Comments about lower east side

There are 29 comments about "lower east side"

always a Bushwick kid: Hey Lou Romero: you mentioned Sr. Ann Melanie, Sr. Betty, etc. Well Sr. Ann Melanie died not too long ago and Sr. Betty still works in Bushwick- she runs Independence House on Cornelia Street (between......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Peter: nice find, jack. that mural was done in 2003 by [[wiki:Zephyr (graffiti artist)]] and {dr. revolt} on the side of {niagra} bar on the {lower east side} to commemorate the passing of [[wiki:Joe Strummer]]... [[http://www.zephyrgraffiti.com]] [[http://www.nytrash.com/Revolt.html]] [[http://www.niagarabar.com]] ...

in response to: The Future Is Unwritten by jack

MaGoo: PS: Just for context- so that you realize that my observations are quite balanced and unbiased: I was raised by a single parent on welfare- we were abjectly poor. Most of our neighbors who were Bushwick......

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

Jason: I'm sorry to agree with Gentrification, The old Southeast Side used to be a mecca of beautiful homes with flowers and families enjoying life in the 1970's-early 80's. The area was majority Irish, Serbian......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

little ukraine: i see nobody has given this a stab yet so... here goes... first of all, congratulations for having the initiative to save up a lot of money, because it is first and foremost what you will......

in response to: Help This Newbie by lou

little ukraine: glad to see so much love for Missing Foundation and the like. CartLegger, there is a pretty decent amount of information online. Try http://www.hungryeyerecords.com/bands/missing_foundation/index_old.html http://petemissing.de/ in addition to Peter's links above. Also, the work of......

in response to: Your House Is Mine - Return of a Legend by little ukraine

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

Dan: Hi, I went to university in manhattan (NYU), and during that time was privileged to live in some good areas. I hung around the Lower East Side a lot and it has obviously gotten......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

CO-TX: Ok you want some real dirt on denver look: at South Table mountains (west denver) NREL complex it is officaly of solar research station but really a tunnel door (south west corrner of the facility......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

CE: If you had read what I wrote at the top you would know that calling this area of town the "wrong side of the tracks" was in no way supposed to be an insult towards......

in response to: Home Pt. 6: Wrong Side of the Tracks by CE

.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

susannah: Granted I have a very poor memory but I seem to recall there was a Hell's Angels hang out on E13th as well. (But I haven't been to the lower east side in over 15......

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

susannah: ..I will concede that I know very little about the HA except what I have been exposed to in the media. I remember many years ago an open house for a rental apartment in......

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

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......

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

HAWK FROM BAYONNE: PLEASE I KNOW A FEW HELLS ANGELS JUST BECAUSE OTHER BIKE CLUBS SELL DRUGS PLEASE DO NOT EVEN THINK THAT THEY SELL METH OR CRANK,THEY ARE NOW A CORPARATION.YOU SHOW THEM RESPECT THEY WILL SHOW......

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

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: I used to live at the end of a hall in a big apartment building on the upper west side of Manhattan. Our position afforded us a great view of the whole corridor. Toward the......

in response to: Effective Communication by Marlo

Genaro: During the late 1940's and 50's, many of The Manhattan Elite thought it proper in calling the less popular working or the poor social White under class, WHITE TRASH! This would also include Whites who......

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

TheTruth: "I see it more as a class war than a race war." "...But that doesn't explain why, poor or not, the residents of Bushwick didn't have enough self-respect to take care of their neighborhood." Dave, did you......

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

Jack: Heh, didn't realize HTML was disabled. So here's just some of what I wrote at http://www.angrybrownbutch.com/2006/04/28/62 I lived in Bushwick for two years before moving to my current neighborhood in Brooklyn. And while living there,......

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

Tyfoid Kid: I did a little digging (thank you U of M libraries) and found some more stuff on The Ivy (actually probably more then you'd want to know:) ******************************************************************************************************************** From an article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune Dec......

in response to: Ivy Tower by Tyfoid Kid

jeeff: elicar - how about the reservations up north where people continue to be stuck without clean drinking water and reliable infrastructure? how about the saskatoon police (to name only one notorious department)? the amount......

in response to: Cheap Sex $60 by Elicar

colavito's ghost: Peter, just curious if you'd be willing to tell us what your punishment your "acquaintance" received for his/her heroism. Last year I got nabbed by an undercover graffiti cop for putting up paste-ups on the lower......

in response to: Criminalize Greed, Not Graffiti by Peter

jack: mu prediction is thusly: winter will officialy end in 9 days. there will be a snowstorm in the east but the snow will dissappear in 2 days. april will start off cool......

in response to: Maybe End of Winter... by Ken

GGP: got this by entering "atlantic mussels" on google images--i saw the threads and all...but who knew i was walking on a "gut"?? Atlantic Ribbed Mussel (Geukensia demissa) You'll most likely find these edible dark brown mussels projecting......

in response to: Great Kills by GGP

dp: There's also a SANE piece in the backyard at ABC No Rio on the lower east side (MN). SANE was in a few art shows at ABC during the 1980s. The piece is......

in response to: Sane Smith: Puttin' the Green in Greenpoint by Peter

ram51@japan.com: i met daze personally in NYC Lower East Side in the very early 80s...nice guy...very charming...thanks for the rough photo peter... ram51...

in response to: Daze by Peter

Peter: spotted this weekend on the {lower east side}: [[img:6710]] ...

in response to: Graf Trux 10: Back to Manhattan by Peter

Lili: Our dreams and what we refer to as "waking reality" are linked in a way that is useful. We can hypothesize from intuitive awarenesses that are derived from consistant rules, rules that are related to how......

in response to: Graf Trux 10: Back to Manhattan by Peter

Peter: that second painted flower is ALL OVER streets on the lower east side; probably on every corner. theres a chalk artist 'de la vega" who scrawls his poems and charicatures all over....

in response to: Graf Trux 10: Back to Manhattan by Peter