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W.B. Fishbowl
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| NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote: | Date this timeless Brooklyn scene to 1981.......
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153267
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Like the GRUMMAN in the foreground, the soaring Twin Towrers themselves are now but memories.....how much we all took for granted......
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Not just them: the white type on black background street signs, too, in all caps, replaced by white/green "Ewe and El-See." |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2025 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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W.B.:
I think we all tend to forget just how much of New York's "streetscape" has changed/disappeared during the past 24 years........... 
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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Twenty-fiveyears......
Tomorrow, it will be 25 years since 9/11.....and we are stilllosingsoulstoday, even after a quartewr-century.
The city, the country, and the world....forever changed on thatf horrific day, a day that started with so much bright sunshine.
None of us will ever be what we were, prior to that day.
Indeed, America lost what little innocence it then still retained......let us never forget........
"NYO"
A few glimpses of happier days.............
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?155866
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154595
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?41411
)courtesy: nycsubway.org)
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W.B. Fishbowl
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| Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2026 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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| NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote: | Twenty-fiveyears......
Tomorrow, it will be 25 years since 9/11.....and we are stilllosingsoulstoday, even after a quartewr-century.
The city, the country, and the world....forever changed on thatf horrific day, a day that started with so much bright sunshine.
None of us will ever be what we were, prior to that day.
Indeed, America lost what little innocence it then still retained......let us never forget........
"NYO"
A few glimpses of happier days.............
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?155866
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154595
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?41411
)courtesy: nycsubway.org)
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And that's another thing . . . who'd've thought those "Brightliners," however altered in their appearance after "GOH," would've outlived the Twin Towers? Even some of the last "SMEE's" on the "Eye-Are-Tee" ran for a few years after that day of infamy. |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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W.B.:
Good points; an d, of course, the "Isle of Staten" was still served by the faithful "ME-2s"("R-44s")
And, after 9/11, the ST Ferry "temporarily" stopped carrying vehicles; today, none of the boats have vehicle-carrying capacity.....
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| Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2026 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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2009..................
.The emptiness could be both seen and felt; the city....and its iconic skyline forever hanged.........
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?97233
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W.B. Fishbowl
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| NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote: | 2009..................
.The emptiness could be both seen and felt; the city....and its iconic skyline forever hanged.........
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?97233
(courtesy:nycsubway.org)
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Wasn't it in that year that the "Fordy-Ems" were retired? The "Fordy-Toos" outlasted them by nearly 11 years. |
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The GRUMMAN, like the Twin Towers (seen here in 1981) now only exist in photos and memories............
This scene is truly timeless....
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153267
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W.B. Fishbowl
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Notice the "Toity-Ates" behind the Triplexes in that shot . . . this was evidently pre-1980, that pic was taken . . . |
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| Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2026 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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W.B.:
I would agree with you, regarding about when the photo was taken.
Though a few sets of the fearsome "Ds" survive, the "Toity Ates" have not seen revenue "soivice" in many a year.....like the iconic Twin Towers themselves, the yare now but a page in history..........
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