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Bob O: Thanks for all the memories of Yorkville where I grew up from the 30s through the sixties. I was born over in New York Hospital, went to school at St. Ignatius and then Cardinal Hayes.......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

Bob O: Thanks for all the memories of Yorkville where I grew up from the 30s through the sixties. I was born over in New York Hospital, went to school at St. Ignatius and then Cardinal Hayes.......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

Bob O: Thanks for all the memories of Yorkville where I grew up from the 30s through the sixties. I was born over in New York Hospital, went to school at St. Ignatius and then Cardinal Hayes.......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

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

Edward LAMB: I am very familiar with this tunnel having personally "discovered" the place way back in 1969... The following, if you please, is an excerpt from my own story : I had, one day, roaming through Riverside Drive......

in response to: The Freedom Tunnel by Peter

TRANS KOF 2008 : Hey all this talk about Paterson brings back alot of memories I grew up in Paterson on Main st. and Wiess St.a block from St.Josephs hospital. my neighborhood was known as little San Juan......

in response to: paterson factory - may 2002 by adam

EvilGentleman: BostonVisitor, I honestly have no clue about the costs of prostitutes in the city, nor where to go for the best deals. But like any other commodity, the sex market will provide better quality for......

in response to: Red Light District by CE

T J O'BRIEN, ANNANDALE, VA: The article below it will mention the Luna Park. During the WW II I worked part-time for the New York Daily News as a copy boy. One afternoon I came in early at......

in response to: Luna Park: Coney Island by Peter

EvilGentleman: Jennifer, you must be unfamiliar with this site to post comments such as you did above. If you browse CE's other articles, which you can do by clicking on his name just under the main......

in response to: Red Light District by CE

B Street: I grew up across the street from one of the few working factories in Kensington starting in 1965 until I was forced out 22 years later. While I too have fond memories of wall ball, swimming......

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

anon (itsc083.itsnpt.com): East Orange is only an address. It's the people who are the products of young parents who have little education and poor parenting skills that have made the places in East Orange unsafe. ......

in response to: The Projects of East Orange by Peter

Jesse: We moved to the northside when moving here from Ontario. Fredericton is about 20 yrs behind well anywhere else in Canada especially when it comes to shopping. My god its a capital city and full......

in response to: Northside Fredericton by CE

Miss_1989: I had lived in hutch for 12 years growing up as a child, but my family ended up moving due to my parents job transfers and also because Hutchinson (even in the middle class neighborhoods)......

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

James: Geesh Mike - loosen up! When I first visited Buffalo Oklahoma it looked deserted and it was only 7:00 in the evening. I wondered what I had gotten myself into driving 1700 miles to Buffalo,......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 9 by Scott Sargent

omabradshaw: Hello-I was born at Grace Hospital(8th & Main);went to Central Grade School(it was on 5th Street by the Catholic Church);Faris grade school;Sherman Jr High;Hutchinson Sr. High School.I enjoyed my years growing up in Hutch.Of course,that......

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

marlene: Winnipeg definitely deserves to be on the list. Its skyline is distinctive--especially in the dead of winter when its really cold and ice fog clouds are in the air and the sky is clear......

in response to: The Top 10 Canadian Skylines by CE

optomystic: I simply LOVE this town. Why don't you move here and experience all the great things that are going on? If you can't rent a room ; you can always sleep in your car.I think......

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

John Dereszewski: Puffy, Linden between Central and Evergreen is a block that has undergone a considerable transformation over the last decade or so, clearly for the good. I knew this block very vividly during the bad days of......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Rob Tynan: Hi Ron, As you say Whitfield Street has been demolished. That area has been redeveloped approx 10 years ago I think, carnt be sure though. Atherton Lane itself has remained standing, more or less......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Ryan S.: Apparently these people haven't been to Hamilton, KS. Just 2 hours from Hutch is a speck of nothingness that contains barely 300 people. By 3 PM, no matter what day, mainstreet is dead without any......

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

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

Elicar: These stopped two blocks west of Main (Westlake). [[img:26588]] But realtors' boundaries of the Danforth Village are: "Danforth Village spans from Victoria Park Avenue west to Greenwood Avenue, and includes the first few blocks north of The......

in response to: Going Around the World On Danforth Avenue by Elicar

oevre: Remember Hutchinson in mainly four images....swimming pool in Summer near the grain elevator...high school with brilliant turquoise colored panels, architect was Californian, people said...the old old deep red brick junior high where my parents went......

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

EvilGentleman: El, since they were government-funded homes originally intended for the families of veterans returning from WWII, it is most unfortunate that the government decided to stop funding them. If you look at the comments in the......

in response to: The Destruction of Benny Farm by EvilGentleman

Len Lipner: For Alma (Weinstein) Scull: C'mon, toots, I didn't answer your emails 'cause I didn't get 'em! You know I still love you, and would've answered every one. The funny thing about Tommy's was that when it changed......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Fred, The.: The only good thing Hutchinson Kansas has to offer is reasonable and tough law enforcement and reno county court judges. Kansas does nothing but steal and waste as evidenced by, well, just about everything you......

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

mattho: yeah i live in west orange east orange is pretty ruff the side by bloomfield is not that bad but i would not go there at night or in the parks at night......

in response to: The Projects of East Orange by Peter

Marissa Chaplin: Hi Rob Sorry I havent, they are mainly the High School and the Margarine Estate, as thats where I live. If I get the chance to go up again, I will get some. Glad you liked the pics......

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

Norma Bannon (nee Bolton): Hi everyone, I'm flitting between two sites here and loving all the reminiscing... I attended the Wesleyan Methodist Church as a kid (my parents married there and we were all christened there)and thought it was......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

~aesieko fu~: ja....hmmm...place and time. kat lived out his persona frum tha movies.he was that guy.smash-uh-matic.unfortunitley for his type and such ferver....there will remain the thin crisp and clean cut line between street and trackmeet. live or......

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

Alan Taylor: Hello everyone, lots of names cropping up that I recall, but more are from after I left my birth town in 1965/6 although I continued at the steelworks until 1972 & transfered to Scunthorpe Works.......

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

james: hutch has alot to offer like looking at the new sexy stop lights on main street. Huthinson is full of baby boomers who are living off thier parents hard work and think they are......

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

Evinrude: Jeeff, Income taxes are Higher in this state than many others. Infact, some states don't even have income tax. Please notice I said "STATE" when refer to income taxes. I was comparing Kansas to other......

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

Alfred: I live in Hutchinson, and I knew this article was pure propaganda right when I saw the photos. The first photo is of an entrance gate to the State Fairgrounds, which the author describes as......

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

dude: i wouldn't recommend having breakfast at Denny's, go down main street into the downtown and have a breakfast burrito at the Diner, which has been slinging hash since 1889 (to judge by the grill)...

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

John Dereszewski: To DeSales again: My long excursion into the history of this street might not have answered your question, which probably was: How would it be to live on DeSales Pl. now? The fact is, DeSales is one......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

birdy[kirstiem92@gmail.com]: Kay, first off, if you would have gone a tiny bit further down Main Street Scott, you would have found Sooner Fashion Mall. Or you could have continued going down Interstate 45 headed towards Moore,......

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

EvilGentleman: I still come back and look over this article every once in a while. This time, I followed a link on Wikipedia leading here. The memories have begun to fade, yet that last shot, the one......

in response to: Murder at Dawson College by EvilGentleman

...just lookin for a job, lookin for a job...: OMG! I thought I lived in a pretty good place until I stumbled onto this site while surfing for nursing jobs in this area. I've been HappyInHutch for 30+ years and known about......

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

Patricia Adair Mattice-Leonard: If this Woods gas station is on Main Street,it wasn't the Maxwells gas and candy store i used to stop in at after school several years ago..when i went to Delaware Academy and Central School.That......

in response to: Kimchi? Sushi? Slush Puppy? Fill\'er Up! by GGP

UpFromFlames: As I am fond of saying, Memory is the surest antidote to history. That is the main issue I have with your perspective. While I have done a lot of documentary research [[www.upfromflames.com]] I could......

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

MaGoo: I grew up on Lawn Guyland in the 70's; most of my neighbors were "caucasian-Americans" who were from Bushwick and East New York. They had been displaced by the "diversity"- when the city used THEIR......

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

Cloned Prince: I wrote a Parkour Rap! Things just aint the same for todays traceurs, Cops and pigs want to see us in handcuffs Yamakasi and the Belle are aging, The old traceurs, well they're all changing, Making way for new......

in response to: Parkour Trip to Lisses by Ben Nuttall

Hutch Hater Too: I agree that Hutchinson is a hell hole. The writer who mentioned how those in charge are nothing but a bunch of snobs is right. Money grubbing, ignorant snobs at that. I'm......

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

From Newfoundland: I grew up in Sussex, and returned home this summer after several years away. I rather liked the murals, and think Sussex is demonstrating more energy and creativity than scores of other Maritime communities. There......

in response to: Downtown Murals by CE

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

D.Bennet-lived in 1943 apt 606: I grew up in the Henry Horner Holmes a.k.a. the Hornets i live in 1943 4 trey i also grew up with pharoah and laffy and that movie portrayed them as innocent fun loving children......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

steve : Cartlegger; I'll try to be brief with some details. Please don't hold me to the exact dates because I am going back from memory and not researching. Barren Island as we knew it......

in response to: Barren Island by CartLegger

JG: You're absolutely correct about the visual compression--but I think the larger issue remains the same: the road widening, signage, etc. is just plain ugly. And I say this as someone who loves Tallahassee. If more......

in response to: Two Views of Tallahassee by JonathanGarrett

Rick: I have been to Belleville and have relatives still living there. I've read these posts and both sides have a point. To the people that are from there that really haven't been anywhere......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 3 by Scott Sargent

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

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: I'm currently in Sussex for the next few hours and have been here for a couple days. There are more murals since I was last here and I still stand by my opinion that......

in response to: Downtown Murals by CE

Johanna: I've lived her for 27 years. I love this place. My parents came from the Dominican Republic in search for the AMERICAN DREAM. They have both prospered and have raised 3 children......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

zilep: Bought a house in the heart of Bushwick- on Central avenue and Cornelia streets (one of those cookie cutter homes with all the meters showing- you know the ones the BROWNSTONER people love to hate).......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

blueeyes: Last year, I moved from Williamsburg "Prime" (Bedford stop), where I lived happily but cautiously for 7 years. During that time my next door neighbor was held up at gunpoint at our front door (2005),......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

CE: Now ##that's## a Main Street! What is North Bay like?...

in response to: Jokes on Main by Softee

upfromflames: Clarifications: I’ve found out a lot more about the Bushwick Initiative this week, after talking to Annie Marie Mirez, who helped to develop the program and currently helps to oversee it for HPD. The first thing......

in response to: The Bushwick Initiative: Holistic Redevelopment or Urban Renewal Retrofit? by upfromflames

K Bernstein: I lived in an apartment building at Eastern Parkway and Troy Avenue in the 1950s. Eastern Parkway was a beautiful street, with its two pedestrian malls with benches and trees. The street was lined with......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

j.walthers@timesnewsweekly.com: In response to upfromflames regarding Bushwick Corners: This response requires both historical perspective and adjustment of mind set to the Colonial New World. The 17th Century was a fundamentally agrarian society dedicated and tied to land......

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

mm: I grew up on the northside (marysville). Yes Union and Main steets are not the most attractive streets,but if you were to peddle your little bike to the ville and take some pictures you would......

in response to: Northside Fredericton 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

LR: Here's the lick from a lincoln park reared and raised guero who kicked it in HP (east of Cal) back in the late 80's/early 90's....Oh yeah, and before people are dismissive, let me state that......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

I am Puerto Rican, and Really Angry at your Lack of Concern and Knowledge:: I agree with you Rich. I would love to live in a world where people can coexist peacefully along side one another. All I am saying is that most people make generalizations of people based......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

joey: the lighting on the house is nice. it has a disneyland feel. main street. geometric and gothic....

in response to: Mild December in North Bay by Softee

joey: little uke, thanks for the memories. the red brick streets of the little italy neighborhood will remain in my brain forever. by john d, you mean john d rockefeller, of course. eliot ness is also......

in response to: Authentic Cleveland by little ukraine

Peter: the westway diner is on 9th avenue, and i used to live right across the street, a block up. to the right of the diner, you can see the victoria supermarket (now closed, though the......

in response to: Dinner and a Bed by jack

WindyCity4life: Are they really keeping up the red midrises for seniors?What about 1230 north burling?They should keep up the remains and not put poor families on the streets,forget Robert taylor and stateway,they only have 1 remaining......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

Grant: I am sitting in an apartment in 1230 Burling (one of the buildings in Cabrini Green) as I type this. I have lived here since 2000 (and before that I lived in a house......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

WindyCity4life: I would ay Cabrini would be considered still dangerous.Last time i was their,their was a bunch of Gangster diciples walking around outside of the remaining high rises on west division street.My dad used to have......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

WindyCity4life: Their is no glory in public housing,especially in Chicago.Of course I think it's wrong that CHA is making those people live on the streets.For some reason public housing will always be a problem in cities......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

ColoradoHustler: La Junta isnt all that bad unless you are lookin for work then ur better off somewhere else...I lived here most my life about 12 years and its nice becuz u can walk down the......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 8 by Scott Sargent

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......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Mike Ponytail : The angels are here to stay. Thay took over a place that the cops could not do anything with back in 69!!. The place was full of hooker dealers and main liners. Today it is......

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

NOT BUYIN IT: I GOTTA CALL THIS SHIT OUT RIGHT NOW. JOHN AVILDSEN (AKA JA) YOU ARE JUST LAST DECADE’S NICOLE RICHIE WITH YOUR FUCKED UP FAMILY AND YOUR BIG BUCKS. DON’T BELIEVE ME TAKE A......

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

EvilGentleman: Winnipeg has the same sort of inner-city interconnected retail walkway network. You can go quite a ways, even including the main branch of the city library. All quite interesting, but I can't help but notice......

in response to: You\'re in Calgary When... by ksedge

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.

Peter: awesome! my hometown had a {main street} and a {broad street} that ran parallel- in opposing directions- through downtown. sussex looks like a neat place. and, you gotta love places like moffet's. theyre all but......

in response to: Home Pt. 5: Downtown (Broad Street) by CE

Jamie: I'm not from London, Ruairí. What gave you the impression that i did? I live in Lincolnshire. I wholeheartedly agree that the pictures i have shown on this website do not reflect a fair image......

in response to: Cross Street and Blossom 2002 by Jamie

EvilGentleman: One must take the view that all that is done in public is open to be published in the open domain. Otherwise, a whole bunch of considerations will overwhelm everything until **nothing** is fit to......

in response to: Mullets Galore! by Peter

Peter: "do i have the right?" well, most people accept the tenet that anything done in public is in the public domain, unless otherwise specified. thats why cabs that use cc-tv warn you, thats why calls......

in response to: Mullets Galore! by Peter

EvilGentleman: The fire was shot on St Paddy's, saw the glow from the distance while dropping a friend off at 3 AM, so I went to investigate (I had no class the next day). This sidewalk......

in response to: Sidewalk Time Capsule by EvilGentleman

Maia: I'm writing a book in which the main character lives in Wicker Park. I was wondering if any Wicker Park native could tell me what street(s) the old buildings which have large studio/loft spaces are......

in response to: wicker park by corsakti

Chris Erb: This building is actually quite nice to Fredericton standards. Even though Fredericton is one of the richest places in Atlantic Canada, it's still quite poor compared to much of the rest of Canada. ......

in response to: Yuppy Scum by CE

Mitch Waxman: Marine Park is really nice, coney island a 20-30 minute drive away (belt pkwy is alway traffic plagued, so learn the local street way to go). Standard NYC logic applies- trust your instincts & if......

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

EvilGentleman: As far as I know, the block you are referring to (the north side of Sainte-Catherine between Lambert-Closse and de Chomedy) has closed down simply due to the fact that the Forum closed in 1996,......

in response to: Goodbye, Streetcar Rails by EvilGentleman

MY NAME IS SWITCH1: COPE I HAVE 2 SECOND THAT..U DO INDEED PUT A DENT IN THE GAME...BUT 2 RESPECT THE MAN THAT INTRODUCED GRAFFITI TO ME WHEN I WAS 13 ALONG WITH MILLIONS OF OTHERS ILL SAY......

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

EvilGentleman: To my way of thinking, graffiti should be both encouraged and it's location controlled within reason, with penalties for those who put graffiti in places where it has no business being. Now, before you all......

in response to: Criminalize Greed, Not Graffiti by Peter

Get out of your car, buddy: LOL! Those are the ones! Everybody was mocking them by doing that cheesy little wave. Watching from Neville Park was a good move. Not as packed, and you can get away before......

in response to: The 40th Beaches Lion’s Easter Parade by Elicar

Culture Club: Can I get a few examples of the HP culture that everyone is so keen on holding onto? I don't see it. If there was so much pride you wouldn't let people treat the neighborhood......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

EvilGentleman: jeeff, your mind works in scary directions Peter, a few blocks west of here is a 6-foot diameter water main that has broken repatedly over the last 20 years, causing periodic rapids down Peel Street that......

in response to: Overflowing Manhole by EvilGentleman

jeeff: street names are a the domain of the city. once you're outside municipal boundaries the provincial govt has a different naming scheme....

in response to: The Looongest Street in the World by Elicar

Has a brain: So, who paid for the streets anyway, I'll bet it was the motorist not the cyclist. Cyclists think they own the world, but never paid for a penny of it. Expect everyone else go give......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

adam: ivan: read the main page.. this is a photog site (not a site for street fights)...

in response to: Storm Drains + Trolleys by Selig

anon (cpe-69-207-233-94.maine.res.rr.com): Those cyclists are a pain in the ass.. they run red lights go the wrong way on one way streets then cry when something bad happens....

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Film Buff: I love it. You guys are giving me the best material for my next short. It will be a day in the life kinda thing. The first scene will be this event......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Vancouver Cyclist: I have a lot of sympathy for Leah. I have often been tempted to return trash to the scum who think the streets are their trash can. Keying the car was a dumb move though,......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

City Dweller II: Leah, the cyclist, is not in my mind an honour to our city. A knee-jerk reaction such as the one that she made is -- albeit righteous and somewhat amusing -- foolish and inflammatory,......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Scunny: Back in the day (25 years ago), when I first started as a bike courier, I too was guilty of returning litter to motorized slobs in much the same manner (although I never actually had......

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