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Peter: funny you would mention it: [[img:30076]] that entry (and the tunnel under the tracks) made me feel like i was in some former eastern european state. believe it or not, i havent hung out around the junction much.......

in response to: Apex Airtronics, Inc. by Peter

jack: nah, la is nice as many places are nice but brooklyn and manhattan, well, they're special. the promenade, ahhh, i remember romancing many a young girl there, and when i say romancing i mean......

in response to: NYC Glace\' by CartLegger

Story: Hi, I am an artist living in Hackney, London in the United Kingdom. Me and a friend are looking to spend 3 months in New York next year doing the galleries and looking into artist......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Pantera: Unfortunately these cases or even WORSE happen many times. When I was a kid in my hometown Szeged (M.E.-Europe, Hungary) there were 2 abandoned cemeteries, a protestant and a catholic (mainly......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Stan N: The movie theater around the corner from the Loews Pitkin was the Loews Palace. Someone had mentioned that he had forgotten the name. I also ate a lot of the combination plates at the shaky......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

margarita kontarovich: happy thanksgiving day! summer deaf camp 2011 mid hudson valley camp in ecoupe esupoe new york esucop epscue new york states i will be stay in camp for one weeks for 7 days......

in response to: School for the Deaf by Peter

anon (142.128.203.205.in-addr.arpa.net): I have moved back to the Upper East Side after a few years away and I am so happy to be back. I lived on 77th St. and then 3rd Ave./73rd St. for much of......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

Ashley: I really think you have to look at these photos in context. You have crime in every city - but unless it's shown to you on a platter you never really realize it. It reminds......

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

Peter: did you see the links i posted above? in addition to those, all of the following sites appear to show the identical image (though sometimes at different resolutions)... it was posted here in 2004: [[http://www.thatsweird.net/picture37.shtml]] it was......

in response to: Forrest by Rune Willem

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......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Andrew Dawson: http://www.lr55.com/ As for track work, in Europe things have contiuned to advance. There are new ideas for rebuilding tram track, faster & cheaper....

in response to: Goodbye, Streetcar Rails by EvilGentleman

pissed off local: you have just focused on the bad have u actualy seen anything u wanted to see or were u in a bad mood that day 1. the only flying lancaster bomber in europe 2. the 1......

in response to: Morning Walk: Part One by jamie

Janet: Well, the adage 'the more things change the more they stay the same' does not apply to the old neighborhoods or the old movie houses where those of our generation got a colorful taste so......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

j davis: The main problem is letting in immigrants who do not want to assimilate into Norwegian culture but want to change Norway into an islamic state. They were already a problem when I lived in Stockholm......

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

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......

in response to: Baron Von Fancy by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Who Cares for Kensington: Carol, I left the neighborhood because I felt forced to do so by crime and apparent bleak future prospects.I moved to another section of the city that wasn't the greatest, but it served and a......

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

50: catched a JA trow crossed out by BENET in amsterdam europe, in 2007....

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

James cashan: Re: jon burgess, I agree, on the one hand people say every body knows your business on the other its good to have a sense of community and roots which a lot of people......

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

Jennifer: This is so not representative of Montreal! Montreal is a city where you can hang out safely at night without being scared of everyday street gang attacks. Of course, attacks happen but not......

in response to: Red Light District by CE

CE: I have a friend who recently travelled through Europe for a few months and on a few occasions she said that there were people who were less than pleasant with her because they thought she......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

Born and Raised in NYC: Incredibly condescending comments but coming from a Canadian I'm not surprised. Never judge the majority attitude of any given place by graffiti since the majority population are seldom represented in the sentiment expoused it's usually drawn/written......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

Mr. Jones: Yeah, The Bricks was bad, but in many ways it was surreal. Go back and read it's real history.Before the great migration and the riots.Even after that, boring could never be said about the city......

in response to: A Walk Through Brick City by Peter

europeaus: I think the problem is just inside American brains......

in response to: Public Urinals: Amsterdam by Peter

jack: my little italian beauty, how are you able to spot all these european beauties....

in response to: 1965 Fiat 500 by Peter

jack: little frenchie, i saw this car around europe quite a bit, one night i ran out of gas and stopped in a church graveyard and i syphered some gas out of the tank of that......

in response to: Citroën 2CV by Peter

Naya: I'm looking for some friendly contacts of people interested in graffitis both in Toronto and in New York... Do you know where can I go to meet some ? For now I'm in Europe but I'm hoping......

in response to: graffiti alley / style in progress \'05 by jeeff

Geethu: I never thought tokyo is something like this. Not very diffrent from a fully urbanized european city. Can't beleve anybody can live without visinity of lush green and rain drops. ...

in response to: Tokyo Architecture by Chris Jongkind

Jim: I concur! I presume you mean the gypsies from eastern europe, man they are awful. What bothers me is the fact that most have passed through across many, many safe countries in order to come to......

in response to: Gypsy Beggar by steelisreal

BJ: I agree with ette. Looking at corporate war profits in USA and Europe today shows how immoral war is. We blindly send our youth to wherever the powers that be decide, then start shipping them......

in response to: Memorial to Berlin Wall Deaths by nomad

stepha: every now and then i check this site, it is so SWEET. talking about sweet, the charlotte rousses (all whipped cream with little piece of sponge cake) from a bakery on franklin ave. ......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Paul R Taylor : In its heyday Liverpool was the richest city in the world and was the gateway to Europe, Asia, Australia, south America, north America and the world. The River Mersey, the Irish Sea......

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

indykid: Interesting to see the latest from the WTC site. I don't know what it's like in America, but here in Europe now the fires are out and the buildings have stopped falling we don't really......

in response to: DownTown by barry

does it matter?: If you view Winnipeg from the south, so that Osborne Village is to your left and Fort Garry Plaza is to your right, you can see Winnipeg from a much more complimentary angle. Unfortunately, most......

in response to: The Top 10 Canadian Skylines by CE

jack: as soon as you said it i realized i knew it, just wasn't there at the time, i don't know about the less hairy legs, european girls don't shave the legs or armpits, the hairy......

in response to: French Dog by Ilona

stevie: Get over yourselves! I have lived in Europe, Amsterdam specifically, and over there people are not so prissy. Peeing is part of life. Penises are part of every guy. Trust me, no one there thinks......

in response to: Public Urinals: Amsterdam by Peter

HushUp: Ok apparently not. So here we go (I guess because of my first post I used copy and paste so it didn't go through) Sooooo, I will type it all out, just because I......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

saltbake: I´m afraid to say that this town is the worst place I´ve ever lived. I grew up in a really small town in South Dakota, and I can say that Hutchinson does not even have......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

dogloverhanley: i lived at 1440 dekalb now have worked thru out europe reside in wash. state. found memories strolling with my sister with our doll carriages up too the 83rd police station visiting the shoe maker hitting the......

in response to: Winter in Brooklyn reminds me of spring in Moscow by shoshannah

EvilGentleman: The simple reality is, Americans are welcomed warmly by most Montrealers, and generally disliked but tolerated by the rest. And that dislike is often because they are getting mistaken for Torontonians, or other English-speaking Canadians. Dislike......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: Well, how about we let the place that used to be in Yugoslavia call itself "The Slavic Republic of Northern Macedonia"? I dunno, just trying to state what I feel is right. The only Yugoslavians......

in response to: Θεσσαλονίκη by zagg

Toxteth Riot: Hi EvilGentleman. I don't like the term FYROM. I am not a fan of the term Republic of Macedonia either. The Graeco-Romans, that is, the indigenous population of the South-Easter Meditarranean, as a people share a common......

in response to: Θεσσαλονίκη by zagg

February 6, 1958 United players killed in air disaster: The Munich air disaster took place on February 6, 1958, when the British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at the Munich-Riem airport in Germany.......

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

Dick: When I was a kid I asked my father who was a doctor whether it was important to wash one's hands after urinating. He replied that urine does not carry disease causing organisms. ......

in response to: Public Urinals: Amsterdam by Peter

jack: i could swear that this is the old navy yards where i shipped out for europe in dec of 1961. we hit the north atlantic in rough storms for 4 days and many got......

in response to: Brooklyn\'s Rusty Shores by CartLegger

bed sty-cee!: ....and another thing you mexicans i cant believe you let your country go to hell by corruption and stealing. instead of staying there fighting and taking back your country you run here. work so called......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

bed sty-cee!: hello chicago folks-well lets have a little history lesson non of you are spanish, spaniards or latin. all of those words,terms or descriptions belong to europeans, aka white people. all so called hispanics,......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Jay: these type accomadations are nothing "new" in Amsterdam, or any large city in Holland, the older ones are a multi urinal screen barracade type you walk into and use, with only the head and feet......

in response to: Public Urinals: Amsterdam by Peter

DeadRagabash: First off, I was born in a nice little Indian Reservation in Oklahoma, lived all over Okalhoma lived all over New Mexico, Texas & Colorado. As well as 15 odd places in Germany over 2......

in response to: America's Most Boring Towns: 1 by Scott Sargent

Huggy : I find these urinals so much better than in Paris. It costs 1 franc to use an inclosed toilet located on the street, but a lot of Frenchies find it easier (and cheaper)to urinate against......

in response to: Public Urinals: Amsterdam by Peter

Glenn Freeman: Hi, Just googling pics of my old neighbourhood. I live in Europe now, and haven't lived in Montreal for 10 years now. IIRC, They were still working on Benny Farm back then. Grüß aus Deutschland, Glenn...

in response to: The Benny Farm Condemned Housing Projects by EvilGentleman

re: CATCH A BIKE THIEF!: : Very cool post and glad you got at least one of your bikes back! I've had two bikes stolen in the past few years and it's no picnic. One was a high end mountain bike......

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

anne from Ireland Europe: The Mohawks of Kahnawake made me so welcome for so many years without even knowing it....

in response to: Echoes of a Proud Nation Pow-Wow 2006 by EvilGentleman

Jamie: great photos. hool, please tell me your touring europe!...

in response to: Berlin For Life by Lea

CE: It is important to remember that every city has many different faces and this is just one of them. Montreal has the ability to change drastically from one block to another. Just a......

in response to: Red Light District by CE

colavitos ghost: in these pictures, montreal appears a little bit dirtier than i've always imagined it. i don't mean dirty in a bad way, just kind of gritty. a lot more american than european. ......

in response to: Red Light District by CE

jack: i love old boats. especially boston whalers. i took a cruise to europe with 1000 soldiers, we slapt in hammocks four up to the top, stormy weather in north atlantic, guys were throwing......

in response to: A Walk Along The Embankment by Jamie

EvilGentleman: I could have sworn the first conquest of Alexander was Greece. So the big question would then be, was it a civil war or an invasion? Considering the classical Greek habit of describing both Macedon......

in response to: Θεσσαλονίκη by zagg

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.

Josh: I have been in Oslo several times over the past years and have liked it less every time. Norway has become fantastically wealthy, and this wealth has mirrored itself in a cultural vulgarity which......

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

EvilGentleman: Actually I could easily imagine a European mistakenly saying "a daycare for babes", which would be pretty equivalent to the above scenario. I guess we English speakers are very perverted people. I, for one, am......

in response to: Bimbo Daycare by EvilGentleman

.nanotech.: [[img:18457]] [[img:18458]] [[img:18459]] [[img:18462]] [[img:18463]] [[img:18464]] [[img:18465]] [[img:18466]] [[img:18467]] [[img:18468]] [[img:18469]] [[img:18470]] [[img:18471]] * The Queen of England has reportedly been buying up property in Colorado under a proxy. * There is a lot of "secret society" symbology at the airport,......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

Gregorino: Who doesn't like Toronto it's way better then all these crapy cities. Yah, I bet they have great skyline but at least Toronto isn't crime central. Like most of these central american, asian, african, european,......

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

Esmee: Thanx to your fuel driven snow thrower (and others) we experience an early spring here in Europe...

in response to: Cold, Fog, Snow, Cold and Nothing by jack

Guy McLaren: Catherine 66 Jaguar 3.8s also in some quarters known as the MkII. Manufactured in England Jack Eastern Transvaal is the previous name for Mpumalanga which is a province In South Africa, Thats at the Southern tip......

in response to: Timeless Grace by Guy McLaren

Ricardo: I visited Olaf Lange's Photo Album web site for a couple of motnhs, my first time about 1 year ago. I cant find the site anymore. Can someone give me the link, the one in......

in response to: Rural Northern Ireland by Jamie

Ringo: The "rant" againts christianity was actually more to do with the inferance that christains are superior to antyone wearing a patch. I have not said that pathc holders are whiter than white. I don't know......

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

JNJ: Again. The problem isn't your, "whiteness". Human phenotypes don't necessarily always reflect the genotypes. "White", just like Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, is just a generic term used to separate people for the......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

colavitos ghost: ahhhhhhh.....the rivers of europe....

in response to: Random Thames 4 by steelisreal

jack: i knew gypsies in europe. they travelled around in colorful wagons. some pulled by horses and some by an old car or truck. they lived off selling cheap jewelry, tarot cards, playing......

in response to: Gypsy Beggar by steelisreal

JNJ: "I was running in Humboldt Park the other day, as I have for a few years, when 2 Puerto Rican 17ish year olds rammed their bicycles into me. I stepped to them, as it were,......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

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......

in response to: Day One of the European Adventure by zagg

susannah: Not to mention - people just want to stay out of the heat. When I used to have to go to farming communities on business trips I alway thought it was strange that the local......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 13 by Scott Sargent

Jan T: Well, it's expensive for tourists in Oslo, but for someone living in Oslo it's not more expensive than for a Londoner to live in London or a parisien to live in Paris. And it depends......

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

RobertR: [[img:15287]] Another picture of the bosporus bridge which connects the European with the Asian continent. This pic I shot out from the car window heading to the bridge. We drove with our Dutch car a......

in response to: Bosphorus Bridge by sen

Sirhcbre: There's a good reason for that though, the reason Europe and North America have so few on this list is because their major cities are all cities that were booming when building heights wern't as......

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

James: Yesterday I returned to my current home city of Shenzhen after a week's stay in Tokyo. Since we fly into Hong Kong airport, that means I passed through 3 of the top 15 cities in......

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

ksedge: wow, i'm in shock. i can't believe this is actually true. they could at least build a little structure around it. or, i've heard in some places in europe they have public bathrooms with two......

in response to: Public Urinals: Amsterdam by Peter

Cosmo: Not sure how it works in Europe, but I am certain that over here in Detroit punks would urinate all over the thing, not just into the hole, thus rending the entire surface sticky and......

in response to: Public Urinals: Amsterdam by Peter

kman: Appalling is the lack of adventure, and negative reaction (dare i say somewhat disrespectful) and perhaps ignorance. Shark fin is extremely expensive considered a delicacy in East Asia kinda like caviar is for Europeans. Prices......

in response to: $95 For a Bowl of Soup? by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: Oh, without a doubt, the purple wall **is** tacky, that is what adds so much to its charm, in much the same way that Las Vegas is tacky and awesome at the same time. Thinking deeper......

in response to: A Walk Through the International District by aer suzuki

Nick: I'm embaressed by the number of stupid Brits here who have come looking for an arguement, by slagging off the US in the most derogatory, assinine way possible. I'm a Brit and I also *shock......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

Maria Latore: British people who complain about America need to get something through their heads. First, Britain was the original mega-power who everyone hated. Just because we kicked your ass in the revolutionary war and because......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

EvilGentleman: Canadian-Canadian, why do you say: ##"Half of NDG is immigrants on welfare already."## That seems like a pretty narrow-minded view. Do you have something against immigrants? And I seriously doubt your numbers, since most people......

in response to: The Benny Farm Condemned Housing Projects by EvilGentleman

GLAZE..WYF: i see pictures on a europe web site of mad ja trains shit is crazy ..because he is from new york,,,ithink he did them in france or some place like that when i was in......

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

Genaro: Susannah, I have to give you, half-a-ditto on this one! You have to understand that their were many Whites who and are still really racsists, especially the ones of the establishment, along with most of......

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

EvilGentleman: General Eisenhower went on to become President, while this old General did not die, but just faded away. Old Blood and Guts was one of the most controversial and amazing men of the 20th century. A......

in response to: Patton Statue by steelisreal

EvilGentleman: I find it absolutely incredible that historical stuctures are valued so little in a land where they are so rare. I could understand Europeans not being terribly attached to hundred-year-old buildings, but they also have......

in response to: Long Time Gone by Joe

jack: dale, wasn't he with the band of outlaws known as robin hood and his merry band of theives. he probably left the sherwood forest after they were pardoned by richard the lionheart and went......

in response to: Very, Very Old Windows by Andrew Smith

zagg: Thanks Peter, a close friend of mine was living in Macedonia at the time (my tri was in May) and so I took life by the balls and flew over to Macedonia for 2+ weeks.......

in response to: In Steep Cliffs with Rocks All Piled Up Mysteries of Your Passing Luck by zagg

Greg Hennig: I am Canadian and I am flying my motorcycle to europe and riding my motorcycle from Italy up to Riga then across to Moscow and southeast to Aktobe Kazakhstan. I would like to hear from......

in response to: Bridge over Daugava (Vansu Tilts) by BZZZP

Scott Sargent: Nice photos, Gus. I like the European automobiles. Could you make more photographs of such automobiles for us 'Yanks'? :-D...

in response to: Barnoldswick by Gus Brennan

jack: i want to go there. forget about europe, the netherlands, brooklyn, all i want to do is jump into those green blue waters and swim with the dolphin and whales and just live on......

in response to: The Seething Metropolis of Anna Maria Island by sine

MikeUK: If the English nation is not special, how come they have achived more than any other nation on earth. Been a world power for 300 years, started the industrial revolution and created the modern......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

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

joey: it certainly looks 'old world' there in montreal; european. the picture of the nun with the payless shoe bag is my favorite. but why does she needs shoes? it looks like she is floating across that......

in response to: June 2006 Montreal Part 2 by hool

EvilGentleman: No worries, we got the Mini-Me Bush, or Bush Jr. for Prime Minister now. Bush thinks he **already** owns us. Why would he invade Canada? That would be like a US invasion of Puerto Rico.......

in response to: Still Standing by Biff

Chris Erb: This area has a very European feel to it....

in response to: The Other Yonge Street by EvilGentleman

elaine: i absolutely love that second one. jamie, *do* you call yourself european? i was thinking about that very question the other day....

in response to: Asheville Alleys by ea

Jamie: As a brit, and dare i say it, a european, i'm quite surprised by your views of north carolina. I guess it's one of those places i know nothing about, yet always imagine to be......

in response to: Asheville Alleys by ea

indykid: An interesting thing about this photos for me is the road sign up ahead. I think here in Europe it's a common misconception that there are no roundabouts in North America. I know that this......

in response to: Don\'t Mess With Teddy! by Arcticwoman

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