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Your terrific model railroad with the Lion attop the columns at the near end of the right platform.
Well, your Stillwell Avenue, Coney Island station is getting there. Still some more detials to added, but worth seeing now anyway.
And I remember the old station, with the tracks on the left occupied by gate cars instead of steels during rush hours, and a Peter Witt double-end streetcar loading on the street instead of buses.
The best thing about Stillwell Avenue is that Nathan’s is only a block or two away. Nathan’s still has a thing or two to learn about making excellent hot dogs, though.
A nice representation of the South Ferry station. I was impressed by the skill of the motormen who worked this line, they had no room for error in spotting their train to line up with the gap fillers.
But their french-fries were (still are?) terrific.
In Israel they go by the British name, “chips.” And those at my Yeshiva’s dining room are as good as Nathan’s.
Our cook can also provide a decent Pizza! But no lox and bagels and cream-cheese. Sepharidim around the Med say its against custom to mix cheese and fish. Never heard that from anyone in New York, but only here in Israel. So I miss lox and bagels and cream-cheese.
Maybe so, but probably not against kashrut. Where do those guys get their authority? Fish is supposed to be pareve- there are communities where fish and meat aren’t eaten together (or at least off the same plate, and without washing the mouth out between) but why would there be any where meat and cheese wouldn’t be?
Karo said there might be reason not to mix fish and milk, but that doesn’t apply (according to any Talmudic reference known to me) when the milk is made into CREAM cheese. (Rennet to make hard cheese may have come from an indeterminate source… but that would be a hard prohibition, not a mix-n-match issue.) Additionally, in case there are any bean-counting Sephardim out there, I believe no one has proscribed fish and butter, so it’s not the ‘milk origin’ or prospective ‘milk content’ that is a concern.
I’ll reserve judgment until one of your folks provides the full chain of authority for their belief, complete with opinions and Talmudic source. But I don’t think they’re going to be able to justify it, and without that it’s more a superstition than an attempt to follow G-d’s law.
(Of course, using cream cheese with good lox is an abomination of a different sort, against good taste and common sense… [;)])
David, you’re a New Yorker through and through, and considering there’s more Jews in New York than in all of Isreal DON’T let anyone tell you you can’t have your lox, bagels, and cream cheese!
Who are those guys anyway? Sheesh!
I should add that along with all the other immigrants who found a home here in the US, and I can speak personally for the Irish and the Italians, Jews from the old countrys NEVER ate as well on the other side as they did when they got here!
Israel has excellent food also. The Yeshiva has a very good cook, who also studies and prayes with un occasion. I’ve been intruduced to some new Mediteranien dishes, which makes up for the lox and bagels and cream cheese. But you have inispired me. Since nobody showed me any Rabbinic or Biblical source for the ban, on July 4th I’ll publicly display eating lox, bagels and cream cheese, together. Easy to buy the ingredients at the supermarket. This will be my own “Declaration of Independence.” And I will follow it up by singing the Shaker “Simple Gifts” hymn (English, Hebrew, and Arabic, of course!).
Should they wish an encore, I’ll give them Old 97 and Chattanooga ChooChoo, but I have yet to translate them.
(The latter with grits and eggs subsituted for ham and eggs —in Carolina/)
Yeah, go get 'em Brooklyn!
Lady Firestorm says GO FOR IT!
And you may want to add to your singing selections “Sidewalks Of New York” while you’re at it, with your hand over your heart during the process, of course.
LIONS in New York…
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I presume that he is patiently waiting for the 1 train to take him to South Ferry.
EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE, ALL AROUND NEW YORK
SHOULD BE EASY TO TRANSLATE
BUT THEN I WOULD HAVE TO FOLLOW UP WITH JERUSALEM
Not on my layout yet, but here is the VAC TRAK
Lion appears WASH metro needs one as well ? Does the unit’s appearance indicate that it will clear all routes ?
should clear all New York existing subway and elevated routes. Washington’s clearences are more restrictive, especially vertically.
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Is LION conducting a signal test? [:-^]