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desToNe.! FTR : JA .. KING . HE IS NEWYORK NUFF SAID .....

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

Louis: http://www.starpulse.com/Movies/Godfather,_The/Videos/?vxChannel=Fox+News+Local+-+Los+Angeles&vxClipId=2081_godfather-house_20090613_225213&video_title=Take+a+Tour+of+%22The+Godfather%22+Home&video_count=1...

in response to: Godfather\'s Home by jack

Larry B.: Just discovered this wonderful Eastern Parkway thread through our collective lives. My father and uncles owned the Famous Restaurant on Eastern Parkway and Utica Ave.(now occupied by McDonald's). Does anyone have recollections of the Famous......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

DJ Tazz(Mary): Overtherainbow,nice post.I grew up in Cabrini Green,862 n. Sedgwick,I lived there for over 20 year(1966-1990),there was good times and bad times,but more good times while I was living there.I lived there with my Grandmother who......

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

GODDMAN: The city of Newark has a lot of history both good and bad the people in charge of this city today accomplished more in a shot space of time than any other group however......

in response to: A Walk Through Brick City by Peter

Franny Wentzel: New York is alright... if you love saxophones......

in response to: New York Is... by Peter

Anna: I love the Roman candy man. Its one of the first things i get whenever I go to the zoo. I also see him on Napolean for Mardi Gras. This is my favorite candy of......

in response to: Roman Candy Man by Edward Branley

Whyte_dymondz: Thats not true, East orange is not as horrific as people say it is;; I live in east orange and if you think thats bad then dont go to irvngton nor newark...

in response to: The Projects of East Orange by Peter

Proud Nortonite: Shymo, let me guess you are Sarah Scheimo who I briefly went to high school with, am I right. Of course you have a simple mind narrow vision of Norton and the fine outstanding......

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

Uncle B: "The way we were" - Pure nostalgia! Love it! This beauty reveals how far down the ladder America has fallen! The foreign stuff on the streets today, and the crap GM(America) foists on us nowadays......

in response to: 1970 Pontiac Grand Prix by Peter

Hal G.: Ramona...sorry I haven't kept up with the site. Yes, I knew your uncle Pete (we moved to E. 8th and Ave. P when I was 12) and this brother John, wife Mary and sons, Glenn......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Allen : Just read Tony Giove's blog here. Very interesting Tony, that you lived on Troutman Street, and remember the old P.S. 53 there. Also, amazing that your Dad owned a luncheonette on......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Tom: Jack, you should contact Sister Mary Magdalen in Michigan and see if you can get more information on the painting as well as the incorrupt body of the nun. I am so sorry that......

in response to: About Convents by jack

rf46@hotmail.com: Sharon, I guess you remember the Tumble Inn, Walworths,Red the butcher,the candy store and the tailor and the corner drug store. I remember the kid getting killed by the NY News truck. I think he......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

Arnie Blume: To Norms Saw that you lived on Carroll by the bridge. Did you have brothers, one named Stan? I remember him as a great softball player. He was older than me and I think I am......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Jacob Russell: Good images! I worked there as a Psych attendant... mostly in the geriatric unit, 1967-68... alternative service to military. Have some stories about that place. My niece is a very talented artist.. now living in......

in response to: Haverford State Hospital by Nairi

maurice green: i was born and raised in newark born in st. micheals i was one of the resident who lived in bt i will truly missed it when it,s gone i lkie georgia but newark is......

in response to: James M. Baxter Terrace by Peter

CartLegger: Vespucci was more a self-promoter than a discover. His main credit was having gotten the first quote out about the landmass being a "new world" than a part of Asia. ...

in response to: Columbus Circle Nocturne by CartLegger

t.cap: i dont agree wit niggas sayin that cope is dope, his shits the same on every throwie. im diggin metro, ja, sike, iz, sars's 2nd throwie is pretty dope and rime. im down 2 take......

in response to: NYC Style Graffiti Throw Up by Metro1

Bayside Watcher: Check out this new article: http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c36_a17139/News/New_York.html How about the quote where the cemetery guy says that the cemetery is "like a Ponzi scheme"? Is that what Bayside Cemetery is? Congregation Shaare Zedek, Bayside Cemetery and CAJAC are......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Anon: My friends and I were just mugged at knife point on Jerningham road off of thhe main new cross road.we are students living in new cross. Goldsmiths is a good uni but please if u......

in response to: bleak day, new cross by elaine

Robert: Impressive barn! The outside appears to be so decayed while the inside is fairly clean and the objects inside seem rather new... Mikee, your posts, so far, remind of that old Shanty Town song....

in response to: Racing Equipment Inside by Mikee

overtherainbow: Hey, its gone, no more to rise in the sky. Red bricks of Cabrini, off White colors of The Green, grey bricks of the row houses. No more St. Phillips, St. Dominicks, No......

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

Joseph Loughlin: I went to Steeplechase at Coney Island in the 1930.s as a kid and it was like going to another planet. Absolutley fantastic! I guess we've just gotten too sophisticated to enjoy such......

in response to: Coney Island Deconstruction by luna park

Liam Keys: The Sugarshaker is still the tallest building in Townsville, Its 76ms tall and the new Dalgety is only 73ms tall....

in response to: Presenting Townsville by Mime

Frank C.: Just a little extra....According to the New York Times, "In a five-year period in the late 1960s and early 70's, the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn was transformed from a neatly maintained community of wood houses......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Bayside Watcher: The good news is that the lawsuit against Congregation Shaare Zedek and Bayside Cemetery has been moved to NY State Supreme Court. I read through the lawsuit and it's even tougher than the last......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Billy Newman: My mother lived at 14 Stanley just after the war i was born 1945 sadly she died 1952 tb then my sister and i moved to 9 paisley road the toll next to the old toll......

in response to: 11 Stanley Place, Kinning Park by kobe

The Audacity of Attitude: Hey everyone. I'm a 29 year old white male who lives in Chicago and I rent an apartment in Lakeview a couple miles north of Cabrini Green. I drive by it almost every day and......

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

Berry Parsons: We came into New York in 1956 on the SS President Monroe, which was sailing from Italy (Leghorn, I think) -- arrived around the end of June (I was 9 years old). What pier......

in response to: The Dilapidated Piers off the West Side Highway: NYC by Peter

Marco: tokyo is not just skyscrapers even though those are the buildings that stand out in the center of the city. The bulk of this city is made of middle-rise buildings and the more you go out......

in response to: Tokyo Architecture by Chris Jongkind

Robert: [[img:36785]] Just got this very good image and text from the Anderson Associates site: Vanderbilt Place Residences (Old P.S. 9) 279 Sterling Place, Brooklyn, NY 11238 279 Sterling Place in Brooklyn is an historic landmark built in 1893. When......

in response to: PS9 by Robert

aroosa: iiiiiiiiiiiiii loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee newwwwwwwwww yorkkkkkkkkk ...................................................................

in response to: The Bridges of New York City by Peter

aroosa: New York City is beatiful...

in response to: The Bridges of New York City by Peter

aroosa: New York City is beatiful...

in response to: The Bridges of New York City by Peter

aroosa: New York City is beatiful...

in response to: The Bridges of New York City by Peter

Chic: Esther I lived at 1320 Sterling Pl. 1936 to 56 when I married a girl from St.Johns Pl.I still have her.I knew Jean Jackson from Veronica Pl.@ Arthur Marcus from Hampton Pl.,both near you. I......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Chic: Esther I lived at 1320 Sterling Pl. 1936 to 56 when I married a girl from St.Johns Pl.I still have her.I knew Jean Jackson from Veronica Pl.@ Arthur Marcus from Hampton Pl.,both near you. I......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

CartLegger: the devil is in the details, truly! [[http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/queens/2009/10/22/2009-10-22_judge_throws_out_lawsuit_against_fallingdown_cemetery.html]]...

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

CartLegger: Sad that Justice seems to be on the side of this injustice: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/queens/2009/10/22/2009-10-22_judge_throws_out_lawsuit_against_fallingdown_cemetery.html...

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Cream - HKI: Inkhead been drinking too much red bull and playing wipeout I say: http://www.wipeoutzone.com/fonts/newdetroit.zip http://www.wipeoutzone.com/fonts/blokshox.zip http://www.wipeoutzone.com/fonts/delta.zip...

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

ALBERTO RODRIGUEZ: Hi, I was on the train before this #4 Express. This was early in the morning and my train was too packed. I needed to get to work early that day, and did not want......

in response to: Free Robert Ray by Peter

mixolydian: about 75% of payphones have disappeared in the last 5 yrs, due to cellphones. the electronics inside date to the very late 80s to late 90s, and most don't need "hydro" anymore (except for the......

in response to: Oldskool Coke Machine by Peter

Franny Wentzel: Want to make easy money? Send $5 for my informative new pamphlet "How to get people to give you money on the internet"...

in response to: Listen to This Sizzle by Peter

EvilGentleman: Ooh, you found the stairs. I was looking for those... Well, maybe not that hard. I saw people upstairs busy doing some work, and I was not sure how they would welcome me. And I see......

in response to: Graffiti Factory: Behind the Babcock & Wilcox Boiler Plant Part 1 by EvilGentleman

Jewboy: If Cong.. Sharei Tzedek can't take care of it, why don't they relinquish it to those who could, like the American Jewsish Congresss. Here is today's news article http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/queens/2009/10/22/2009-10-22_judge_throws_out_lawsuit_against_fallingdown_cemetery.html Does anyone know how old is the......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Allen : Hi I wrote just a few days ago (re: Oct. 16), asking for if anyone perhaps knew of some friends of mine from some years back. (I see there are a lot......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Allen : Hi I wrote just a few days ago (re: Oct. 16), asking for if anyone perhaps knew of some friends of mine from some years back. (I see there are a lot......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

antoinette: i only lived in b.t for two years but i can tell you that i will miss this nieghborhood deeply, i have many memories there and spending my 7th and 8 th grade years there......

in response to: James M. Baxter Terrace by Peter

Lurker: There's the rub, Den. You say "re-discovered". I say "How can a neighborhood be re-discovered when its already peopled by tens of thousands of residents?" Who, pray tell, is doing this "rediscovering"? It's certainly not the......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

cookie rall: I lived at 285 Central Ave between Greene Ave. and Bleeker St. I hung out in Charlies Candy Store next door to me.Stella Doro was on the corner of Bleeker and Central.Chris DeMarco owned it......

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

Mary Ann: Hi, I attended Bishop McDonnell Memorial High School which was the girls Catholic High School at 260 Eastern Parkway right near Prospect Heights girls high school around the corner. These blogs bring back memories,......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Robert: [[img:36518]] Peter, this is where I first started to really get in touch with Citynoise. I thought it was 2006 and it turned out to be a year earlier. Please, send me a note to my newer......

in response to: Washington Avenue, Prospect Heights by Peter

Myrna Spagnolo-Culver: Moved to 1000 President St. in 1954 and attended 241 with Linda Mantel and Norman S.. Was so impressed by neighborhood that I wrote a paper on the area. Ms. Kenny was my favorite......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Franny Wentzel: Well some people try to pick up girls And get called assholes This never happened to Pablo Picasso He could walk down your street And girls could not resist his stare and So Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole Well......

in response to: Frank and Pablo by Robert

James: This unfortunately is just another casualty in the disappearing architectural history of Houston. Instead of reusing buildings and transforming them, Houston has always just demolished them and built another newer building on top of......

in response to: Moonrise Behind The Burned Out Bethel Baptist Church by groovehouse

Treeza: 10th Mar 2009 - 21:52 GMT: My name was Mary Craig when I first knew your dad. He was my first boyfriend (I was 14). He was living with his granny opposite our tenement in Eaglesome Street. His name brings back......

in response to: 11 Stanley Place, Kinning Park by kobe

Allen : This site brings back some good memories!! I wonder if anyone might know of some of my old friends who I knew there in that area during the mid to late......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

shymo: I went to high school in Norton, and it sucked ass. Kids hung out at the library or just cruised the streets every damn day for fun. On weekends they'd go get wasted......

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

Franny Wentzel: Something like the 'New You' clinic in 'Logan's Run'?...

in response to: Historic Laser Spa by EvilGentleman

robert: [[img:36481]] Peter, don't forget to send a few words through my email, seems that I lost your email contact long ago and would like to send you some old photos though the mail. The photo of......

in response to: Tomato Soup Under Brooklyn Bridge by Robert

Robert: This is getting more than interesting,,, with Nigerians and allª Well, Peter, to answer your questions let me begin by saying that back in 2006 we got in touch right here, it was over an article......

in response to: Tomato Soup Under Brooklyn Bridge by Robert

EvilGentleman: Funny. I knew a Mike Hawkes. In junior high, my gym teacher, who also taught sex ed, was Mr. Cox. That same year, the industrial arts teacher was Mr. Wood....

in response to: Truck Boner by Peter

Kelly: I am currently doing a project on architecture in london and any feedback to the following questions would be much appreciated: -What do you feel are the main strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of 30 St.......

in response to: The Gherkin by Hasslehoff

Michelle: Hello.I am not from chicago, but I would like to add this.Cabrini Greens was what it was...and to a lot of people it was home. a lot of people don't see it as anything but......

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

aj schure: remember standing in front of dubrows on eastern pkwy.1960 watching jfk talk when he was running for president and the cops pushing us from the front of the podium to the back guess they knew......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

aj schure: remember standing in front of dubrows on eastern pkwy.1960 watching jfk talk when he was running for president and the cops pushing us from the front of the podium to the back guess they knew......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

EvilGentleman: Hmmm, thanks for reminding me. I took a lot of photos of this area during {Under Pressure 2007}, but I don't think I ever posted them. I should see if any of these date back......

in response to: Les Foufounes Électriques by nosmo

Janet: It would be good to her more from those neighborhood men who served during WWII and Korean War. What were the streets like and the neighborhood spirit? I was a child when the......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

fM: ATF.... my humblest apologies, I just read the story by mike daly about obama living on 94th street when he was a student at Columbia. Unbelievable... the building next to where I grew up "1960-75"......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

confused: I am confused. Whats all the fuss about? If they tear down the rest of the buildings, the residents move to more housing paid for by the government and people that they hate and harm(taxpayers)......

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

Howard: I spotted a nice bike at Uncle Jacobs on Spadina via Craigslist. Do you think it's stolen? Is uncle Jacob a regular buyer of hot bikes from Toronto's crackheads? If I was going to buy......

in response to: A Picture of My Bike by Walks now

sebel1: new york is were itall started baby ...

in response to: 1990s NYC Graffiti: Part 1 by Peter

Noah: I moved to Bushwick (Troutman between Irving and Knickerbocker) shortly after graduating from college last December. Reading all the stories about the old neighborhood as well as your comments have been tremendously interesting and make......

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

Watcher: Ultimately, those in the life will either die from it, be maimed out of it, or survive it after a fashion to continue it and spread it and it's culture of drugs, death and chaos. To......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

atf: joe romaine...when the projects went up there were only 5 story buildings in the area....i remember every building going up in that neighborhood....i beleive the stanley isaacs were complete around 1964...none of the other high......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

J: Well, My son attends Pope John Paul the II Family Academy. I can honestly say that I am so thankful for this wonderful oppurtunity. The staff are awesome and my son (although he......

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

NewportbeachCA: I'll be coming to see some old friends who moved to Norman from Cali two years ago. I can't wait to see the home game this weekend. I really don't believe what people say about......

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

anon (ool-45733f37.dyn.optonline.net): Thank you for posting this...I too grew up on 90th St. between 2nd and 3rd Ave. right across the street from the Brewery. Went to O.L.G.C., made my communion, confirmation and graduated there. ......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

NotAnAnimalHater: I live in Philly PA. I saw on the news that raccoons are taking over in Philly. I've had them in my ceiling for over a year now. In the summer they're not so troublsome.......

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

My Block: Wow Laura, great story, I'm sure you got an "A" especially if the responses your article received had anything to do with grading you. I read every one of the responses and enjoyed them immensely.......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

margaret robertson: does anybody remember the robertsons from 368 scotland street whent to our lady and saint margarets would be glad to hear from yous im margaet now living in ireland there was christine catherine james william......

in response to: 11 Stanley Place, Kinning Park by kobe

Esther (Herschman) Rechtschafner : Wasn't ther once a bank on the north-east corner of Franklin Ave. and Eastern Parkway? Does anyone know what happened to the Brooklyn Jewish Center (located on Eastern Parkway betwen Brooklyn and New York Ave.?...

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Susan Ramtohul: I lived firstly at 59 Woodplace Lane and then moved to 1 Park Lane with my husband and three children. We moved from Netherne in 1987. We have been back a few times......

in response to: Netherne Mental Asylum by Simon Cornwell

Resident: Gang violence and crime are not attributes of a persons skin color and ethnicity but of poverty, alienation and a failed education. The culture clash in Humboldt park is inevitable and......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Chuck: Niagara Falls, Canada has and awesome skyline for a city it's size. It's turning into a mini Las Vegas. Shame the American side doesn't keep up. Pop 80,000 Metro 400,000 Niagara Falls, Canada [[img:36173]] New Hilton @ Niagara......

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

RP: Newsprint works well, or any light, fiberous paper like that. It sticks easily because the paste can soak through it and stick the entire surface of the paper to the wall. Look for it in......

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

Franny Wentzel: As luck would have it I was able to find a PC card reader for the 5v cards the QT-200 uses. I don't even use the camera much anymore but it's nice to have a......

in response to: Ground Zero Visit 5 May 2002 by Franny Wentzel

ouch: link to the president selling cosmosphere space artifacts http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-110603a.html...

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

ouch: anybody that says the cosmosphere is a great place to spend time is wrong. after you watch 1 imax movie and browse the same space crap that been sitting in there for decades your......

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

jobo: In my experience in Chicago the newly gentrified neighborhoods usually follow this path: 1)Completely non-white 2)Poor white people move in, usually artistic type people 3)As their numbers rise the neighborhood starts to show it 4)When upper class white people......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Art Student. : There is nothing wrong with recreating what a master like Banksy does. And I use the term master loosely. That is how an artist is born. They find a motif that they enjoy and like......

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

anon (74-36-171-221.dr02.shlw.az.frontiernet.net): great find... and it looks all shiny & new, how strange....

in response to: When You Come to a Fork in the Road... by Peter

Eric: As horrific as the conditions at Bayside are, the sad fact is that others in New York, particularly in Staten Island, teeter on the brink of a similar fate. To be sure the congregation's stewardship......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

charlie-boy..: u know that one.. serene-not any more yeh i still love that place.park lane used to be my home.(yeh its still my home-i just dont live there any more)lol.. since they built all those new......

in response to: Netherne Mental Asylum by Simon Cornwell

Franny Wentzel: New roof, new floor, new walls, new windows, new fireplace, new plumbing, new wiring... she'll be good as new!...

in response to: Some Local Flavors by Mikee

Criona: i have just read through these comments an they are quite sad.... he died with dignity and bravery an no womwn nor man can ever take that away from him.... they are ALL hero's.... what man......

in response to: Bobby Sands: An Cumann Cabhrach biography of 1981 by Marcella32

Pope John Paul II Family Academy: Hello all. I am Jim Viola, VP for Development & Community Development at the new Pope John Paul II Family Academy. It is wonderful to read all your comments. We have renovated the old building......

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

anon (adsl-217-64-240.asm.bellsouth.net): Hi Linda - Thank you so much for responding. For so long I've been eager for a connection to my grandmother and who she was as a child and in her younger years. I grew......

in response to: Barren Island by CartLegger

Bruce Barton: Dear Eden, I knew your sister Susan as a summer friend from Gratten Lake. All the kids had so much fun up there. I remember one hot and sunny day we all went......

in response to: The Benny Farm Condemned Housing Projects by EvilGentleman