I was in a taxi the other day with my three-year-old and realized that he will likely never know a NYC taxi ride without a television. There are so many things about this ever-evolving city that, for better and/or worse, kids born after 2004 likely won’t experience. So, a list, incomplete and in no particular order, of stuff that kids these days won’t experience in their NYC (please feel free to add to it)

Taxis without televisions
Subway tokens
Time Square streets jammed with cars instead of pedestrians
Food loaded with transfat
Smoky bars/clubs/restaurants
The Twin Towers
Menus without calorie counts
Tower Records
Boomboxes playing cassettes and CDs
Those concrete mounds in Washington Square Park
Circuit City
Remotely affordable rent in Manhattan
The Old Yankee Stadium
Ubiquitous Law and Order production vans
CBGBs

Samples from @OfficialElmo, @OfficialBigBird, @OfficialCookieM, @R2D2, @The_Pigeon, @HappySquared, @SantaClaus, @realeasterbunny, and @toothfairynews after the jump.  Also, Dora’s dark side revealed on twitter. More >

Everyone’s favorite robot sidekick @R2D2 seems to have a lot to say. The tweets are more enjoyable if you speak bleep bloop or have a direct line with C3.

Beloved character from children’s book author Mo Willems is on the Twitter. Keep in touch with@The_Pigeon even after you refuse to let the Pigeon drive the bus or eat a hot dog.

Not sure if this @OfficialElmo feed is really “official”. But Elmo is not the only Sesame Street resident to find their way onto Twitter.  @OfficialBigBird, @OfficialCookieM are keeping him company.

SpongeBob (@HappySquared) is a pretty regular tweeter with some funny updates.

And, becauase its never to early to start being nice instead of naughty. @SantaClaus is on the Twitter now. What a convenient way to let him know what you want for Christmas.

While we are at it, the Easter Bunny (@realeasterbunny) has a feed as well.

And we don’t want to leave out the Tooth Fairy (@TOOTHFAIRYNEWS) Actually, that feed is curated by a Tooth Fairy expert, Sheri Ann Bell-Rehwoldt author of You think it’s easy being the Tooth Fairy?

And a bonus for NSFK (Not Safe for Kids):

PARENTS of Dora fans ONLY. @doraexplorer is not Dora approved. With tweets like “I wonder where my mom is… probably out at strip clubs looking for my dad.” Of course Dora would reveal her hysterically dark side on Twitter.

If anyone has any suggestions, please send along in the comments. I’m sure I missed some biggies.

Mommy Poppins did a great roundup of fall fun in the NYC area.

10 Pumpkin Patches, Fall Festivals, Harvest Fairs, Corn Mazes and HayRides Right Here in New York City – Halloween Fall Festivals in NYC | Mommy Poppins

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Tara Lazar - who has a ton of great stuff on her blog – has a great list of Children’s Book Authors and Illustrators who are on Twitter.  I’m a big fan of @The_Pigeon (of the Mo Willems series)

Children’s Picture Book Authors & Illustrators on Twitter « Tara Lazar.

This is a great list of many of the things that our kids will never know about. We can find a few gaps, like the “auto-reverse” function of a Walkman. But that’s really more of a subcategory to number 3, “Playing music on an audio tape using a personal stereo.” But let’s take a moment to honor auto-reverse as a huge advance in personal stereo technology. It meant that you didn’t have to bother actually turning a tape over to hear the other side. Genius. At the time. Thanks GeekDad.

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