[Sca-cooks] Re: Backyards in NYC

[A F Murphy]

Is that the park with the Boy Scout Camp in it? My brother got lost
there, once, on a campout.

I don't think we have any working farms in Staten Island any more,
though there were quite a few when I was a kid. The Verrazano Bridge
made the commute easier, which pretty much killed the farms, and turned
that part of the city into suburbs, not country.

And the last real working farmers in Queens just gave up and sold the
last of their land. There is still, I think, one historic farm, but
that's not quite the same.

Now, I never had a yard. I grew up, quite happily, I may add, in a 15
story apartment house. (We didn't miss a yard, but we did miss having a
basement... Oh, for storage space!) As I said, a wide variety.

Anne


Mary Denise Smith wrote:

>When we lived in NYC, we lived on a 200 acre State Park on Staten
>Island. We were caretakers for a farmhouse built in 1865. We worked on
>an historic site that was a couple hundred acres, as well. So we
>definitely had a backyard!
>
>MD/Marged
>in Colorado now
>