Sunday, December 14th 2008

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CartLegger: Thanks Eric. Why just look? Why not make an impact on this place? I am considering a mission to clean this place up, on Sunday January 4th. If you are interested, you can find me on Gmail, or here.

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M&O: You *would* have overcast lighting like this on the day you chose to go photograph an abandoned cemetery. Amazing shots and experience. Kudos. I am literally speechless on so many levels.

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Eric: I used to take my synagogue teen group to trim the vines and clean up a section of this cemetery right around Halloween every year. Then one year we all got horrible poison ivy, so I haven't been back in a while. It really is a hauntingly beautiful place.

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100% puerto rikan : What's good bushwick we had some good days murda moore what's poppin that's the block right there ya digg just wanna say what's good too all my niggasz out there 1 ...

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EA: I also grew up in the Luna Park houses (west 8th) from the early 60's, when the bldgs opened, to early 70's. I remember the Bonomo Turkish Taffy Bldg, and I remember hanging out on the beach and watching the fireworks every Tuesday nite in the summer. ...

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Stan N: The movie theater around the corner from the Loews Pitkin was the Loews Palace. Someone had mentioned that he had forgotten the name. I also ate a lot of the combination plates at the shaky 2nd floor Chinese restaurant next to the Sutter Ave. train station. I spent many weekend...

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Bryski B: I used to live in Longsight,now live in L.A. I am truly saddened to see this.I understand the city has to develop positively but what a shame.Those arches were such a feature of Manchester and alot of important pop culture generated from inside those echoey holes. God Bless Manchester...

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Monica: it just creeps me out that its here in ny, I am not fond of the open ones, I have to go take a look one day, great photos

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KevinBe: Made me think of Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book as well. In fact I just sent a message through his website suggesting he take a look at these. :)

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Dee: AWESOMENESS.

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Richie Rubin: SOL;hey!.didja fall asleep w/YER finga on`Post Your Comment'? now, WE ALL know Stan & Roy Pasternack went to PS 241 & played punchball [a real NY`street game']didja evah punch 2[two]`sewers'?[1/2 block]

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queenfre5a: wow dat is a really sad story...i hope nothin like dis happen to anotha lil kid like Miguel dey don't deserve 2 die 4 no reason wen their not involved in anything..may he R.I.P. ...

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Sol: Doc, There was Stan Pasternack.....and his brother, Roy.,both went to 241. Brings back old memories of climbing over the BMT line fence to retrieve punch balls.

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Varinki: The Glasgow Subway was opened in 1896 and the equipment dated from that time. It was cable operated until 1935 when it was converted to electricity. Also there were no turnouts on the line and a crane was used to move the equipment on and off the network. Oh and...

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Rachel: What's even harder to believe is that it is an important custom in Judaism to visit the dead. We bring stones to place on their tombstones.. I know the final resting place of my great-great grandmother in the Bronx.. I bet if the relatives of these people knew what had...

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LD: Well. That looks a little too much like Silent Hill Homecoming's cemetery for MY comfort.

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NWhyC: The main culprits tend to be bronze thieves. A family's clearest connection, sold by the pound.

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CartLegger: Very good point, and powerfully described. These areas are in their own way forgotten, started by Jewish communities long since moved on in demographic transitions past. This cemetery is actually one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, in fact, with its oldest tombstones dating to the mid-19th century....

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Dee: My thoughts . . . meh. It's always sad when cemeteries go unattended and the resting places of loved ones forgotten . . . but to my mind, it's a responsibility of the survivors to tend to the upkeep if nothing else is possible. This summer I saw Jewish cemeteries in...

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Countess: baysidecemetery.com is a site about a documentary, "Ashes to Ashes," about the restoration of Acacia Cemetery (or some part of it) by helpful Mormons. I am unaccountably creeped out by this.

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Sticky: Enough with the vainglorious restorations, dust to dust and all that. I must get out there soon before the ruins are ruined. This reminds me of the Appian Way outside of Rome, not the catacombs and the romantic half standing buildings, but the overgrown old grave markers where the busted off...

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Afroblanco: Someone should use this place as a location for the BEST HORROR MOVIE EVER, and then use the proceeds to fix the place up. (seriously, that would be one SCARY flick)

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Peter: www.columbia.edu/itc/cerc/danoff . . . RestoringNYC_Bayside.html this is a very telling link. the figures at the end put the necessary repairs/improvements into a very real-world context.

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anon (74.197.146.27): i have two racoons and i love them too death they are very smart and well behaved..i dont know how to post a picture or I would.

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Diaego: I'm quite weird, I find old cemeteries where things are falling apart naturally to be weirdly reassuring for some reason (perhaps because my childhood home is right next to a cemetery, but also because of the idea of everything becoming the same in time) but people...

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Katyblue: "Here birdeh birdeh"

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Rob: Wow. How does this even happen? How can people have such disrespect for the dead. It makes me sad to see a cemetery in such a state. An old, fogotten cemetery in the woods is one thing as it quietly grows over but...

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Hannie: Great pictures! I love cemeteries. I really like the shot in the doorway with the leaves on the floor. And the rocking chair is interesting... rather creepy!

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Mateo: Great pictures! Abandoned cemeteries are fascinating. I always wonder how they came to be forgotten, especially ones such as this with such ornate stones and fanciful crypts. It's fucked up that people vandalize abandoned cemetaries. Used or forgotten, they're still people's final resting...

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deadinplastic: Even when you are already dead decay won't leave you alone. Sad.

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KittyC1978: I read the wikipedia on the cemetary just now, and it seems that they need to have a fund raiser or something, especially to get the unenterred back into their proper places. Why oh why do people deface cemetaries? It's just so...uncivilized to mess with the departed. No respect. Awesome...

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