"There's been a building on this land for 250 years," said Kelly, a friendly 72-year-old merchant banker and Royal Troon member.
They are Lulu, a friendly 5-year-old Labrador; Tiger, an 18-year-old calico cat; and Lucky, a furry gray cat that they found downtown as a stray the day after 9/11.
T is a friendly 46-year-old male.
"I don't make anything beautiful," Mr. Glawogger, a friendly 52-year-old with a shaggy gray mane, said by Skype from his home in his native Austria.
The factory's boss, a friendly, 41-year-old entrepreneur named Yang Tiefeng, boasts that he has sock manufacturing down to a science.
"Jean-Baptiste said he got 50 calls, but no one came," said Tristan Villemain, a friendly 23-year-old from Nantes, France.
Benny Pellerano, a friendly 56-year-old, also of Dominican heritage, started out as a security guard in the apartments three decades ago; now, he is the superintendent.
Within a few hours I had met a dozen hikers, all attempting the same trans-country journey, young men and retired couples and a friendly 30-year-old woman with curly hair and good teeth who smiled at me.
Right in the middle is a little alley lined with shelves -- this is the Lan Anh Bookshop, run by a friendly 69-year-old Saigonese man who introduced himself as Mr. Thach and who tends a small collection of Vietnamiana.
The firefighters at the Northside Firehouse on Temple Street in Paterson call Smokey, a friendly 9-year-old mixed breed who looks mostly like a German shepherd, a "Paterson street dog".
