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What is the episode where Kramer dates a women who lives in manhattan and he gives the impression he is having a long-distance relationship? Thanks

Fred

He was dating Madeline in The Maid show # 167 from the last season.

In article , dfrank1068 @aol.com says...

Hey, New Yorkers...what's the deal with that Nexus of the Universe thing? I mean the street that intersects with itself (1st and 1st). Is it really there?

I don't know about NYC, but many big cities have such a "Nexus of the Universe" where streets and avenues with the same number intersect. For example, 1st Street and 1st Avenue.

Most of Manhattan is a grid and is easy find your way around, especially since just about everything is a number for the street, instead of a name. Downtown Manhattan can be the exception with streets. I don't recall the exact street name in the show, but if it exists, you should be able to look it up in http://maps.yahoo.com and put in New York for the city, and see for yourself if it does something odd. Just looking at this:

Hopefuly this link will work, if not, go into http://maps.yahoo.com and put in New York for City and NY for State, then click North to nudge up some: http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&addr=&city=New+York&state=NY&csz=New+York,+NY&slt=40.714630&sln=-74.005806&mlt=40.779494&mln=-73.962976&zip=&country=us&BFKey=&BFCat=&BFClient=&mag=7&cs=7&name=&desc=&off=s&poititle=&poi=&ds=n

As you can see, the downtown area of Manhattan which is labled in red with "New York", has some streets that don't follow a grid as they do further north-north-east.

A friend of mine visiting New York City for the first time kept referring to it as "downtown", which wasn't correct pertaining to his trip, since he was in midtown Manhattan. But being from the midwest, a large collection of buildings all seemed downtown to him.

East

Noone wrote:

I was just thinking about this yesterday: which areas are "downtown", "uptown", and "midtown"? Is it a north-south thing, or what?

Yeah, that's what I assumed. I wasn't sure, however, since here in Minneapolis the "Uptown" area is actually south of the "Downtown", and people generally don't talk about heading "downtown" or "uptown".

Everything I know about NYC I learned from TV. :-)

Okay, that makes sense: around Central Park is Upper West/East Side, midtown is south of that, and downtown is "lower Manhattan". I found a map showing the locations of a few neighborhoods, and some of them really threw me--I had no idea that areas like Little Italy and Chinatown were in the same general part of Manhattan as the financial district! I had it reversed, and figured they were up by the Bronx or something. And Coney Island... man, I was all messed up. :-)

Now I'm thinking of all these other questions, like where different locations featured in Seinfeld are located. Wasn't there an online map somewhere of Seinfeld locations? Kind of a "world according to Seinfeld" sorta' thing?

In article , jtwernbold@remove- this.yahoo.com says...

Some info:

Ah, perfect! Thanks!

Great resource...from the address given you can see where Jerry's apartment is: http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?BFCat=&Pyt=Tmap&newFL=Use+Address+Below&addr=129+West+81st+street&csz=new+york%2C+ny&Country=us&Get%07Map=Get+Map

Columbus Ave is near-by. I was walking on Columbus Ave a little while ago, and when I realized it, I thought "Isn't there a watch repair place around here that is good?", then I realized that was from Seinfeld. :-)

East

John Twernbold wrote:

If your association with NYC is from TV, it can be very misleading. Don't worry, you aren't alone. Many people think that NYC is what they see on TV shows such as Hill Street Blues which is actually shots of Chicago I read someplace, but it is intended to be areas like Queens and the Bronx. I don't remember if they show Brooklyn or not. But if you come to NYC to visit Manhattan, unless you go out of your way, you won't go through areas like Queens, the Bronx or Brooklyn unless it is purposeful. Manhattan is an island and midtown, with the exception of the very hall buildings looks like a "downtown" in most major cities.

When they take their trips in the car outside NYC to upstate New York (aka Pie Country), that looks very much how upstate New York looks like. It is like driving out in the country. However, being out in the country in the NY and NJ area doesn't mean totally the same thing as being out in the country in the midwest, for example. Being out in the country in the NY tri-state area usally means semi-rural towns with a small population of about 10,000 people and most people there work in NYC or for a large company in NJ. There are farms in New Jersey, but there are many places to live which are referred to as being in the country and no one has live stock.

When they go into New Jersey, the same thing as upstate New York. From TV and only seeing New Jersey from the turnpike, it looks very urban and that is where the jokes about New Jersey come from. People don't realize it, but New Jersey is known as the Garden State, and that's because when you go west of NYC about 10+ miles into New Jersey, it begins to look like you are out in the country. People travel by train daily do work in NYC (midtown) from almost 30 miles away into New Jersey, which takes around an hour by train. It's very nice there. I guess I shouldn't say anything more, real estate costs are high enough already.

Many people who live in NYC claim to know nothing of New Jersey, only what they can see from the Hudson.

When they can't find their car in the parking lot in that parking garage at a shopping mall, that reminds me very much of the parking lot at the upscale Short Hills Mall, located in Short Hills, NJ. Without traffic from NYC, I would expect that to be like a 30 minute car drive.

When Neumann is chased by the farmer for messing around with his daughter, I don't think that takes place in New Jersey anymore. I think they are either in Penn. or Ohio, and you will find many farms like that out there.

I don't know much about the Hamptons, other then they are there, so perhaps someone else could fill us in there. I do know that people who have a place there and work in NYC use it as a weekend home. At least that is the impression I get from the distance. To people who don't live and work in NYC, it might seem odd that people may have weekend homes. People do that because they want to escape working and living in a City, and want to have a home in the quiet suburbs. Many I know who do this, when they retire, they retire to their weekend homes giving up there place in NYC.

East

John Twernbold wrote:

For those of you that don't know, Asbury Park is in South New Jersey the area made famous by Bruce Springstein.

The area where I described the Short Hills Mall, refering to a place that looked like where they couldn't find their car, is in central, actually north central, New Jersey.

You are right, most from NYC don't have a reason to go into New Jersey. Which makes it all the more interesting why Kramer would drag them all to a mall there to look for a window AC unit, and then carry it home. Even stranger is they have a time limit to get George back into NYC in time to meet his parents. Traffic from New Jersey into NYC can be very tricky with delays. The funny thing is, when you are on the train, and if something is delayed (which isn't often) even by another 20 minutes, people waiting around start to talk about how much quicker it would be if they drove. It is actually funny, cause they take a real risk of being stuck in traffic for another hour. Most people who need a window AC unit I think would order it over the phone and have it delivered.

That reminds me of something else, it is common for business travelors in the NY tri-state area who work for very large companies to have limos meet them at the airport to take them home. They call them limos, they are usually nice Lincoln Town Cars. So it was a surprise to see Jerry and George take O'Bryan's limo, and it turned out to be a real limo.

East

Cyrus Afzali wrote:

I don't know the story about Asbury Park other than what I mentioned. It seems that all the jobs with the big employers that are located in New Jersey are in central and northern New Jersey. I am only guessing, but I suspect that whatever industry that was down there is no longer there perhaps.

Where was that party located in New Jersey that Jerry and Elaine get stuck at and Kramer is late picking them up? It is the one where the host of the party then shows up at Jerry's apartment for a night on the town.

East

Cyrus Afzali wrote:

<< Where was that party located in New Jersey that Jerry and Elaine get stuck at and Kramer is late picking them up? It is the one where the host of the party then shows up at Jerry's apartment for a night on the town.

East >>

I think it was out in Long Island wasn't it?

Or am I way off?

Double Dipper

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It was in Long Island, but Long Island is in NY state not NJ.

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?addtohistory=&country=US&address=&city=Long+Island&state=NY&zipcode=&historyid=&submit.x=36&submit.y=8

It was in the episode called The Stranded that I would eventually like to transcribe for Mike.

The other Chris!

I know that LI is in NY, I thought the story took place in NJ.

That means their only trip to New Jersey was when they went to the mall and couldn't find their car in the parking lot. Is that right?

East

The Maestro wrote:

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By memory, yes. According to the search engine on Mike's website with all the scripts so far, yes too.

http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q=jersey&sp-a=sp100104f7&sp-f=iso-8859-1&sp-advanced=1&sp-p=any&sp-w-control=1&sp-w=alike&sp-d=custom&sp-date-range=-1&sp-start-month=0&sp-start-day=0&sp-start-year=&sp-end-month=0&sp-end-day=0&sp-end-year=&sp-x=body&sp-c=10&sp-m=1&sp-s=0

I saw the one the other night about the Mom & Pop shoe repair store that are selling his sneakers at a garage sale and it is in Parsippany, New Jersey. As soon as they hear about it, they head out to drive there. That is about a 30 mile drive from NYC.

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was the end of the ep....also keep in mind they took the bus....even longer drive

In "The Chaperone", they went to Atlantic City to watch Miss Rhode Island compete in the Miss America Pageant.

Rerics

Uh-uh... I am glad to be living in Ramsayville, where our one street can't intersect with itself, and 'downtown' consists of a church and the corner store....

;-)

Erwin

Excellent comments, Cyrus!

I recommend those who have never been to NYC to check out some of those travel videos on going to New York City. It can give you a feel for the different areas and is a good way to learn about it if you decide to travel there.

East

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