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Monday, July 14th 2008

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hairsy: ron s mike doing good and joe o'd works for himself done rite roofing on gaul st &westmoreland i know bill miller and shader my daughter just married a john mack from port richmond

in response to Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004

upfromflames: Yeah, trends are very general, so I don't want to stereotype at all. I meant poor relative to the earlier families. Thanks for correcting me on that one. I am a little blurry on the cause and effect of why the schools closed down, if Puerto Rican families were...

in response to A Rare Ruin in Bushwick

an_architect: well its a good thing most of people reporting "architecture hazzards" aren't architects...You know architecture doesn't just come and go...it stays for sometime...and designers work hard to show people how to consider the visual elements at play...everyone is always comparing old architecture with new stuff...expecting tremendous results from the past....you...

in response to Ugliest Building in New York?

Who Cares for Kensingtion: OG FROM GCC, Good piece! Take it back 1 block at a time. All in a given block may not participate, but those that do should stick together and clean it from end to end...and keep it clean after that. Others (activists - professional and not) can focus city services...

in response to Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004

Lou Romero: Thanks UFF, your response was almost totally on the money, except for the "poor Puerto Rican families" part. Many PR families were hard-working and wanted a better living conditions as well as good schools, many who could afford to send their kids to parochial (ie: catholic) schools, a good many who...

in response to A Rare Ruin in Bushwick

zagg: Damn, I never saw a single horsey when I was in Philly!

in response to Urban Cowboys

OG FROM GCC: I just got back from a mission trip to Kensington. We worked at a kids camp that was located at a church on the corner of C and Indiana. Before the kids would get there. Every morning we would pick up the park across the street from the church. On...

in response to Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004

upfromflames: Lou: It depends on what part of Bushwick you are talking about, as the process of demographic change proceeded differently in different part of the neighborhood. In ther southern side of Bushwick--south of Myrtle--the process started just after WWII, and proceeded quite slowly, as Caribbean and African Americans fmailies...

in response to A Rare Ruin in Bushwick

luna park: for a split second, i thought it was the pope. ;)

in response to Tree Lady

EvilGentleman: I wonder if this is a branch of the Bush family...

in response to Tree Lady

Lou Romero: Amazing !! I didn't realize the quality of life and safety had began to decline as early as 1962. I know that the "white flight" was in full swing from 1965 onward, many neighboorhoods still had your Italians, Irish and Germans, what I remember from FHM was the dwindling number of...

in response to A Rare Ruin in Bushwick

EvilGentleman: Two years and a few months later, this article still defines several different conflicts in a way that few if any articles can. Motorists vs Cyclists Road Rage vs Radical Activism Male vs Female Entitled vs Empowered The article that brought me to Citynoise. At first, I was so frustrated when I was cut off...

in response to Motorist Vs Courier

TRANS KOF 2008 : Hey all this talk about Paterson brings back alot of memories I grew up in Paterson on Main st. and Wiess St.a block from St.Josephs hospital. my neighborhood was known as little San Juan for all the Puerto Ricans including myself that lived there.I had alot of fond...

in response to paterson factory - may 2002

cecilia: Leeto, nice work!

in response to Leeto & Beef

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