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Old 07-27-2008, 01:54 PM
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We went to the Ikea in Red Hook. We took a water taxi from New York City. It was free, since Ikea was paying for it. The Ikea is less than a month old and they have a nice waterfront park and promenade around it. That is where the water taxi docked.
When we headed back towards her apartment, we took a free shuttle bus they had to downtown Brooklyn right in front of the Brooklyn City Hall, which has several subway lines serving it.
Ikea does that, not NYC

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On the large pedestrian plaza in front of City Hall there was what they called a Greenmarket. It featured farmers, bakers and other local food merchants. According to the brochure I picked up, they do these throughout the city and they even have locations where they accept food stamps so the less well off can partake.
We have that. We call it a Farmer's Market.
http://www.thefoodtrust.org/php/prog...et.program.php

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The subways were well maintained, didn't have a smell and they had trains that had a moving map display that kept updating where you were. Those trains were bright and the seats were quite comfortable despite being plastic. The biggest problem with them is that they were doing work on them over the weekend. Plus they run all night. No worrying about missing the last train home!
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Another amazing thing was the ease of getting wine and beer. Trader Joe's had its own wine annex! You could buy a six pack of beer at the supermarket.
Blame the state, not the city


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Plus, you can actually get decent pizza.
Sez you!
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Well going to Trader Joe's was an experience and a half. We waited about twenty minutes in line to get checked out and they had a person with a sign that showed the end of the line which snaked through the store. My friend told me that she has waited over a half hour before! That is impressively insane.

Plus, you can actually get decent pizza.
They have Pizza at Trader Joes's?
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I was just in New York and the MTA really p/o'd me when I tried to take the A train uptown after 10pm.

New York's cool, but people make a bit much of it sometimes
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Isn't that somehow a violation of the TOS?
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This has to be a joke, right?
Mayor of Brooklyn?
Yeah, that only exists in Marty Markowitz's deranged mind.
Brooklyn hasn't had a city hall since 1898 when it became part of New York City.
You sir are a moron.
There is a city hall, just no mayor.
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There is a city hall, just no mayor.
It served as the Brooklyn City Hall for nearly fifty years, before the consolidation with New York City in 1898, when it became the Brooklyn Borough Hall.
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Yippy. Another one. Alright, let's review.
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blah blah blah
We are not a city of 5 borroughs that deals with the commerce of 20million people. Our city hall also has a farmer's market. Competent brooklyn mayor? Who's that-ghostman on third since "Brooklyn" doesn't have their own mayor since over 100 years ago? Comfortable subway seats? Grass is greener on the other side...I just used our "plastic seats" when I went to wachovia on Friday and they were quite fine. The rest of your blah blah blah is so inane since you are describing redhook and williamsburg, which would be more aptly compared to westchester than philadelphia. These NYC/philadelphia comparisons are so juvenile.
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You know what Hilly, WilletPt, and a few select others...if you really want to impress and do a compare and contrast, try some other cities: Tokyo; London; Cali, Colombia--otherwise, stuff it!
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