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maureen robertson: 40 years ago as a 15yr old my friend and I used to jump on the subway at Merkland street and cross the river to Govan to go to the pictures. We weren't allowed to,......

in response to: Glasgow Subway Pre-and-During Modernisation by Gap74

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

jenn: I have never been impressed with London.. "downtown" is like 4 tall-ish buildings, there isn't much to make up a "top 10 Canadian skyline". Personally, I'd put Quebec City at the top of this list....

in response to: The Top 10 Canadian Skylines by CE

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

Richie Rubin: WE usta`hitch'on da rear of St.Johns pl.Trolleys & Electric buses, all da way to`Bridge Plaza'..in Williamsburg,from Utica ave.& St.Johns pl...cool/l-o-n-g ride..& never got caught!...

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

JO: I grew up in good old LJ. It's not all that bad if that's your thing, I got out of there as soon as I could. My parents still live there and they......

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

Peter: theyre there to work on the arrow laying on the ground. those are its last two segments that theyre holding. when i was a kid, i must have had trouble perceiving 3d for a while or......

in response to: What Are They Holding? by CE

Kavod Ha'met: Kavod Ha'met- respect for the dead- is tradition. What has been allowed to happen to our sacred site here is intolerable. This isn't even just overgrown or slightly forgotten like most old cemeteries. This place is......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

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

lucy hart: This messgae is for Paul, your house number 4 Park Lane is where my dad and his brother grew up with my nana and grandad, during the war when my dad was a lad, to......

in response to: Netherne Mental Asylum by Simon Cornwell

Cindy from Oslo: The crime has rised with 20% since dec.2007 according to TV2News channel. And according to Aftenposten (newspaper), there are 4 times more crime in Oslo then in New York ( http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article2299327.ece ) I believe the......

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

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

an afghan #2 : well just let us forget about it.Don't afghan already have problems as it is. Write an article to tell Afghanistan to create jobs for its citizen before they kidnap their own country. I am a......

in response to: Name Change in Afghanistan by Ali Maisam Nazary

jack: i grew up not too far from there. during the war many fighter planes would circle around my home and i could watch them descending for a landing. the drone of the engines......

in response to: NYC Naturally by CartLegger

Peter: i love these too. i snap then whenever i see them, and get panoramas when i can. ill post the panorama vertically, though, so as to not break the page :) [[img:29932]] [[img:29930]] [[img:29931]] ...

in response to: Urban Decay Through Subway Advertisements by adam

Peter: i love "gams" too. i never heard of "getaway sticks", lol......

in response to: NYC Glace\' by CartLegger

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

eyeofodin: yes, never enter a hotel through the garage. door knobs are cool, it's all right to use them....

in response to: Neptune Hotel by Peter

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

Richie Rubin: Sharon;dat`IS'down da st.was probably our PS 167,on Eastern pkwy it was alwaze a`tough'school,but never like in`60's-`70's..no? when You went to St.Matthews did the`nuns'still hit students w/rulers? usually on palm of hand,@ least dat's what I was told by all......

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

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

Doc S.......: ...wow, Mitch - I never found the school intimidating - the teachers and the occasional bully, yes, but the school?? When did you graduate???...

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

sisnina: This is awesome, I've heard stories of such things, like kids in the area like to go and bomb, but never really paid attention to it....they did this in the early 90's. I was wondering......

in response to: The Freedom Tunnel by Peter

Doc S.......: Rick -I remember ALL of them Eddie Grad and Barry Becher especially - though I never corresponded with them. ......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Renee: Although there is a haunting beauty captured in these photographs, the feeling I am experiencing most is how appalled I am by the conditions of this cemetery. I'm sure that when the families PAID the......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

dave in mlwaukee: Thank you for the stirring and poignant photos. Sadly, this is how this cemetery has looked as far back a I can remember, going back to my youth in the 1960s and 1970s. But the......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

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

Tom: I want to know how they manage to get so high haha.. Or were they permission murals or something..? I never understood the whole tagging/mural things I see around.....

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

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

BBB: All u cats pluggin saber and frontin on JA are JV, son. Don't y'all know that JA is straight up Varsity Team? Until you learn to show some respects to someone who is arguably the......

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

Robert: I remember going to Bohacks in Brooklyn and in Queens in 1960 when my parents moved to Florida. But never saw any there. I've been told that Bohacks were long gone. Peter, Whatever happened to those markets? ...

in response to: Bohack by Peter

C3: I don't give a fuck if someone did a piece on the front door of the pentagon,they still won't touch ja,I been in this since 94 and ja was never nothing but on top.I don't......

in response to: JA Update: by Peter

Rick: Wow, hahaha. I guess that's a Montreal thing? I've never seen anything so..... clearly persuasive? LOL....

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

Belleville man: Yes it really does suck here. There are no jobs here unless you are in health care. I found that if you are not from here they treat you like you do not belong. We......

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

sam: why do people do this can't the whole world be peaceful instead of fight there's also never reasons when people kill each other it is always nonsense ...

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

mutjatjo: and forget about, he will never finished, if a construction company doesnt help, he told me he needs 30 more meters up, and finish the roof, but his hands were completely smash by concrete, u......

in response to: Don Justo\'s Self Built Cathedral by Hasslehoff

Keith Bernstein: Esther--In 1958-59 the new principal was Mortimer J Abromowitz. In addition, my former teacher Mrs Frances V Bono became assistant principal. I remember her being a very smart and no-nonsense teacher. Amazing what one remembers......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

pauline curran : never seen it must go when i go next over...

in response to: 7th Century Church by barry

T Whoa!: I lived in Norton for 20 years. As a teenager you think I can't wait to get out of this town. But now as an adult I can't wait to move back. The city is......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 5 by Scott Sargent

Yall know me!: Has anyone ever seen this guy piece? I've seen his tags, I've seen his throwies. But I have NEVER seen a piece from him. Call me old school but doesn't king status require all 3?......

in response to: JA Update: by Peter

luna park: i moved to brooklyn from delaware almost 12 years ago. never regretted it. what i meant by brooklyn losing it is the recent rush to build soulless, glass high rises that are entirely at odds with......

in response to: Changing Face of Brooklyn by luna park

mrprufrock: Just a followup from my comment on 6 November to let you know that as of 25 November, they still have not followed up to even schedule the work, they have not refunded the check,......

in response to: Park Slope Glass & Windows by sine

American Male: Huh, racist? Protestants and Catholics are a race? Also, I've been to N. Ireland, and the same sort of thing is in the Nationalist areas, what with the PLO/IRA one struggle mural. Honestly, saying one......

in response to: The Waterside by Jamie

B. Stratton: JA never really went away he just backed off for a while. I'm curious to know why tho too. Yeah someone should interview the nikka though I don't expect life throws him many curves. I've......

in response to: JA Update: by Peter

Jason: Yellowknife? Really? YELLOWKNIFE??? You should've included Winterpeg in the mix somewhere. From one side of the river you get a nice look at downtown with the the Esplenade Riel cable bridge in the foreground, and......

in response to: The Top 10 Canadian Skylines by CE

al: i use the recipe of flour, sugar and water and i paste over my posters every time and it comes up clear as. ive never needed to use shellac....

in response to: Wheatpasting: How to by An@Rch15T

ma8397: wow, i live right around the corner from here...LITERALLY..who took these pics? i used to throw rocks at the windows as a young child out of boredom...these pics are amazing due to the fact that......

in response to: paterson factory - may 2002 by adam

Paul Davies: I completed a 4 year apprenticeship in electronic engineering between 1973 and 1977 at Aquila. Just the fact that I gained my 'deeds' stood me in good stead when it came to getting work later. Aquila was......

in response to: MoD Aquila (Part Two) by Simon Cornwell

Allan: Never heard of that last gang you mentioned. I went to Wingate HS and in 1959 or 60 some gang member from the Pigtown gang stabbed a CXhaplain with a fork. I remember distinctly how......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Richie Rubin: ALLAN,Yep,dem daze are gone..4-ever! & I had:both albums `Paragons meet the Jesters' &`Rumble'then Link Wray came out w/an instumental:`Rumble'all in mid`50's,sure there were`gangs'in our`hood[mostly in Albany & Kingsboro projects & many members went to P.S.167..I knew a few,but there......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Allan: Richie, Went to the Brooklyn Paramount several times in the early 60's to see many of the 'doo wop' groups, early rock & roll groups too. Ben E. King, Ronnettes, Clyde McFatter, Martha & the Vandelles,......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Richie Rubin: AAAAY-Men!WE now realize what a terrific life WE had back then, `twas the age of in-no-sense.no? it all `died' in Nov.`63,when JFK was killed.no?.what a week that was! WE watched the killing of his assassin>Lee Harvey Oswald,on tv!by......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Ashley: I really think you have to look at these photos in context. You have crime in every city - but unless it's shown to you on a platter you never really realize it. It reminds......

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

Rich: Once again you've really done some fantastic work. I really like the picture with the six rays of sun, the contrast is perfect. Thank you for taking me and others to a place we would......

in response to: The Freedom Tunnel by Peter

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

Thelma Fuentes: I lived at 146 Grove Street and moved to Staten Island in early 70s (I didn't get to graduate with my class at St. Barbara's in 1972)...I remember Barbara Ann's, my first dance at the......

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

antblack: Barry, did you see my post above about Mr Tomaselli? antBlack: 30th Jan 2008 - 18:51 GMT Hey, Anyone remember Mr Tommicelli (sp)? Taught math at ps 274. Also had an old school meat market on Broadway.........

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Richie Rubin: Suzy;picture dis:Your Mom[Mrs.gradstein]cranking up that old PS 167`Victrola'in the auditorium for:`music appreciation' WE`Rock & Rollers'didn't really dig dat`Longhair'stuff.. `til now!,& WE never imagined having`long hair a decade or so..in da future!..no?..Mrs.Dreeben & miss Hines also cranked up dat`victrola'.as did Mr.Lodato[our......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

procyon: So excited for this good, optimistic, intelligent man to be our President. I keep hoping someone here was in Grant Park last night and will put up pictures... I've never been so homesick in my......

in response to: Barack Obama\'s Official Announcement by Brad

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......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

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

Esther Herschman (Rechtschafner): Mrs.Gradstein was my sixth gradeteacher in 1955-6. I remember the old furniture. I never new it had been changed up till now. Therr were fruit and vegetable stores across the street from the school on Schenecktady......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Peter: hahaha, you know, because people cant seem to resist bringing up some contention whenever brooklyn neighborhoods are concerned, when i first saw this photo, i thought "hmm, its only a matter of time before someone......

in response to: Te Amo Bushwick! by upfromflames

Sol: Hi Teri, I also trecked from Brooklyn to Seattle......in time to watch them build the Space Needle & monorail for Century 21. Lived near Alki and then near the locks at Ballard. Did......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Esther Herschman (Rechtschafner): I think I remember the words to the school song a bit better now. How's this?: School song The Parkway School Dear Parkway School We give praise to shrine, As we gaze at your flag on high. Shouting your name As......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

zagg: So, I know I'm pretty immature, and I never noticed this the first 10 times I read this post but ... anyone else now see by parking exactly where it did, in the 2nd......

in response to: Best Costco Moment of 2008 by EvilGentleman

Alan Kupperberg: I’m terribly gratified that some of you enjoyed my reminisces. Richie Rubin is correct in that I sure don’t have Alzheimer’s. I live in Greenwich Village and I haven’t been back to that......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

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

Keith Bernstein: What memories these posts conjure up! Although I can't remember exactly what Judy O looked like, I do remember her as tall and pretty and all of the boys in the class thought so. I'm glad......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

jean-michel: jean-michel basquiat was NEVER a traditional graffiti writer. he was a painter who happened to use spray paint to write phrases on the walls in the street. big difference....

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

bonanza,man : I enjoy the rides, the stories.. and they are all very good riders. I do think the cops would have better ways to spend tax payers dollars than flying the company jet rangers, motor......

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

procyon: thanks! the thing about me, citynoise and honolulu is that (a) 2 of the 5 or so posts here are the Hawaii Graffiti series, which are some of my favorite cn entries ever and are......

in response to: All Things Go by procyon

Rich: Jack, your adventures were informative, surprising and graphic. I've never heard stories like this, thanks. I worked at the place, it was called Bush Terminal, for A&S in the bedding dept. It was a warehouse......

in response to: Brooklyn\'s Rusty Shores by CartLegger

CartLegger: Good point! I get off there to go to Brooklyn College, and never noticed that. But there is that little scoop-out passage underneath the train, so its almost elevated. ...

in response to: Sunday at Avenue H by Jim Kincade

wonders why people are such sheep: Haji you said: It had some cool stuff in it, but frankly, I would never support their criminal enterprise. Do you support the government? they are the biggest crimainls in the world. Educate yourself. More......

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

Charles: I used to hang out in the tunnel back in 79 and again in the early 80's when the conrail had the frieght trains running and that was the best time back then. Too bad......

in response to: The Freedom Tunnel by Peter

rick: Doc - I think we all got our first basebal gloves and all of our sneakers at Circle ("Spaldeens" too, as I recall). Yes, your memory serves - Barton's was, indeed, across Franklin. Also, on......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Bea K.: Just goes to prove there's good and bad 'no matter where we live' and that includes Bushwick. For those who've moved on to "safer areas" (whatever that constitutes these days, as I most certainly 'don't'......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Doc S.......: Yo, Jack - I NEVER had a Charlotte Russe, but I had plenty of "egg - creams". Remember them??? And what were those now seemingly awful concoctions made of? Do you remember? ......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

hawaiiansong: I had the good fortune to sail into Kauai to repair my sailboat earlier this year. I found the people wonderful, and the chickens remarkable. They seem to have evolved and adapted to......

in response to: Wild Chickens by Tyfoid Kid

Jules: Okay....BORING is the reason my husband and I left Jacksonville in July '06. We did everything a modern Metropolitan couple could do. We lived on the river, we had season tickets with the......

in response to: Scenes from a Little Town Called Jacksonville by Jones

Dan: It's funny how people will say "oh man thats such a sweet peice of graffiti, and then they will turn around and say "but i think that tagging is ugly and is not art" if......

in response to: Legal Graffiti by CE

Warren S. : Jeeeezzzz... guys! Richie... Joe, thanks for the support on this one. Once I had my responding comment out there, I couldn't return for a while just to cycle it out of my system a tad.......

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

EvilGentleman: Thanks for reposting, Mitch. And thanks for the explanations, editor. From the way you wrote "Come on guys", I suspect you felt I was complaining. Just to let you know, that is definitely not the case at......

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

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

unknown: I met my now fiance in a small town. I learned that he was born and raised in CG until he was shot not in his neighbor, but on the southside of the Chi. The......

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

Hello, Brooklyn: Please dont come to Brooklyn... Please stay wherever it is you live if you're going to post dumbass questions like "Is Brooklyn safe for a pretty young girl?" Please, please, please do all of us a......

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

pfffft: nice sentiment, scott...and i used to subscribe to that philosophy....until i moved to jacksonville, fl. as an airforce brat, i have seen a lot of this country AND planet...let me tell you, this town is......

in response to: Scenes from a Little Town Called Jacksonville by Jones

44 year old loser.: I've been making paintings for 20 years using some of the same images as Banksy uses...however, he is much more clever (and prolific and successful) than I will ever be...I'm glad he's gettin' the message......

in response to: graffiti stencil making a statement... by Skulz

Stan: I was born at 1074 Eastern Pkway, moved to 919 then 915 and around the corner to Albany Ave, between Lincoln and St. Johns. My wife can't understand why we always lived within a few......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

autumn: Mary - My coons had a communal pooing pile next to an old cottenwood. I put an old bed sheet over the poo and they never pooed there again. As the cottenwood was large and......

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

Warren S.: PS. There is nothing like the truth to set things right. As Jesus taught: "The truth will set you free." Dancing around it never did anything of the sort. Apparently Sister D.P. forgot to teach......

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

Warren S.: "Putrid lives" speak for yourself... Simple fact: child abuse is wrong, it's illegal, and children suffer for it well into their adult lives. Nowadays it's illegal to see it and NOT report it. Maybe you......

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