Originally Posted by May in Jersey
Butterflywing, The Joann's on Rt. 1 is the one that I went to this week for the long zipper I needed. One of our DGDs is waitressing at The Blue Rooster Cafe in Cranbury during her summer break and DH and I went there for lunch on Tuesday, charming little cafe. Anyway, on the way home we took Rt 1 for part of the way so I could stop at that Joann's. Not sure what town it is in. DS#2 and family live in E. Windsor and we often have lunch with them at one of the restaurants on Rt. 1.
PS: Looked at your profile, I'm from Brooklyn too. Been in Jersey for almost 50 years but still say I'm from Brooklyn. LOL! May in Jersey
don't you love that joanns? that's the best one i've ever seen.
my father owned a stationary store in manhattan and we lived in a co-op in brooklyn in between sheepshead bay and brighton beach. the area that i lived in still looks exactly the same, except the building went condo.i've lived in jersey (a brooklyn expression, right?) for 40 years and still say i come from from 'new york'. my son moved back there when he got out of college. he was very familiar with brooklyn by visiting both sets of grands and being taken to every cultural event that manhattan has to offer, as well as different ethnic communities, something that you couldn't really reproduce here while he was growing up. you still really can't. he hates suburbs, a real city boy. since he is an electrical engineer for the metropolitan opera, building stage gadgets that make things move around on stage, nyc is where he'll stay.
where in brooklyn do you come from?