Comments about old buildings in nj

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Jamie: The age old "This is not a true representation of my town/village/city" debate continues. Maybe I missed the part where i duty bound to paint a fair and balanced picture of everywhere I choose take......

in response to: Morning Walk: Part One by jamie

Ron: Hello again Teri, I had to smile when I bumped into your posting here. Something I didn't mention in my recent long e-mail was one time when I was playing on the Eastern Parkway mall and......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Sticky: Enough with the vainglorious restorations, dust to dust and all that. I must get out there soon before the ruins are ruined. This reminds me of the Appian Way outside of Rome, not the catacombs and......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

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

Dennis: We have been wondering about these houses since squatters were living in them in 1972. We were in La Jolla last week and my wife heard the following story: These buildings were originally life guard......

in response to: LaJolla Beach for Joey by jack

Cop43: Great stuff, I'm a cop in Paterson and love to get into all the old factories and buildings in our fine city. We've been in some real cool spots most can't get into. I've been......

in response to: paterson factory - may 2002 by adam

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

Humboldt1: I love gentrification and will do everything in my power to promote it. For now, I have renters that are less than desirable, but pay, although usually late. I would much rather rent......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

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

Humboldt1: I am happy to get rid of all the gangbangers. I have confronted drug dealers and will surely do it again. I do not want the kids on my street living around this......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

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

Humboldt1: I am one of those yuppies moving in and buying up property. I see real opportunity in areas like Humboldt Park and Logan Square. Now, I live in Humboldt Park in an apartment......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Humboldt1: Arquitecto, Seriously, you don't need to use all the 5 dollar words. I have been in Humboldt Park for the past 3 years, having purchased an apartment building here in which I live. I......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Maz: Just for you Peter - http://www.cr5.co.uk/tour/Tourviewer_CR5.html Click on the third Netherne picture and you will see the old mental hospital buildings which are now apartments, mentioned by Simon Cornwell in his posting about Netherne. Netherne is the village......

in response to: Private Parts ! by Maz

Chris : First of all Toronto is hated on by all Canadians outside of the Golden Horse Shoe. One of the main reasons why is,....... the Toronto Maple Losers!!!!!!!!. It's a hockey country and the leafs used......

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

river otters21 girl: It is a darn shame to see hear what happened to Kensington. Oh, I agree with YourOwnFault 100% except that this cancer known as white flight took place more recently than the 50s and......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 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

herehere: my father grew up on hart street thru early 60's. took him back to old neighborhood for tour. area is slowly coming back but still very bad sections. give alot of credit for tearing down......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Dean Ogden: Wow, what a site. Im only 25 and i feel like i know what everyone is talking about. I see pictures of what Irlam and Cadishead use to be like and listen to the stories......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

anon (77-98-187-194.cable.ubr02.blac.blueyonder.co.uk): possilpark people are always taken stick for the way it is portraid regaurds of being run down i myself was born and bread in possilpark and have a lot of fond memories. you see its......

in response to: Glasgow Schemes2 by kobie

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 cashan: sad news regarding the old river, apparently it was reported in the salford advertiser which used to be irlam and cadishead advertiser,that it has been polluted and all the fish have been poisened and died! naturally......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Oldfart: This isn't a hockey tradition. Montreal loves its riots ever since the Quebec legislature passed the Rebellion Losses Bill in 1849 and an English mob torched the parliament buildings, which used to be here. Since then......

in response to: Hockey Victory Riot by EvilGentleman

Steven H.: antBlack is right. I grew up in Bushwick in the 60's and 70's, and moved to the other side of Brooklyn in 78. I remember it being a true neighborhood, my friends were black, hispanic,......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Bob Salmon: A bit late, sorry, my internet connection broke down. Hi Alan You are correct with what you say about the sky lighting up. Having worked in all the areas that could light up the sky, I will endeavour......

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

Tex: Here's a sad example In the Hutch news, was this story, "Owner of Wiley building leaves tenants in the cold" "The coffee group can joke about it - but the tenants of the Wiley building aren't......

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

EvilGentleman: Well Elicar, my previous article on this particular location has become something of an online focal point for those who lived there during its heyday, much like Corsatki's {Cabrini Green} articles. Thus, this page is intended......

in response to: The Destruction of Benny Farm by EvilGentleman

D.bennett: All right real talk i`m tired of hearing people say they`ve read the book there are no children here that book the movie was all bullshit ok u don`t have to feel sorry......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

revisited: my father grew up on hart street thru early 60's. took him back to old neighborhood for tour. area is slowly coming back but still very bad sections. give alot of credit for tearing......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Liam McCann: Reading your article was like going back home. I grew up on 87th ST. off of Lex and remember alot ot the locations you cited. I remember what the Rupert Towers development was......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

jack: yeah, it looks like a nice building, the old architecture must give way to the newer sleek buildings, i am old architecture, and i have given way to the newer sleeker young buildings that have......

in response to: Viagra Headquarters? by serlingrod

FRED MEGLIO: I LIVE IN BUSHWICK SECTION FROM 1946 TO 1979 THE 50S AND 60S WERE GREAT! LIVED 1403 GATES AVE BETWEEN WILSON AND KNICKERBOCKER AVENUES WE NEVER LOCKED OUR DOORS AT NIGHT TILL THE 70S CAME......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Bob: The Hutchinson, KS haters amuse me. I'm sure some of them have lived in other cities, some have attested to it in their diatribes. However it seems that they are either young or......

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

Keith Smith: Hi Cadisheaders,I used to live on Atherton lane behind the George hotel,and spent years down the bamas fishing on the newt pond,had a great bonfire every year on the bamas,shooting slug guns on the railway......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

copper flower: Graffiti is so much better than gigantic ads. It's free art by free people. No one wants to see more stupid art for money (ads). I know a lot of people......

in response to: Birmingham Bombers by M. McConnell

Logan: I am a 38 year old man born and raised in bushwick. I have seen bushwick go through many changes. I can remember when the wiseguys used to spend their days in the coffee shops......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Andre: D Bennet? I grew up in the hornets also. I lived in 1920 and 1943. I grew up with them also and I was there when Laffy threw the glass at chris. I know them......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

joey: i really like the studies of 111 broadway. the gargoyles look like they actually fly. old buildings have much more character than those boring glass boxes in the earlier shots....

in response to: DownTown by barry

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.

Jeff: I am from Boston and even though my home city is very nice and livable like Montreal (my favorite), it doesn't make my top five skyline cities: 1) HONG KONG - Very difficult to......

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

jack: thanks little ukraine, would like to know your first name, but i informed my son who lives on the street where that drug bust took place. i'm generally down there every so often and......

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

John Dereszewski: Smudgy, your block is not doing that badly. Most of the really nice buildings on Linden between Bushwick and Evergreen, e.g., #64, are still there and doing very well. The few buildings that were lost......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Maire : Great Photos. I wish that you had told the name of the streets these buildings were on. I was born in St. Louis and my grandmother lived at 11th and Montgomery. I lived......

in response to: Old North St. Louis Pt. I by maybetoday

Glad I moved : what about the puerto rican families who have been in the humboldt area for along time and the buildings they own have gone up dramtically in price. They are selling for the money and......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Luis Acevedo: During the last couple of days I stumbled upon the website for upinflames. I couldn't believe my eyes. I am 28 and have lived in bushwick my entire life. I grew up on Wilson Ave......

in response to: Bushwick \'77: When the Lights Went Out by upfromflames

aer suzuki: First of all, I would never, ever call myself a "real Seattlite" and I think I made it clear that I'm the only person I know who calls the building the Darth Vader building. As......

in response to: The Darth Vader Building by aer suzuki

jay: This building is not th building that real Seattlites refer to as the "Darth Vader building" I used to work in the "Darth Vader building" and it is on 4th and blanchard. Also the building......

in response to: The Darth Vader Building by aer suzuki

Angebee: I live in one of these buildings. The architects won all sorts of awards for the fact that we have a "green" project. What people don't know is that the architects, engineers, contractors and sub-contractors......

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

Peter: that last shot is amazing... isnt that about where {bushwick} ave and {flushing} ave intersect... at the {bushwick houses}? im still learning the neighborhood... i think i recall you mentioning that the {bushwick houses} (that brown......

in response to: Bushwick: Municipal Tag by upfromflames

Lee: I was 4 years old when we moved into 120 N.Hermitage apt# 1401.Back then they were called "Henry Horner Homes"...But in relity they were an cultural experiment perpetrated on disadvantaged people.During the 11 years that......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

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

maybetoday: All but one of the buildings pictured were built between 1915 and 1920. One building was built in 1930. There hasn't really been any new construction here for quite a while. The......

in response to: Debaliviere Place by maybetoday

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

EvilGentleman: I am absolutely in love with this sort of remnant of days gone by. I always take shots of old ads and names that have been painted on the sides of brick buildings. It is......

in response to: Maxim Radio, et Al by GGP

maybetoday: All of St. Louis isn't as clean cut as these pictures show. I've only started taking my camera around as I walk through the City recently and these are the first places I've been......

in response to: Lemp Brewery by maybetoday

homeboy: hahaha u kidding? look at the skyline pic's looks so grundgy and just not pretty at all, buildings look really old and just ughh! i live in niagara falls canada wit a population of 100,000......

in response to: tokyo skyline by jeeff

anon (pool-70-104-204-105.nrflva.fios.verizon.net): Having grown up in Gardenside during the 1960's, I and good friend Jim Varney frequently rode the Versailles Road bus past this home and wondered about how neat it would be to live there. ......

in response to: Stone house on Cardinal Hill by Goingincirclez

LAUREN: it's actually beautiful in an abstract and artistic way. yeah sure, the decaying buildings are an eyesore but some of the most interesting things i have ever seen. i like being in Detroit despite what......

in response to: Mexicantown by Cosmo

Alfonso Criscuoli: My partner is from Cadishead, and like some people have said, there isn't much happening there but that is not a bad thing at all. Living in London, which I hate, I find Cadishead......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

upfromflames: Further clarification on gut renos: OK, now this is making a lot more sense to me. No, HPD does not handle the gut renos shown above directly. But the people who once lived here are not......

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

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: layers and layers of buildings....

in response to: All Lined Up by groovehouse

Peter: they used those with a pulley to lower stuff into the basements of older buildings back in the day... if you looked directly below, youd probably see a cellar door, grating, etc......

in response to: Vestigal Device: What Was This For? by CartLegger

zinzee: For those of you looking to move here: I live in Bushwick off of the Jefferson L. I'm one block from the L train. I really do enjoy the neighborhood. I did get......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

SCAM28: Yeah a lot had to be done after the war and actually they've just started to rebuild a lot of the bordering towns around Berlin that used to belong to East Germany in the last......

in response to: Seasons in Gropiusstadt, Neukölln by SCAM28

jack: i spent three years near berlin, it didn't look like that. there were still buildings hollowed out by the allied bombing, new construction was going up and camps still filled with displaced persons. ......

in response to: Seasons in Gropiusstadt, Neukölln by SCAM28

BDweller: "The Bushwick Initiative...Who is this for?" Boy, you are some busybody, upfromflames. Digging, poking, photographing and posting; then posing provocative questions. I'll take your bait. The city's official response to the steady influx of Latinos and blacks......

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

Jimmy Legs: that first boarded-up building may not be a fire victim, a lot of these old buildings get stains on their facades (in this case probably from rust from the fire escape). i mean, it coudl......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

James: This has been an interesting site and I have enjoyed reading the different perspectives from people, especially from the residents past or present of Cabrini Green. I am from Michigan which is about a......

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

Dave: Its so sad to see new homes boarded up. And if the Bushwick's was in England the authorities would of sold it off to big concerns for a £1 or about $1.50(Dollars) for the whole lot......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

dimeadozen: Thank you to everyone for this discussion especially The Truth and those following who elevated the discussion. I moved to Bushwick very recently and completely randomly. Although I work hard, support myself and am forced......

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

artM: Where to start? Planes can't get high enough to see the "largest Nazi symbol on American soil"? Of course they can. This diagram (or even aerial photos) of the runway layout can......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Just found this thread. Those last few comments are not only mean-spirited but way off the mark. In the very first line Elaine establishes it's Liverpool of 1982, during a much rougher time. She's studying......

in response to: rapid hardware by elaine

jack: its sad the way neighborhoods fall into ruin, the way old homes become boarded up and inhabited by rats and roaches. when i was a kid down on broome and mulberry streets there were......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

upfromflames: To Jon: Knickerbocker was street that was always bustling and full of shops, evenin bushwick's hardest times. It was, and is, undeniably and overwhelmingly commercial. I noticed that behind the gleaming wall of signs for......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

procyon: peter: too bad about the sane stuff getting painted over! i read somewhere that someone is rehabilitating the place, though... as a resident of a beautiful old building with a lot of terra cotta sculptural......

in response to: Road Trip, Part II by procyon

jack: yeah, thats brooklyn, in all its majesty, in its timeless grace, the old structure and new people, buildings can tell some stories, i remember this area from my times as a child on the rooftops.......

in response to: I\'ve Lived in Crown Heights for Just About Fifteen Days by little ukraine

Sirhcbre: The old buildings in the first picture look massive!...

in response to: Cleveland from the Golden Hour on by procyon

joey: looks like the golden hour. what's that train up to? or are those buildings that look like a train...

in response to: A January Rainbow Over Downtown by Softee

jack: and that red car is making a right turn unto the wrong side of the street. and whats with all the old buildings all stuck together....

in response to: London Streets 2 by steelisreal

Margaret Zeidler: It is very rarely more cost effective to tear down an old building and replace it with a new one. That is an old wives tale - but one which, unfortunately, is often cited......

in response to: 48 Abell Bites the Dust? by jeeff

Michelle: I am happy to have stumbled upon this chat. I live at 48 abell st. and am part of a newly formed residence group called Model48 that is fighting alongside Active 18 to keep......

in response to: 48 Abell Bites the Dust? by jeeff

EvilGentleman: Judging from the responses to his articles, I would say that Scott Sargent has managed to piss off a lot of people with the "Most Boring Towns" series. I personally do not find it wise......

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

S: I'm all for saving historical buildings and do love history, but I really don't see whats so special about this place. Aside from being old, what does this building have that makes it worth......

in response to: 48 Abell Bites the Dust? by jeeff

Micah: The Moncton skyline as viewed from Lewisville Road is much more impressive: you see not just the tall commercial buildings but also some nice old ones, church steeples, etc., too that are hidden when viewed......

in response to: The Top 10 Canadian Skylines by CE

jack: WELL NOW, A TRIP TO THE PAST...the last time i was at the fair was when it was in it's actuality. it was in full bloom, you kids should have seen it. it......

in response to: Road Trip, Part II by procyon

Phill: Straight up they need to keep up public housing in Chicago. They're killing a community, and history. Questions too. Alright if i'm writting a highschool paper on the descruction of public housing in Chicago, and......

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

Diaz: Humboldt Park will pass through the hands of the hispanics as it has passed through many cultures. Buildings will be renovated and new homes will be built as the more well off people return to......

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

EvilGentleman: Rustic buildings are like old shoes. They look shabby, but they feel so comfortable, like old friends you have always known....

in response to: The Rustic End of Downtown by aer suzuki

"harpo" middle village: The Italian landlords really ruined Bushwick and Ridgewood They rented to multiple families of central and latin Americans - at a ridiculous rate of rent and forced the whites out of the area As usual these......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

aer suzuki: Ha...thanks for the comments... Did a little further research on this skyscraper as I just posted some companion shots and found out something I didn't know. From Wikipedia[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Center]] : "On June 16, 2004, the 9/11 Commission reported......

in response to: The Darth Vader Building by aer suzuki

EvilGentleman: Funny you should mention that. I was trying just last week to figure out how to do an urb-ex of the industrial buildings at the corner of Angrignon and Pullman, and I have been paying......

in response to: Shadow Sniper by EvilGentleman

Chris Erb: I definitly agree with the paint being an issue. With existing painted houses, there's nothing that can really be done other than removing the old paint and re painting with an environmentally friendly paint.......

in response to: Vinyl Siding by CE

Shbi: Amazing photographs...i live in Bickley not too far from the old Aquila site and i still remember cycling down to the gate sometimes when i was younger, curious as to what it all was..i never......

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

EvilGentleman: I find it absolutely incredible that historical stuctures are valued so little in a land where they are so rare. I could understand Europeans not being terribly attached to hundred-year-old buildings, but they also have......

in response to: Long Time Gone by Joe

Nick Levendofsky: Scott, I am from Belleville, and, quite frankly, you don't know Belleville any more than the man in the moon. Did you drive downtown and walk around the square? Did you check out all the stores......

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

Phill : To give you an update cabrini green is still currently alive. There are five buildings still standing that people live in that arn't under demolition, however there are six that have been demolished. The cabrini......

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