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Thunderbird Club

17 blocks short. 120th was the fun area…especially after midnight.
I lived on 102nd Street. Playing rugby was on Randall's Island, more or less under the Triboro Bridge. I would get a ride across the bridge from one of the guys who lived in New Jersey, and then walk across 125th Street and then down below Needle Park. That was often after dark but rarely after midnight. I would go up around Columbia after midnight sometimes, though.

The Number 1 either went to 137th, which was City College, if I remember right, or it went all the way up to Washington Heights. It's been about 35 years since I lived there, so there's a lot I don't remember now.
 
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I lived on 102nd Street. Playing rugby was on Randall's Island, more or less under the Triborough Bridge. I would get a ride across the bridge from one of the guys who lived in New Jersey, and then walk across 125th Street and then down below Needle Park. That was often after dark but rarely after midnight. I would go up around Columbia after midnight sometimes, though.

The Number 1 either went to 137th, which was City College, if I remember right, or it went all the way up to Washington Heights. It's been about 35 years since I lived there, so there's a lot I don't remember now.
I’m sure you remember these.

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That one was from early 1980 and I swear it was 25 cents.
I moved to New York in late 1983, so the price may have changed. The tokes I remember didn't have a cutout. They had some kind of silver colored center with a brass outer band. I could also be way off on the price of a token, too. The back pages of the Village Voice were always a bit of a mind blower for a kid like me who fell off a turnip truck.