Comments about chinatown

There are 44 comments about "chinatown"

surfer: Answer to Megan> Bensonhurst is changing from Italian to Chinese. Still a good neighborhood. Answer to Danielle> Sunset park is now called the 2nd Chinatown. Excellent neighborhood. I grew up there in the 50's & 60's.......

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

CatLegger: Nice skylines. But what's it look like inside Sydney's {Chinatown}?...

in response to: Chinatown by Ross

balloonhedz: thatd be a heaven sent experience. That sounds so...correct me if Im wrong....Damon Runyon??? Almost like a scene from Guys & Dolls if it wasnt a musical and if it WAS set in......

in response to: Nam Wah Tea Parlor by Peter

brightflight: I'm not sure. I've eaten at a Nim Wah dim sum place in Chinatown but we might've just mispronounced Nam Wah. The food was really, really good but some old guys were smoking cigarettes indoors and......

in response to: Nam Wah Tea Parlor by Peter

CartLegger: Yes. this is a fine spot, an old fashioned joint that is the oldest continuously operating restaurant in Chinatown. It always looks empty, but you feel like a real important customer with undending offers of......

in response to: Nam Wah Tea Parlor by Peter

grisser: I think I remembered it being the oldest tea shop in China town according to the pamphlet they give out in one of those Chinatown festival....

in response to: Nam Wah Tea Parlor by Peter

Arnie Magraner: I used to work on Varick st. Near Chinatown circa 1965....

in response to: Going to the Tunnel on Varick by jack

serlingrod: Standard Tap is great - the same owners operate Johnny Brenda's up in Fishtown. There definitely is a development gap between Old City and Northern Liberties though, with I-95 running along the waterfront and 676......

in response to: Save Your Neighborhood by serlingrod

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......

in response to: Save Your Neighborhood by serlingrod

chiamattt: The stamp is my name in Korean, but my girlfriend (Fashion Chic) had it made for me in the Qingdao airport...which is in China. [[img:24315]] [[img:24316]] The shell of the stamp is a snake. I was born in......

in response to: Osaka Part Five by chiamattt

serlingrod: Do people even bike alot in NYC? I've taken my bike on the Chinatown Bus from Philly to NY many a times, and every visit I'm always amazed at how few fellow bikers I see.......

in response to: Frankford Avenue ArtRacks by serlingrod

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......

in response to: Rue Prince Arthur by CE

serlingrod: Jamie, this is not a true representation of Philadelphia as a whole. In addition to Center City, Philly is really a collection of neighborhoods. The area I photographed (Vine to Fairmount from Broad to 9th)......

in response to: Spring Garden / West Poplar / Loft District: Lost in Transition by serlingrod

Peter: heh, ive gotten that same blade runner vibe off of spots in chinatown, especially during rainstorms......

in response to: Blade Runner Cafe by CartLegger

jack: i went out once with a girl that looked like the 'girl'???in pic number 8. she was a rough girl, a gang member, from a chinese hatchet gang in chinatown, her sister, like the......

in response to: Cosplay by chiamattt

Tamara: ~ Someone eating a big montreal smoked meat sandwhich!!!!! ~ Chinatown... any funny signs ~ a house (any house) with multiple staircases ~ More grafs please. Montreal has some great artists ~ Orange Julip... 50's diner (this might be......

in response to: Montreal Scavenger Hunt by CE

willynelly: Old neighborhoods that at one time were nice for people to live and work in.It has happened from one end of this country to the other,when blacks move in and take over a neighborhood.Go to......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

Peter: i love the brackish part of downtown {nyc} where {chinatown} and {little italy} literally run together... lots of italian flags and restaurants, but a huge majority of {signage} in chinese....

in response to: Not-Chinatown / Fish-heads On Ice by aer suzuki

George T.: Too bad one has to squirm and agonize before saying 'Chinatown' or 'Japtown' or whatever. A Chinese knows that he is Chinese, for heaven's sake. 'ID' my foot - or should I say fish head.......

in response to: Not-Chinatown / Fish-heads On Ice by aer suzuki

jeeff: in toronto most of the various ethnic neighbourhoods just get the "little" tag - little portugal, little korea, little india, etc. and yet we still have 2 'chinatown' neighbourhoods in the east and west....

in response to: Not-Chinatown / Fish-heads On Ice by aer suzuki

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......

in response to: Not-Chinatown / Fish-heads On Ice by aer suzuki

jack: they should call it 'asianation'. the fish heads are great for soups. thirty years ago a client of mine invited me to his daughters wedding. it was held at #1 canal street......

in response to: Not-Chinatown / Fish-heads On Ice by aer suzuki

I.T.U.C.: It is believed that the Chinese community in {Liverpool} Uk, is possibly the oldest in the world. The first Chinese people are supposed to have been Merchants and Sailors, who worked the trade routes to......

in response to: Not-Chinatown / Fish-heads On Ice by aer suzuki

elaine: nice post. in london our chinatown is still chinatown, but then i think it really is actually chinese. it is very central, and i think the chinese residents have enough of a time trying to......

in response to: Not-Chinatown / Fish-heads On Ice by aer suzuki

shandy: I'm white and my place in Bushwick was the first I moved to when I came to New York. I had no idea what neighborhood meang what, I moved there firstly because my friend lived......

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

EvilGentleman: Something about Chinatown neighbourhoods and graf trux. That is where I seem to find them in Montreal, too...

in response to: 125 bowery, room 11 by vz

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Elaine, I applaud your desire to be eaten by Magpies. But please wait until you're very old. You're a good friend to the birds. Elicar, Is that pigeon on waterskis? Great shot. Metoo, I know a......

in response to: Seagulls and Pigeons Unite by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

EvilGentleman: Interesting shots of the skeleton of the old porn theatre (was it the Eve or the Picadilly? I can't remember. Never went in one of those places in my life). It really helps to illustrate......

in response to: montreal by hool

SamFarber: popasmuf: 1st Feb 2006 - 22:43 GMT I can't believe this lady didn't expect some kind of reaction when she did this. Go literally block down the road from this incident and there are logans and rancid......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

popasmuf: Why does this become a battle of car verses bike? She might drive a Hummer after work who the fuck knows, it really has nothing to do with the incident. If she threw a meat pie at......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

popasmuf: I can't believe this lady didn't expect some kind of reaction when she did this. It would be like me going up to her and ripping her headphones off her head, because I have a personal......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

too funny: The cyclist was way out of line. She's so self righteous and full of sh*t. She goes ballistic over a little garbage that might have fallen out of the motorists car, yet she was right......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

hool: in toronto, there are large communities of many nationalities. little portugal, little italy, little india, chinatown, little chinatown, greektown, little poland (roncesvalles). the list goes on and on. ...

in response to: Dec 05 2005 Toronto by hool

Peter: damn straight ill believe! i want to believe, in case you didnt get that. show me that shit, man... it would totally make my day, by the way. if you cant figure out how to......

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

jeeff: hi jo. here's a quickie travel guide for toronto, ##but## i'm writing this with one condition for you: please take some photos, write some stuff, and post an article here about your trip! first off,......

in response to: Toronto for a week by jo

Peter: sine and i were hanging out in chinatown that day, eating veggie dimsum. i think she took like 200 photos that day :)...

in response to: Chinatown by sine

Peter: here's a {dr. sex} piece from high atop {canal street} in {chinatown}, {nyc}: [[img:1915]]...

in response to: Dr. Sex Graffiti by Legalize Life

Peter: thats the whole point of this site- the banalities of an everyday {urban} existence that, though familiar and perhaps uninteresting to you, might be fascinating to people who have never been to your {city} or......

in response to: Track 5, Newark Penn Station by Peter

elaine: ackroyd's main idea, apparrently, is that london is like a volcano and some bits are fast flowing and some are fixed, and that over 2000 years there are areas which have stayed the same,......

in response to: Hack the City by Marc

Mad Jane: Whenever I pass the wall in your first photo, I experience a strange combination of anxiety and joy. That whole area between Chinatown and Spring Garden st. fascinates me. Where do you live, vz?......

in response to: ghosts of 19123 by vz

aajakaista: Re: chinatown is a cool place ...

in response to: Chinatown by sine

Peter: I live in nyc and am really familiar with nyc's chinatown... but ive been to philly's once, and really enjoyed it- the giant red wooden arch over the street, all the markets- cleaner, more open......

in response to: Chinatown by Mad Jane

Kevin: Philly's Chinatown is such an alluring area...the way it hugs the Vine St. Expressway and Arch St. Nice pic...I go to Temple and live in North Philly...please keep posting...

in response to: Chinatown by Mad Jane

hool: toronto - don't make eye contact in the streets and for the love of fucking god do not under any circumstances talk to anyone even if they talk to you first - if you're temporarily disoriented, look......

in response to: The Lost Rules of Living in NYC: by Peter