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I.C. Eric: [[img:29408]]
Ah, i like taking pictures but i am not a photographer, so theres a high possibility that they will suck. I had alot of pictures of bushwick in my phone but that phone died, alot...... Alan Kupperberg: Eastern Parkway Memories
By Alan Kupperberg
Searching the Internet for information on Dubrow’s Cafeteria and the Famous restaurant on Eastern Parkway at Utica Avenue, I discovered this wonderful site. It brought back many wonderful memories for...... needa_dayoff@hotmail.com: I grew up on knickerbocker avenue parallel to the park in an appartment just over the italian cafe and across from the bar always interesting outside my window I was a little kid when we...... Herman from Elmhurst: I used to roller skate in there. My dad told me stories of going up to the cafe and observation deck. It's always been my fantasy of restoring it to it's original state...... trixie gross: well, to me boring is if there are no clubs, nice lil cafes -places where adults and I mean us who are over 40,can go to and chat with folks...to me sports mean lil, so...... BARON VON FANCY: Baron Von Fancy is not a man, he is an idea. And you cannot kill an idea.
He has been called an artist. He has been called a maniac. He is a recluse. He never...... From P.a.: I have moved to hutch alittle over 3 years ago,and I wish I could return back to Pa. This town is not what all the other people keep bragging about. I have a 20 year...... From P.a.: I have moved to hutch alittle over 3 years ago,and I wish I could return back to Pa. This town is not what all the other people keep bragging about. I have a 20 year...... Sheila hilton: Hi Sue, I well remember the jubbly works. It was down Delhi Road, wasn't it? The road by the side of Peg's (Peggy Britton) cafe. Delhi Road is opposite Lower Irlam Post Office. Jubbly's used...... bunni: I also remember the Deluxe theater on 20th avenue and Bath ave. a few blocks away from ps200. Also, on 86th st. was a cafeteria called the FAMOUS. Great tuna and chocolate pudding. I am...... little ukraine: this just reminded me of one time when i went to philly on the chinatown express. some friends and i walked from the bus depot up to 2nd and poplar to go to the...... Liam McCann: Reading your article was like going back home. I grew up on 87th ST. off of Lex and remember alot ot the locations you cited. I remember what the Rupert Towers development was...... janet: Dubrows on Eastern P’kway, just off Utica: the name was set in big art deco letters (red neon?). Inside, cafeteria style. with big windows, a cashier that you gave a punched card to.. Was...... Jana: These memories are wonderful! I'm hoping someone here can help me with some research. Does anyone have memories of a racketeer being murdered in Brooklyn in Sept. 1941? It was big headlines....... Bill: Saturday Nights in the Early Fortys.
7PM Start out at the Utica Pool Hall(132 Utica Av)for a few games with Mickey, Danny, George and Jimmy
8PM Pickup come Camels at Goldman's Candy Store (145 Utica Av) On...... Joe D.: Buswick late 1960's - early 1970's was the best!!! Born on Harman Street in 1965...The entire family lived within blocks of eachother..Grandparents on Starr Street next to the pretzel factory..Aunt lived on Buswick Avenue and...... Angel: 51 - you have ever said anything like "I have to stop at the guichet before we get to the dep."
52 - your only concern about jaywalking is getting a ticket.
53 - you were drinking...... Mike: My grandparents owned a bar at Front & Cambria in Kensington for years-until the late 70's. As a child in the late 60's/early 70's I could walk the block alone-everyone looked out for each other....... tiara lingua: Oh my freaking goodness, Jeef, my side hurts from laughing. This is the coolest freaking thing I've read in AGES! There is no way he'll read this because his comment is from 2006, but...... Neighborly : I've lived in Bushwick for 3 years... gotta question. Why do most the kids who are mainly artists, musicians, new to the area, mainly white folks, got some pocket money - you know who I...... CE: It's a pedestrian street. Cars can travel across it at intersections but they're mostly narrow one-way streets so not much traffic travels across the street. Cafe and restaurant terraces spill out onto the...... Marcia Halperin: I have been researching the Dubrow's cafeteria that was on Eastern Parkway off Utica Avenue.
Does anyone have memories of eating there?... GEO: I think they are convenient and much safer. I don't expect them to planted ouside an outdoor cafe. I live in NYC and the public restrooms attract more weirdos than flies; just milling...... CE: The leather (cuir) shop in the third picture is near a co-op I stayed at for a couple weeks prior to moving to Montreal. It's located on an intersection that they dubbed the "Axis...... shankill:
Wouldnt live anywere else!! thers great shops and cafes and the people are the most friendly by far.
tourists walk freely all over the shankill and along the peace walls, signing their names and leaving messages...... jeeff: february is grim, but the true love cafe at sherbourne & dundas is sure to raise one's spirits. especially considering the venerable filmore's hotel just down dundas street. here's a shot taken from...... Hahaha.: I love all of you who defended norman :)
I've lived here pretty much all my life, and it's not half bad. Is your opinion of an entertaining city someplace like Dallas? If so, your poor,...... CE: From my hometown of {Sussex} New Brunswick from [[4486:this post]]. The street is actually called Broad Street but is often referred to as "Broadway" and even has some business that use that name such...... LoopZilla: [[http://theislandnews.blogspot.com/2005/05/hambone-cafe-fears-for-its-future.html]]
... rachelmb: hey we always drive over the bridge to devonport -has the best place to eat -our favourite spinach pie at StoneOven cafe-healthy and yum-great with apricot chutney. And a great shop- the Hard To Find...... from starr st.: 1st. off upfromflames, i am going to my storage space and look for my pics and send them to you. now i was born and rasied in bushwick. PROUD of it.just as proud...... Susannah: I've seen this happen more times than I can remember.. Its disgusting but it doesn't seem to bother me as much as it once did. It does seem to bother the pervert, however, when...... L : that is not a picture of a cafe that is where you can rent movies ... New Face in Bushwick: Need more than Starbucks. Northeast cafe is the only one that I can relax and enjoy the meal at. Italian, Japanese restaurants would be wonderful.. Investors and developers out there - business...... zagg: oh no worries - the previous comment would never stop me; i simply couldn't think / find a fitting lyric that I wanted to use.
the sugar packet: yes, please picture me at a outdoor european...... jeeff: don't worry, the 'double d' store by my house (a variety store and bargain basement internet cafe) is still open.... joey: aer; is this rustic part of town anywhere near juanita's cafe?... SuziQ: Even better than the place mentioned above is a place close to the subway called "FreezePeach Cafe". It's right on the corner of 29th Street and Ditmars Blvd, but hidden away a little because it's...... EvilGentleman: The fact that someone would have the gall to name something in this area after the Algonquins, who are the traditional enemy of the Mohawks, is quite distressing. The Adironadacks are the homeland of the...... EvilGentleman: Thanks for the insight, and kudos for both the timing and the recovery job. Are you doing the editing work on a laptop? I have never had need to frequent internet cafes, but I have...... smartlyn: don't about these angels. In Amsterdam were i used to live they also were respected by surrounding neighbours.So much so that cafe and restaurant owners gladly payed for their services as security managers. And indeed,...... Chris Erb: It didn't work out so well, I would finish work at 3 am and then have to get up at 8am to go to school 3 days a week. All my free time was...... zagg: I bought a shirt last year from Cafepress (LJ friend made a design in MY honour: http://www.cafepress.com/wannamakeout/469578) and the image got pretty wonky, pretty quickly. IT became ruined with stains, then ruined it further when...... aer suzuki: beware of cafe press, unless things have changed in the past year or two, the print quality on their shirts really sucks. cool shirt though.... Marlo: There's a fair trade cafe on the St Thomas campus (a nice alternative to the otherwise almost monopolistic Tim's) which gives a discount if you bring in your own coffee/tea mug. Fair Trade AND pro-environment....... Chris Erb: I agree, the vast majority of us are slobs. I don't understand it, it's not hard to hold onto a cup for a few minutes until you get to a garbage can, or, if...... Cris: La data de 10 august 2006 va avea loc un jam in Brasov.Intalnirea are loc la orele 12:00 in Piata Sfatului..care e interesant sa participe..;)a si btw filmulete gasesti si pe odc si pe google...... EvilGentleman: I'm honestly not 100% sure on this subject, but I know in most cases, alcohol is not permitted on streets or in parks, except for places like sidewalk cafes and the Six Flags La Ronde...... Chris Erb: It's called Broad Street beause the street is quite... broad. It's actually a boulevard which is why it is generally referred to as "The Boulevard" by most locals. It is also sometimes called...... Jamie: [[img:12997]]
[[http://www.cafepress.com/iheartshirt.31900196]]
i could go on. but i wont... Jamie: [[img:12996]]
and this even more so. i'm not easily shocked but come on!
[[http://www.cafepress.com/iheartshirt.31905780]]... Jamie: but this [[http://www.cafepress.com/iheartshirt.35367231]], i find worrying... Jamie: [[http://www.cafepress.com/iheartshirt/807968]]... ian: Doesn't look like a special lens as much as a camera left on a cafe table. :)... Rune Willem: Yes.. i am afraid that visitors to Oslo Norway and other places in Norway will be very chocked about our prizes here in Norway. Here is some examples: A beer in glas = 14 dollars...... elaine: ITUC, i was in liverpool from about 1979 to 1985, i went to art school there, which as you know is not far from chinatown. this was before all day drinking and there was a...... EvilGentleman: They were paved over, but only by a centimetre or so. In many places, the road had worn dowm to expose parts of the rails, and lots of the potholes were very shallow with metal...... Joe: I've lived on Jefferson btwn Irving and Knickerbocker for a year. It's gotten a little better just in that time. We moved here because we got priced out of our old neighborhood, Park Slope. Our...... EvilGentleman: There has been some confusion as to defining exactly what constitutes an outdoor structure or patio. I have heard that any structure enclosed on more than two sides will be considered to be indoors, and...... BOC: Ya think it cute to move to Bushwick. Ya don't know what ya doing to our neighborhood. It is known when white people move into to the neighborhood the price value of houses go up...... EvilGentleman: Actually, you **did** get the new fine arts, or EVA (I have no idea what the acronym stands for) building. It is the one with the "hat" and the obtuse-angled facade on it's upper stories,...... jeeff: elicar - the vast majority of poor people don't own their own homes outright, they're at the mercy of landlords. when an area starts to gentrify, it creates upward pressures on rents. landlords...... jack: we could buy that place and turn it into a jazz cafe.... Cameo: It's right next to the courier cafe. (Jet Fuel)... Jamie: hey lucky you, i'm in idiot mode pretty much all the time. But the web cafe was probablly your problem. Public computers are genrally set up with quite harsh restriction on what you can and...... an impossible child: jamie i dont have a clue, was using a web cafe computer & i generally go into my idiot mode when im in web cafes so... :S... colavito's ghost: for some really great nyc bathroom graf, check out alt. Cafe on Ave. A between 8th/9th or Mars Bar on 2nd Ave. and 1st St. The Max Fish potty is pretty heavily tagged, but...... jack: if it were me and there were no people in the building i would say let it burn and go to a cafe for a coffee and a bacon and egg on a bagel... Dizzy: I was just looking at places near bushwick avenue... around gates/palmetto. it's really close to the J train (gates avenue) - anyone have any opinions about this? Everyone keeps talking the parts of Bushwick that...... gringa latina: Well, here I am again. I wrote my last post in Spanish I guess as a sign of respect to all of the latino residents of Humboldt Park and to write as a "white...... Humboldt Park - DAVE: Margaret,
I suggest you visit Humboldt Pk on a weekend just to get your feet wet. Bring a friend or two and maybe have some coffee and pastries @ Cafe Colao, Saucer, Humboldt Pie. Lunch @...... kc: great shot. Cafe California is perfect in the background...... Deeply Perplexed: I've seen people throw just about everything out of their car windows and I have never been outraged. Are the streets of Toronto so pristine that one uneaten hamburger will destroy the...... elaine: well, it's not so much about intention. i was very hungry and had no food at home, and i thought 'let me try this cafe then' - inspired as i was by the words 'steak...... Jamie: i do miss ekn. your photos of main street remind me of the cafe i used to frequent. the golden arrow. they did a kickass curry burger.... Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Even Sharons have a good story in them! Elaine, I really hope you get your neighbourhood cafe back. Community is so important, and it can be hard to find in a city. I love that...... elaine: what is irritating, is that a lot of the regeneration is beneficial, but the greed has invisible costs, like when you build tons of housing and don't add any new doctors for instance...
also what is...... Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Sorry to hear about your mad cafe going kaput. At least with all the attention they will be properly shamed. ... Morgan Blackledge: I was there at the same time, you nailed it. What an awsome ordeal. I was down in studio X with Carroline Castansa and Alicia McCarthy. I always thought you guys were an obnoxious clique....... rick: ok....this place is over due an update.....
As any of you other locals will realise by now the building work has started and according to the main man on-site who i talked to it is a...... elaine: aha! smartypants! well, i never left the station there, though, did i? and cafe open is in woodgrange road which is E7 because it is forest gate and not stratford. (i win)... joey: a few years ago, i saw my neighbors wife removed from their house on one of those. she was an old lady, he was an old man. i was walking up the street to get...... Peter: well, im assuming they were probably from chicken wings, the cafeteria's #1 seller, heh. still, the idea of a bird eating a bird, etc...... the calm one: i watched these cats along with loads of other writers do some carecter peices on a cafe wall, martha cooper was there but missed the big show. found loads of london police stuff in a...... Former Bushwick Resident: I am a 36 year old hispanic female. Lived all my life in Bushwick. Four years ago, I decided to move to New England and escape the city. I was a single mother of 3....... vz: the main draw seems to be that it's basically a free internet cafe.... Confused: Admitted some white people have attitudes, but some blacks have attitudes, some Latinos have attitudes, etc....The blacks don't get along with the PR's, I see it every night and hear it. F You N, shut...... from cafe con leche to confused....: YO' confused reread my comment from Aug 4--
And change is not bad --its bad when it is not a natural evolution as it should be but rather an aggressive overnite, overhaul of what...... To not important from cafeconleche: Mira nena ---got thru the articles here---that will give you an idea star arounf Feb and read tru..thenthing is many poniant comments are gone for some reason--wiped out---anyway --Happy reading!... cafeconleche: HOme sweet home...
... cafeconleche: Very Goth--Cool!... cafeconleche: benrox--I appreciate your p.o.v. I can totally see eye to eye w/U on the whole reversed racism...I have a blond blue-eyed son. I have dark curly hair and medium skin tone--everyone always assumes...... cafeconleche: I was enjoying the comments ans just pondering stuff when this gang shit comes up...What is up with the gangbangers....? Geeze I know this is a public forum but, ya'll are comin' out of...... cafeconleche..: So I'm looking at all these trees and the 1st thing that comes to me is..."A tree grows in Broklyn..." so them I check where the px were taken at ans ...well.whadda ya know...I don't...... cafeconL.: Es triste............ seeking a future: Cafeconleche,
There are many of us who made it out of H.P. Semi Educated, it's just unfortunate that most of the ones who did progress forgot where they came from.
... cafeconleche: Reading your comments and looking at the photos.....(sigh) I wish we had more role models like Gahndi...Its sad when kids have "role models" thrown in their face that warp and distort what we should really...... cafeconleche....: My comments go to show that there are some of us who from H. P who don't fit the stereotype of welfare mom, and are educated. A couple of us actually made it...... cafeconleche: Gracias! :)... Peter: cafeconleche: im glad youve chosen to become a regular contributor here. we hope you stay :)...
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