City Island, The Bronx

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Have you ever been here?

What's it like?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 4 December 2003 06:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been wanting to go since I moved back here, but sadly I still haven't gone.

― hstencil, Thursday, 4 December 2003 06:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Any relation to this:

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 4 December 2003 06:43 (twenty-one years ago)

The Crab Shanty

Nice

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 4 December 2003 06:47 (twenty-one years ago)

All I can think of is how that place could really benefit from a Warriors-style gang. Maybe a slew of chain-wielding yachtsmen.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 4 December 2003 07:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I always wanted to go, ever since first spotting it in the Hagstrom. But I don't think I ever actually made it. :-(

― Citizen Kate (kate), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I got all excited thinking we were talking about Hart Island

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

The record store there is wonderful to browse in, but very, very overpriced.

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

http://newmedia.jrn.columbia.edu/2003/islands/zone1/cityfeature.html

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

Mooncurser is a great store and even though they're expensive most of the records are on sale for half the sticker price. It reminds me a little of my college radio station's record library -- you can loiter there at the turntable for hours trying out anything and everything from their gigantic collection of our-of-print LPs.

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 February 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

out-of-print

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 February 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Mooncurser's probably the best record store in the picked-over scrubland of New York City. The old man's a nice guy. Prices are on stickers on the inside of the sleeve, but as Jody said, he rings them up at half-price. Just a warning: there aren't really bargains there.

And I've thought many times about moving to C.I. Maybe if I get this job at the Maritime Coll.

― Dickerson Pike (Dickerson Pike), Thursday, 12 February 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh, I've been there. It was wonderful, even though I had a record store white-out in Mooncurser's when confronted with so many records and suddenly couldn't think of anything I wanted. When we get back to Manhattan and said we'd been, puzzled New Yorkers looked us blankly and said "where?"

― Tag (Tag), Thursday, 12 February 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I got all excited thinking we were talking about Hart Island

hart island

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 February 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Tag, son, I'm the fella who took you there.

― Dickerson Pike (Dickerson Pike), Thursday, 12 February 2004 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Of course, now that I have a car in the city going there doesn't take the interminable ride on the IRT, long wait at Sketchy Plaza, and trip on NYCTA bus. So next time you're in town...

― Dickerson Pike (Dickerson Pike), Thursday, 12 February 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

(there is an express bus that goes there from midtown if you've got a couple extra bucks to spare)

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 February 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

(not that i do)

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 February 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

youareaphonydidimeetyoyinadumpsterinftlauderdalein1976?

― jim nagi, Thursday, 12 February 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

notlikelyiwasinacribinnycin1976

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 February 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

five years pass...

Inevitable http://www.cityislandmovie.com/

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 19:52 (fifteen years ago)

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