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Re: Wednesday, August 18, 2004
In the middle of last Sunday, the LIE was a red carpet, from the Midtown Tunnel to where we got off, at 27 in Suffolk County. But yeah, a lot of the time it does suck. I've been stuck or slowed, many a trip from JFK to midtown in recent years. I haven't been on the Cross Bronx since the 70s. In '69, right after I got out of College, I used to take it to the Sheridan Expressway and then South to the Bruckner (which was an alternate via the Deegan if the CB was closed) to Hunts Point Avenue through the South Bronx to my job hauling frozen produce between trucks, freight cars and freezers at Hunts Point Market. One day, on the shoulder of an elevated section of the Bruckner/Sheridan intersection, a guy had to abandon a Corvette. That was decades before cell phones. All you could do was wait for a cop. This guy didn't, and maybe it wouldn't have made much difference. When I passed by the same spot at lunch, the wheels and doors were gone. When I went home that night, all that remained was the chassis. The next morning, the chassis was gone too. I don't know if stripping cars has the same appeal today as it did then, but watching a car virtually melt away in the course of a day was a strange thing to see.
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