{"id":182,"date":"2013-12-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2013\/12\/29\/post-175-in-new-york-city-part-ix-rego-park\/"},"modified":"2013-12-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T00:00:00","slug":"post-175-in-new-york-city-part-ix-rego-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/29\/post-175-in-new-york-city-part-ix-rego-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-175: In New York City (Part IX, Rego Park and Its History)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This will be the last post about NYC. Whew!<\/em> <\/div>\n
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Here is a question for you. Does the below look like an “upper middle class neighborhood” to you?<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span>
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As the yellow sign says, this is “Rego Park”. I mentioned visiting it in Part-VIII, “Asian New York”<\/a>. Some Wiki writer calls it<\/a> “upper middle class”. It seemed on the run-down side, to me. I was only in the subway station vicinity, though.

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Here is the location of Rego Park, anchored on the subway entrance (the red marker). You can zoom in or out:
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