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Mitch: Well, sorry to say the dreaded day has finally come! This afternoon (September 25th) demolition was started. The bay windows have been covered from with orange plastic sheeting from the inside, and there's a barrier......

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

Allan: Richie, What year did you graduate from 167? Me - 59. Judy also had another brother I think. We lived in same apartment house and same floor. I think I recognize the name Joel Bercy. Right......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

anon (c-66-229-236-128.hsd1.fl.comcast.net): any body live on 61st street near Bay Parkway in Bensonherst back in early 1970s say hello larry2.0@comcast.net...

in response to: Bensonhurst Views by David G.

Megan: Hello, I have recently relocated to NY and am living in Bensonhurst, near Bay Parkway and 66th. I was wondering if I could get people's opinions on how safe it is for a single, white......

in response to: Dangerous to Walk Around Brooklyn? by Jayne

joey: from shining bay to shining sea ?...

in response to: SF Heist by eyeofodin

linda: I'm a teacher on my first day of school. Came outside, 3pm, school's out, sun's out, it's gorgeous. Love to swim in bays and sounds, saltwater, no waves, so having passed this closeby......

in response to: Plum Beach by kc

Bay-bay: Hi Madi how are you,this is bay-bay from 111 n. wood. carl,henry and ann are doing just fine.ann and henry was at the reunion. sorry that you missed the reunion,we had good time at union......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

eyeofodin: Pretty lawn though...I don't know how much publicity the draught gets in other parts of the Bay Area where the sun actually shines, but in SF I never hear about it. I guess I......

in response to: Watering the Lawn by joey

AROM: man i got 2 give props 2 da nyc cats dat tag u guys r amazing....much love 4rm da bayarea. ......

in response to: NYC Style Graffiti Throw Up by Metro1

Wakehambay-miuq: Nice pictures!! I miss my hometown, especialy this summer, best month of the year (June)...

in response to: Kangirsujuaq by EvilGentleman

Arnold Magraner: In the mid to late 50's even into the early sixties, I used to go to Brighton Beach Bay3, during the summer with many of my friends from the Borough of Manhattan. We had formed a......

in response to: Luna Park: Coney Island by Peter

Jamie: Sharon, that's a very moving story, albeit entirely written in CAPITAL LETTERS, but quite possibly one of the most thought provoking comments ever to appear on this site **also:** [[img:27850]] lol@ebay...

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

Peter: have you tried [[http://www.ebay.com]]?...

in response to: Wild Chickens by Tyfoid Kid

Tiffany: OMG, I miss that neighborhood so much. I am 37 and moved to Staten Island a few years ago. I grew up in Bensonhurst. What a neighborhood! Nothing like it. I hung out on Bay......

in response to: X Movie Theatre by jack

Mitch: Passed by Bens today, as of April 22nd it's still standing as it's always been...no sign of any demolition yet. In fact someone removed the brown papers covering the inside windows and ripped off one......

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

Movin to Wick: actually I am from Brooklyn, Sheepshead Bay, but I have been out of the country for a time and had some concerns about that specific block because I just found and apartment there and it......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

EvilGentleman: Thank you. Your pictures are much better than mine. But then again, you are a true Kingstonian, whereas I took my pictures during a brief pit stop on my way home from the Bay of......

in response to: Kingston Penitentiary by AG

Gem One.... INWOOD NY..: Nice place to get your inks & tools.. They had the old style minis markers there nice... just as good as the old Bombbay store on 96 street & Broadway.. you can buy there not......

in response to: Scrap Yard nyc GRAFFITI STORE by art views

D.B.: Whats good people i`m back again just tryin to put down some of the negativity to pay hommage to some of the friends and family who are no longer here and most who......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

baybelle: It must be the name... I grew up in Salinas, California. More people. Every bit as depressing....

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 7 by Scott Sargent

jack: you know, 86th street, under the el, in the summer, hot, sweltering days, but the shadows of the el always kept me cool, that was my area for awhile because all my family was housed......

in response to: X Movie Theatre by jack

L.Barry: I have drove through it many of times because it was a handy route to go instead of the Ship Channel Bridge. It was far better than that Dark and dingy old Baytown tunnel......

in response to: Washburn Tunnel by ian

Linda Larson Brooks: I grew up in Flatlands Bay. Some of the people from Barren Island moved to the bay. Schnieder sounds familiar. I know the Lissenden's moved there too. My uncle Bud Ackermann......

in response to: Barren Island by CartLegger

angela buscemi letzeisen: my husband fred and i were married in st.barbaras church in february 1953 and just celebrated our 55th wedding anniversary on valentines day.i went to st barbaras school and church during the 1930 to 1946......

in response to: Bushwick 77: The Casusos of Harman St. by upfromflames

joey: i've had some georgian bay experiences - sunsets, too; up by killarney, and over in parry sound....

in response to: Escape from the City! by Cameo

aslgirl: I moved to {staten island} from {park slope}, {brooklyn} and almost two years later I'm still suffering from culture shock. We live in Prince's Bay, one of the "most desireable" neighborhoods. It's quiet and......

in response to: All of Staten Island by champ

Mike: Upload a pic of the bridge from caesers bay...now a Kohl's...foggy morning last march.[[img:25373]] ...

in response to: Praying to the Verrazano by Peter

Sancho: Where does the blue part of Blue Bayou begin downtown and how far from downtown does it go?...

in response to: Walking the Blue Bayou by cybertoad

been: But I think, ultimately, the fourth is my favourite. Love the dendritic effect of the leafless tree, so sharp in the foreground. The transition from the glittering bay up to the murky sky, through the......

in response to: On a Cloudy Day by Elicar

anon (bas8-toronto12-1096757587.dsl.bell.ca): Lovely shots. Number three is almost divine, with the rays of light penetrating the gloom. Is it Ashbridge's Bay? Have you seen their former house, at Queen and Connaught? There is the most amazing......

in response to: On a Cloudy Day by Elicar

Jeff: I was born in 1946 lived at 1444 Park Place across from John Marchall's JHS until I was 16 moved to Sheep's Head Bay. Does anyone remember the Delli on St. John's ...

in response to: Park Place by Peter

Joe Kash: awesome, awesome post! bridges are the shiznit!! but yea man you forgot the bayonne and goethels bridge? who cares if they go to jersey...so does the gwb but you KNOW you had to put that......

in response to: The Bridges of New York City by Peter

zagg: Gahhhh! they are trying to brainwash me with their (Hudson) Bay (Company) colour scheme! stop it!!!! Ok, I want to see all of this in person....

in response to: Merry Christmas! by Elicar

Chris: Washington Baths, Tilyou's Steeplechase Park [the fan blowing up the skirts , the giant slide, the spinning circle, the round ticket with George's face on it] Wonder Wheel's sliding car, Nathan's fried shrimps in......

in response to: Coney & Surroundings by kricket

A Girl From Wakeham Bay: i dont remember maybe summer of 2007...but it does not open every night :D...

in response to: Passing Airliner Triggers Wonder in Arctic by EvilGentleman

A Girl From Wakeham Bay: it is very nice up here && there is a theatre now plus you can order alcohol and it takes 2 days to arrive but expensive. I am glad to live here it is......

in response to: Passing Airliner Triggers Wonder in Arctic by EvilGentleman

A Girl From Wakeham Bay: looks like fake pictures!!! but real so nice!! happy to live here..:P...

in response to: Kangirsujuaq by EvilGentleman

eyeofodin: I like it, cool building. I need to explore Oakland, I live across the bay....

in response to: Step Back by joey

steelisreal: I do miss santa cruz and the whole monterey bay area. Me and my wife are trying to plan a trip back to San Francisco and the Santa Cruz area next year....

in response to: Hello by steelisreal

THE PUBLIC ANIMALS JOEY TPA: Check my "Cyclones" out....I used to ride this thing endlessly. I miss and love the old "Coney". Those were the days....me and my baby, Susan Russo from Bay 25th. *Sigh*...

in response to: The Cyclone by Peter

jack: so there i am 5 years old standing on bay parkway and 86th street waiting for a trolley with my grandmother, vincenza (the ice pick), and she looks down at me and say's,"jacomino, why you......

in response to: Italian Women by Ilona

grunt67: SF is a beautiful city. My wife and I live about 2 1/2 hours drive from it and try to get over several times during the summer to beat the heat. Have you been to the......

in response to: View from Dolores Park by maybetoday

jack: my aunt lived on bay 8th street and i loitered many an evening in the parks there, also we played lots of ball there off the belt, i must have walked those pathways a million......

in response to: VZ Sunset by BillyRanger

jack: i was hitting balls at that range last summer, the parachute jump, and next to it was a carousel back in the old day's, from the parachute looking down the boardwalk you can see some......

in response to: Coney & Surroundings by kricket

BillyRanger: I was on the bike path between bay 8th street and 17th ave foot bridge. There are some spectacluar sunsets there....

in response to: VZ Sunset by BillyRanger

QQbiker: Guys, before you go too heavy on Uncle Jacob, you have to know that he does his best to avoid the stolen bikes. A few might end up in his store from people claiming......

in response to: A Picture of My Bike by Walks now

joey: we were thinking of staying at that hotel right their on elliot bay, view of the water. a room with a king bed was over $400 a night. stayed here instead; [[img:23423]] pan pacific hotel as......

in response to: not a postcard by fuzzytank

Frank: For the record, there are two entrances open on Sundays. One is at the south end of Mokom Sholom cemetery (the western strip) and the other is at the north end of Acacia cemetery......

in response to: Bayside Cemetary: Rememberance Overgrown by CartLegger

Teresa: Jim, I took your email and will be in contact some time soon. A reunion of some sort would be awesome, especially the school in the school, I've wanted to go in numerous times just don't......

in response to: Yuba by Paul G

Patience Person: i'am considering goin 2 achs in september cause my guidence conseler said sheeps head bay high skool is terriable i did'int even put it down az 1 of my choice's so there was a mix......

in response to: Acorn Community High School by Peter

Virginia Gambardella: Thats the Marine Bridge at Jamaica Bay at least that's what it was called in 1939,when you took the ferry from Sheepshead Bay to the point (Kennedys) and looked to the left there was the......

in response to: The Bridges of New York City by Peter

ffox88: ... (cont'd)... I, too, have a lot of built in frustration towards the thieves, the police, the used bike shops that buy stolen wheels. I've been up at night imagining how to catch them in the......

in response to: A Picture of My Bike by Walks now

Boggy: The only things on 85th and 21st is a dry cleaners and a pizza place (The Grotta Azura). I lived a block away on 85th and 20th until three years ago, now I'm on Bay......

in response to: X Movie Theatre by jack

steve : Cartlegger; I'll try to be brief with some details. Please don't hold me to the exact dates because I am going back from memory and not researching. Barren Island as we knew it......

in response to: Barren Island by CartLegger

CartLegger: here's some more historical background, compliment's of PBS POV program--the Spambot won't let me attach a link, so read below: Barren Island, which appears on few modern maps, holds a special place in the city's garbage......

in response to: Barren Island by CartLegger

kayak girl: Barren Island is the coolest. At the height of the rendering plants' days they had their own schools, hospitals, etc. It was a real community and had a majority of African American citizens.......

in response to: Barren Island by CartLegger

Rudy: Built in 1950, The Washburn Tunnel is the only operational underwater vehicle tunnel in the state of Texas. The Baytown Tunnel was demolished several years ago for the construction of the Fred Hartman Bridge (SH......

in response to: Washburn Tunnel by ian

jack: barry, you lucky dog, i wish i could go out on a party boat and catch some stripers. i usually go down the shore to union beach and fish for stripers but i only......

in response to: City Island by barry

Susannah: I remember it- I was at my father's in Bayridge (joint custody)... Everyone was hanging out...talking...sharing what they had. But some people with shops were guarding them with rifles. But my mother was working as a......

in response to: Bushwick \'77: When the Lights Went Out by upfromflames

joey: i've been to these places in my youth; the muskoka district, and the georgian bay region. there are more rocks in killarney on the georgian bay. and a larger area of water. good memories mostly,......

in response to: Haliburton Cottage by jeeff

jeeff: a correction: i found out that the nearest building pictured IS memorable, as i guess all buildings are if you're willing to look closely. sorry for the error. from the Toronto Star, 'Fashion Incubator......

in response to: Dovercourt by jeeff

Kiminbushwick: Hi, new to the site, but have been following along in more ways than one. I am 7 years proud in bushwick, and just wanted to say, that I think ALL of this conjecture and......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Bushwick Native: Jaybay: What a fool you are moving into Bushwick. You're probably paying a ridiculous sum of money to live in a rat and crime infested neighborhood. Don't think it'll be the next Williamsburg just yet.......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Corinne: I had my brand new Fuji Crosstown 3.0 stolen on June 18th from outside the Hudson Bay Building at Yonge and Bloor. I owned it for 3 days. They cut right through the good cable......

in response to: A Picture of My Bike by Walks now

Gregory Brent: Wonderful. Montreal is so livable! In the third photo, the building complex with the green roofs in the left foreground is Ravenscrag, home of Sir Hugh Allan of Allan Lines Shipping Co. It is sadly......

in response to: Mont-Royal Park by CE

Bea Davis: When news of the fiasco precipitated by the less than honorable deliberations of that legislative committee becomes major news as far away as Thunder Bay, Ontario, you know that the world is laughing at elected......

in response to: Mont-Royal Park by CE

maybetoday: While on my trip, I noticed bay windows nearly everywhere I went in Boston. If I recall correctly, the building in the second picture is in the theater district. I remember seeing those......

in response to: Fifteen Pictures of Boston by maybetoday

jeeff: hi maybetoday, i liked this post. there seems to be a real strong circular undulating rhythm to the row houses in your photos. is this a boston thing, or just one neighbourhood? ......

in response to: Fifteen Pictures of Boston by maybetoday

jaybay: My friend and I just got an apartment in the western part of Bushwick, where Suydam Street and Bushwick Ave. intersect. WE are two white girls in our 20's. We walked around the......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Jamie: ebay? [[http://tinyurl.com/3xq78g]]...

in response to: Toro, Toro, Toro by Peter

Cay: No I think that was Bay Ridge. ...

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

ScetcH--->BCS: Yo dr.sex ur the fuckin mann ima do some shyt like that too cuz ima tagger in bayonne.mad props cuz that takes madd ballz kid ...

in response to: Dr. Sex Graffiti by Legalize Life

serlingrod: [[img:19656] Tokyo has to be my favorite. I studied abroad there last spring (came home one year ago yesterday actually. I got a similar shot of the skyline as in the OP....the amazing view from Odaiba.......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

matt: actually, this is bayport. very close to pine island, though....

in response to: Pine Island Salt Flats by sine

CE: Now ##that's## a Main Street! What is North Bay like?...

in response to: Jokes on Main by Softee

eagles 32: my grandpas brother got put in a 50 gallon drum and got shot and throughn in sanfran sisco bay becase he wanted to leave to have a family but what he didn't know was his......

in response to: Hell\'s Angels - New York City by sine

jack: there was a dance pavillion and before that there was one on the boardwalk, and how many people do you know who say, 'broadwalk' it should be, 'boardwalk' there are boards on the walk but......

in response to: Luna Park: Coney Island by Peter

Hunter : I am not under the impression that any of these murals were intentionally dictated to Leo Tanguma by some elite agency. Instead, I think he may have been picking up on some type of a......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

Jeff: I happen to be an urban planning student at the university that i attend and i have to say that Hong Kong is out of this world and is definantly near or at the top......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

Stardreamer: That looks familiar where is that? i live in the bay area....

in response to: 5 Times # by joey

anon (localhost): if a bird that flies over the sea is called a seagull, then what do you call a bird that flies over the bay?...

in response to: Philadelphia Seagulls by GGP

Chet Cuccia: I never been through this tunnel, but the inside looks just like the old Baytown-LaPorte Tunnel....

in response to: Washburn Tunnel by ian

Bill: ah finally a beautiful day in North Bay...just around the corner and up the road you can get a good brew at the Fraser.......

in response to: Sunny and Snowing by Softee

zagg: The kisses I got at the Bay st. Greyhound station were never quite like that ...

in response to: Jan 04 2007 Toronto by hool

hool: i visited north bay for a few hours, walked around the downtown area. it was more lively than i thought it would be....

in response to: X-Mas Day in The Bay by Softee

kricket: i've only been to north bay once. i remember it as a much more desolate place than those photos suggest. good work....

in response to: Mild December in North Bay by Softee

Princess: you can still visit while in Bayonne...

in response to: The Intrepid by jack

little ukraine: yes! i want to go to san francisco so badly. these are all really fantastic pictures. can we see more of the san francisco bay bridge?? such a magnificent structure....

in response to: San Francisco by adam

yo: what about the marboro theatre on bay parkway? y'all forgot about that! ...

in response to: X Movie Theatre by jack

little ukraine: ah, reminds me of a friend of mine who would always kill the crabs we caught in the great south bay as teenagers. nice....

in response to: Empty Beach by jack

Giovanni: i grew up in a mostly Italian neighborhood in bay view in milwaukee and Latin Kings were a huge force in my neighborhood, all my family was in it, most of my family pics were......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

kim: hi there was a turner family of pearlies they were pearly king and queen of edmonton there is a bit about them in pearl binders book called the pearlies a social history you can get......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

Schrodinger's Cat: Actually the construction of this building started in late 1989 . It was supposed to be a 58 storey high office tower called the Bay Adelaide Tower. It was......

in response to: White Elephant Down by Tom Miller

anon (ip72-197-235-121.sd.sd.cox.net): i here you,born and raised in Queens, I worked between Cropsey and Bay pkwy, Brooklyn for 5yrs the food was off the hook.Now on the West coast I miss that Brooklyn and NYC food.....

in response to: On the Way to Coney Island by jack

don\\\'t worry about it!: I went to plum beach a couple of times,sadly it's dirty and if u walk all te way down (away from the bay) it gets a little less filthy. There are thousands of them! They......

in response to: Plum Beach by kc

steelisreal: oh how i love the bay area.... *sigh* i miss it so much....

in response to: Fall in the East Bay by joey

Stevo: Oh I see it now...that last shot is on Bay st. in front of the Hoito. I was so busy looking at the cute girl...the Hoito is a restaurant; the word means "care" in Finnish.......

in response to: August 08 2006 Ontario by hool

Alexa: Great bridge pics! Beautiful! I have a fear of bridges, yet I enjoy looking at them. I don't think I could ever drive across the massive bridges of NY........not sure I could......

in response to: The Bridges of New York City by Peter

EvilGentleman: I am sure the staff at the local Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) store must think I am odd, since I will often hold my breath and dash at high speed through the entrance area, clinging......

in response to: The Bridges of New York City by Peter

Nickle, Dime, Quarter: Thanks for explaining your point. I see where you are coming from. My favourite vantage point for the skyline is at the very end of the Leslie St. Spit (on the lighthouse hill). From there,......

in response to: The Last Bird by Biff

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