Long Island City Cut Off from Civilization!

They can use the Roosevelt Island funicular (or whatever).

Yes, I know it's not actually a funicular, but LIC is all about delusion.

But anyone in MANHATTAN who lives near only one subway line would (and has in the past) had the same issue. Think people who live east of second ave, far west village, far UWS, Monningside Heights...

Not really. The cable car doesn't go there - your only option is to walk through some mighty dodgy neighborhoods to try to get on at Court Square. Vernon Ave. is the main station.

You're closer to the G train, but that doesn't take you anywhere, and it never runs, anyhow.

The point, Jason, is that in those neighborhoods you're ALREADY IN CIVILIZATION. That is, there's stuff to do without going very far. In LIC, what do you do but watch the crack whores shoot up under the bridge?

isnt crack smoked?

Ah, steve is still obsessed with LIC. The old man is still jealous of the young crowd enjoying life in LIC.
How is that rental on 52nd and 8th steve???? (chuckle . . .)
Jason is right, this is no different than anywhere else.

Yes, marco, crack is smoked. However these particular crack whores are also heroin users.

Crack can also be injected, mixed with heroin as a speedball.

FYI.

"The old man is still jealous of the young crowd enjoying life in LIC."

They have to enjoy the life in LIC - there's no way that they can get in or out of it.

"How is that rental on 52nd and 8th steve???? (chuckle . . .)"

I'm GLAD you asked, LICC! I was just out on one of my balconies:

http://www.rosenyc.com/Portals/0/PropertyFiles/Floors18-282bdrC.pdf

the one in the lower-right hand corner of the floorplan, which costs me $3,600 a month, less than half a smaller place at Worldwide Plaza, a block away, would cost.

And then there's the 1, 2, 3, A, C, E, N, R, W, F, V, Q trains, all within walking distance.

So - IT'S DIVINE!

What are your plans for this weekend? Taking the subway?

(chuckle . . .)

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7207

To find out how to inject crack. You'll need it if you venture out to Court Square - it'll make you lots of friends!

(chuckle . . .)

I live in LIC and this doesn't affect my commute whatsoever. I hop on the E/F at 23rd and Ely if I'm going to Manhattan, or the G if I'm going to Brooklyn. Or I drive whenever it's convenient.

steve, how do you define civilization?

"how do you define civilization?"

I admit the East Side is a bit of a stretch for my definition of civilization, but in general anywhere that you can find something to eat within 100 yards of where you're standing, without having to shoot it yourself and hang it out to cure.

That's fine, Mpancheri, unless you live on 48th Avenue & 5th Street, when it's a mighty far walk away.

> But anyone in MANHATTAN who lives near only one subway line would (and has in the past) had the same
> issue.

Not really. Walking, bus, and the good thing is, you're already where you want to be... Manhattan.

> Think people who live east of second ave,

If the 6 goes down, you have the F... or the L depending on what your cross street is

> far west village
123ACEBDFV all go to the west village... how exactly is that like being limited to 1 train again?

> far UWS
harlem? you're never more than a couple avenues from more than one train on the UWS...

> Monningside Heights...

nice accent. But if the area the city called blighted is your comparison to LIC, you might have something.
;-)

> Or I drive whenever it's convenient.

If driving is a noted solution, I think the argument is over.
;-)

i'm curious because i have no idea, but is there water taxi service to/from LIC?

There used to be water taxi service - not on weekends, though, when the subway is closed. It leaves from the East River Beach. Doesn't that sound nice? A beach on the East River, the river that really isn't even a river!

Forget about taxis, the yellow kind. Though you might be able to get a rickshaw if you call sufficiently in advance.

hahahaha thanks.

hahahahha thanks.

The 7 is down in Long Island
City, where live the unenlightened.
You could take the G
But you'd best first pee
'Cause you ain't getting nowhere till you're wizened.

Why does Long Island City lend itself so well to limericks?

you can all laugh at me but i like LIC. Are taxis really an issue to get there? Last time I was there I got one right outside of the building I was at on the river. Did I get lucky?

"Did I get lucky?"

You got out alive, didn't you?

"I live in LIC and this doesn't affect my commute whatsoever. I hop on the E/F at 23rd and Ely if I'm going to Manhattan"

Agreed.

The one neighborhood that really gets cut off from civilization when ONE SINGLE TRAIN goes down is Williamsburg.

"Last time I was there I got one right outside of the building I was at on the river. Did I get lucky?"

I can't remember seeing a taxi last 4-5 times I went to LIC.

No one else dares try their hand at an LIC limerick? Am I alone here?

steve, i'd love to play the part given that you are so much fun (and given that w67 got so dense that ruined the thread i was in) but unfortunately, i've never been to LIC

admin, i would think that's hardly a prerequisite. quite possibly beneficial.

i don't know if i would classify w67th's rant as ruining the thread, it was some interesting ranting. but it wasn't in harmony with your rant, that's for certain.

AR, if the rant is autistic, then i lose interest right away. there's nothing i can do about it.

i am able to have fun with bush, for ex, even though i don't agree with almost anything he says. there's no lack of open mindedness in my part. it's the "let me teach you sth" attitude combined with cheap fallacies that bores me to death. the ad hominem: if you don't agree is cause you watch fox news. give me a break, we can do better than that.

There once was a leper named Kitty,
exiled to Long Island City.
Gladly took the gas
to leave that morass.
No, it's not young, and it sure ain't pretty.

On streeteasy many people we did pity,
who were residing in Long Island City.
Damn, we would think,
it must drive you to drink.
To live in a place that's so gritty.

"unfortunately, i've never been to LIC"

What do you mean, "unfortunately"?

AH: great lim!

On Jackson Ave there's a Gristede's
Where LICC runs to get Wheaties.
He waits till it rains
It causes less pains
As the water washes out all the feces.

Good job, AR!

> "As the water washes out all the feces."

omg. steve, finally you've got the entertainment you were looking for. men, SE delivers.

> "unfortunately, i've never been to LIC" What do you mean, "unfortunately"?

i mean, i'm the type of person that's always hoping for the best and enjoys being a little bit like a tourist in my own city. hence, i believe it might be a nice place to visit. just like Newark.

Admin, more limericks, please!

Sitting aside the Newtown Creek
I looked upon a vista bleak
A mallard waddled
With oil mottled
Before collapsing, dead, upon his beak.

"To live in a place that's so gritty" --> "To live in a place that's so shitty."

All in favor, say "Aye"!

"Looks like it's the bus for all you lucky LIC Dwellers!"

Don't the E and V go to LIC?

The F also goes to LIC so let's not exaggerate things steve.

you guys are funny but I still like LIC :)

You could take the G
But you'd best first pee
'Cause you ain't getting nowhere till you're wizened.

In a nabe where the air is pure swill,
and the land's decachlorobiphenyl,
brownfields turned to green
with polytetrafluoroethylene.
Fear not buyers, you can shop at Goodwill.

The G does not go to Manhattan. This 7 line closure is bad for everyone who works at the Russian embassy. nyc10022 told me the 7 train goes to the Russian embassy. I never knew that. nyc10022 is one smart cookie!

I forgot to preface that last one with the title: "Ode(or) to Long Island City"

The G train is the only subway line I hae never rode in my entire life. I am not sure how to ride it since I have never seen it pull into a station. Is there some sort of secret station where everyone boards the G?

AH, you're outdoing me!

I just smoke some PCBs for that extra boost!

Is that cheating?

whatever it takes, ah. keep cheating.

Gantry State Park is a lark:
Do not dare park your car in the dark
If you want your automobile
Not to wind up in Guayaquil
Chop shopped with its chassis pockmarked

uh as to your original post there is no planned shutdown of the 7 line.

this reconstruction/repair/rehabilitation/construction etc. on the #7 line has been going on since, oh, I don't know, about 1990?

After it's finished, it is announced that more work needs to be done, or the last job was done incorrectly.

enough limericks already
how about some haiku?
go ahead - I dare you

maybe. if you start.

like the form of your challenge, but topic specific, please.

aboutready, that was very good, but haikus are 5-7-5, not 5-7-7. How about:

maybe. if you start.
like the form of your challenge;
specify topic.

"Looks like it's the bus for all you lucky LIC Dwellers!"

We have things called cars.

Maybe one day you'll graduate to one.

"We have things called cars."

So you're Staten Islanders?

awesome. let the games begin.

btw, i have to amend my position. knowing something about the 'hood clearly improves the poetry.

"So you're Staten Islanders?"

No, we are just big boys and own cars.

Perhaps you'll graduate to one someday.

just big boys with cars
hoping to move to new york
it's so sad too bad

Bad for the planet
Cars. Consume fuel for nothing.
Better to love Earth.

Long Island City
hulks sad in gloom and longing
will a ship arrive?

destitute and cold
burning clothes for heat in cans
I hate Mike Bloomberg

fold the damned laundry!
Don't let SE suck you in.
Life's too short and sweet.

Elmer Gantry Park,
Times Square with binoculars
Newtown Creek - no thanks

How much per square foot?
Six hundred fifty dollars.
Such a deal ........ sort of.

Limericks are much
cheerier than haikus. (And
much harder to write.)

"Sitting aside the Newtown Creek
I looked upon a vista bleak
A mallard waddled
With oil mottled
Before collapsing, dead, upon his beak."

The winner of first prize.
It has content, style, feeling, development,
and a very peculiar type of beauty I can
only describe as what one sees from the bridge
crossing Dutch Kills for Hunters Point (49th) Avenue.

Steve, give up translating and rent/buy ratios.
Your true gift is poetry.

However, you need to expand your field of research
and take a walk around the Dutch Kills, or perhaps
that lovely stretch of Greenpoint Avenue between
Bradley and Review Avenues.

BTW, apologiies for my comments last year sometime
about the smell from Greenpoint's water treatment
plant. I have been there a few times since, and
there are no longer open tanks. The smell is gone,
the industrial cityscape even more ...... unique.

The Kosciuszko and Pulaski
bring simps who are (naturally) nasty
from the district called LIC
(they're like dull arse-nic).
Please! Polite talk ... like 'vaginaplasty'.

Thank you, lowery. I just dabble, really.

oh, stevejhx, this is not something you should be modest about - let's have a little haiku now

alanhart gets the prize for disliking LIC more than anyone else

I want to see LICComment's limerick. Or - we can make it easy for him: a nursery rhyme.

Old Mother Hubbard lived in a cupboard
but damn, did it have a view....

now, now, steve..... let's drop the torch now for your old flame
channel it, baby, channel it, into poetry
LOL

a resident of lic once opined
that bonuses were going to blow the mind
oh where did he go?
that very fine ho?
to the powerhouse, to cry himself blind.

on a map we searched in vain,
no carolSt in lic it was plain,
but there was one right here,
whose rant i hold dear,
my favorite it shall remain.

very nice, aboutready - your poetess' heart obviously has empathy, an important thing for any poet - now could you jazz it up a bit so it can be danced to?

And you're behind on haiku submissions

Powerhouse, Fusion
LHaus, EastCoast and The View:
you all cost too much.

You see, aboutready? It's easy.............. c'mon!

we all have our strengths and weaknesses. does this work?

six months recorded
one hundred eighty-six sales
so little progress

South Park reference:
a bit too over the line?
I apologize.

AR - it's brilliant - it has a japanoise feel to it
there's also a certain synchronicity to it, i.e.,
you searched for the data and it fit the haiku
parameters

alanhart - marvelous - so sensitive
what are some other poetic forms we can use?
iambic pentameter?

HAIKU #3
Manhattan costs much.
Long Island City costs less.
Both are going down.

HAIKU #4
The difference between
Manhattan and L. I. C.
Will remain constant.

HAIKU #5
But some disagree
On the gap between the two.
Who knows? It might GROW.

Long Island City
For Whom The Toll Brothers Bell
Yield: Chapter Seven

Long Island City,
Such an object of pity,
All poets agree.

I've been on the wrong thread..... alas.... poetry is not my forte... mockery, yes, vulgarity, yes, insanity, yes... poetry, no.

67, just write what you want, and then go back and hit "return" in random places so you have really short lines, and you're a poet.

Anyway, I want to edit my last one to play up the literature and play down the finance. I feel the need to be charitable to LIC new construction regarding finance.

Long Island City
For Whom The Toll Brothers Bell
Read: Chapter Seven

... much better.

Long Island City
Many bought there recently
What are they thinking?

hahaha.. alan.

"The one neighborhood that really gets cut off from civilization when ONE SINGLE TRAIN goes down is Williamsburg."

Yes, never mind the J/M or G trains. Or this thing called a cab. Complaining about the L being crowded is one thing, but calling the entire neighborhood "cut off from civilization" is a non-starter.

bjw, poetry please.

aboutready, fine:

A loner by the name of stevejhx,
Never much taken with the fairer sex.
All of his rants about LIC,
Not one funny, all done without pity,
Oh the irony! - it's where he'd live next!

thank you. but not quite accurate. the limerick with the mallard was extremely funny. you may not agree with it, but it was funny.

Fair enough, edit "not" to "just." Otherwise, perfectly accurate.

ah, aboutready is writing poems disparaging other peoples' neighborhood from her apartment in . . . Peter Cooper Village. That irony alone is funnier than any of the poems steve has written.

But not as ironic as the guy in LIC who just tried to go off on PCV....

LIC is still on the wait list, apparently.

Loner? Well! :P)

LICC - where's your limerick?

steve, it's the two cats. Sorry.

LICC..... either limerick or haiku, please
this is the poetry corner
here, I'll try it for you

LICC HAIKU #1:
Stuy-Town - PCV
once were great places to rent
but not anymore.

You see? Anyone can do it. Another try:

LICC HAIKU #2
People laugh today,
especially friends of steve's,
but they'll be sorry.

w67th, enough coyness from you - ALL your posts are in blank verse and qualify as poetry as much as ..... fill in the blanks with pet peeves re "literature"