I hung out above that scene in Central Park near The Fountain, especially on
Saturday and Sunday when the fashions would be in full gear. Those were the
days. As far as going to clubs, I was a fag hag and hung out in the East
Village, mostly.

My family moved out on eastern Long Island when I was about 18, so I moved there
as well. I still came into the city often, but it was far nicer to look out the
window onto the ocean. My mother still lives there. I don't miss New York,
sans being able to see a show anytime of day or night, and the food. I miss
Italian food. I haven't been able to find much in the way of it here, but I
don't hang out a lot downtown, in Austin.

Did you know Di Nero was a partner with Nobu?

Up till a few years ago my grandmother lived in the same apartment for over 60
years. 514 W. 110 Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam. She paid 600 dollars
a month and was the very last person to finally leave so they could gut the two
bedroom apartment and sell it. It was rent controlled so they had to renew her
lease. Now it's all Coop up there by Columbia.

The city is the greatest I've ever been to and I adore it...from here, in my
little Universe we created.

Victoria


On 8 Jul 2003 09:31:35 -0700, (Steve Coyle) wrote:


The places I mentioned were on going around the time the Towers
were wrapping up. That was a great scene, second only to Liberty Lunch
before the roof went up and the Armadillo here in Austin. For
etymology nuts, it was originally spelled out as TriBeCa, for
'Triangle Below Canal'.
Tourist guides to NYC talk about Tribeca as a neighborhood formed
in the 'eighties' which I guess was when Robert DiNero and the big
wigs started moving in, which put it on the map. The neighborhood was
already in progress long before, ( and being called TriBeCa ) with a
lot of artists and musicians doing loft conversions.
I always thought since it was south of SoHo, ( South of Houston ) it
could have been called 'SoSoHo' but that never cought on.

Of course, the landlords in the seventies did the standard NYC
rip off of renting trashed out industrial spaces on five year leases
to struggling artist types, who would put a lot of sweat into fixing
the places up and then at the end of the lease the landlord would turn
around and sell it as a condo to the well to do . I was in a huge loft
with two other artists, and we had canvases, a stereo, mattresses and
a capuchino machine and virtually nothing else, it was a lot of fun.
I've enjoyed the irony of the Bickering New Yorkers having been
in the same neighborhood, long ago and far away.
I hope everyone who traveled got back from their July Fourth
weekend,safe and sound. ( and without nitrate fertilizers on their
shoes )

Steve Coyle
www.austingardencenter.com