THE FROZEN TUNDRA OF PARK SLOPE: Great column in New York Press last week by Green Bay native (but longtime Brooklynite) Jim Knipfel, on Midwest/New York differences. In Green Bay, as opposed to New York, Jim remembers: snow plows, lack of newsstands/hot dog vendors, and guys taking the whole week off of school for the deer-season opener (I remember people skipping days of school- and Homecoming dances- to hunt and fish, but never whole weeks).
He neglects to mention snowshoeing, paying for gas after pumping it, and early-morning window-scraping.