have something here."

She looked up at me (she's very very short, and I'm 6'3") and replied, "They just did."

edit: too many "it"s

[Chan790]

9. And that is the perfect summary of Poughkeepsie.

Though, to be fair, that is also a great summary of Yonkers, where I live.

$150M for urban renewal and renovations...trying to make South Yonkers the fancy bedroom community for those people that want to live the convenient Manhattan lifestyle at outer borough prices without the NYC bustle. They put all that money into real estate and small businesses improvement right before the shit hit the fan...now I live in a newly-renovated ghost-town with a locked-in lease 150% of what they're currently renting comparable apartments for in this building. To be fair, if this apartment were in Manhattan, it'd be $10,000/mo. and comparable apartments don't exist anywhere else in NYC except maybe DUMBO or Williamsburg..where they'd be $5k+/mo...still more than I'm paying ($3k) but a lot more than they're currently renting for($2k-and-change).

So...if anybody's looking for a nice apartment in a nice neighborhood in greater metro NYC and doesn't mind the coming Metro-North fare hike, I'd suggest SoYo. What we need is young professionals and the rest will follow. We already have great cheap bars here and the waterfront.

[KamaAina]

10. I may yet take you up on that.

Well, not me personally, most likely, but... how would you like to have lots of new neighbors with developmental disabilities? I lived in NYC before I came out here, and still have contacts in the field there.

[Chan790]

12. Yay!! More people.

It's a young building; a lot of college kids, artists, PAs, musicians and young-at-heart 50-year-olds who act like they're still 27. A lot of us work from home (I'm a writer, my roommate is a film producer, his girlfriend is a BA for a bank, the guy next door is a sound engineer, his roommate is a painter (houses and rooms, not art)...I think. That's a fairly typical floor. The building has a 24-hour concierge and is secure, has views of the river and is one block from the Yonkers station on the Hudson Line.

It's really a nice area...it just lacks the population-saturation to support the sorts of businesses frequented by the sort of people who live here. I have to take the Metro-North to the closest Starbucks and I still haven't found a Duane Reade, a Staples, a laundromat or a place to buy milk that is open past 8PM within the neighborhood. The businesses moved in, the economy tanked, people stopped moving in, the businesses went out of business and now I'm surrounded by brand-new vacant storefronts and a lot of bars and restaurants (really good restaurants and bars though. People come out here to eat and dine because it's cheaper than the city and just as fancy/nice...but that's all there is). It's a long walk to the Shop-Rite, maybe 2/3mi.

If people move in, the businesses to support that population will come back. The rents will probably spike though.

[KamaAina]

14. Are you north of the station? Yahoo! Maps says 0.32 mi.

It's a long walk to the Shop-Rite, maybe 2/3mi.

Yep, I'm scoping it out. Who knows? Maybe I'll end up as the project director or something. One of my contacts back East runs a program along those lines in nearby Riverdale; it even includes a small business run by the consumers. I'll run this by her.

[Chan790]

16. Hudson Park. 1 Alexander St.

There's a few other local half-full buildings here...66 Main and Metro 92.

0.32mi might be correct now that you say that, it seems longer because it's up a steep hill or to go the roundabout way of going up Main St. to Warburton then walking down Warburton Ave. to the store.

It's still a bad walk: uphill one direction, carrying groceries the other. The first disposable income I get, I'm buying one of those personal shopping carts.

Edit: Apparently, I don't know the name of my building. :blush:

[jmowreader]

17. You're buying coffee at Starbucks?

Why the hell would anyone buy coffee at Starbucks in NYC? That's like eating Italian food at Olive Garden in NYC, or buying a steak in Philly at Subway.

[Chan790]

18. No...I buy coffee at Starbucks in University Heights when I'm home in Yonkers...

because there are zero coffee shops local to me. In NYC, I frequent Oren's Daily Roast. http://www.orensdailyroast.com/

[KG]

3. it's with how long it takes to pick your feet in Poughkeepsie.

[brentspeak]

11. .

[jobycom]

4. It's about $50 more, usually. nt

[jobycom]

5. The difference in time it takes to walk a regular mile and a country mile.

[Swede]

6. Better ask a Philadelphia Lawyer.

I guess.

[madinmaryland]

7. Poughkeepsie is "upstate"!!

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[KamaAina]

8. Not to mention a "Shreveport second"

actually, I think that one might have changed, with the advent of Viagra. :evilgrin:

[mnhtnbb]

13. You don't know the difference between Poughkeepsie and Manhattan?

[Danger Mouse]

15. I love Poughkeepsie. You get to rub elbows with the best and brightest...

crackheads and drunks.

[Lavender Brown]

19. ..

:grr:

[Danger Mouse]

20. Oh hey.

Did you see my pm?

[Lavender Brown]

21. Yes

just got back to you. :)

[ACTION BASTARD]

22. Damn, now I'm depressed.

I'm in the Bronx and I'm contemplating moving to the Poughkeepsie area. WTH is going on up there?