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shadowkat1. Does anyone except me, have a box-spring mattress? And are they still made? Yes, they are still being made, by Sleepy's. See HERE "The box spring is intended to serve a few purposes: To provide underlying support for the mattress. To raise the mattress up to a more comfortable height. To protect the mattress by absorbing impact."
It provides lumbar support. Also it's not next to the ground, so easier to get out of bed for anyone who is tall. I do not know how my brother handles a bed on the ground.
2. Why are there no alleys in New York? I checked, and there are actually "alley's" in New York City, there's just very very few of them. Why?
Why there aren't more alley's in New York
Q. Coming from Boston, where the sanitation trucks pull in between buildings to make pickups, I am mystified at why people enjoying an evening out in New York have to share the sidewalks of this sophisticated city with great mounds of garbage bags and the rats they attract. That’s what alleys are for. Why are there so few of them in much of Manhattan?
A. Because, wishing to maximize the amount of real estate available for development, the commissioners who devised the 1811 street grid for most of the island did not include alleys in their map, which covered Manhattan from First Street to 155th. The numbered streets and avenues were laid out as solid blockfronts, with no space designated in between.
The developers in the building booms that followed generally kept that arrangement, building against buildings. Alleys that do exist predated the grid or were required later by zoning regulations or were put there by property owners who wanted their own side entrance. For instance, Shubert Alley, linking West 44th and 45th Streets between Broadway and Eighth Avenue, was originally built as a fire exit between two theaters and the former Astor Hotel, as required by fire regulations.
Many former alleys have become streets. The Web site Forgotten New York has an extensive illustrated list of alleys or former alleys in Lower Manhattan and Greenwich Village below the grid, as well as in the four other boroughs.
“We do pick up in some alleyways outside Manhattan,” said Matthew LiPani, a spokesman for the Sanitation Department. But Manhattan’s solid blockfronts are a major reason that so much garbage has to await the sanitation trucks on the curb, and that there are so many commercial basement elevators coming up through the sidewalks for curb deliveries.
3. Definition of Twin Beds...and do they exist outside the US?
Apparently we have a semantic issue regarding Twin Beds.
Definition #1: a bed designed or suitable for one person; a single bed, especially one of a pair of matching single beds. (From every dictionary I could find on Google.) [ So yes, everyone around the globe has seen or heard the equivalent of this.]
Definition #2: A twin mattress is typically 38 inches wide by 75 inches long, and usually fits small bed frames, daybeds, and bunk beds.(From companies that sell beds for a living.) [ But does everyone have the equivalent of this?]
I had an extra long twin bed growing up - because I was too tall for my bed. Graduated to a double, then bought a Queen thereafter.
4. Does the cashier say "Next" or "Step Down" or something else, where you live?
I live in Brooklyn - it's usually Next, but I'm also only frequenting Grocery Stores and Pharmacies. I've heard Step Down, but rarely. I think the step down may be an abbreviation of "Will the Next person in line, please step down?" or it may be a hold over from when you literally stepped down to the cash register in some department and food establishments in the City.
Hilton Head and South Carolina? I've heard Step Down once or twice. So its not necessarily NY centric.
It provides lumbar support. Also it's not next to the ground, so easier to get out of bed for anyone who is tall. I do not know how my brother handles a bed on the ground.
2. Why are there no alleys in New York? I checked, and there are actually "alley's" in New York City, there's just very very few of them. Why?
Why there aren't more alley's in New York
Q. Coming from Boston, where the sanitation trucks pull in between buildings to make pickups, I am mystified at why people enjoying an evening out in New York have to share the sidewalks of this sophisticated city with great mounds of garbage bags and the rats they attract. That’s what alleys are for. Why are there so few of them in much of Manhattan?
A. Because, wishing to maximize the amount of real estate available for development, the commissioners who devised the 1811 street grid for most of the island did not include alleys in their map, which covered Manhattan from First Street to 155th. The numbered streets and avenues were laid out as solid blockfronts, with no space designated in between.
The developers in the building booms that followed generally kept that arrangement, building against buildings. Alleys that do exist predated the grid or were required later by zoning regulations or were put there by property owners who wanted their own side entrance. For instance, Shubert Alley, linking West 44th and 45th Streets between Broadway and Eighth Avenue, was originally built as a fire exit between two theaters and the former Astor Hotel, as required by fire regulations.
Many former alleys have become streets. The Web site Forgotten New York has an extensive illustrated list of alleys or former alleys in Lower Manhattan and Greenwich Village below the grid, as well as in the four other boroughs.
“We do pick up in some alleyways outside Manhattan,” said Matthew LiPani, a spokesman for the Sanitation Department. But Manhattan’s solid blockfronts are a major reason that so much garbage has to await the sanitation trucks on the curb, and that there are so many commercial basement elevators coming up through the sidewalks for curb deliveries.
3. Definition of Twin Beds...and do they exist outside the US?
Apparently we have a semantic issue regarding Twin Beds.
Definition #1: a bed designed or suitable for one person; a single bed, especially one of a pair of matching single beds. (From every dictionary I could find on Google.) [ So yes, everyone around the globe has seen or heard the equivalent of this.]
Definition #2: A twin mattress is typically 38 inches wide by 75 inches long, and usually fits small bed frames, daybeds, and bunk beds.(From companies that sell beds for a living.) [ But does everyone have the equivalent of this?]
I had an extra long twin bed growing up - because I was too tall for my bed. Graduated to a double, then bought a Queen thereafter.
4. Does the cashier say "Next" or "Step Down" or something else, where you live?
I live in Brooklyn - it's usually Next, but I'm also only frequenting Grocery Stores and Pharmacies. I've heard Step Down, but rarely. I think the step down may be an abbreviation of "Will the Next person in line, please step down?" or it may be a hold over from when you literally stepped down to the cash register in some department and food establishments in the City.
Hilton Head and South Carolina? I've heard Step Down once or twice. So its not necessarily NY centric.
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Date: 2022-12-29 05:51 pm (UTC)Then I thought - well, I've a very long response any how - so better to do it here. (Hope you don't mind?) I got curious. ;-)
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Date: 2022-12-29 11:10 pm (UTC)I've never heard "step down" before. I always thought the "twin" designation was so odd, since to me a twin makes more sense for what we call a "double." I would just call it "single."
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Date: 2022-12-30 04:42 am (UTC)Yep, the NYC alley thing is apparently all about garbage pick ups.
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