From: imber@maniform.com 
  
 On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 02:51:35 GMT, mikE  wrote: 
  
 > 
 > 
 >"David G. Imber" wrote: 
 >> 
 >> On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 21:34:57 -0400, G.G. Govindujaran <> wrote: 
 >> 
 >> >SHHHH!!!!.... 
 >> > Don't encourage the Manhattno-centric types to explore the various 
 >> >restaurants along the 7 train--many of which are incredible! 
 >> 
 >>         How about non-Manhattano-centric thinkers who happen to reside in 
 >> Manhattan but who are not wealthy and grew up in Queens, are we welcome? 
  
  [snip] 
  
 >>         I'm not exactly the most laissez-faire person you'll ever meet in 
 >> these matters either, but I'd like to urge you to hold out more hope for 
 at 
 >> least some of your fellow NYers. 
 > 
 >I have a lot of faith, hope and love for my fellow NYC'ers. 
 > 
 >I have seen how the Yuppie Scum come in and ruin establishments 
 >and entire neighborhoods all the way back to the Mudd Club 
  
  Look, I'll take a back seat to no one in this area. I've lived 
 around the corner from the MC since the late seventies. I'm from the 
 original group of people who moved down here because we worked in the arts 
 and didn't have any money. There's a tiny core of us who are still in that 
 same world, while the Tribeca around us has turned into a kind of hell on 
 earth for us. We all wear bulls-eyes on our heads from the landlords' 
 perspective. I lived here when cabs would not take me down here, and now 
 limos line my corner. 
  
  What I'm saying is that people should not taint a discussion of 
 good dining in this city with a political agenda. If I come to Queens to 
 eat, WHICH I DO, I don't want to be looked at as some sort of usurping 
 agent of the gentry. I'm just a guy who's interested in eating good food. 
 Make sense? Can't afford expensive places, so going out to Queens can often 
 be a slice of heaven I'll thank one and all not to deny me. 
  
   
  
   
  
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