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Comments about boro

There are 100 comments about "boro"

D: Also, the spill was only in a certain section of Greenpoint, there are tons of maps online you can look at. Greenpoint is a great 'hood and one of the best in all 5......

in response to: Condofication of Brooklyn by Peter

Tracy Kelly: What a great site first visit but will definately be returning.i have been talking to a great couple, and Mr Jack Scallan told me that No 7 Marlborough Road used to be a police station......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

zagg: I like the fact that the girl in photograph #2 has a pack of Marlboro cigs in her pocket. Boo US Beef! YAY US Tobacco! --- zagg, the vegetarian who is a descendant of Canadian......

in response to: Anti-US Beef/2MB Protests by chiamattt

Jamie: i fell asleep half way through the jim carey movie. not that it wasn't a good movie. i was just tired. i've never gotten around to re-watching it. i think i should. here's some related {Peterborough}......

in response to: 23 Van by Peter

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

marie: you mentioned one main reason Saskatoon did not make cut was because there were no distinguishing features. I often sit in car or walk along Spadina viewing our skyline in wonder at the very......

in response to: The Top 10 Canadian Skylines by CE

Deb Simpkins (Massey): Hiya, my dad (Jim Massey) has asked if I could post this... "A few names from early days I would like to hear about, Roger Lovell, Bill Waterman, Tommy Blinston, Madge Attenborough, Mary Twinning, Gordon Dennison......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Alison: Hi Cyril My mum definately remembers you barbara whitelegg (roberts) she lived on the crescent then moved to marlborough road she worked in a shop on fiddlers lane and we all went to fiddlers lane school......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

j.smith: Shiny unhappy people All is not well in the world of pearly royalty. Beneath the peacock feathers and rhinestone finery is stirring a nasty battle for the soul of the kingdom. In Guildford county court this......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

Marissa Chaplin: Hi Alan My house is just on the other side of the "bullring". My in laws moved from Caroline street to Marlborough Rd in 1969 and they are still in the same house. I have a......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Alan Taylor: Hi Marissa, When they built the Margarine Works Estate then built the roads and laid the services, then built the corner houses, afterwards they built the infills between the corner houses, so there was lots of......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

CHEDDI-FKS, JVC. G11 - NYC QBORO: Spoiled or not....your man is up, way up....up in the muthafucking sky. RESPECT. The NYC streetscene and subway system cannot be compared to, hands down the illest vandal cicumstances. If anything and @ the least......

in response to: JA: A True NYC King by Peter

Alison : Its funny how you remember things when reminded i used to live on Malborough Rd and ive past there recently and its so different Bates diy shop has now got houses. and we used to......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

duplo one: [[img:25099]] yeh,duplo from boro...

in response to: Duplo Graffiti by duplo one

Dillon Currie: I love peterborough graffiti ill be on road soon big up all my o.g.c manz 2007...

in response to: Peterborough Graffiti Art Project by Jamie

Jamie: Nice. {Duplo} of {Peterborough}, yeh?...

in response to: Duplo Graffiti by duplo one

A LIST OF PEARLIES BY BOROUGH?: Does anyone have a list of current Pearlies by Borough? and their contact details? Surely this would be helpful to event organisers/schools etc wanting a Pearly King or Queen in attendance........

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

bklyn: Help us help the street homeless Call 311: to report homeless individuals and families who you see on the Streets of New York City (all Boroughs) Outreach Teams will be sent to offer assistance. Thank you ...

in response to: Homeless Subterranean by Peter

Johnny : Hi im from Nw London and am very interested in taking up parkour, not done much in it but am very athletic, fast, and got good jump use to do sprinting and long jump for......

in response to: le parkour: london waterloo jam by 3flow

Yersinia: The symbol is very prevalent around the Blackfriars Road Area - you see it on the Blackfriars Foundry on Blackfriars Road, on various small metal wall plaques in that area, which I guess may be......

in response to: victoria park bench by elaine

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

EvilGentleman: The crosswalk countdowns look like the ones I have seen in the Lasalle borough of Montreal for the last 20 years. They're everywhere around here nowadays, but not downtown for some stupid reason. They really......

in response to: Co-branding Strategy by jeeff

jack: at one time randalls was an adventurous place, dumps, weird people, but in the 70's they built apartments and a tram and now it's respectable. don't be afraid of times square, i worked at......

in response to: Times Square by Cinic

bob: this is the most indian street in peterborough...

in response to: Bending Horizons by Zag

little ukraine: oops, posted too early.. pictured above are Astoria Park, the Triborough Bridge spanning Hell Gate, and a marker at the entrance of the Charybdis Playground (where's Scylla? Presumably Ward's Island) next to the Astoria Pool,......

in response to: Robert Moses Photo Collective by CartLegger

bed sty-cee!: born and raised in brooklyn--coney island was the boroughs(family getaway) i can't beleive that politician let it rot--but just like all of brooklyn, gentrification will take hold. so all you blacks and puerto ricans better......

in response to: Coney Island Low by Peter

chance: I am interested in this property please send me more info/pics ar@boroughmedia.com...

in response to: Brownstones in Harlem by joe urb

The optick One BMK, CWK: Peace To The Elder Snatch. Always doing his duty as usual. All Props due to this man. A true Laboror In NYC Graffiti Culture, and preservationist of The CWK legacy. PEACE TO THE CRAFT WORK KING......

in response to: Snatch by Peter

Peter: cay: firstly, i think its humorously ironic that you qualify "not scaremongering" by saying "god knows {nyc} is scary enough". thats a dated, inaccurate and stereotypical statement that i dont appreciate much, as a {new......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Don Canham, Lt. NYFD Ret.: That fire was no "all hands" fire. It was a Boro Call. A boro call is when you run out of enough companies to handle the fire and resort to using companies from other boros,......

in response to: Bushwick \'77: The All Hands Fire by upfromflames

Jamie: Peterborough City Council Graffiti ##Removal##. If removal means paint over it with green or grey paint i guess. The most genius thing i've seen them do is with some tree along the river near {railworld}.......

in response to: Peterborough Graffiti by diesel city

robert: I agree 100%. I dont think Brooklyn is a borough for something like that and Coneyisland is always gonna be a piece of shit no matter what they try to do. People from places around......

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

Brad: The "threat level" is the only excuse I can think of for not allowing pictures to be taken. If I'm not mistaken, pictures of/in the city's tunnels are also forbidden, or to quote the cop......

in response to: Robert Moses Photo Collective by CartLegger

Brad: [[img:19366]] Took this picture on the forbidden Triborough Bridge last month on vacation. The white signs on the right are "No Photography" signs. I didn't realize what they said until we rode past them, we also......

in response to: Robert Moses Photo Collective by CartLegger

cone...dcr: yeh man i dont know what the fuck you cats is on, im ORIGINAL DCR cru, fuck man me and earl made the fuckin name up in the nineties. you best fix up man, i......

in response to: followup graffiti hunt by Jamie

cone...dcr: yeh man i dont know what the fuck you cats is on, im ORIGINAL DCR cru, fuck man me and earl made the fuckin name up in the nineties. you best fix up man, i......

in response to: followup graffiti hunt by Jamie

cone...dcr: good to see people still representing the boro!!...

in response to: Peterborough Graffiti by diesel city

cone...dcr: old skool my ass, you guys dont know shit!!! ask someone like dine about the real oldskool, man like cone, jay, earl all ORIGINAL DCR cru, im talkin like eighties and nineties and shit. email......

in response to: Graffiti by Duplo

K Bernstein: I lived in an apartment building at Eastern Parkway and Troy Avenue in the 1950s. Eastern Parkway was a beautiful street, with its two pedestrian malls with benches and trees. The street was lined with......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

sirhcbre: I agree with a lot of what has already been said. Here are my two cents: -Profiles would be nice but shouldn't be mandatory. If someone wants one, they should be able to create......

in response to: User Survey 2007 by Jamie

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Queensboro bridge, how I love thee......

in response to: NYC. 3.3.07 by barry

anon (localhost): a lot of it was highly socio~economic if you wanna get into the really deep meaning of it. If you wanna get to the nutz and bolts of it, Id suggest a call to the......

in response to: Why Did Bushwick Burn? by upfromflames

jonathon/ peterborough: absolutely fabulous. i wish that one day i will be able to jump over a car and not kill myself in the proccess. free running is one of the best sports i've ever seen and wish i'd......

in response to: Parkour - Vault over a car by DC

Haze: People of peterborough start hitting ikea underpass it is being buffed as we speak white walls ready to paint...

in response to: followup graffiti hunt by Jamie

Brad: Wow, parts of Brooklyn look so amazing. I remember the last time I was there riding the subway around, it was so cool looking down the streets from the elevated sections at the rowhouses. I......

in response to: I\'ve Lived in Crown Heights for Just About Fifteen Days by little ukraine

John: Old? I remember trainspotting on Spital Bridge in the mid to late '50's. [What do you mean? Of course the 1950's - I'm not that old!] Born in Boroughbury, [Geneva Street], brought up in Gladstone Street.......

in response to: Peterborough and the Smells of Pollution, Etc... by Colin James Watling

Peter: seems like quite a graf scene is going on in {peterborough}... its also funny to see that we beat out "Peterborough City Council - PETERBOROUGH'S GRAFFITI REMOVAL" on google, too... go figure. [[http://www.peterborough.gov.uk/page-1003]] lol....

in response to: Peterborough Graffiti by diesel city

Jamie: sweet. it's nice to see peterborough representing here. citynoise.org is the top google result for [[goo:peterborough graffiti]] and [[goo:23 crew]], i guess that's where all the visitors come from....

in response to: Peterborough Graffiti by diesel city

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

in response to: X Movie Theatre by jack

JACK JAMES PEARLY KING : A comment made about jimmy jukes was not made by me jack james pearly king of borough he is also a pearly king as i am and do not no who put that comment from......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

diesel city: haha hello riot. do you know the dcr boys? ive never heard of your name pop up before, ive met sum one a couple times though lol i ll tell him when i next see......

in response to: followup graffiti hunt by Jamie

the real duplo one: i dont mind my photos being on here,im quite grateful.but when theres some bullshit poem thing about a city which i didnt write its a bit anoying.ive never wrote a poem in my life.wouldnt know......

in response to: I wanted to say something about the city by Duplo

bororudeboi: some bad boi grafin!!...

in response to: Peterborough Graffiti Art Project by Jamie

pera1: brap all da peterborough lot!! hold tite spoze whitey diner and all 23...

in response to: Peterboro Graffiti by Peterboro Graffiti

EvilGentleman: LOL, fair enough, since you encounter Decarie daily and I encounter Cote-de-Liesse daily. In all honesty, I usually hate the Decarie Expressway more, but today was special. At one point, I moved 3 metres in......

in response to: Traffic by CE

EvilGentleman: Urgh. "The EVA building across the street is in a ifferent zone of the Ville-Marie **Borough**."...

in response to: Catbread, Free Lebanon, Etc. by CE

misterVee: if its the real JA, i wana ask, do u still go bombing? and wat borough are u living in? do u still live in manhattan?...

in response to: Criminalize Greed, Not Graffiti by Peter

EvilGentleman: Actually Chris, I believe we were stopped at the stop sign at St Joseph just past 27th Avenue in the borough of Lachine when you took this shot. On Google Earth, the corner of the wall......

in response to: Disco Fever by CE

EvilGentleman: That picture was taken from the corner of Atwater and Sainte-Catherine, at the west end of downtown. The metro station is Atwater. Westmount is generally a lot more residential, but I wanted a picture of......

in response to: Montreal Signs 4: Westmount and Mount Royal by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: I see the Marlboro boxes were sold out as well. Only soft packs left. I wonder why the Marlboro box smokes are 82.5mm long, and the soft pack ones are the standard king size of......

in response to: Self Reflection by joey

riot: as an old skool peterborough street artist from the 90's,and someone who has visited places like new york city to see street art, i would just like to thank the one up crew for placeing......

in response to: followup graffiti hunt by Jamie

Genaro: During the late 1940's and 50's, many of The Manhattan Elite thought it proper in calling the less popular working or the poor social White under class, WHITE TRASH! This would also include Whites who......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

Spooky: haha. jamie mate, if you want to see the best graff in pbro dont go any further away than the train station. jump off the end of the platform going towards spalding if......

in response to: followup graffiti hunt by Jamie

EvilGentleman: The PMQ's in Dartmouth are abandoned? Are those ones associated with the naval facilities in Halifax and Dartmouth, or with CFB Shearwater to the south? Is CFB Shearwater still open? We still have PMQ-style buildings......

in response to: Bridge Trash by okcomputer

mofidious: rite "peterborough pete" we wer a full 6 piece band wiv a full set ready for gigs but our singer decided 2 leave at the last moment 2 go 2 uni to study music and......

in response to: Mofidious by Mofidious

Peterborough Pete: How can you be a band without a singer or a drummer? Seems to me like all you are is a guy with a guitar and a penchant for shitty stencils. But I gotta admit, I......

in response to: Mofidious by Mofidious

jamie: ##"I want to swallow Peterborough whole, wrap myself, innit, like a tin-foil blanket, absorb its heat"## - {quote of the week}! unfortunately i don't live in peterborough anymore. my mum does though. and my nan. i'll......

in response to: Lost in the \'borough by 12manymornings

EvilGentleman: Almost every fire truck in Montreal is red, so I was quite surprised to see this yellow one at the Urgences Sante building by the corner of Cavendish and Cote de Liesse, in the Saint-Laurent......

in response to: Fire by CE

link: big up all da crews smashing peterborough ogc obr fuk wys si ok 23 whas up fed linez earz some dine orton manz be killing shit right now...

in response to: Peterborough Graffiti Art Project by Jamie

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Actually, here's a better scene: Early hours of New Year's Day, circa 1988. Penfold mansion. Hildenborough, Kent. Talking Heads is blaring throughout the house. Feet pound on the stairs. The door to slams open. "Turn that bloody......

in response to: Mr Pendlebury Takes a Trip by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

LINK: big up kane aka fed and all da orton gangstas ogc obr fuk wys rip dave rip luke rip rip vinnie goin painting tonight at railworld n e 1 wanna link and smash peterborough # ...

in response to: followup graffiti hunt by Jamie

LINK: BIG UP ALL DA GRAFFERS REPPIN PETERBOROUGH TO DA FULLEST BIG UP LINES INKS EARZ POK PARO ...

in response to: Graffiti by Duplo

......: shit...wt a kick in da teeth :@ thnx 4 lettin me kno lucky i didnt hit da streets wit it lmao ;) im 14 in p.borough & learnin but can't think ov a descent tagg it's pissin......

in response to: followup graffiti hunt by Jamie

......: [[img:12774]] will put more up later tell me wt u think:) p.borough got real graff!!!...

in response to: followup graffiti hunt by Jamie

but im not dick ridin im just sayin: look JA killed and is killing shit more than any of you ever have or ever will im all over the 5 boroughs every day for work traveling around and i see shit that you......

in response to: JA: A True NYC King by Peter

chio?- p'boro: oi oi we getin anymore pics up here cuz now there is alot more beta ......

in response to: followup graffiti hunt by Jamie

Penpusher: Here's the thing about the geography of NYC. Everything radiates from Midtown. During the late 90s, the Giuliani era, NY developed a reputation as being a safe city, a clean city and as Rudy claimed,......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

Peter: a quick look at the wiki entry for [[wiki:bushwick]] shows that the displaced people youre talking about are far from the first to be displaced, whether from gentrification, changing demographics, modernization, urbanization, etc. i mean,......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

CIZO DT: Yes all the boro boys. watch the PB KC line soon for da team takeover. shouts to Kue, Neons, Phat and Noe...

in response to: Graffiti by Duplo

Michelle: I see that graffiti quite often when I take the SRT and subway downtown from Scarborough. Good job photographing it!...

in response to: East Side by Elicar

BRAVE ONE TSS PETERBOROUGH MAN DEM: WHATS DIS JINK GUY ON BOUT SAYIN HE WRITES ASTRO N SHIT LISTEN ALL YOU YANKS DONT LISTEN TO DIS GUY IVE LIVED IN FLETTON(PETERBOROUGH) ALL MA LIFE N I DONT THIS GUY WHO IS......

in response to: followup graffiti hunt by Jamie

Robert: Peter, thanks once more for bringing old memories back. Went there for a couple of weeks at the end of the 1958 course. I had just moved to the neighbourhood from Boro Park but I......

in response to: P.S. 9 Schoolyard by Peter

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: I think the borough council is employing Mums to keep the cones in order....

in response to: Tidy by elaine

Peter: jamie: one could play a round of "johnny foreigner" and dial up some canadian telephone codes for peterborough and request photos! hahahahaha!...

in response to: The Other Boston by Jamie

jeeff: i've been to the other peterborough plenty of times. my ex-girlfriend came from there. i spent new years eve there once, but alas - no photos. ...

in response to: The Other Boston by Jamie

Jamie: There is a {Peterborough} in {Ontario} ##*winks*##...

in response to: The Other Boston by Jamie

S: Elicar, if you think those prices outrageous check out some of the prices in other parts of the city. I have a family member living in the Annex. He bought the house 25 years ago......

in response to: Count Your Blessings by Elicar

PumaBoy: i didn't said that wisbech is city. i said "wisbech and other citys" but i didn't mean that wisbech is city. lol for more information about places: ( http://www.urbanfreeflow.com/hotspots/peterborough/index.htm ) i know more places. and to......

in response to: Peterborough Parkour by PumaBoy

PumaBoy: P.S. i had some practise, with other traceurs from wisbech and other citys, in p'boro ( here is lots of good places ) ...

in response to: Peterborough Parkour by PumaBoy

joey: what the [[http://www.peterboroughsme.co.uk/Album.htm]]...

in response to: a visit home by Jamie

EvilGentleman: I found out the Bimbo Daycare's location. It is located at 4785 Boul. Henri-Bourassa Ouest in the St-Laurent Borough of Montreal. I went over there this evening to take a picture for you to see,......

in response to: Bimbo Daycare by EvilGentleman

EKS (in Cali): May SANE rest in peace. A true legend of NYC culture in the 80's. A debt is owed him by those of us that snuck out of the house at 2:00 a.m. on a schoolnight,......

in response to: Sane Smith: Puttin' the Green in Greenpoint by Peter

Safe: 23 Crew getting/are 2 be the biggest writer around p'boro ! ...

in response to: followup graffiti hunt by Jamie

Helen: I used to live in Scarborough, then Ajax. I remember going down to the bluffs one evening about 20 years ago and taking pics of a lunar eclipse. It seems like forever since......

in response to: Last Summer - Bluffer\'s Park by Ken

Ken: [[img:8380]] Bluffers Park One of the most breathtaking views of the Bluffs can be seen at Bluffers Park, at the foot of Brimley Road. Extensive picnic areas are available, along with spacious beaches, two boat launching ramps,......

in response to: Last Summer - Bluffer\'s Park by Ken

len: I just moved back to Canada from Georgia, USA ... where suburbia is human unfriendly (like some of Scarborough), cyclists get doored, and people are obsessed with their vehicles. On top of that the......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

randz: hey all of you... wheres all the newer pboro graf sites - i rememba browsing loads a few years back! a few sites, i think by nyces etc? wana see sum old stuf from around bretton......

in response to: Graffiti by Duplo

Sertraline: I ride a bike in Toronto and I've seen more couriers do dumb aggressive shit than automobiles. Most of the posters, in typical neo-hippy style, assume that this incident is the man's fault. ......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

elaine: he makes me mad. he talks a good lefty moral high ground, but he can't be doing anything for tower hamlets, not just because he is poncing about in big brother, but also because he......

in response to: Enjoy Looking Down by elaine

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Thanks. Mitch get's props as art director. He was coaching me about what's the best angle and when to take the shot. We drove though every borough except the Bronx on Monday. The window was......

in response to: Williamsburg Bridge by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

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