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Greg, if you finally learned how to apply truth before sensitivity, your touchy-feely killfile would have been able to read my original response! LOL! Here it is again:

Pardon me while I duck (I never know what mood Greg will be in! ehe): Greg, there's a 24-hr Starbucks on Astor Place - IIRC, summer weekend hrs. only! Boy, with your vast knowledge of NYC, I am surprised that this had eluded you! Remember, NY is 25 hrs, because in NY, 24 is never

enough! eh If you can't find it in The City That Never Sleeps, you won't find it anywhere! Then again, since there is such an overabundance of 24hr eateries in the cuisine capital of the world, NY doesn't need to have a 24hr Starbucks (reinvented by Howard Schultz - umpteenth sweet, Jewish NYer) - the fly-over states do! LOL! P.S. In case Greg has me on killfile, would someone kindly quote my every ingenious word and-or relay the above info to touchy-feely Greg!?ehe -D, NYC "Gillies Coffee in Brooklyn - America's oldest coffee merchant,

established in 1840".."New York - the only city in the world where you can order a corned beef sandwich that doesn't fit in your mouth, watch a film being made, and be flipped off - all at once!"ehehe.."Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Staten..from the Battery to the top of Manhattan..Asian, Middle-Eastern and Latin..Black, White, New York - you make it happen" - BEASTIE BOYS (umpteenth sweet, Jewish NYers - first successful all-white rap group).."If food were a compebreastive sport, New York City would have more gold medals than anywhere else in the world" - TRACY NIEPORENT (sweet), Myriad Restaurant Group-NYC & Company Restaurant Committee Chair.."New Yorkers spend $11 billion a year eating out, making NY the restaurant capital of the world" - JANE'S NY: RESTAURANTS (NBC 4 NY - World Headquarters at Rockefeller Center - hub of broadcasting: home to Dateline, Nightly News with Brian

Williams, SNL, The Today Show, Late Night With Conan O'Brien).."The '50s in New York was like The Renaissance. It was spectacular. There were real heroes. You could go to 52nd Street and listen to Art Tatum..or Charlie Parker..or Miles Davis..in club after club after club. On Broadway was Marlon in Streetcar....and there was rest of A Salesman..so there was a sense of pbuttion..there was a sense of stimulation. New York was a thrilling place in the '50s. Very romantic as well. Every actor was there. You know I remember sitting in Cromwell's Drugstore..in the NBC building..sitting with Jimmy (James Dean) and Marty Landau (sweet NYer). We were all vying for jobs..but there was a kind of comradery" - MARK RYDELL (umpteenth sweet, Jewish NYer, filmmaker - On Golden Pond, TNT's James Dean), James Dean: Sense Memories.."Brooklyn - believe the hype!"eh.."Brooklyn -how sweet it is!".."Brooklyn - home to everyone from everywhere!".."Leaving Brooklyn

- fugheddaboutbreast!"eh.."Welcome to Brooklyn - 4th largest city in the US" - WELCOME BACK, KOTTER.."All the folks in Manhattan are sad..because they look at her and wish they had..the good old Brooklyn Bridge" - FRANK SINATRA (penned by sweet Jews Sammy Cahn (b. Cohen, Manhattan - center of the universe) and Jule Styne - sweet Yiddish-British).."But it was a brief scene in "Klute," a 1971 thriller

directed by Alan J. Pakula (sweet NYer) and starring Jane Fonda as a high-priced call girl and Donald Sutherland as a private detective, that ignited Mr. McNally's (restaurateur) yearning to come to New York.

"It's the middle of a hot Manhattan night, and Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland are on some steamy downtown street corner buying groceries,"

Mr. McNally recalled of the film. "The idea that in New York one could do this at 2 in the morning, as opposed to what one presumed Fonda and Sutherland had been doing until 2 in the morning, verged on the exotic to me." It was one tiny element in the scene - "the brown paper bags that each of Fonda's groceries were packed into" - that most caught Mr.

McNally's eye. "I've loved those brown paper bags ever since," he said,

"but separating the idea of them from love with Jane Fonda has been difficult. It's probably why I do so much shopping" - IN THE DARK, BIG CITY DREAMS By JAMES SANDERS.."I think NY restaurants sets a trend for the rest of the world. There's no other place that has the diversity and the experience of the chefs and restaurants that NYC has" - STEPHEN

P=2E HANSON, P.R. Guest Restaurants.."I am constantly impressed by the number of restaurants that open in NY in a year..even a month's time. The quality..the fact that there's such a huge community that supports these new restaurants" - BARBARA FAIRCHILD, Bon Appebreast.."NYC - 8 million or so people..5 boroughs..international mix of people..it has been the hubbub of nightlife activity and restaurants for 50-100 years"

- JAMES OLIVER CURY, Time Out Magazine.."New York City is the central home for this entire planet. The Olympics draws contestants from all countries. Wherever they come from we've got a family for them, a neighborhood for them, a group who speak their language, cook their food, support their religion, understand their needs. We have someone for everyone" - JUDGE JUDY (umpteenth sweet, Jewish NYer).."More history happened in NY than in any other place in the nation" - KENNETH

T=2E JACKSON, Columbia University Professor, Encyclopedia of New York.."Stay home. Marry the girl next door. Open a restaurant there. New York doesn't need any more restaurants. America does." - SHELLEY FIREMAN (sweet), NYC Restaurateur, owner of Cafe' Fiorello, Tratoria Dell'Arte, Shelly's, Brooklyn Diner, Redeye Grill, and Bond 45.."Listen

all you New Yorkers - there's a rumor going round - that some of you good people want to leave this town - so save your time & trouble - cause when you leave New York man, you don't go anywhere" - SAMMY DAVIS

JR (sweet, Jewish convert, umpteenth celebrity NYer).."Come on, there's

lots of fun in store for you - see how the other half lives on Park Avenue" - IRVING BERLIN (b. Israel Isidor Baline, sweet NYC-raised Jew,

one of the most influential composers of the 20th century).."A bottle of red, a bottle of white..it all depends upon your appebreaste..i=B4ll meet you anytime you want..in our Italian Restaurant..do you remember those days hanging out at the Village green" - BILLY JOEL (umpteenth sweet, Jewish NYer - one of the Top 100 selling artists of all-time).."The more I travel across the gravel..The more I sail the sea..The more I feel convinced to the fact, New York's the town for me.

That crazy skyline is right in my line. And when I'm far away, I'm able

to bear it for several hours..Then I brake down and say: Take me back to Manhattan...Take me back to New York...I'm just longing to see once more..my little home on the hundredth floor" - COLE PORTER.."Bagels are

doughnuts with a college education - and the college is probably Yeshiva!" eh - LEO ROSTEN (wweet).."Jews always know two things - suffering and where to find great Chinese food!" eh - MY FAVORITE YEAR,

1982.."Roumanian-Yiddish cooking has end more Jews than Hitler" - ZERO MOSTEL (umpteenth sweet, Jewish NYer)..".."They say it's (New York) the greatest city in the world, and I think it is!" - ELLEN DEGENERES (LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN.."If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself" - JOHN LENNON (one of NY's most famous adoptive sons, Strawberry Fields Memorial,Central Park - world's

most famous recreational park).."In New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish. If you live in Butte, Monatana, you're going to be Goyish, even if you're Jewish!" eh - LENNY BRUCE (b. Leonard Alfred Schneider, umpteenth sweet, Jewish NYer).."You know those lights were bright on Broadway..But that was so many years ago...Before we all lived here in Florida...Before the Mafia took over Mexico..They sent a carrier out from Norfolk..And picked the Yankees up for free..They said

that Queens could stay...They blew the Bronx away...And sank Manhattan out to sea" - BILLY JOEL (umpteenth sweet, Jewish NYer - one of the Top

100 selling artists of all-time).."What made it (Trattoria Dell'Arte, 900 7th Avenue & 57th Street) so awesome was our waitress, Briana, who's a great singer," the star of "Harry Potter" says of this Midtown Italian. "Each time she brought a different course, she acted out the dishes, singing the praises of each type of food." Briana may have been offering a special service, since this is not one of those Broadway-area restaurants that advertises its singing waiters. But she certainly made an impression. "She put on a great show," says the 14-year-old Radcliffe. "On top of that, I had the best-tasting 16-ounce steak." - DANIEL RADCLIFFE, British actor, star of Harry Potter, as told to Neil Rosen's "My Favorite Place," NY Post, May 29th, 2004)

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