As a former New Yorker, (upper east side, midtown, soho) I had the most memorable and wonderful years of my life, while residing in the city.
New York is excitement, it is unbound energy, it is like living inside a shopping mall. You need exercise? Just go outside and walk the streets.
The air and faucet water has an electric quality, and you are always on the go. There is a strange energy there that draws you like a magnet, and blesses you with it.
New Yorkers have a no bullshit attitude, and don't get pushed around much, because they tell things like it is.
All that the best is in New York, the best restaurants, stores, women, entertainment, culture, art, intelligentsia, schools, medical care.
New York like the famous song says, "If you can make it there, you make it anywhere", is not for losers, religious nuts, or new born Jesus freaks. It is not for older folks either, is for the young blood.
If you work there, you must get out of the city at least every other weekend, to rest your mind and bones.
And if you live there, you must have lot's of money, or it is not fun. Otherwise go the the cheap hill billy and red neck towns where the rift raft lives. LOL.
To post pictures of the sad events of 9/11/01, to show human suffering is low, on the other hand is a reminder how New Yorkers came together as a unit, and supported the rescue efforts and cried next to the police and firemen heroes.
The person that post such terrible photos just to denigrate a beautiful and vibrant city with such a sad story, must be a real sick puppy.

Been there 6 times to use JFK the people are rude and they seem to like being rude.

All that for a simple insult?

I wish you a double dose of your wishes for me, por si las moscas!

Wake up and smell the Tsunami. Hummin' coming at you!

HateroPardo:

Let's hope you can reach the age of 55, in that race, in this time in history; It ain't gettin' any easier!

But, money can't buy your life when it's gone. With a little money a person can go a long way;
Afterall, money is a piece of paper. Also, "the love of money is the root of all evil" -- 1 Timothy 6:10.
Still further, "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"--Mark 8:36.

These are sobering thoughts, brother. You can choose to heed them, or just ignore them?

There's no pun intended, no malice; It's just that my personal experience has allowed me to gain this insight; And,as you may know from your area of expertise: You can't instill an insight on (or in) some else....

This is what I had in mind when I started this thread; It's not just me that's calling my folks out of Babylon? (my daughter and son live in the borough); There's a myriad of people doing so, as this gentleman here did in March:

Did you feel personal relevance by my message?
Father Arsenio, bless you, my fellow traveler, and don't forget to repent your many sins!
Opus Dei and the illuminati are always watching! LOL.

Por Dios pero que es lo tuyo, mano?

Sacame el guante ya!

Y vas a seguir con los ganchos y puyas?

Pero los relajitos tuyos son de carajitos, no de hombres. Grow the hell up, son!

All that pent up anti-Christian and yes, anti-Dominican anger you harbor isn't for me.
You have major issues! You need a check from the neck up.

Soho, and upper east side. I didn't want to go there! But, what?
Man, you must have meant the Fort Washington Shelter?
Soho or upper east side?

What you're a Duppy, now? A Dominican yuppie? Not, with your pedigree. Tu eres un pata raya, salta-pa tras, un ladron de cordel, y paletero de varias generaciones.
So don't pull that game on the unsuspecting public. The only areas down town you knew in NYC was around Times Square near the Port Authority Terminal; and further down the east village, where the alternative lifestyle dudes like you swarm looking for companionship. The Piers on the shores of the lower Hudson River are what you know.

Upper east Side? Yeah, 128 st. and Park ave. Chasing the genie!

Tribeca?
Little Italy? For get about it!

How about the Bowery. You scallywag.
But, SOHO? How about NO-Ho? What are you a sophisticate, and Artiste, like your compatriote Basquiat?

Stop pulling my chain. Give it a rest for goodness' sake with the crap about the opus dei and the illuminati. I already revealed your identity as a Jesuit. So, your diversionary tactics are in vain at this point.
The stigma is on you. The ball is in your court. The focus is on you not me!

Mandame los Opus Dei, o al diablo y su hermano. Que le voy a chubar el Perro!


I ain't scared of men? You see my name and my photo on this post don't you?
You perpetrator, paperback gangster.

My dare still holds------ show your picture if you are so big and bad; Mr. took over Dominican Today since he stepped on the scene. Tu estas acabando; pero, con tu propia vida, fresco viejo,imprudente y entremetio.

Crees que arrancas cabezas y escupes sangre; Sigues jugando pisa-cola manganzon!
Dedicate a algo constructivo y dejaste de estar insultando a hombres,fresco! Ya se acabo el recreo, pepito.
Te envio este coquotaso pa que te calles ya! Maca-chicle. Juancito busca fiesta.

Sigues tu mision de alborotar a mis paisanos con tus temas repetitivos y cargados de odio sobre vainas como racismo en R.D. y La solucion al problema Haitiano. Palomo de campo embuyao. Stirring the letrina is your forte, mon chef.



Vuelves a tu mision Jesuita busca pleitos. Mas claro que eso no se te puede pintar.
Ahora, mon frere: Di perejil! Lengua larga. Cuentista de batey.
Sigues alborotando las hormigas!
Creo que con esta denuncia el que no se percate de tu trabajo en este Foro, es porque esta ciego o no le cabe consejo!

This thread is from one year ago Where is Arsenio he added a lot of spice to this forum

Hey i know this is old news that we all already knew, but instead of using all of those honest assesments of Geny just call him Raso Lloron! Its an easy shortcut an pretty much sums everything up in just those two words.

New York Is Not Just Hot, but Parched

Piotr Redlinski for The New York Times
Sunbathers in McCarren Park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, kept blankets or towels between their skin and the lawn Friday.


They are the casualties in a profoundly parched region: the yellowed lawns; the scorched median strips on highways from Westhampton, N.Y., to West Orange, N.J.; and the orangy brown tree on the island in the lake in Central Park.
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Officials at the Central Park Conservancy say the orangy tree on the island in the lake at Central Park is not dead.
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Brown leaves as dry as parchment littered the ground on Sunday after falling from rain-deprived trees in Brooklyn.
Don’t worry, says the Central Park Conservancy. The tree is not dead.

After a week that was hot and mostly dry, New York sweltered through a weekend that felt even hotter than it was, because of high humidity. It was a time when many people finally faced the sizzling realities of midsummer. Weekend Lance Armstrongs shortened their rides and drank their water bottles dry. Picnickers searched for the shadiest spots to unfurl their tablecloths. Gardeners watered what they could, when they could.

“My lawn looks like hay,” said Judy Levy of Harrison, N.Y., adding that she was concentrating on saving her vegetable garden.

If 2009 was the summer with no days above 90 degrees, 2010 is the summer of few days below 60 — only five in June and three in July. And rain?

“This isn’t really a super-dry spell; it only seems like it because of the heat,” said Steven Fybish, a New York weather historian.

Still, last month was the driest June since 1999, Mr. Fybish said. And June 1999 was a very dry June that was followed by a very dry July, he said. By coincidence, this year, the two days in early July when the temperature climbed past 100 degrees were the first such consecutive days since — you guessed it — July 1999.

July 1999 also made the record books as the hottest of all months, with an average temperature of 81.4 degrees. The average temperature this month has also been also 81.4, through Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.

So in this possible record-setting month of heat, to water or not to water: that is the question. This is the time of year when water consumption usually rises. So does evaporation. But there has not been much rain lately.

The city’s Department of Environmental Protection said the reservoirs were lower than usual for this time of year: 86.4 percent of their capacity as of Friday, compared with the normal level for mid-July, 93.4 percent. “It’s certainly something we’re monitoring,” said Farrell Sklerov, a spokesman for the department, “but no, we’re not at a point where we have to implement conservation measures.”

So last week the city’s parks commissioner urged people to water the trees on the streets. The parks department issued a press release that said trees needed 15 to 20 gallons of water once a week. “That’s three to four large buckets,” it said, offering how-to advice: “Poke small holes at the bottom of a large trash can. Fill it with 15 to 20 gallons of water and leave the trash can next to the tree overnight.”

Beyond the five boroughs, some towns have imposed water restrictions. The result is brownish lawn next to brownish lawn, as David Reardon of Glen Ridge, N.J., knows only too well. “If mine was the only brown lawn, I would be concerned,” he said. “But now you don’t want to be the only green guy on the street.”

But John Reid of Ridgewood, N.J., found a way to keep his lawn looking good enough to be in a grass-seed ad. He said that his lawn had a sheet of plastic a foot beneath the surface. That holds the water where the roots are.

The lawn liner is not his only secret: He has let the grass grow a bit longer, though not so long as to look unkempt. The idea is to keep it from drying out.

Landscapers and horticulturists say stiff, brown grass will perk up with steady rain and less heat.

Joe Manuella of Glen Rock, N.J., had no doubt that was true.

“We’ve never had a desert in New Jersey,” he said.

More than many of his neighbors, Mr. Manuella can afford to take the attitude: What, me worry? “Most of my flowers,” he said, “are plastic.”

In some places, the water rules have less to do with the lack of rain than with earthbound problems. Scarsdale, in Westchester County, imposed restrictions several weeks ago after residents living at the tops of hilly streets complained of water pressure that was too low.

Melissa Chepuru said that some mornings her toilets did not flush and her shower heads produced only a trickle. She learned, after complaining to local officials, that automatic sprinkler systems that came on during the night left the water pressure so low around town that there was no oomph to push the water to her house.

Jim Macri, the water superintendent, said Scarsdale had announced a rule that lawns could be watered only two days a week. He said it was not because of the lack of rain, but because of repairs to one of Scarsdale’s two pumping stations. He said the situation had led to exactly what Ms. Chepuru described. Between 1 a.m. and 9 a.m., when scores of automatic sprinklers were programmed to turn on, the water pressure dropped.

“When we can’t use our bathrooms because our neighbors want to try, in a drought, to have green lawns,” Ms. Chepuru said, “it’s a little bit infuriating.”

Reporting was contributed by Andrew Boryga, Ali Elkn, Paige Jeffries, Angela Macropoulos and Nate Schweber.

A version of this article appeared in print on July 19, 2010, on page A16 of the New York edition.