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From: Mike <>
Subject: From Da Bronx...
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 09:40:25 -0600


I am forwarding this frum "da Bronx Chat" list...
Enjoy!!!;-)
Mike
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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 23:06:21 -0000
From: FatherTyricius
Subject: You Know You Were From The Bronx If

KNOW YOU'RE FROM THE BRONX IF:
You know someone who went to Roosevelt, Taft, Morris,
Columbus,
Evander, Smith, Gompers, Jane Adams, Dodge, Kennedy,
Truman,
Lehman,Clinton, Walton, Science, Monroe, Stevenson,
All Hallows,
Catherine's, Cathedral, Ursula, Fordham, Rice,
Aquinas, Barnabas, Mt St.
Michael, St.Simon Stock, Preston, Helena's, Hayes,
Raymond's, Spellman,
Tolentine and many more.
You know that Lehman College is really Hunter College
in the Bronx.
You actually think the subway is fun and a very
reliable form of
transportation.
You've taken the Bx 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14,
16, 20, 31, 34 or
41bus, at least once in your life.
You agree that the Grand Concourse has too many lights
and no parking!
When people ask you where you're from you tell them
the closest train
stop.
You don't go to Manhattan. You go "downtown." You say
downtown and
expect everyone to know that this means Manhattan.
You never realize you have an accent until one of your
new neighbors
tells you it's cute.
You're the toughest person you know; your best friend
is a close
second.
There was at least one pizza place about 1 block from
your house.
You curse .... a lot! With no guilt whatsoever!
You went to Orchard Beach and walked all the way to
section 13 which
was the best section.
You went to Rye Playland at least once a year.
Your friends came over to hang out on the porch/stoop
or in front your
house/apt building.
You've been to the Bronx Zoo & Botanical Gardens on
class trips.
You shopped at Alexander's on Fordham Road.
You stop and have a Gorman's Frank on Fordham Road.
You call it the Stadium, not Yankee Stadium.
You used to go to Fordham Road to buy jewelry and
household
appliances.
You bought a slice of pizza AND a soda for $. 25
You still don't understand why people are crazy enough
to drive to the
Stadium for a Yankee game, when you can take the 4 or
the D train.
You know that Riverdale is really the Bronx.
Every year when you were little around Christmas time
you would go to
see the houses on Pelham Parkway .... only if your
parents had a car.
You know how to get on a bus using the rear door.
You have never been to the Statue of Liberty or the
Empire State
Building.
You know that the Bronx is the best borough of all,
except for maybe
Manhattan.... maybe.
You went to #6 parking lot at Jones Beach.
In high school, you cruised the strip on Central Ave
in Yonkers.
You had to take city buses and/or the subway to get to
high school,
most
likely walk to school too, unless you went to Spellman
& you got your
own special bus.
Your mother would yell your name out the window when
it was time to
come home and eat or time to go to sleep.
You played stick ball and stoop ball, potsy, etc.
You rode horses in Pelham Bay Park or Van Cortlandt
Park.
When you say "New York" you mean the "City."
The rest of the state really doesn't exist.
You know what a bodega is ..... you secretly wish
there was one where
you live now.
Jaywalking is imaginary. It is an important skill you
were taught when
learning how to cross the street.
You went sleigh riding at the Van Cortlandt golf
course, or Danger Hill.
You knew New Jersey sucked before the phrase came into
vogue.
You know what a Spaldeen is, right?
You kept your bike underneath the stairway on the
first floor hallway
of your apartment building.
Your fire escape was the closest thing you had to a
back yard.
You've played Ringaleevio & Kick the Can around your
apartment
building.
You have a great sense of humor.
You know that the Pelham diner is one of the best
diners in all of New
York City.
During the summer, you went to the public park to play
in the
sprinklers.
You know that all people from places outside of the
Bronx don't know
what they missed out on ... and
You know you're from the Bronx if this e-mail made you
a little
nostalgic,
& you wish you could back & do it all over again.
BUT, you know that it will never be the same ever
again for the rest of
your life!!
You were privileged to have been there at the right
time and place!!!

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