What's awesome about your home city

And if you don't live in/around a city use the city of your choice closest to you.

So what makes your city awesome. Not your state, or the surrounding towns, or your country, but your city, what is fuckin awesome about your city. Why does it deserve to be on any maps?

To start off:

New Haven, Connecticut: Found 1638 by nuntjob protestants seeking refuge(i.e. a new haven) from other nutjob protestants

-One of the oldest cities in the United States

-First city to use a grid plan

-To show off just how nutjob like the settlers were, the New Haven green was built at the center of said grid to hold the amount of people they thought would be saved when the Apocalypse came. Apparently it was 100,000, which sucks because the population of New Haven proper is 125,000, we're all fucked.

FOOD!

New Haven has been recognized by the library of congress as being the birthplace of the hamburger as we know it, at this place:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis'_Lunch

PIZZA
We have the best damn pizza you'll ever have in your life. You think your pizza is good? gtfo, you know shit. I've been up and down the east coast and have eaten pizza in numerous states, and we own all of it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Haven_pizza

This picture below was taken on Wooster St., New Haven's little Italy basically. On this one small street there's 4 pizza places(including ever famous Pepe's, but fuck Pepe's, Sally's is better) 2 Italian resturaunts, and Libby's italian bakery which makes awesome pastery and the best italian ice you've ever had.(If your Italian ice is anywhere near hard or icey like it is in most places, you're not doing it right)
But this is the line outside of Sally's at around 4pm on a weekday afternoon. Go on the weekend and you'll be in line for a good hour at Sally's or Pepe's.


Then there's also Yale. Pompous Yalies aside, Yale has kept New Haven from turning into a complete shit hole like Hartford or Bridgeport. Also, the architecture all around the city of Yale buildings can't be beat.

And culture. Downtown New Haven is loaded with musueums, galleries, historical places, food from basically any culture you can think of. Everything you want within about 20 blocks.

Plus the city just has a good feeling to it, downtown New Haven is something few other cities can match. A couple of other older cities from the colonial days can, but that old city vibes, everything close together, small streets that all link up, all the modern shops with their windows full of crap crammed into 18th century street and building planning, it's awesome. These 2 pictures kind of get what I'm going at, especially the 1st one. Awesome crammed street(it was late in the day and off Yale season, most of the year this part of chapel st would also be crowded with people and shit on the sidewalking being sold) with lots of trees and light and sketchy awesome Yale buildings to the left



I like how the whole city within the few square miles stays like that. It doesn't turn into a mass of 50 story buildings, nor does it become a giant spread out downtown where walking becomes pointless.

 

Oh also, the infamous New Haven green you must go to if you want to be saved from fire and brimstone



And churches, there's so many damn churches within all of a few blocks around the green. There's about 5 on/in the green itself, followed by about another 6 within 3-4 blocks

 

supposedly the dude who made Goatse lives in a suburb of Kansas City
:cheers2:

 

i like peoria, we have a huge crime rate?!?!?! oh snap, idk, its just a fun time.

 

A true American hero

 

I miss Long Beach!



All my friends and family are there
And my favorite bar too lol

 

you forgot to mention Jim morrison getting arrested there.

I live in CT too, Fairfield.
I like it here, even though all the people are stuck up and obnoxious, I live in the boondocks of it so theres 130 something acres of hiking woods down the street with one of the towns most infamous smoking spots so I guess where I live is straight.

 

True Story


Damn right bitches, we arrested Jim


And Long Beach is pretty awesome, Snoop Dogg and the Queen Mary, what more could you want

 

Hampton(1606) is an independent city in Virginia, and therefore not part of any Virginia county. One of the Seven Cities of Hampton Roads, it is on the southeast end of the Virginia Peninsula, bordering on Hampton Roads and Chesapeake Bay. It's the sixth most populous city in Virginia, the most populous settlement with the name, and one of the oldest cities in the United States.

As of the 2000 U.S. census, the city population was 146,437, but the census estimate for 2005 showed that the city's population was down slightly to 145,579[3].

Hampton hosts Fort Monroe, Langley Air Force Base, NASA Langley Research Center, the Virginia Air and Space Center,and home of the historic Hampton University est. 1868 and features a wide array of business and industrial enterprises, retail and residential areas, historical sites, and miles of waterfront and beaches.


Busch Gardens


Colonial Williamsburg


And I grew up playing in the MOTHERSHIP! lol

 

damnnn

 

damnit...

 

The movie SIGNS was shot there! That's all I got.

 

my home city is kings park, NY and it has this going for it
http://www.opacity.us/site3_kings_park_psychiatric_center.htm

its a powerful building! it has underground tunnels! its practically built of asbestos!

but i live nearer to denver now, and its got a giant fucking blue qwest sign that cuts through the thickest fog. and a building shaped like a cash register. and theres red rocks, and denver zoo (which is awesome) and the health exhibit in the museum of nature and science, where you use a card and assess your health.
and the clouds are awesome

 

Waterbury, CT. If you need good weed for cheap prices, come here. There are about 7 ghettos, most of them hardcore at first sight but they really aren't shit. Everyone and their babies here smoke weed. Our city notorious for crooked politicians. Cops don't give a fuck about weed at all, and its basically the perfect city for a teenage pothead. My parents disagree, and want to get out of this hellhole as soon as I go to college.

 

Cheap liquor stores and there's always some kind of food source within 1/2 a mile no matter where you are.

 

Albany is the oldest surviving European settlement from the 13 colonies.

 

word i remember the one time I went there, there was shitty ass houses everywhere and it was nuts.
maybe cause i was drunk but still

 

Winona Ryder was named after our city...
Al Capone caught Syphilis in our Red Light district...
We have a sizeable Boat House residence
Carol Bartz.. CEO of Yahoo! was born in winona

this town overall just kicks ass

 

i live in durham...

not many good things to say...

although downtown by the durham bulls AAA baseball stadium is pretty damn awesome.

that's about it... and 9th street. and the eno river.

 

those are some nice riffles.. do trout or salmon run there?