h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm reworking the entry on NYC, and I want to use your quote on public restrooms- "...this is the only major advantage of major national chains encroaching on new developments" as well as some of your other thoughts as a basis. May I?

Also, if you have any more suggestions, I need them

Hey, Jodan - feel free to rip any of my quotes, I'd be flattered. =p

Other than that, feel free to ask me anything - here, I'll start the ball: Flushing may be 'Koreatown' now (and the largest complaint from the residual Jewish population is the plethora of Korean churches sprouting up everywhere) but it started as a satellite of Chinatown thanks to various third-rung manufacturing businesses moving from lower Manhattan to the infinitely cheaper Long Island City. As such there's quite a considerable Chinese population among those Koreans.

Heck, if you're gonna talk about the two-block wide Little Italy, might as well mention the last remaining Jews in the public worker-dominated Lower East Side, the cluster of Hasidim in Crown Heights, and the old-school Cubans and Irish still hanging around in Dominican Washington Heights. Rant rant RANT rant rant...

I'm gonna finish what I'm working on now, and then can I ask you what I'm missing? I'm already a bit swamped

But those sound interesting

hey, that's what forums are for! Imagine if h2g2 ran on chat sessions...

Yup. Thanks a lot!

I'm just updating the current one by the way, I got the impression at A199389 that you weren't completely satisfied with it. If you have anything on what I'm working on now at A1107992 I'd be more than happy to hear it

hmm... (bored) you have the Met but not the AMNH or MoMA. The Met and the American Museum of Natural History are funny in that they were both started by none other than William 'Boss' Tweed, possibly the most corrupted politician in American history, in one of his philanthropist moods. 'Course, the AMNH is more add-on than structure, especially with the (newly rebuilt, incredibly fascinating) Hayden planetarium tacked on its north end. The apartments over there on the north end go for about a cool million in sales, too...