Driving a semi into Brooklyn, NY.

Yea, every one from brooklyn that i meet here went to Madison. Where is everyone that went to SheepsHead bay H.S. ? Where abouts on E.26th did you live at?

 

tk40176,
I went to Madison, class of 70. Lived on East 23rd St between R and S.

I am guessing I am a little older than you.

Larry

 

I lived on E 26th between R + S, 3rd house from the corner. Attend Joseph B. Cavallaro J.H. then Lafayette H.S. before moving near Madison and transferring over. I was class of 86.

 

No one has mentioned the food!!!
Brooklyn has the best food in the nation.
All those little pizza joints have a side room where you order what you want. If they don't have the ingredents, they send their boy down to the market to get it.
Lunch may take most of the afternoon, but afterwards you will want to shot because you will never eat another meal that tasted so good.

That food is so good that I would learn Italian just to be able to order it.

####, now I'm hungery.

 

just a little older, i was class of 74 sheepshead bay h.s.

 

I lived on Knapp st. between V & whitney street across from PS 194, To this day my father still lives there!

 

Couldnt agree more! havent had real pizza, italian food or a REAL Bagel since i left.

 

No wonder I couldn't get wife to move to anywhere else! Maybe she "understood" the bigger picture more than I did?

I've spent more time out of state than my own "home" state and a for a while I've tried to get her to move explaining to her about the quality of life issues. She wouldn't buy and eventually I've given up.

As for ethnic foods? yeah, I guess it's hard to beat Brooklyn in that arena. Authentic Italian, Russian, Yiddish, West Indian, Indian, Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Middle Eastern, Geek, Turkish, etc...any given time of the year. Actually that's also with "girls"! Well before I was married, younger, was couple of pounds lighter and had $$ to burn. Any how, I guess it has it's perks.


Another thing I never have to worry about in regards to driving a truck around here are availability of work / jobs. Not that great conditions (equipments, roads, traffics) but usually pays better than most OTR jobs (both company + O/O level) and be home every or most nights of the week. Only real draw backs - TRAFFICS and finding a place to park your equipments without costing "an arm and a leg", getting it vandalized or stolen. (specially for longer periods of time) Kind of burns a person out after a while and the potential for accident are just hair line away at any given times but can't have everything. Catch 22. Do I get sued and lose everything I've earned with my blood sweat and tears or do I carry a gun and take my chances in the court of laws? First time conviction, a mandatory break from wife and kids (court sanctioned vacation for couple of years), learn a new (prison) trade and be out in couple of years in better shape of your life with no stress? Well aside from "Brokeback Mountain" life style, not too many draw backs if anyone think about it.

 

Bugger it. I've done the NYC thing too many times, usually with a trainer who has never seen the east side of the GW. NYC and points northeast no longer exist on my map. Just a big blurry area with "Here be dragons, unicorns, virgins, honest politicians, and other myths." Did my time, I'm done. All the New Yorkers can have all that freight, and be happy with it. I'm staying out.

 

BTW - no matter how tempting as it way sound, the last few comments above are sarcasms. Well maybe more like options or an escape plan