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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bayside Watcher: Over the past few months the world has learned about two similar horrendous examples of cemetery and grave desecration (Burr Oak in Illinois and Eden Memorial in California). Both of these have very similar overtones to......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Franny Wentzel: [[img:20662]] Bob & Doug McKenzie drive the news truck now......

in response to: Toronto - February 17-19 2007 by CE

damonXo iCPz: im a freshman this year , even reading these comments got me on the edge on asking should I even go this school ? It sucks from negatives , but also gives me positives ,......

in response to: Acorn Community High School by Peter

lucy chronicles: this would have so been torn down in 3 seconds in san fran... where $400+ dollars is handed out each month, very few questions asked, to homeless & welfare recipients who live in the county.......

in response to: Car House Boat Man by Peter

Tex: Oh, Oh... If you move to Hutch, watch out where you buy your house, you may lose it later on. This was in the Hutch News today. "The potential of sinkholes in southeast Hutchinson is......

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

Tex: I saw in the Hutch News today a Texan moved to Hutch, stayed a while, decided to go back to Texas, but since they don't have a bus station in Hutch he had to get......

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

Dave: I'd admit Jacksonville isnt the most pleasant city but no one is asking you to stay here, and what all other cities envy about Jacksonville is our since of pride and partnership in our community.......

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

Bayside Watcher: Steven... you are so right... however the story of Bayside Cemetery is much more complex than just summoning the NYC Jewish community to do the right thing. It's actually also predicated on the owner......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

joey: thanks for this post. your letter, with minor edits, can be re-used here in California; Hey Senator ____: Sacramento needs to pull itself together! If I want irrational conflict, I'll watch Jerry Springer. It makes me sick......

in response to: Staring Down Albany (in Google StreetView) by CartLegger

peggy keifert: to answer someone's question: sonny barger is not in prison, he has a "shop" in arizona, lost his voice to cancer, speaks through a voice box.....the newspapers there had a story about him not......

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

Peter: yeah the old daily news building is still there, but its now the "newswalk" condos... [[http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2006/03/playing_catchup_1.php]]...

in response to: Ratner\'s Brooklyn: Atlantic Scarred by CartLegger

rey : hey thats where the daily news use to be. and across the street from the future NETS stadium. that place is all gone now, i think the shelter is all thats left on that block.......

in response to: Ratner\'s Brooklyn: Atlantic Scarred by CartLegger

Angela: This medieval style building is the Frost Memorial Tower, part of the original Samuel R. Smith Infirmary, former Staten Island Hospital. This building has been nominated for landmarking in 2009 and has been denyed in......

in response to: The Staten Island University Hospital by Peter

Maria in Maine: Hi again Barbara, WOW your message to me brought back so many old memories. I checked my 210 autograph book last night to see if you had signed it. I don't think you did.......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Barbara Ehrentreu (Levine): Hi Maria, I haven't looked at that picture in so long. I think it's somewhere with all the other umpteen souvenirs I have.:) I remember that Roller Rink. I used to go skating there with my......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Barbara Ehrentreu (Levine): I'm so happy that I got on this site! I went to PS 167 from 1950-1956 and JHS210 from 1956-1958. I graduated from the 6th grade and was in the SP there. I remember the......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Ty: u kno...it really bothers me how America treats black people. First, we get called the "MINORITY" on the news, 2nd. were only on the news when we did somethin bad. and 3rd. WERE NOT CRIMINALS......

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

Franny Wentzel: I have no idea. At the time I was just taking picture of what I thought was a news crew or something......

in response to: Whaddo I Gotta Do to Get My Picture Took by Franny Wentzel

Bayside Watcher: Thank you Nic Stage for recognizing that some people's aesthetics are not in keeping with Jewish tradition. There is deep tradition in the Jewish faith where the principle of "Kavod Hamet" means respect for......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Franny Wentzel: Minor detail not visible in these reduced size images... [[img:32990]] Lady handing kid a freezie-pop is standing over a newspaper with an article about a bridge collapse with fatalities. From a calander on the shoe repair place's......

in response to: Neighborhood Friends & Helpers by Franny Wentzel

CartLegger: Poor bob diamond. If he had his way, we'd have trolleys stretching from Redhook to Brooklyn Bridge. Now, just this lovely curiosity behind a grocery store. well, the good news is that the bikes won......

in response to: Red Hook Trolleys by Peter

knut: Accoring to the nowegian newspapir Dagbladet, Oslo got 4 times higher crime rate than New York(new york got a very low crime rate compared to other us citys). Most off the crime in oslo is......

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

Doug: I enjoyed this article and the comments. Takes you right back! I grew up in Yorkville in the 1970's, living near 79th street/York Ave. Softball and Roller Hockey at John Jay, Pizza at......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

CartLegger: Yes, and Manahatta might have meant "place of general inebriation". [[http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-45298801.html]] that's the great thing about NYC history: its a multiple choice question with multiple answers. But you do bring a up a very good point:......

in response to: Hell Gate, NY by CartLegger

Nin 176: Yo got up with my dudes this week and i was asking about my boy white boy Dave. Dude was like ' you mean Sane?? I was like yeah! heard the terrible news. dave was......

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

Ken : I heard about the fire in this building not too long ago on the CTV Montreal news., I've passed by this place many times when I lived in Verdun....

in response to: Yuki Sushi by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: devils advocate, Just to make this a little more interesting, I also give my full consent to Peter to release contact information regarding me, which he has on hand by way of prior communications we have......

in response to: Best Costco Moment of 2008 by EvilGentleman

Joe Brennan: Franny: Would it hurt to credit the source of all these images? Besides finding the originals in many different publications and laying them on a scanner I had to do digital cleanup to......

in response to: Beach\'s Pneumatic Subway by Franny Wentzel

ian: Ah, you found its sibling. :) I was out of the photog world for a while due to lack of equipment. Also buying a house and getting married and establishing a household and all that. Oh,......

in response to: Viking by ian

Richie Rubin: Larry P;yep I'M still fotzink around in Beserk-ly,Calif. but think of dem daze in Crown Hts.5 decades ago!I'M in touch w/Carole Cohen aka`Foxy'who lives in s.Fla.& I saw Judy Oshinsky in s.Fla.a few yrs ago!her bro.Alan the body builder,died......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Mryuppers: Bunch of losers. Win a facking hockey game and they lose there minds, yeah real winners. I think we should let quebec seperate from the rest of canada so they go broke in 5......

in response to: Hockey Victory Riot by EvilGentleman

Peter: speaking of being real, are you smoking crack mike? i seriously doubt your sanity if you honestly think that america is the greatest country in the world. turn off the fox news and get a......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

Rob: And I thought separate trash cans for newspapers and tin cans were a hassle....

in response to: Butts and Cum by Luke1972

Peter: lol... [[http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F2%2Fhi%2Fmiddle_east%2F742798.stm&sl=en&tl=ar&history_state0=]] Saudis 'defeating' internet porn [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/742798.stm]]...

in response to: Feeling Sixy? by Peter

Peter: [[http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F2%2Fhi%2Fmiddle_east%2F742798.stm&sl=en&tl=ar&history_state0=]] Saudis 'defeating' internet porn [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/742798.stm]]...

in response to: Sixy Girl Picture by Dylan K

devils advocate: The article about the homeless man is an interesting one, and I would tend to agree with you that it is one of the best photos I have seen on Citynoise. But there is a......

in response to: Best Costco Moment of 2008 by EvilGentleman

Richard A. Clark: LAURA, thanks for taking a moment to answer my nagging question: "Was there, during 1953, dancing at Café Hindenburg?" Your recollection helps me confirm (I believe) the fact that not only was there dancing at......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

DJ: I was born at 411 E. 87 St between 1st and York avenue on March 25, 1942. Went to St Joseph's, just had to roll directly across the street into the main entrance of......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

newsspike@gmail.com: Can anyone tell me what the two pyramids are for that are being constructed west of the airport. On March 1, 2009 while landing from the west towards the east I could see them......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

George Bush: I just watched every youtube video of Jim. All I can say is this guy is nuts! That being said I can't wait to go check his castle out this summer. I......

in response to: Bishop Castle: Another Self-Made Masterpiece by Jim Bishop

Tevah: CartLegger-- I write for the Staten Island Advance newspaper and would like to ask your permission to use your Mariners Harbor photo on our Web site and/or paper with a link to your blog. If......

in response to: Mariners Harbor by CartLegger

Mime: Wettest summer on record: [[http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/article/2009/02/24/40845_hpnews.html]]...

in response to: Cyclone Ellie by Mime

electricia: Hey, I didn't know they let grownups ride the Bumblebeez ride too! Good news, beex will be back. Here's my list of what will *definitely* be open for business in 2009. Season begins......

in response to: Coney Island Memories by Sean Hopkins

EvilGentleman: **Developer drastically scales back Griffintown project** Company wants less land than originally planned for residential-commercial development Last Updated: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 | 6:13 PM ET CBC News More changes are in the works for a multi-billion-dollar......

in response to: Griffintown by CE

Peter: now im sort of hoping the bad parker emails me, hahaha. id love to discuss his parking job with him ;) re: the cops... here are some interesting links: [[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/nyregion/18about.html]] [[http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-06-10/news/shoot-first-hand-over-film-later]] [[http://www.villagevoice.com/2003-02-25/news/cops-stop-photo-ops/1]] sorry to take it further off-topic, but sometimes......

in response to: Best Costco Moment of 2008 by EvilGentleman

Mitch Spector: EvilGentleman: Funny, guess where I've worked for the past 2 and half years! Yep, I work in the Sun Life Building too (job in the IT field), that's how I was able to follow the......

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

jusLiLme: This is still the best site for DIA info 3 years later! Thank you whoever started it. More stuff will be happening as the worldwide economy collapses and this will be invaluable. Google National Emergency......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

Peter: this is a good followup: [[http://www.detroitnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090130/METRO/901300388]] looks like the consensus points the finger at the {detroit} {police} department for their sluggish response more than those wanton hockey fiends, heh......

in response to: Frozen in Indifference by Charlie LeDuff

EvilGentleman: Well, Norton just made the national news in Canada. [[http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/090120/K012008AU.html]] An article about the art gallery in Norton devoted to losing candidates in presidential election races....

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

Bayside Watcher: I've read and reread this blog, looked at www.baysidecemeterylitigation.com which has a lot of information and more pictures on it, read the various newspaper articles about problems at Bayside Cemetery going back many years, and......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Franny Wentzel: Puzzlin' Evidence It thrills me... It thrills me... We can build a nation inside a nation right where we are... The choice is yours... I'm not a 'joiner' I'm not a member of the John Birch Society or the Communist party. But let's......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

dreamsbushwick: wow some people are so dumb..it isnt safe anywhere right now you could be in the most whitest or richest place in ny and anything can happened of course you have to be careful everywhere......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

zagg: OH! Lastman! oh good times. I was living in Hamilton when it was all in the news about how Toronto had the army called because of the snow and it was like "W...T...F". ......

in response to: Toronto Snow Melter by Cameo

Bayside Watcher: There are many interesting posts here and many interesting questions and facts to check on. In one of the previous posts it is questioned if it is true that Congregation Shaare Zedek used funds intended for......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

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

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

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

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

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

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

Allison: Where did you find the newspaper and photographs? Are they part of a grave or was it random?...

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Rich: Hi Robyn, Rick, Stepha, Doc, Mitch and Scott Let me start with an apology for commenting so late, I'm new to this site. We all lived in the same beautiful neighborhood with all of it's great......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

little ukraine: a news stand, there's something you don't see too many of these days... have you relocated to East New York Peter? nice pictures....

in response to: Bird\'s Eye View by Peter

anon (user1.cablevision.com): Mike(comment Aug.9th, 9:38), can you email me habraham@news12.com We would like to do something with the fire, even though it's been years. Thank you....

in response to: Bushwick \'77: The All Hands Fire by upfromflames

Jane: I had to comment. This is awesome. I was born in 1949 and I lived at 1587 Carroll Street which is between Carroll and Schnectady. I lived there until I was 12 years old.......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Peter: heh... its so true, though. my reality indicates that just about every new yorker i know winces upon hearing the name "mccain", wanted to punch giuliani every time he over-invoked 9/11 while campaigning and basically......

in response to: Preaching to No One by Peter

zagg: My new phrase of the day thanks to peter "do you watch a lot of fox news by any chance?" Such an insult. Heh....

in response to: Preaching to No One by Peter

Peter: The funny thing is... as far as I can tell, a huge minority (if not most) new yorkers actually ##despite## giuliani precisely because of his draconian seizure of the city ("crime reduction") and his laughable......

in response to: Preaching to No One by Peter

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

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: ALAN K;yeah,`Classics'has bounced back from da dead!, RABBI GREENBERG also had `MAD',Tales from the crypt', & ALL Superhero comix[from `50'S,dey also`risen'] what can WE say/type..as an old comic strip*[smokey stover'?]usta say:`them days are gone..forever'! in:*Daily Mirror/News/Journal American?..whew!.....

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Esther Herschman (Rechtschafner): I have tried to think of the words of the school song. This is all that I can remember. Can any of you complete/edit it? School song The Parkway School Dear Parkway school We give praise to your......

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

Rich: Hi Everybody, I lived at 1003 Carroll ST between Franklin and Bedford from 1957 til 1969, we then moved to 1048 President St which was directly behind the first address. Needless to say, for all of......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

EvilGentleman: An article from the {Montreal Gazette} last Saturday, October 11: [[http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=f29d7a30-f182-4300-b85e-a8737693c7a8]] A passage from the article answers many questions posed in here: "In about two weeks we'll send in mechanical shovels with shears to tear down the building."......

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

Tina: I think that Jacksonville has its moments, but to be honest drugs and crime have taken over. You can no longer turn the news on and not see who was shot that day. The city......

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

Mitch Spector: I took updated photos exactly one week later, on Sunday, October 12th. As they continue to strip away pieces of the building, it's interesting to see what sat hidden underneath the wrap-around sign all those......

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

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

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

Rudy: As of this posting, no other information is known to the schedule for when the tunnel will be re-opened. I phoned the commissioner's office that handles the tunnel operations and she told me that no......

in response to: Washburn Tunnel by ian

dapper: is there a spot to do large scale color die cut posters on newsprint?...

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

ns: http://blog.gusnyc.com/2007/10/08/ja-article-newsday.aspx...

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