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Posted by ntrainride on Wed Jul 25 01:03:50 2007, in response to Re: Brooklyn Dodgers (on topic), posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Jul 24 23:52:03 2007. "It took much longer to access Jones Beach on any road other than Moses' Parkways. "Really? Let's see. From a place like South Jamaica, or East New York, or Bedford-Stuyvesant, there ain't no "parkways" passing close by. You HAVE to take local routes to get away from any of those areas. The Belt Parkway skirts the south shore of Brooklyn and Queens. By the time you get close to a parkway from most areas parts of Queens and Brooklyn you're more than half way there already. And even if the trip took a little longer, so what? Nobody gave a crap, especially the folks on the buses going there. Even today look how long it would take those same people to get down to Rockaway Beach. Even if the LIRR never abandoned their line, even with the NYC subway going there, even now, you're still talking about something like a mini-adventure to get to the waves from anywhere in New York City. It's a geographical fact of life. And IMO that simply adds to the experience, makes it seem like a neat little vacation for a day. It reinforces the fact that you're doing something out of the ordinary. |
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