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There are 100 comments about "grand street"

Jane: Allan, This is funny but I do know you. I lived on the first floor. My entrance was a private one where you had to walk up about seven stairs. As you entered......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Rohinton Ghandhi: November 27th, 2008 To City Noise Editors, I have recently begun writing articles for the Verdun Messenger's new English Corner segment. They cover Verdun's history and the people within it. I thought your group......

in response to: Verdun Neon by CE

poolboy: I LOVE this place. My grandparents lived just down the street and i used to go there. Now, 21 years later, i find myself going out of my way to go here. I love the......

in response to: Decarie Hot Dogs by CE

jack: hi joey, its been almost two years since you asked for a story about the beat generation in the village. well its better late than never, so here is a short one. my......

in response to: Blue Note Lounge by jack

Alan Kupperberg: Yep, Richie, I remember the Coca Cola bottling plant on Linden Blvd between Georgia and Pennsylvania Avenues. Grandma Ann and Aunt Nettie lived in Starrett City. Coney Island Joe's was little more than a......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Lynnette (Diaz) Madden: No, I do not know Sharon. My grandparents lived at Kip and Westmoreland across from Stetson. I just got in contact with one of the Hazlett boys from A Street and Terry Deeney from B......

in response to: Fall in the East Bay by joey

Janet: What a collection of memories--things that surely resonate throughout this remarkable site. Just a few comments, Alan, though the Rochester-Buffalo-Ralph neighborhood from St. Johns to Eastern Parkway was not our neighborhood. The Congress......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

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

Lynnette (Diaz) Madden: Brian, I used to live on Ella Street between Tioga and Ontario. 3423 N. Ella Street!!! I hung around with the girls I named above. You may have known the Mackley's. I used to hang around......

in response to: Fall in the East Bay by joey

Humboldt1: Gentrification is being caused by yuppies and professionals from the east moving further west, displacing current long-time residents. The park itself is beautiful and a true gem in the Chicago Park District, but is......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

punsterbill: Born in Williamsburg Hospital in '41. Lived on first floor of 99 Stockholm St until '47 when we moved to Cornelia Street. went to PS 56 on Bushwick Ave, Halsey JHS and one......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

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

Lynnette (Diaz) Madden: I had a dream about Webb's Bakery the other night. I woke up dying for one of their butter cookies with the chocolate center drop. I Googled Webb's and this is what I found! OMG--just......

in response to: Fall in the East Bay by joey

Gonebutnot forgotten: Grew up on Montrose Avenue across from Most Holy Trinity Church. What a beautiful church. Always reminded me of St. Patrick's Cathedral. Had cousins who went to school there and remember walking to......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Allan: Found this site, and these posts are fascinating. PS 167 brings back memories. Graduated in 1959. Sorry I hardly recall any of my teachers' names. Might remember if I heard them. I do recall my......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Gemini: I have lived in Bushwick for most of my life. I have lived on my street for 34 yrs. Bushwick is like any other neighborhood it has it's ups and downs. I referred to it......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Linda Steinmetz: found this site while looking for info on P.S. 113 - the one on Moffat Street. I Grew up on Moffat Street, same block as the school, We had one of the houses with backyards......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Richie Fisher: Wow. I lived on the corner of Harmon and Wilson till June, 71. Cried wnen I left. I went to St. Barbs, grad. in '71. I lived 2 houses fom the other Fisher's, Georgie, Kenny......

in response to: Bushwick 77: The Casusos of Harman St. by upfromflames

gane 2: the address to the scrap yard is 300 w broadway new york, Ny betwwen canal street and grand st. the phone number is (212) 343-2557...your welcome!!..lol...

in response to: Scrap Yard nyc GRAFFITI STORE by art views

alan: jUST BY ASKING A SIMPLE QUESTION CONCERNING SOMEONE IN THE PAST,A ENTIRE WORLD OPENS TO YOU. I lived at 4802 Snyder and left Tilden in 1960. What a different world. My grandfather owed the buiding......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Gaynor Miller: Hi Tom I think all our Grandads fathers and Uncles worked on the Steel works I know mine did, they worked with yours I will have to dig some photo's out of your Grandad Tom......

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

Adam Enright: There is No Game like the Good Ol' Montreal Hockey Riot! A city whose hockey passions create a constant hunger for battling peace and the status quo. [[http://www.progressivewebdesign.ca/hockeyriots.html]] by Adam Enright I was thrilled to read about......

in response to: Hockey Victory Riot by EvilGentleman

Tom: Hairsy and Mike(Violas Grandson) Hi Hairsy I know you will remember me but Mike will not, but Mike might remember my Grandparents last name(SHAW)since we live across the street from Violas on Cambria St.......

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

Ron Urry: Hi , seeking some more info... I have the 1901 census for Cadishead , RG 13 / 3662 / 113 / 15 with my grandmother on it. They were living at 64 Whitfield Street. Almost the next......

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

Kathy Hulse: hairsy, The name Heiler is familiar, but must have been after my time. I left there in '70. I remember my grandmother and mother talking about the heiler family. We had the......

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

Ron Urry: Hi , I have read Bob Salmons comments with interest having just come across this site. My maternal grt grandmother was a Royle from Flixton and my grt grandfather was a Davies from Cadishead, lately of......

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

Sheila Vaudrey: Hello Jenny and Janet(Sutton), I lived at No 42 Harewood Road and I do remember you living there also I remember the field that belonged to your granddad, it came at the side......

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

Brian Mackay: My Grandfather Douglas Mackay, was born in 124 Houston Street in 1903. His father, Charles Mackay, previously lived at 234 Watt St in 1900 when he married. My grandfather emigrated to Philadelphia in the US......

in response to: 11 Stanley Place, Kinning Park by kobe

Post-84 New Jack: Thanks for the lolly, W-Bear. I'll be sure to pass it on to my son. He's teething right now and its a bitch. As for you, Bilrock Rolling Thunder Whiter- oops, I mean Writer. You failed......

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

Post-84 New Jack: See, thats the general difference in our perspectives, "W-Bear". I prefer to look to the future, and push things to new heights than to dwell on the past and the past's faded glories and talk......

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

jack: you know, 86th street, under the el, in the summer, hot, sweltering days, but the shadows of the el always kept me cool, that was my area for awhile because all my family was housed......

in response to: X Movie Theatre by jack

Deb Simpkins (nee Massey): Wow! My Uncle Cyril (Bagshaw) put me onto this site and I have just spent the last hour reading all the comments. My mum (Edith Jaques) was born in Irlam and my dad (Jim Massey)......

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

angela buscemi letzeisen: my husband fred and i were married in st.barbaras church in february 1953 and just celebrated our 55th wedding anniversary on valentines day.i went to st barbaras school and church during the 1930 to 1946......

in response to: Bushwick 77: The Casusos of Harman St. by upfromflames

Joanne Amorello-minor: Anyway as far as memories from Irlam go I went to Irlam county primary and the endowed then to Irlam High I left in 1987,I lived on Ferry hill rd Harewood rd and The crescent.I......

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

Joanne Amorello-minor: Hello Can anybody help me find any information about my father ROY EDWARD MINOR..He was found dead at Irlam locks in 1976.We lived on Ferryhill Rd and my nan and grandad lived at 46 Harewood rd......

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

little ukraine: I'm with Lefty, EG, you should post them. I have similar regrets; my grandmother grew up on Chauncey Street (right next to the Kramdens, right?) and my father says he remembers her talking about......

in response to: Under the Bridges by Peter

EvilGentleman: The first picture is very close to my grandparents' old apartment, which was at the corner of Water and Fulton. Of course, Fulton is now known as either Old Fulton or Cadman Plaza West, but......

in response to: Under the Bridges by Peter

Sheila Cairns: My Grandfather was born in Anderson Street ( now no longer there) does anyone know which school he would have gone to? The family later moved to 45 Lambhill Street. Family name Crawford. Would appreciate......

in response to: 11 Stanley Place, Kinning Park by kobe

Keith Ogden: loads of memories from this site.I was born and grew up in cadishead 1939-1960 The train on irlam park was what my father drove at the soap works.I remeber Irlam hall being demolished, i was christened......

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

liesbeth: I have just been doing some family research and have discovered that my grandmother (who I never knew) and her family (1800s) all came from Deansgate, (Alliance and Leicester building) 7,Liverpool Road, (building site), 39,......

in response to: Empty City by Myke

anon (ppp-69-219-38-192.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net): My name is Sabrina I lived in 150 N Hermitage I was born and raised in the Horner, and I was there when Oprah filmed the movie... and David Hall is you Kathy son? My grand......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

jettr130: I"grew up"on the streets of Yorkville.I lived there from 1946-1957.My family first lived on 73rd and 74th sts. on 2nd Ave. My grandmother lived on 87th and 88th on York Ave. I went to just......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

america: wow! that's my grandfather street ...

in response to: Rufus Rockhead Street by EvilGentleman

Mary Aguanno Allocca: I think of my old neighborhood quite often. I lived at 101 Harman Street, between Central and Evergreen Avenues. Graduated from 8th grade at St. Barbara's in 1962 (was in the school "Brigade"......

in response to: Bushwick 77: The Casusos of Harman St. by upfromflames

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......

in response to: Bushwick 77: The Casusos of Harman St. by upfromflames

thomas mc gowan to david kean: hi david yes imyself new yir family well the shop was called burns every sat /morn to fill acumalater for wirlessthey were the days david, yes would you please send me copy of the photos......

in response to: 11 Stanley Place, Kinning Park by kobe

Seamus Mc Clean: Thanks for the info on St Margarets. David, I would like a photo if you have one please. Can you scan and email to mccleanseamus@hotmail.cm? many thanks. Visited Stanley Street last weekend. My Grandmother was......

in response to: 11 Stanley Place, Kinning Park by kobe

jack: great barbara, nice writing, it is a beautiful time of year, in brooklyn in the 40's and 50's the old men in the neighborhood would gather up leaves in piles in the streets and burn......

in response to: We All Enjoy the Colors of Autumn Leaves by Barbara Christensen

Helen Salmon: Hi John, My grandparents James and Margaret Davies lived on Fir Street until my granddad died in 1989. James's father John Davies worked at Royles. my grandma's maternal ancestors were the Royles mentioned by Bob Salmon (my......

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

John Cooper - john.cooper@airspaceinfo.com.au: [[img:24334]] My grandfather worked there too for most of his life until the late 40's/early 50's. He was Arthur Davies and lived in Fir Street. John....

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

jack: so there i am 5 years old standing on bay parkway and 86th street waiting for a trolley with my grandmother, vincenza (the ice pick), and she looks down at me and say's,"jacomino, why you......

in response to: Italian Women by Ilona

Seamus Mc Clean: Just learned my grandparents were married in St Margarets RC Church, Stanley Street. Does anyone know if the Church is still standing?...

in response to: 11 Stanley Place, Kinning Park by kobe

GGP: Now I will tell a Jack-like story. When I was a kid, we would drive home at night from visiting my grandparents in Astoria (who, by the way had a Ravenswood phone prefix: RA8-4089, I......

in response to: Kraftwerk by Peter

EvilGentleman: I saw this post the day it was first posted, and had not looked back it till today. What a lot of comments about stolen bikes in the Toronto area! Incredible. Reminds me of this guy......

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

Smudgy: Well, I guess I discovered this site just a bit too late. I missed the walking tour and I missed the show at the BHS. I was born at Bushwick hospital in 1949.......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Sam: I remember when this neighborhood was Italian. My grandmother owned a house on division street between Chicago and North Avenues. The neighborhood was beautiful and the houses well maintained. The Our Lady of......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

jack: thank you wally, my great-grandfather was one of the workers on that bridge and he also worked on the battery tunnel, roebling has a town named after him, roebling new jersey where his wire factory......

in response to: Brooklyn Bridge and World Trade Center by WallyG

Maire : Great Photos. I wish that you had told the name of the streets these buildings were on. I was born in St. Louis and my grandmother lived at 11th and Montgomery. I lived......

in response to: Old North St. Louis Pt. I by maybetoday

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

Brooklyn-Pete: Bushwick is not the worst neighborhood in Brooklyn, it's definately no Park Slope but it is not as bad as some would have others believe. The neighborhood is very noisy and extremely filthy on many......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

bushwick facts:: in the 60-70s all white italian and germans on irving side Puerto ricans were from other side of central it was like a border muslims locked down bushwick ave in the 70 -80s and prior......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Joe S.: Bonnie, If you see this--we also shopped at Bohack the A & P! My grandmother lived on Decataur between Wilson and Knickerbocker--closer to Knickerbocker. I remember going to a candy store on the corner......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

KB: Lived in Bushwick on Eldert Street, btw Knickerbocker & Irving, from when I was born, until we moved away in 1967, when I was 16. Things had gotten rough in 1966, when there was......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

anon (ool-44c2cbd1.dyn.optonline.net): I was a Bushwick baby, born on Troutman Street in 1963. I'll never forget the neighborhood, the 3-story walkup my parents, 3 siblings and I lived in, the cracked sidewalks, the buildings that were just......

in response to: Bushwick 77: The Casusos of Harman St. by upfromflames

Bonnie: I too lived on Wilson Ave., between Cooper and Moffit Streets -- in the 1950's. We lived on the 3rd floor of one of the cold water railroad flats, right down the street from......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

cjh: This is for upfromflames: I was born and raised (1969 to 1990) in the boarded-up house pictured in your February 10 article. The actual address of that building is 23 Troutman Street. What......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

luz santana: hey my mistake i thought it was the projects but it wasnt.......i know da factory you talking about.i grew up on grand street ...

in response to: paterson factory - may 2002 by adam

luz santana: yo was this the grand street projects? i grew up on grand street and been up to grand street projects many of times. my best friend toshia lived there. thanks for the picture of the......

in response to: paterson factory - may 2002 by adam

vic: i lived in paterson for 27 years i remember mitch, head and the rest of the guys they use to hang out in school 3 i lived by grand street most of the time......

in response to: paterson factory - may 2002 by adam

sara: I lived in kensington (A St.) from birth until I was 9. I still have fond memories of being a kid there. I haven't been back to that neighborhood for many many years. Unfortunately the......

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

JoeAnn: I enjoyed reading all the comments on Eastern Parkway. I am helping my mother write her memoirs and we have been talking about this area. Her Aunt Fanny Lamy Clough lived in the......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

EvilGentleman: Maybe because Sainte-Catherine is the cross street in this photo. We are looking north on de la Montagne, I think. No, I have never had the opportunity to hear the pipes in Ogilvy's yet. Every time......

in response to: Stone Building With Style by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: As far as the location goes, all I can recall was that it was on Sherbrooke Street between Honore-Beaugrand and Georges-V. I also remember the pavement in this picture is about 4 to 6 feet......

in response to: Grocery Graf by CE

mark rogers: hi Natalie. Fancy reading your comments here. Nat and I grew up in the same street and I too now live in Australia. Anyone out there from Irlam now living in Queensland. Drop me a......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Laura: My mother lived in a large apartment building on Eastern Parkway near Grand Army Plaza in the early 1970s. What a place it must have been in its heyday. It still had touches of grandeur......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Boggy: Further down 86th Street there was another theater at the corner of 86th Street and 20th Avenue. I wasn't living in the area when they closed it up, but I got a glimpse of some......

in response to: X Movie Theatre by jack

Ellie: Hello Everyone, I was born and raised in Brooklyn. I lived right off of Bushwick and Grand Street. I attented 196, IS 49 and Eastern District High. I moved to Florida in 1990,......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Kendra: Hi I have a question that I was hoping someone might be able to anserw for me. My grandmother told me a story about a cousin in our family that dissapered at Lake Tahoe, it......

in response to: Yuba by Paul G

EvilGentleman: I remember making my way past street gangs at 4 in the morning to go eat a quarter pounder here. That was way back in 1985, when I was 16. My grandmother never knew I......

in response to: Times Square, McDonalds by vz

EvilGentleman: Yesterday's paper had an article about how there are bylaws coming into force to make bars put ashtrays outside their entrances. The city estimates that 600,000 people use the downtown core each weekday (not counting......

in response to: Montreal Goes Non-Smoking: Good or Bad? by EvilGentleman

jack: ssgt sheldon, your right on with cory booker he is a good man. i had many clients in newark and am well acquainted with every street there and i know the dangers and bad......

in response to: No More Ice-Cream Man by SSGT (USAF Police) Sheldon

GGP: will do, hool! thanks for the tip. you inspired this! cat, need to check the name of the place. can't recall offhand. my grandparents lived in astoria and i spent a lot of time there as a......

in response to: Shooting from the Hip in Astoria by GGP

hikerman: great shot! any chance of getting an updated shot of the 4th avenue station! my grandma used to live right near it just off 8th street and I haven't been to brooklyn in years....

in response to: Franklin Avenue Station by Peter

Viceroy Snuffleupagus: This forum discussion is an excellent example of discursive disintegration by virtue of anonymous expression. I'll explain, as this message board was an opportunity squandered. Sure, an argument can be made on behalf of......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

jeeff: that last photo looks a lot like the main street in my grandparents' town of st. andrews, new brunswick, canada. [[img:874]]...

in response to: Back Street by barry

jack: wow that was great, but have you seen 17th avenue in brooklyn, the non-neon lights. how about court street's dazzeling display of red, yellow and green stop lights on almost every street! now......

in response to: Tokyo Neon by Chris Jongkind

NET ONE 156 KRT: Words of the Prophets Take to the Rooftops by Cathy Hong SUBJECT — The Extreme Graffiti Hall of Murals LOCATION — Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens Les had no equipment but a backpack full of spray cans. (He......

in response to: Wherefore ART Thou, Ellis? by GGP

Robert C. Paradis, MTL, Can: I cross Manhattan Bridge twice when I deliver goods at Magic Meat. Then, across Manhattan on Cannal Street to Holland tunnel. Oups! Forgot. A Latté Grandé at Starbucks in China Town on my way back......

in response to: grey bridge rain by sine

518 gin mill: i remember grand street in the mid 40s. trolley cars. clean streets. no graffitti. doors were old, they were new. they were clean. ragamuffin day, bell buttons jammed on with chewn gum. the rko republic,......

in response to: The Doors of Grand Street by Peter

vz: grand st.-- and the best part wasn't the street noise, it was the fact that you could hear absolutely everything from the neighboring rooms. i suppose if you wore earplugs and only looked down at......

in response to: 125 bowery, room 11 by vz

Wayne: Can one believe the evolution of such a grand street?...

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

cafeconleche: To: YOur own worst...and Seekinga future... and everyone else out there... It's nice to see that there are some of us on the same page--I don't know if you'd call it hate,--we'll then again, yeah--there is a......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

cafeconleche: This is in regards to Reality's take on what is happening in HP. People...its called regentrification. Its been happeingin since I was a student at Clemente...WHite people Do have a chioice! The......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

joey: imagine that! a road running through the cemetary. remember the twilight zone episode where the kid talked to his dead grandmother on the phone becuase the downed telephone line lay across her grave? must be......

in response to: Graveyard Train by Peter

jack: warm tomatoes', i ate warm tomatoes in my grandfathers vegatable garden with my dog spotty's head on my chest. i would take a bite and then let him take a bite. his bites......

in response to: sixy trolls under a bridge by elaine

Stacey: This is on Baltic or Butler between Bond and Nevins. It used to be an adoption center and hospital. My grandfather used to sell fruit and veggies from his horse and carriage in......

in response to: Forgotten Structure: ASPCA by GGP

Stacey: This is on Baltic or Butler between Bond and Nevins. It used to be an adoption center and hospital. My grandfather used to sell fruit and veggies from his horse and carriage in......

in response to: Forgotten Structure: ASPCA by GGP

Stacey: This is on Baltic or Butler between Bond and Nevins. It used to be an adoption center and hospital. My grandfather used to sell fruit and veggies from his horse and carriage in......

in response to: Forgotten Structure: ASPCA by GGP

Stacey: This is on Baltic between Bond and Nevins. It used to be an adoption center and hospital. My grandfather used to sell fruit and veggies from his horse and carriage in the early......

in response to: Forgotten Structure: ASPCA by GGP

Paul: Most of us were born between Atlantic and Pacific. But I was born between Atlantic and Pacific but on Underhill Ave. The walk up Underhill to Eastern Parkway to go to the Museum,......

in response to: Prospect Heights: by Peter