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Karlo: Well said Tracy.
It really is sad to see things like this in this supposed day and age.
Hopefully someday those of us who would bring their children up to hate will see the destructive capacity this...... Brodidly AB: Bushwick!! What can I say? It can be an interesting place to live in and it can be a nightmare. To all those who are contemplating moving to Bushwick, on the serious tip you...... 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...... Jessy: These pic's are very depressing I was born and raised in Paterson and moved to PA in 1997 every time I visit it is very sad to see how the streets of Paterson have turned...... madamep: I was there then, and you really nailed it for what it was like. I was the groupie mom's roommate. I still don't know what that was about. Her trip not mine. I wasn't into...... Eleanor: Lou, UFF and everyone else who is reading this post. I certainly don't think that Bushwick Buddies is too crowded ... as a matter of fact we have more and more interesting pictures every...... Gamester: I too just found this page after searching for "too old skateboarding" in Google. I am 23 years old and work as a technical support agent in Boulder, CO. Right now, here is...... Liz in Canada: I am Canadian and my ancestry is Irish/Scottish. Some of my ancestors were Catholic and some were Protestant, but I am non-religious by choice. My Irish ancestors were forced out of Ireland and...... Peter: This is a tale explaining the manner in which my way of life was rotated along a Y axis until it reached a position roughly 180 degrees from that which it started If I could...... Peter: weve had the discussion re: graf versus vandalism on here like 500 times, and its surprising how every other person has their own specific definition of the term "graffiti", to the point where it becomes...... serlingrod: In response to the last post - first of, let me say that I live in Philadelphia and have worked as a community organizer in Kensington for the past several years. I mention this to...... Open your eyes !!: I have read mostly all of the comments on here and it makes me sad to see how ignorant some people really are.
What a lot of you need to do is...... SteveO: Though I don't find 90+% of the posters on this board to be worth the sweat off my balls, I shall post anyway just because I have become bored with the uninformed BS...
Break it down........ cyril bagshaw: Hi John
I believe you have captured the feelings of most of the contributors to this page most eloquently.No matter how far away from the nest some of us have flown, those childhood images are still...... MrBrenzo: Hutchinson Kansas is a boring place, if you are a boring person. I lived in Hutch until I was 15 and remember it fondly. the state fair only happens once a year, but it was...... yeah yeah: i think its amazing how people are suggesting that jacksonville should become like miami or orlando in order to become more "entertaining"... havent any of you people taken a walk around outside or a swim...... anon (ppp-70-248-117-38.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net): I was born in 1933 at 151 Central Ave. between Willoughby and Suydam. It was mostly a Sicilian neighborhood. It was considered a slum then,but NEVER was it filthy like shown in the pictures...... Airdog101: dirana1, i was wondering if you or anyone else would be able to give me some insight on how to become a Correctional Officer. Was there any special schooling you go through or did you...... jj: does anyone remember tillys store at tulip and cambria st.? also how is tulip street which includes 2 side streets, auburn and william streets? is jones junior high still just jones junior high? and when...... EvilGentleman: These pictures show 3 of the 5 or 6 police cruisers to be burned. I started photographing around 1:10 this morning.
Unfortunately, my lithium batteries chose this day to die, and I had forgotten to bring...... Ana: I'm in! Bike theft is rampant in this city and it needs to stop. I don't know how this hasn't yet become an issue with law enforcement and no one's spoken out loud.
This issue needs...... Tex: You are absolutely right, we should be thankful for what we have and the great country that we live in. We are very blessed and fortunate to live in a country where we have...... Renee: I enjoyed reading this thread. However, there are a lot a personal prejudices and biases here. However, that's Americans for you now isn't it. I enjoyed the person who said judge people...... Sad for you: I feel sad for those that post such negative things about Hutch, its people, etc. Maybe if you’d get out there and be kind to others and do good deeds you wouldn’t have to sit...... Graham Kingsley: I have discovered quite recently, possibly in the last couple of days that Adelaide Cricket Club have become a Internet Service Provider and competing on the world stage. It does show that the Australians...... EvilGentleman: Well Elicar, my previous article on this particular location has become something of an online focal point for those who lived there during its heyday, much like Corsatki's {Cabrini Green} articles.
Thus, this page is intended...... Montrice Weathersby A.K.A Sconey Wrong: I was born and raised in the Henry Horner Homes projects in 1975 in the building 2145 w.lake St.We loater moved to 2215 w.Lake st and all i could remember is gun fire and purse...... New York: So what has become of the Rivers family and the two boys? (Lafayette and Pharoah)? Anyone out there know?
I heard Kotlowitz speak about 6 or 7 years ago here in Brooklyn and I liked...... Someone Who Made it Out: I lived in Hutchinson for the majority of my adolescent life. By the time I had reach the 8th grade at Sherman back in 1999-2000, I had already become a product of which Hutch has...... jack: wow, here it is september 2007 and i'm listening to all of you talk about the theatres in brooklyn, yes karen those were great day's waiting in line to run into the theatre on a...... Former Salt Hawk: I read this multitude of comments with bemusement, shock and sorrow. I was born and grew up in Hutchinson, Kansas, and, like the old familiar Neil Young lyric, "All my memories are there". ...... EvilGentleman: A very belated reply for doc cunningham, who posted on New Year's 2007. Sorry for the late reply, but I just noticed your comment now. I have so many posts that I do not see...... Peter: im 30. im not rich. i live in bushwick because i can afford it and because its, for the most part, a hard-working, family-rich neighborhood thats free of yuppie condos, starbucks and the like. it...... Chris Rodriguez: Im not (just a 12 year old) im an honor student at bishop laughlin memmorial high school. Peter if you feel safe good for you... how old are you things are different for a...... chiamattt: EvilGentleman,
#2 Badminton
#15 Drunk person crouching
#17 Lights behind pillows at a crappy bar.
Banners are EVERYWHERE. (These shots are in Gwang-ju, not Seoul...but yeah...Korea is Korea)
The bike in #34 does not belong to the man in...... EvilGentleman: I just took pictures of this church, then used Google to look up what the name of the church was and when it burned. And then I see a link to this article. Funny thing...... 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...... Angela Watkins~ Harris: I was born in Hutchinson, Kansas back in 1960 and I lived there for a while I did 1/2 of 9th grade at Sherman Junior High School and then attended 10th & 11th at Hutch...... Alexander The Thessalonikian: An ethnic group is characterized by the common language, customs, religion, inscriptions, area of origin and ways of education and living. By that means all the area of todays Greece was inhabited by Greeks since...... Dee: I grew up in Bushwick as a matter of fact iwas born in Bushwick.Iwas born in Wycoff Heights hospital in 1955.I lived in the same house with my family until I married in 78
my mom...... Kiminbushwick: Hi, new to the site, but have been following along in more ways than one. I am 7 years proud in bushwick, and just wanted to say, that I think ALL of this conjecture and...... UPforit: I would love to join you on a surreptitious trip on the highline, these pics are great. As I live in Red Hook I totally appreciate the need to document at length the urban landscape...... Bea Davis: When news of the fiasco precipitated by the less than honorable deliberations of that legislative committee becomes major news as far away as Thunder Bay, Ontario, you know that the world is laughing at elected...... EvilGentleman: Funny how the world has become. You can take pictures on the tarmac of an airport in a Communist nation, but I doubt you can do the same in New York or London. What has...... forecastmazy: (was rendering footage on FCP, lol).
Yep, been here three years. Never leaving. I am however moving from this view...so I thought I'd post a few and become one of the many to capture the...... Dcchanged man: I lived in bushwick from 1968-1982
Comfort and hell in bushwick depends on which pocket you lived in.
The dead end streets of buswick Aberdeen , Granite , Desales Place and so on where a lot...... EvilGentleman: I would agree with the majority of what has been said, but I will state my opinions on each issue, so it becomes obvious where I stand.
I think the best way to have notification on...... jack: many of the buildings constructed in the late 1800's that was used as housing by poor hispanics, blacks, jews, polish, german, italians and irish are still standing today and in livable conditions and very expensive....... Dan Doyle: I grew up in Kensington during the 70's & 80's and it was a good neighborhood until about 1983 or 84, when most of the good people that still lived there started leaving and the...... EvilGentleman: Last time I played with the translation software too much, I was given a stern warning by Hool. I wanna be a good boy this time, LOL. But it is nice to know you try...... artM: Where to start? Planes can't get high enough to see the "largest Nazi symbol on American soil"? Of course they can. This diagram (or even aerial photos) of the runway layout can...... .nanotech.: [[img:18457]]
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* 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,...... Brian : Hi,
As a London boy I am ashamed to say that I did not know where the Pearlys came from until I came across the story of Henry Croft today.
I've followed up a number of sites...... Derek Jackson: Wow! Reading all this misspelled babble about being proud of being hispanic, about fighting the whites trying to take what's yours, and about complaining about gang violence is making me half-laugh, half-get pissed off.
Homboldt Park...... Bedstuy Brooklyn: First of all I personally feel that it was the neglect from Chicago's Housing Authority that Cabrini-Green became what has become today...if the city of Chicago would have done their jobs and kept up their...... Ringo: Susannah, christian bashing is not acceptable either, the object here is to point out that the actions of the few do not define the whole. I have a friend who is deeply christian and at...... crazy eddie: yo i really apreciate you showing everyone our city and what its become...the projects in the vacant lot pics were far to your left not rite there but good work....YOU CAN LEARN ALOT FROM A...... King Gati: Wow, after reading all this for about 2 hrs or so..I gotta say I laughed alot with some of you ppl...I'm rican born in NYC..Boogies down bx..I read how bad was or is HP, ...About...... JNJ: Your reflections are very impassioned and provide a perspective that I could never understand as a caucasian and an outsider to the neighborhood. I guess what I still don't understand is why, I would be...... Jim QV: Tony, I read your posting and wanted to respond to it. I was born in Queens, but my Moms whole family is from Bushwick. Her grandfather (my great grand dad) was the original owner of...... raccooned: I was up painting late last night and I looked up and saw what I thought to be one of the feral cats in the neighborhood that several of us feed. It was on...... Karlo: Well observer,i have to be honest and say they are not all tattooed thugs.
There are assholes and hardmen where-ever you go,but regrettably,the macho thug image certainly is synomonus with Loyalism.
There are however,huge efforts on the...... EvilGentleman: The listing was removed. How much were they asking?
The youtube link was quite interesting. Thanks, Jamie. Thanks also for the support.
The America quote is cryptic, but is fine with me.
Just in case my remarks...... Tony: I WAS born in a house on Bushwick Avenue and Halsey Street. My father and mother were both immigrants from Italy, They left italy for the new world to improve their lives and to...... Sherlock77: A real shame about the second photo... It's happening far too often here in Calgary lately
Nice little series of photos, I have a small Sony camera I picked up for $20! Used, via...... shelia/neworleans: OK
THE OLD WAY OF LIVING IS OVER. IT IS; SO... HATE ME IF YOU MUST.
HOW MANY YEARS HAVE THEY BEEN TALKING ABOUT TEARING DOWN THE PROJECTS AND PUTTING UP CONDOS?
HOW LONG WAS...... EvilGentleman: The art, if authentic, should be supported by buying it. I personally feel the best way to buy native art is to go to an Indian reservation and buy it directly from the artist, wherever...... shelia/neworleans : It seems to me you pretty much know what it is you want to do. So... don't ask questions that you already know the (your) answer.
No I don't think they should rebuild "public housing"...... nanci: Great pics. Still live in tarrytown would not give it for the world. What a shame they had to close the plant down, made the town die too but like all we survived and the...... EvilGentleman: Sounds like the typical Canadian and/or Quebec films of the 80's come back to life. "Profits? What are profits? We were thinking grants and tax deductions, eh?"
Canadian films are generally indy films that absorb government...... EvilGentleman: I have also been experimenting with taking hool-style photos using car mirrors while parked on the side of a busy street, since it is exponentially less likely that the subjects will become aware of the...... 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...... 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...... Dave (a Bushwick native): I see it more as a class war than a race war. I'm from the last generation (born mid-1960s) of German-Americans from the Ridgewood/Bushwick area before the Great Exodus of the 1970s. If I claimed...... mofidious: ok luk guys for the last time we are "MOFIDIOUS" you keep calling us "MODIFIDIOUS". And we r not any thing to do with "i love sodium" we dont even know them!!!! ......yet.... We may...... Autumn: Me again! The one with the boarded-up pet door and ripped up screens.I have so many trees around my house they form a canopy fot the racoons to jump around in. Then I found a...... Jamie: Nice show and tell series of photos. I can totally identify with what you feel moving ##home## after two years away, as i did the exact same thing. It's all kinds of emotions all at...... EvilGentleman: I am surprised at how much of my weather training has been forgotten in the seven years since I last worked at the weather station. I guess that is why they made us work a...... 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...... Penpusher: Here's the thing about the geography of NYC. Everything radiates from Midtown. During the late 90s, the Giuliani era, NY developed a reputation as being a safe city, a clean city and as Rudy claimed,...... Cameo: I believe that was "an inversion" where the hot air is some how trapped underneath a blanket of cold air, thus making the water vapour in the hot air become a mist. I saw...... EvilGentleman: Chris, I can tell you from experience, that while the majority of police try hard to do a decent job, cases of police overstepping the bounds of the responsibilities entrusted to them by the citizens...... PimpmyHOOKAH: That shit is classic love n Haight st. Its become an invasion of phobic E-MOs....that dudes probably only showing his ass because he anit getting any. Have pity on those who just cant get any...and...... Dale: There is a place for everything. Nudity is not bad per se; however, when the person flashing has no concern for others, it is a bad thing. I think there are nothing but victims in...... 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...... EvilGentleman: Gray hair does not detract from beauty. Beauty is in the eyes and in the way one forms a smile. At a certain age, women stop being sexually attractive to men who are still quite...... EvilGentleman: I should note that my wonderful wife, Arcticwoman, is the one that first coined that phrase, when we were discussing how our shattered lives have fallen into place to allow us to be together, how...... Jill: Analogies aside, the behavior of dropping your dick out in a public space like a train is bizarre and generally considered unacceptable by society. Anybody who thinks somebody should 'grow up' or 'get over...... Elicar: I agree EvilG. You seem to be **riling** up, children and adults alike. ;)
A good discussion is always pleasant, a good debate is always challenging, but bickering with children... I will leave that open.
Children have...... EvilGentleman: chiamattt (I think I finally got 3 t's in there this time!), if that idea of yours could become a reality, I think I would definitely support it. You definitely got my mind going with...... EvilGentleman: I think my generation has been very irresponsible when it comes to parenting. I believe there are no bad kids, just bad parents. I have no idea what the kids just said, I can see...... EvilGentleman: chiamatt, your points are valid, but if Canada can pass laws that state that tobacco companies cannot sponsor sporting events or family-oriented events where children are present, so as to protect children from being influenced...... concrete jello: i just saw Toronto Santa getting arrested at the intersection of Bloor and Dundas St. w.!!!
he was in the middle of the street yelling "fuck cops", and stopping traffic, and then two cops ran...... EvilGentleman: Editor, me? Not even close. Three months ago, I did not know Citynoise existed. Thanks for the compliment, but I do not have the experience, nor have I put in the hard work and dedication...... EvilGentleman: Is there no such thing as respect for life nowadays? I have even seen the usage of cats for dissection in classrooms used as an explanation for why our response to a frozen critter in...... EvilGentleman: It just goes to show how much racial profiling has become the norm, although it is not supposed to be this way. I am assuming that since Mr Mann's given name was Harraj, that he...... Peter: i am growing very leery of how insular, provincial and xenophobic america is becoming... it smacks of fascism and... dare i say it... prewar germany. after all, every single one of us living in america...... EvilGentleman: Having lived through a different type of troubles, I know how hard it can be to deal with the legacies of colonialism. My ancestors fought the French for the British (and won!), they fought the...... Chuckles: Well Sean, believe me. I have a humungous number of photos that I've zapped off with direct - in your face flash - and always at a hootenany, masquarade or party. Strangely, some have even...... Ronald Underberg: Though only a resident of Brooklyn for just over six months, I have long been one who has an appreciation for urban and cultural heritage and the value of having or allowing it to persevere.......
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