Comments about decay

There are 72 comments about "decay"

Ravennoir: ahhhhh clockwork orange:P not enough decay for my liking but the pictures is nice:P...

in response to: Glasgow Subway Pre-and-During Modernisation by Gap74

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......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

POWcityblog: you make a valid point about the size of the audience seeing this picture but the main point is that there there is a dignity/permission issue here. LiveJournal Urban Decay had a huge fuss a......

in response to: A Homeless Man Sleeping with His Most Cherished Possession by Leroy Allen Skalstad

Michael Yacques: Most people in florida who think they were bitten by a brown recluse spider Or Black Widow because of decaying flesh on a wound they have, are wronge. MRSA staff infections are rampant in florida.Ask......

in response to: Killer Spiders, and Giant Turtles by johnny E

Joe Seeking Contact: Check the current demographics on Elkin school and it is evident that the neighbor hood makeup has changed. Just like Kensington was wonderful to us as kids, so it is today for the current residents.......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

Born and Raised in NYC: nice ... the late 70's were a bad time evrywhere,massive urban decay, kids don't know how easy they got it now...

in response to: Hotel Deanza by JoeyD

Elicar: If something is dear to you, take care of it. Nobody cared ENOUGH for Benny Farms. Otherwise, it would not be in such a state of disrepair. Would you rather be sentimental and let the mosntrosity......

in response to: The Destruction of Benny Farm by EvilGentleman

Bonnie: My sister emailed me about this site. We were born and raised in Kensington, 2504 Front St. We lived there from 1949 until we left in the 70's. My parents lived there......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

jack: yeah, it looks like a nice building, the old architecture must give way to the newer sleek buildings, i am old architecture, and i have given way to the newer sleeker young buildings that have......

in response to: Viagra Headquarters? by serlingrod

Vincenzo: I grew up in EO and remember when it was still a decent place to live. Of course that was during the declining years and when it was really starting to fall apart. ......

in response to: The Projects of East Orange by Peter

maybetoday: All of St. Louis isn't as clean cut as these pictures show. I've only started taking my camera around as I walk through the City recently and these are the first places I've been......

in response to: Lemp Brewery by maybetoday

LAUREN: it's actually beautiful in an abstract and artistic way. yeah sure, the decaying buildings are an eyesore but some of the most interesting things i have ever seen. i like being in Detroit despite what......

in response to: Mexicantown by Cosmo

upfromflames: I was a little disappointed at your original presumption that the mysterious empty spaces in Newark once held decayed housing full of junkies. Actually, some of them used to contain thriving neighborhoods, some Italian white,......

in response to: A Walk Through Brick City by Peter

upfromflames: [[img:19022]] [[img:19023]] [[img:19024]] [[img:19025]] a few more images of buildings in the zone, that I wanted to get in before Peter! The locked buildings are part of the abandoned housing transfer system. The decayed house front is a reno......

in response to: The Bushwick Initiative: Holistic Redevelopment or Urban Renewal Retrofit? by upfromflames

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

j.walthers@timesnewsweekly.com: Thank you for your interest. I would like to start with a very brief history of Bushwick to establish both philosophy and development for use as foundation to buttress the argument that the communities of......

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

anon (localhost): Want Decay, Go to the city Winston-Salem, in the USA.... oh man... thats brutal.. in the course of 5 min i was robbed, shot, laughed at and then pissed on by a homeless man while......

in response to: Urban Decay by Chris Fuerth

Peter: wow. now ##this## was a nice read. curiously, ive been to the fair site a couple of times, even ridden my bike in the empty unisphere fountain and gazed forlornly at the decay of the......

in response to: Road Trip, Part II by procyon

Sirhcbre: I find it's best not to rely on nostalgia, it tends to be deceptive whereas it likes to leave out many of the bad parts of the past and glorify the good. Before God......

in response to: Murder at Dawson College by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: You have a good eye. You might also want to consider wandering around Point St Charles. A classic case of urban decay meets gentrification. Charlevoix Metro station is in the point....

in response to: Beaudoin Street by CE

Chris Erb: I really like the pictures of the empty mansions from Detroit. it's sad to see but the decay of Detroit can be very interesting....

in response to: Mexicantown by Cosmo

EvilGentleman: For a derelict building with numerous broken windows, there sure are tidy surroundings. I dunno whether it could be considered an eyesore or a trasure, but it sure fits on citynoise. Urban decay sure seems......

in response to: Dereliction by Cameo

aer suzuki: "Public Transportation is a good thing for Toronto. Lots of slate sky, concrete, asphalt, brick and steel...they took paradise and made a concrete jungle for sure." Ok. Maybe Toronto's different but here in Seattle they used......

in response to: Urban Decay by Chris Fuerth

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.

Peter: because it got linked up in a lj community called "urban decay"......

in response to: Happy Wok by Peter

Jamie: I'm not from London, Ruairí. What gave you the impression that i did? I live in Lincolnshire. I wholeheartedly agree that the pictures i have shown on this website do not reflect a fair image......

in response to: Cross Street and Blossom 2002 by Jamie

Ruairí: Hi Jamie Just wondered - what area of london are you from? I am originally from Lisnaskea but live in London now. I have had the idea of going round to to your neighbourhood and taking photos of......

in response to: Cross Street and Blossom 2002 by Jamie

Jamie: Lawrence i love the perspective in your photos, and i love the urban decay also...

in response to: Dilapidated by Lawrence

Chris Erb: This building is actually quite nice to Fredericton standards. Even though Fredericton is one of the richest places in Atlantic Canada, it's still quite poor compared to much of the rest of Canada. ......

in response to: Yuppy Scum by CE

Chris Erb: I really like picture two. The pavement is decaying in a wat to make it look like a well used natural path....

in response to: Honeypot by ea

Rapunzel: You have no idea what "decay" is. Try travelling. As far as streetcars go, that looks just fine. P.S. to the Korean, I lived in Korea for almost 3 years, what's your interest in trams/streetcars?? ...

in response to: Urban Decay by Chris Fuerth

anon (c-69-249-55-135.hsd1.nj.comcast.net): what is with the bad language and offensive spelling. are there some people trying to show us how bad they are by using a rough english to show they are from the 'hood'. ......

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

Chris Fuerth: Actually, although the "decay" itself is not visible in the picture, I was thinking of the Gardiner as decaying, in the 2 seconds I took to name the picture....

in response to: Urban Decay by Chris Fuerth

Selig: gota love decay. someone wrote something interesting about the importance of rust......

in response to: Downtown Berkeley by joey

Gabber: Decay indeed. A street car plastered in advertising. The TTC raises our fare despite the fact that they nearly sell out their advertising inventory. Shouldn't the fares be part subsidized by the advertising sales? Opps,......

in response to: Urban Decay by Chris Fuerth

schatbot mission: kilgore, i wouldn't call toronto a paridise. At least not in the last hundred years. As far as URBAN decay, i dont see where it is. In terms of world decay I'd say good shot....

in response to: Urban Decay by Chris Fuerth

joey: i know, it's boring. actually the tress hide the urban decay. the trees are a decoy for the decay just down the road....

in response to: Getting into Citynoise by joey

howard stern: you wanna talk decay, what about liz taylor's tits?...

in response to: Urban Decay by Chris Fuerth

barakus: if you want decay why don't you take pictures of jane and finch...

in response to: Urban Decay by Chris Fuerth

Steeker: uhmmm I live here and where's the decay in the pic's ???????...

in response to: Urban Decay by Chris Fuerth

jeeff: everything has decayed to sepia tone, i guess....

in response to: Urban Decay by Chris Fuerth

kyuss: DECAY??!?!?! i've never seen cleaner streets!...

in response to: Urban Decay by Chris Fuerth

Metoo: If you call that urban decay, you haven't been to many american cities!!...

in response to: Urban Decay by Chris Fuerth

freaky wild eddie: I realize I'm gonna get flak for this, but I really don't get the perpetual unoriginality of grafitti artists. It's like the "pigs should go eat a donut" joke, it's just so yesterday it's......

in response to: Dallas Graffiti Writers Busted! by Dallas Police

me :): Leah !! you stand tall you did a good thing , about time we(public) all stand up and take back the city cause the police can't do anything because of assh*les in city hall......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: On beauty and decay: I was sent a poem from a book by Toyohiko Kagawa, called Songs From The Slums. He grew up and worked around the Kobe slums of Japan and was thrown in......

in response to: Cross Street and Blossom 2002 by Jamie

elaine: well put. i am told the japanese have a word for beauty in decay. it is a lovely photo...

in response to: Cross Street and Blossom 2002 by Jamie

ian: Radioisotopes are wonderful things. Their decay brings about our decay, yet, they have taught us so much about life, chemistry, and the nature of the universe. I exhalt them, on a mighty altar, in a......

in response to: I Double-Dare You to Pull It by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Peter: wow. decaying factories are always cool... i love the photo of that mannequin. tres creepy! im glad you got into this place, and scored some photos to share with us!...

in response to: paterson factory - may 2002 by adam

JayEastsider: wow great pictures i have never personally been too detroit but i had a friend who lived there for a year and she said quite large areas of the city are in urban decay. i......

in response to: Brush Park, Detroit by Tmax 400

vz: the entrance on noble st... either go under the gate as there is a bit of a gap, or to the right of it, along the precarious and decaying wooden support structure along the "outside"......

in response to: On the Reading Viaduct by vz

Peter: nice. very "urban decay"....

in response to: archaic by fuzzytank

TomMich: In response to an earlier comment by jupiterbaal on the longevity of Medieval cathedrals, I would like to remind you that many cathedrals did fall down due to faulty building techniques or poor foundations. ......

in response to: Don Justo\'s Self Built Cathedral by Hasslehoff

Peter: such development and decay, transition, change and static history co-exisitng in one dense place. this is the story of new york city in a nutshell... this is the essence of citynoise....

in response to: Lower Manhattan at Sunset by sine

pillboxer: Well, that would look like Detroit except they don't like to tear down abandoned buildings. They just like to let them sit and decay to give urban explorers and graffiti artists places to poke......

in response to: Abandoned General Motors Plant by Peter

joey: the ecological trickle down waste theory. it's one way of spreading the industrial decay. if you have a couple of different chemical cars on one train you get a trickle down cocktail....

in response to: Precision by Bleeagh

elaine: these are ##so## beautiful! someone told me once there is a japanese word for beauty in decay, and of course i have forgotten it now. you have captured a regretful beauty with your gentle eye,......

in response to: Plum Beach II by kc

'Yunker: Nice photo. FYI, Manayunk isn't "near Philly" -- it's actually part of the city proper. Before 1990, Manayunk was a decaying industrial section of Philadelphia, not the upscale shopping enclave that it is today. As......

in response to: Ladies\' Entrance by JJ

Peter: mmm, decaying carcasses of dead animals!...

in response to: Death in Dalston by JamJar

kobe: wow, is today ##urban decay day## on citynoise? great shots!...

in response to: Brush Park, Detroit by Tmax 400

Peter: also: i used to take the j/m/z train from my old place in {brooklyn} into {manhattan} every day... on the elevated platform near the hospital, i once saw a thug grab a book out of......

in response to: No Complaints Today by GGP

Peter: ahh, urban decay at its finest!...

in response to: 125th street ruins by caracarn

Peter: Jamie- I'll make some of the most decay-filled urban shots for you this week if you'll make some of the most rural ones of lincolnshire! id love to see that shit. i mean, you see......

in response to: good runner, needs a little work by elaine

hasslehoff: i am also interested. i am stuck in rural lincolnshire for the forseeable future and dearly miss urban decay and random violence and vandalism....

in response to: good runner, needs a little work by elaine

Peter: eh, i find urban decay fascinating... especially stuff from europe....

in response to: good runner, needs a little work by elaine

UnlimitedLou: words AND pictures say so much more ! Reassuring to know that even upmarket 'London-by-the-sea' isn't above a bit of extremely un-picteuresque squalor...Good old Urban Decay - doesn't turn it's unbiquitous nose up at......

in response to: romantic seaview... by elaine

Marc: Media obsolesence is a huge problem actually- i know everything's sorted on the net now, but imagine the reel to reel tapes and 8 inch floppy disks and even the 5.25 and the 3.25?! from......

in response to: Two Hundred Years From Now by Jamie

Peter: ahh, the profundity of urban decay as an allegory for the human condition......

in response to: day trip by elaine

Roman Gorbenko: I am glad you do like my photograph, Sine. I shall make a nother, post then, of a nother photograph of my Ukraine. And to Peter, I do a gree that this photograph does look......

in response to: Dead Boat by Roman Gorbenko

mc shawaddywaddy: urban decay. deep seated urban decay. people live in these? i would not care to live here....

in response to: romantic seaview... by elaine

hasslehoff: ##photos of how the roads looked, images of neighborhoods developing and decaying through time## [[715:This article]] and [[712:this article]] are quite interesting reads on this subject. just my two pence....

in response to: Random Thoughts by Peter

Jamie: deep-seated urban decay. more please. i like your style....

in response to: Chicago by corsakti