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Peter: hahaha. i was just going back through my old posts, sorry i missed this query before. nope, this wasnt always the first photo post. curiously, i was looking back to find my first photo post,......

in response to: 72nd Street Subway Station by Peter

Candy: To Tyra I completely agree with u. When I was at ACHS we had a basketball team that was pretty good. I didn't really follow sports much back then so I could be wrong. I admire......

in response to: Acorn Community High School by Peter

Tyfoid Kid: Super Cool!! Someone could spend quite a bit of time in Photoshop coming up with this affect. So as far as the camera phone goes this would be "working as designed." ...

in response to: Even the Trains Are Crooked in Brownsville by Peter

lastone tbc: yo reno 32. ja isnt a character in getting up but his graff is in the game on the free way level. props to cope, ja and all writers from nyc yo all you should be proud to write......

in response to: NYC Style Graffiti Throw Up by Metro1

Jamie: The age old "This is not a true representation of my town/village/city" debate continues. Maybe I missed the part where i duty bound to paint a fair and balanced picture of everywhere I choose take......

in response to: Morning Walk: Part One by jamie

Rich: Great job Adam, thanks for the most informative tour and thanks Peter for the other links, I saw this on TV and was amazed at the thought: "ya never know what ya might be walking......

in response to: Oldest Subway Tunnel in the World by adam

Bayside Watcher: Notice that some of the pictures above have headstones with Yellow Stickers on them. Also some have stickers that say 'PC' on them. These are graves that have purchased perpetual care. In......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Lord Whimsy: Kayaking? Hiking?! Hows the MUKTUK is what I want to know!...

in response to: Kangirsujuaq by EvilGentleman

mary elizabeth shaw: Beautiful pictures of a truly remote place. how is the hiking? kayaking?...

in response to: Kangirsujuaq by EvilGentleman

Humboldt1: PlGrd, Nice to see you are back from CityData. I was starting to get really down about black renters in general, but have had a new renter (black family) in my suburban place in Itasca......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Renee: Dear Rabbi Julia Andelman, I am probably one of those people you would categorize as the uneducated by believing everything I read off the internet to be true. As you can see by......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Rabbi Julia Andelman: Dear Friends, Congregation Shaare Zedek has been working extremely hard over the past several years to forge a long-term strategy for the restoration and maintenance of Bayside Cemetery, despite the fact that only 5% of this......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Wendy: About a month ago, I took our little dog out for "last call". We walked down our front steps to the sidewalk. About twenty feet away stood two raccoons. The dog started barking. ......

in response to: Raccoons, Cute or Dangerous? by Elicar

Carol Cohen (FOXY): Hi, I'm looking for: Ellen Grossman and Edyce Kaplan that lived around Rutland Rd., and Teri that lived on Utica Ave. Is anyone in touch with them? I lived right next to the church......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Kriestine Mangel: wow. it's cool to read about people's memories of Bushwick. I may be a bit younger than some of the posters...Our family lived on Halsey St. between Irving and Knickerbocker between 1964 through......

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

Great Read: Grew up on 79th & 2nd myself. 86th & 3rd was where I went for near everything growing up: Movies, Gimbels, Papaya King, The Ideal German food counter, Flaming Embers, buying Marzipan for m......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

Rich: For Davida: Town Hill 2? Located in a corner of the old Sears and Roebuck parking lot. That's all I got....

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Heero: How can you say Urban Freeflow is GOOD? They act like they're the official parkour organization. Even more so, they even tried to create competitions. I don't know about you, but competitions will destroy parkour and make......

in response to: Le Parkour: An Introduction by 3flow

Ron: Hello again Teri, I had to smile when I bumped into your posting here. Something I didn't mention in my recent long e-mail was one time when I was playing on the Eastern Parkway mall and......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Double A: I found this looking for old info about Sleepy Hollow. It's a shame this plant shut down the way it did, but like one person said, at least they got relocated or a severance package.......

in response to: Abandoned General Motors Plant by Peter

Doc S.......: .....never hung with the basketball crowd - wasn't that much of an athlete then, but I do remember Billy Cannon, he was in my elementary and high school classes - I remember talking to him......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Dr Jayne: To Audrey, regarding your Dec 27th post: Try to contact the American Nurses" Association. They might have the information you are looking for. I am a bit younger than most of you posting, though my......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Jim Dinger: Wow,my sister lives in Yuba and I was bored so I googled and would up here.My sis is living in Yuba with her boyfriend Chad and their 2 daughters. Might go down to see her......

in response to: Yuba by Paul G

Richie Rubin: Davida,you wrote`a club opened on Flatbush ave.'Ben Mastiks'town& country club'was all the way down near belt p'kwy..after ave U! & I usta go dere & see top notch acts..I even have a menu from there[c.1957]but`Town Hill'[bedford/Eastern pkwy]was da......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Matty Paris: Roger Brown and Connie Hawkins were completely different ballplayers from very different cultures. Connie lived in a railroad flat off Franklin and Fulton Street with his mother and brother. She did maid work. He played......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

junco: dude. go to fucking pirate town. some sick shit there. some by me i might add....

in response to: PDX graffiti like ummm... by fuzzytank

TT: I think Mexico City should be one of the top cities, it is certainly better looking than Sao Paolo. If it is not a top city now, I am sure it is going to be......

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

bob: I like Tish lived at 350 E 92nd St. I remember so many things John's Candy Store's must have hamburgers after a night out. Also remember Linda peeling potatoes after leaving shool at OL. No frozen......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

kings roader: maureen i was there in kings road. leave contact add ...

in response to: For We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray by Biff

Betty: My girlfriend and her husband just retired to Enniskillen this summer. Her husband is from there originally. I was curious to see what the city looked like. My girlfriend keeps asking me to come over......

in response to: Enniskillen by barry

lasalle resident:dec.28 2008: i have personally crossed that bridge( when i came to it) many times, to visit friends or pick up stock from one of the fine establishments. I haven't walked over since the derailment though. I......

in response to: Train Derails on Bridge IV: The Aftermath (With Graf Train Passing By) by EvilGentleman

Audrey: Does anyone have or know any information about Prospect Heights Hospital from 1945-1948. I was born there on Oct. 7, 1947 and lived in Brooklyn on Kings Highway in the Flatbush area most of my......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

suzi sidewinder: Robert Oppel's Looking For Dana Challman. ...

in response to: Is Robert Oppel Neck Face? by Peter

Doc S.......: Howdy again Willie: It's interesting to know the Franklin Avenue shuttle is running - when I was by there last year sometime it looked abandoned (President Street/"Botanic Garden" entrance)-all boarded and barred-up & overgrown with......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Willie: Rick, Doc: Yes, Busches Ice Cream Parlor was on Nostrand (near corner of Union Street). Today there is a 'white table cloth' restaurant in that space called "Tavern on Nostrand" which is quite......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

ChiPhi: Wow...this thread has had some staying power and I am glad it has the legs. :) Full disclosure...(Please read my earlier comments above for my perspective regarding this neighborhood). I am a male in my......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

GGP: These comments are getting better and better. Reading a book on pirates, as it happens, which begins with the line: "I am the King of Sea!"...

in response to: Neptune Hotel by Peter

Doc S.......: Willie - I remember most of what you've said - and the "Cameo" toy store around the corner from the Loew's "Kameo" movie theater (note different spellings). Now, you've mentioned a Lefferts JHS - but......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Willie: Does anyone out there remember the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Nostrand Avenue? The old Loew's Cameo (pronounced 'LOW-ees) by the Assistant Principal of Lefferts JHS in the early '60s. Rubin Chemists on......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Melissa: I'm a single female living in Bushwick. All the bad descriptions of the area may seem daunting (like the history of Maria Hernandez park or Knickerbocker ave), but honestly the place is a gem.......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Renee: Hey Cartlegger... Kudos for good intentions but upon further research, this is a MAJOR task and I really don't think that it would make an impact. I found another site, a paper written by......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

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

Sharon: I attended St Matthews for eight years 65'-73', and during those times were some great days of my life. I remember having a variety of places to have lunch when I was older, I......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Espen: Espen: 23rd Dec 2008 - 02:04 GMT i vent to New york in november 96 i was 19 years old travelling alone from norway and got robd at a park wile smoking pot waiting for a man......

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

Espen: i vent to New york in november 96 i was 19 years old travelling alone from norway and got robd at a park wile smoking pot waiting for a man who i......

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

davida: thanks rich for that information about the schools. I remember as a kid looking out my window watching the girls coming out of school and all the guys that would hang around. As a kid......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Joey TPA - The Public Animals: Where's my boy-o, King Kelzo, the boom from Hulme?!...

in response to: English Kills Graffiti, Pt. 4 by Peter

mitch: I remember being scared going into PS241 in the early grades. Those old city elementary schools are so imposing and physically out of scale for the kids attending. To this day I remember climbing the......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

John Dereszewski: This was a truly extroadinary achievement. It is extremely difficult to create something that is both beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time, but this certainly occurred here. Congratulations for a wonderful presentation - and......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

New York Historian: I cannot believe the photos, so heart breaking. I would like to retrieve the newspapers and photos for safe keeping, maybe given to an organization of some kind, for history, maybe even scan......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

SED1__BTM__: JA..all city KING!..big up.. SED1__BTM__...

in response to: NYC Style Graffiti Throw Up by Metro1

gxr killer: JA is a fuckin legend. I acually got to me him a few months ago threw my man ovie. "FREE OVIE" THE MAN IS A CLASS ACT. He is the reason I as small kid......

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

Richie Rubin: Davida,dat `Chinese'food WE all grew up on in NYC,ain't da real thing!..nevah was!..1 from column `A',two from column `B'is pure USA..I've been to China & live in San Francisco,cal..now dat's da real thing!..but Italian food in NYC is......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

EvilGentleman: Well Tom, something as big and easily visible as this would require either ladders or most likely {scaffolding}. I would definitely say the {toon graf} {mural} is a {commissioned piece}. The building is a hangout for......

in response to: Montreal Noise: Saint-Laurent 2 by EvilGentleman

anon (modemcable119.252-59-74.mc.videotron.ca): Well Tom, something as big and easily visible as this would require either ladders or most likely {scaffolding}. I would definitely say the {toon graf} {mural} is a {commissioned piece}. The building is a hangout for......

in response to: Montreal Noise: Saint-Laurent 2 by EvilGentleman

anon (dhcp-67-158-36-181.bhfc.net): I'm loking for a futiman recipe - its a fried treat and you use cardiman...

in response to: Typical Norwegian Food by Rune-Willem

pauline curran : hi fiona give my regards to your mum. mum was asking after .her have alovely xmas i cant wait as my son is coming......

in response to: Franks by barry

AP: I love that. Thanks for posting. I should make a pilgrimage before they raze it, since I'm in the NY metro area. I had no idea that existed. I know this pavilion is from the......

in response to: Abandoned... NY State Pavilion by Peter

Warren S.: That pic of the CYO entrance is pretty depressing. I lived on church property, adjacent to that entrance. The church used to rent out apartments in the "old rectory," and my dad as the chief......

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

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

Woo123: This is an amazing picture and one that will always stick in my mind. I have been doing some research on Leroy Skalstad for a University piece, and I would like to inform 'POWcityblog' of an......

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

anon (ip72-197-101-228.sd.sd.cox.net): This is Kim Thomas - from 990 President St - Hey Mitch, I remember you. Your partner in Billy and Davida's wedding was a lady named Lynette Blackwood (do you remember that?). I......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

mike s: I don't know if you are the mike I knew I was in Ps 241 at the same time my name is kenny thomas I lived at 990 president st had 3 sisters and 1......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

mitch: long time. This is billy's (billy gardinera) brother in law kenny we was ushers in the wedding together. i see u have been in touch with rich and he contacted me to let me know......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

zagg: "kids re-grow in like 5 to 6 years while trees take decades" "trees give us shade, oxygen, and a place to sleep when we're homeless." These are just some of the reasons why I'm a tree planing......

in response to: The Parade...again by TCL

jack: wow, over 50 posts here and pic's, we have a thing about cemeteries, we the living view it as a scary, deserted area. some of us who are older see it as our next......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

almostauthentic: I have way too much of an overactive imagination so i find that creepy as fuck. I am a walking contradiction... i watch horror/gore flicks for fun but i get freaked out by an opened......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

EA: I also grew up in the Luna Park houses (west 8th) from the early 60's, when the bldgs opened, to early 70's. I remember the Bonomo Turkish Taffy Bldg, and I remember hanging......

in response to: Luna Park: Coney Island by Peter

Hannie: Great pictures! I love cemeteries. I really like the shot in the doorway with the leaves on the floor. And the rocking chair is interesting... rather creepy!...

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Lauren: Heartbreaking and wild at once. This kind of thing gets my head spinning about the whole ritual of burials and grave-visiting (or lack there of in this case) and "family plots"--it's all so interesting to......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

NWhyC: Some context: [[img:29809]] Looking out towards the bordering cemetery, which is manicured and in comparatively lovely condition. [[img:29810]] [[img:29811]] [[img:29812]] [[img:29813]] [[img:29814]] [[img:29815]] [[img:29816]] That's a bowling ball, by the way. [[img:29817]] Many crypts had their doors cemented over. [[img:29818]] ...

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Peter: thats a simply breathtaking photo... thanks for sharing....

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

mitch: Hi Rich... What an amazing thing ... All through jr. high, high school and part of college I worked in my dad's store (Maiman's Pharmacy) and of course I knew Johnny and Herbie really well. I......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

usmcsniper1: Hey, Richie Rubin! Shout out to a fellow coast transplant. I own a house in the San Leandro area, just south of Oakland. I been here since 1986, I always get homesick during the......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

adam: i dig the zn one.. that neighborhood is looking shitty...

in response to: Broadway Junction Graf by Peter

pearlykingjim & Wayne adams: all the best of cockney luck this christmas from the barrow boys pearlykingjim genuine pearly king of camberwell & bermondsey and wayne adams...

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

Rich: The fourth picture is of a church (or it used to be one), it was originally the Savoy movie theater on Bedford btwn Lincoln and St. John's there's a convent on St. John's it's been......

in response to: I\'ve Lived in Crown Heights for Just About Fifteen Days by little ukraine

EvilGentleman: Just the car. The engines were CN, about 4 cars forward of this one off the right side of the photos. I must admit that I am not sure whether this car was carrying automobiles or......

in response to: 9-11 Train Graf: To All Those in Heaven by EvilGentleman

=RASPeR=: I want one of those-so I can drive into a lonely parking lot and hotbox the sh!t out of it....

in response to: Hippy Van by dglenn

Walter: Dame mate one very nice car ... i myself are busy building one as well same year and well having loads of crap with not finding stuff for the car as i am in south......

in response to: Classic Cars 3 - 1936 Chevy by EvilGentleman

Joe Blow: just be sure to dip if you see vs in front. they like casing that place and following writers out, so make sure you dont try out your new gear til you get home or......

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

Diane Roberts...: Great ideas Rohinton...would like to see an article on "The Pav" on the boardwalk...meeting place to hundreds of teenagers in the late fifties early sixties. I grew up on 3rd Ave having an extremely happy......

in response to: Verdun Neon by CE

Allan: Julia A, Don't recall seeing when you graduated from 167 and attended Wingate? You probably posted this info but refresh. It's funny, I can remember names if I hear them, or faces in photos, from back......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

James Kingsmill: Built in 1950, The Washburn Tunnel is the only operational underwater vehicle tunnel in the state of Texas. The Baytown Tunnel was demolished several years ago for the construction of the Fred Hartman Bridge (SH......

in response to: Washburn Tunnel by ian

Nick Snewf: I live on the corner of Bushwick and Granite in the Biko Transformation Center. My only complaint about living in Far East Bushwick is the lack of a neighborhood bar (that is licensed and which......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Ellen: We are selling lefse next Sunday and the money goes to Relay for Life. so far I have made 150 lefses and plan on making more. We know we will sell as much as we can......

in response to: Typical Norwegian Food by Rune-Willem

Jethro: LAWL, are you joking? Yellow knife looks terrible. I'm sorry if i'm putting anyone. I don't believe Yellow knife is that special at all, including with it's small densed population and it's skyline (if you......

in response to: The Top 10 Canadian Skylines by CE

Rich: Hey Pete, people watching in Crown Heights has aways been fascinating to me, that's why I can relate to just about every picture you post about the area, I just wish I had the foresight......

in response to: NYPD by Peter

Julia Astralla ?: first to RR. Yeah, I know 'FOXY Cohen" didn't she marry Jackie Nolan ? (One of Tommy O'Malley's friends ? ) to everyone else ................... Indulge me please ! Who else besides me stood......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Sandra MacDonald: I left Verdun in 68 and have only gone back three times. I have the greatest memories of growing up there. I was back in June 07 and spent lots of time walking......

in response to: 45 Minutes in Verdun by CE

zagg: Speaking again of poutine, Peter: I had vegetarian poutine for the first time last week and sweet baby g it was delicious :D...

in response to: The First 60 Minutes of My Return by zagg

XYKA: No doubt don't sleep on the one and only BEL IOF true East Coast Piecing KING....

in response to: Bel Graffiti by BelRoC

itagyomombitttch: wow.. "give your head a shake" that is wayyy offf why u making innocent people look guilty. gramz the graffiti writer is not who you just said it is. ......

in response to: April 21 2007 Toronto by hool

sick and tired: I personally am sick and tired of being sick and tired. I am critically ill and i cannot find one doctor in Montreal to help me. I'm tired of all the racism and......

in response to: Windows Health Care by EvilGentleman

She Said it: Itīs funny how people keep asking if brooklyn is safe for a white girl.What does the color of your skin have to do with being safe or not?? Jayne why dont you explore brooklyn and......

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

MiCHAEL: My view about poverty in the Philippines is that a high % of the poorer people have a member of the family overseas, and in some instances are slaves for their families back home, sending......

in response to: What Poverty? by Elicar

Rab1: yo i jjust got from there and it was fucking great man...im new to the graff world and the marker i bought is weird it spilled on me and everything....but I think I got it......

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

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

Esther Herschman (Rechtschafner): I agree,this is really a nice site.It is nice to think back on Memory Lane. I remember the "field days", in Boys High Field on Maple Street. In my day,it started in fifth grade.......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Eric: I ask once again. Margarita, what are you talking about?...

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