New Haven line-station town centers?

[grammatim]

On Jun 3, 4:32*pm, Cyrus Afzali <pnsm...@lnubb.pbz> wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 08:37:18 -0700 (PDT), hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> >Would anyone be familar with the town-centers of New Haven Line
> >stations New Rochelle, Larchmont, Mamaroneck, and Harrison? *Anything
> >interesting to see within walking distance of the stations? *(on
> >googlemaps it appears the first three stations are in the shadown of a
> >huge I-95 viaduct.)
>
> Not really. Larchmont is an upscale suburb and parts of New Rochelle
> are nice, but parts are gritty as well. Mamaroneck is the town in wich
> Larchmont resides, but there's also a Village of Mamaroneck as well.
> There's not really anything noteworthy in those that I can think of.

My father was born in Mamaroneck.

> Larchmont does have Manor Park, which is on the Long Island Sound and
> is within a walk of the train station. It's a nice place to hang out
> if you're already going to be there, but again I don't know that I'd
> make a trip for it.

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On Jun 4, 10:08*am, hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> On Jun 4, 7:15*am, grammatim <gramma...@************> wrote:
>
> > He was from the wrong side of the tracks -- and managed to graduate
> > from Washington Irving High School, near Gramercy Park, rather than
> > Mamaroneck High School. (Did they have "emancipated minors" in those
> > days?)
>
> I don't know about legally, but way back then many industries and the
> military looked the other way for say a promising 16 y/o young man.
> If a kid lied about his age no one questioned it if the kid was strong
> enough to do the job. *Plenty of minors enlisted in the military.
>
> When I was a kid I got a summer job and my school told me I had to get
> 'working papers'. *I had to schlep my parents down to a welfare office
> where we were interviewed about what kind of machines on the job,
> hours, my schooling, etc. *I had a 9 to 5 desk job, not working in a
> slaughterhouse or coal mine (that's what the laws were intended to
> protect kids from). *None of the other kids bothered to get the papers
> and no one ever asked.

At 14 I got my "working papers" at the NYS office building in Harlem
(they hadn't built the Rockefeller tower yet). No one went with me.
Presumably I had to go somewhere else to get my SSN (they didn't
assign them at or before* birth as now), but I don't remember that
operation.

*I escorted a pregnant Assyriologist to the SS office on 63rd St., in
the Woodlawn neighborhood south of the University of Chicago, which
the U assiduously fenced off, to to get her incipient son's SSN. Early
1980s probably. (She's now the Dean of Humanities.)

> Getting back to transit, it wasn't unusual for a motorman (subway or
> railroad train) to bring his kid along for the day.

You snipped my uncle John the motorman ...

[grammatim]

On Jun 4, 11:37*am, hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> On Jun 4, 10:45*am, grammatim <gramma...@************> wrote:
>
> > You snipped my uncle John the motorman ...-
>
> I thought you merely said he was an older brother. *

My father's older brother is my uncle. How does it work in your
language?

> Did you get to
> ride with him as a kid? *Was he under 18 when hired?

No, and I seriously doubt it.

[grammatim]

On Jun 5, 4:25*pm, hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> On Jun 3, 1:02*pm, i...@analysisandsolutions.com (Analysis&Solutions)
> wrote:
>
> > New Rochelle is a "city." *It's a significant shopping area.
>
> > The latter three are small towns with cute shopping districts around the
> > stations. *Larchmont's area is small, along Palmer Ave, a block east of
> > the station. *Mamaroneck's is quite large by comparison. *The "nicer"
> > shops there are in the main area along Mamaroneck Ave to the east of the
> > station. *Harrison's shopping section is along Halstead Ave.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Would you know if New Rochelle have a nice retail district within
> walking distance (2-3 blocks) of its train station? *From GoogleMaps,
> the streetview of the area either seems like parking lots, large
> buildings, or dumpy stuff like auto repair shops.

New Rochelle ain't what it used to be.

My mother's brother bought a large house (5 kids) on a large lot in
the fancy part of town -- there's nothing remotely commercial for
miles around.