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MatthewGallaway on City Island

MatthewGallaway — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:22:02 +0000

Bandwagonesque, joeclark! (Be less stupid.)

joeclark on City Island

joeclark — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:41:29 +0000

This is the most welikesheepesque or soreafraidesque posting ever published by the Awl. Why not just hire the real Eric next time?

MatthewGallaway on City Island

MatthewGallaway — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:15:19 +0000

Thanks for the correction, Soundbounder, and I'll let you and Hired Goons hash out the correct LIS terminology.

Soundbounder on City Island

Soundbounder — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:56:28 +0000

Good post! One note; City Island was never really a "fishing village". Shipbuilding was its former industry. Also, Hired Goons comment that THE Long Island Sound is correct is debatable.

MatthewGallaway on City Island

MatthewGallaway — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:55:22 +0000

Sadly, I think it happens all over the country. I honestly don't know enough about it to know who was at fault (research project!), but it definitely makes for a melancholy landscape (and not in a good way).

Bucko on City Island

Bucko — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:29:38 +0000

Out here where I live, you'd be amazed at how many folks plant redwood trees under power lines. I know of some two ft. diameter trees that are only 18 ft. tall.

CaptainFantastic on City Island

CaptainFantastic — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:26:05 +0000

Assuming the power lines have been there a while, whomever planted the tall growing trees beneath the lines is the eviscerator. Also, that weeping, lacy Japanese maple is gorgeous, as is any ginkgo tree.

Bucko on City Island

Bucko — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:37:17 +0000

Very nice again, and not even any LOTR references to bitch about.

mcbeachy on City Island

mcbeachy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:53:56 +0000

That tree evisceration to accomodate power lines happens upstate, too -- always such a sad sight! Meanwhile, out here on this New England beach, many of my perennials are having a second flowering with this warm November.

MatthewGallaway on City Island

MatthewGallaway — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:26:16 +0000

Ergo (but in a whisper): City Island > Coney Island

Multiphasic on City Island

Multiphasic — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:25:26 +0000

When I graduated and finalized my plans to move to New York, my dad fondly recollected the time he spent living on City Island with a wife and a leaky boat. I had a girlfriend but no boat, yet nonetheless, as soon as we were both in Brooklyn, she bailed.

HiredGoons on City Island

HiredGoons — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:59:04 +0000

Diane Wiest lives in City Island!?

MatthewGallaway on City Island

MatthewGallaway — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:36:22 +0000

We've yet to have a real frost this year in New York City, so that might have something to do with it (the annuals are still going strong in our garden, too). And also, City Island is like the Edward Scissorhands nabe, but with Japanese Maples!

poisonville on City Island

poisonville — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:15:30 +0000

I love "In the Weeds."

poisonville on City Island

poisonville — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:13:27 +0000

As opposed to "Billy Joel and Lou Reed are the alpha and omega of the Long Island Sound"?

elecampane on City Island

elecampane — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:06:49 +0000

Beautiful as always! That Japanese maple! I envy the temperate microclimate that allows marigolds yet to bloom. [Random gardening discovery: gorgeous cerinthe, very tender, survives, along with some straggling toadflax, in one must-be-zone-6 pocket of my otherwise-zone-4 yard.] Regarding Oliver "Bear" SacksÃ¢â‚¬"When I read his long tribute to Thom Gunn in Threepenny Review a few years ago, I all but smacked my forehead with the palm of my hand.

dado on City Island

dado — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:04:47 +0000

I went to City Island once and met Vincent Pastore walking down the street by himself. Emily deemed that non Stalk-worthy.

HiredGoons on City Island

HiredGoons — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:56:14 +0000

<- sincerely appreciates your correct usage of 'the Long Island Sound.'