I visited some relatives in Brooklyn last weekend and noticed:
- a large Maersk container ship passing under Verrazano bridge heading into Port Newark direction.
It was riding high in the water with maybe 2 layers of cargo coming into US ports. I guess not much imports coming into country.
- Passed the old Dime savings Bank at Ave P and Coney Island Ave. It seems that the free home applicances like toasters my parents got in 60's for serially opening $20 accounts eveuntally sunk them in 1908's S&L crisis.
The branch is now operated by guess who Wamu.
- I was amazed that those $20 digital to analogue TV converters actually work when we gave one to my motherinlaw who needed it. We got clear reception from about 100 miles away from Philadelphia with much better then the comparable analogue reception.
- the ecology seems to be doing much better in NJ since manufacturing is just about dead. I have seen several snowy egrets right next to more then one swamps in the warehouse districts. The most amazing sight was blue heron in South Orange reservation right outside of Newark. The last time I saw one of those was deep inside the Adudbon santuary on the Black river near Mendham NJ.
- Newark ready to blow once government entitlements get turned off. Also as bad as in the 60's before the riots.
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