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My girlfriends and I would…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on August 15, 2004 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 13, 2014
Original author: Pat Harris (westsidegirl) [e-mail]
 

My girlfriends and I would bring a pail of water (we’d load it up with table salt), a blanket, soda, and tan ourselves on tar beach. At night we’d bring pizza and sodas to the roof and hang out under the stars. The roof was a part of every city kid’s life. What great fun we had there.

Posted in Food & Drink, Hanging Out, Reader Stories, Street Lifestyle | Tagged on the roof, pizza

TAR HEAVEN!! I had a…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on October 1, 2001 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 13, 2014
Original author: QUEENSMARIO
 

TAR HEAVEN!! I had a friend in Richmond Hill,Queens (Carmine), his mom was the super in the apartment building on our corner. He snuck the roof keys from her one day and we went to the hardware store (Moblegots)or something like that, We called it Moblegots & Ghoul! Any way we would sneak up on the roof to hang out, it over looked “The Bagel Factory” and a bus stop. GOD I LOVE WATER BALLONS!!!! I guess I don’t even need to mention Holloween! “When this old world starts getting me down…”

Posted in Hanging Out, Queens, Reader Stories, Street Lifestyle | Tagged on the roof

Living on the 5th floor…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 8, 2001 by Streetplay DiscussionsMay 9, 2019
Original author: Anonymous
 

Living on the 5th floor in an apartment building in NYC, I visited tar beach very often. My friends and I used to lay our blankets down, have our lemonade and try to withstand that hot sun. My friend got a blistering burn one summer.

Posted in Hanging Out, Reader Stories, Street Lifestyle | Tagged on the roof, Summer

There is going to be a Tar…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 7, 2001 by Streetplay DiscussionsMay 9, 2019
Original author: Mick [e-mail]
 

There is going to be a Tar Beach section at the Smithsonian Festival this summer. Washington should be hot enough to get the full effect, though it will be a trip to be sitting on that blacktop in the middle of the Washington Mall!

Posted in Hanging Out, Reader Stories, Street Lifestyle | Tagged on the roof, Summer

THE ROOFTOPS OF NYC PUT…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 6, 2001 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 13, 2014
Original author: DWONCISZ
 

THE ROOFTOPS OF NYC PUT YOU SO CLOSE TO THE SUN EVEN THE OLD GARGOYLES PERCHED ALL AROUND COULDN’T PROTECT YOU. SPIKED KOOL-AID ON TAR BEACH COULD PROVE ALMOST SUICIDAL.

Posted in Hanging Out, Reader Stories, Street Lifestyle | Tagged on the roof

Anyone remember tar beach?…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 5, 2001 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 13, 2014
Original author: Donna
 

Anyone remember tar beach? I got the best tan at tar beach.

Posted in Hanging Out, Reader Stories, Street Lifestyle | Tagged on the roof

You got me with that analogy,…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 21, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 13, 2014
Original author: denise
 

You got me with that analogy, Dave…. Amen. Former pigeon-hater

Posted in Hanging Out, Reader Stories, Street Lifestyle | Tagged on the roof

Most people don’t realize…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 13, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 14, 2014
Original author: Dave T [e-mail]
 

Most people don’t realize that all the pigeons in New York City are feral (gone wild) descendants of domesticated pigeons kept on the rooftops as pets, for sport, for show and for food earlier in the century. (Pigeons of the type we know are not native to the U.S.) When you see a flock of wild pigeons spontaneously leap into the air and fly around in circles in a tight group, you are seeing the behavior their ancestors were bred to perform by rooftop pigeon fanciers. The breeders selectively intensified the natural behavior of the birds to fly out from the nest, forage for food, and return to the nest, resulting in specialized strains that can find their home lofts from long distances, covering 500 miles a day (homers), birds that can fly above their loft in circles continuously for 15-20 hours (tipplers, or as they are called only in New York, “tiplets”), aerial acrobats that spin backwards in a series of multiple somersaults (rollers), as well as the garden variety of New York flyers that circle above their rooftops in tight groups, trying to get the neighbor’s birds to defect to them. As a resident of suburban Bayside, Queens in the ’60’s and ’70’s, I kept pigeons, which I was first exposed to by “urban flight” neighbors, who came out of the inner boroughs, bringing their tradition of rooftop pigeon keeping with them. Pigeons, of course, are much maligned, especially for their dirtiness. All I can say is that domesticated pigeons, when fed dry grain and clean water, are clean animals. If you put a pan of water out on a sunny day they will even take a bath. It’s like the difference between an observer’s perception of a homeless person and one who has shelter, clean clothes, and eats good food. My Web site about Bayside in those times is: http://www.covername.net/bayside Dave T.

Posted in Hanging Out, Queens, Reader Stories, Street Lifestyle | Tagged on the roof, suburbia

I grew up in the Bed-Stuy…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on October 24, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
Original author: FAB [e-mail]
 

I grew up in the Bed-Stuy section of BROOKLYN and when we stoped playing streetgames we went on the roofs to fly pigeons! Tiplets, Bald heads, Tumblers and Homers were some of the birds that kept my head in the clouds when the streets started to get roughf. Did your coop ever get tapped off? Also known as having your pigeons kidnapped.

Posted in Brooklyn, Hanging Out, Reader Stories, Street Lifestyle | Tagged I grew up..., on the roof

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