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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,...... CartLegger: Adam: outings? We have them all the time, man! You should join us sometime. I see your postings, and we not only share names, but tastes for corners of the city and odd photographic angles...... I remember: I agree it is difficult to view photos like these. Instead of figuring out whom is to blame, lets figure out a solution. If there are so many hits on this site than...... Manong daikong: Norge, you're right these chickens are a tough breed and it takes a good hit to anchor them. My neighbor has been having a tough time with them He lives at the edge...... Franny Wentzel: Got almost the same shot a couple years ago!
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Taken with a regular digicam... Rich: This was unusually interesting, an excellent find (the pictures of Ed Koch in the basement of that almost forgotten building). Great work, Thanks for the link, it explains so much.... Afroblanco: Ms. Andelman, I agree with Renee, NWhyC and most of the others. Despite all those words you typed, you really didn't say much at all. Like it or not, as the first officially-involved person to...... Rabbi Julia Andelman: Dear Friends,
Congregation Shaare Zedek has been working extremely hard over the past several years to forge a long-term strategy for the restoration and maintenance of Bayside Cemetery, despite the fact that only 5% of this...... 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...... Peter: good for him! yeah, what a dedicated guy. i can only imagine trying to petition nyc to get permission to take the general public into a cavernous subterranean abandoned tunnel, heh...
here are some links for...... Kriestine Mangel: wow. it's cool to read about people's memories of Bushwick. I may be a bit younger than some of the posters...Our family lived on Halsey St. between Irving and Knickerbocker between 1964 through...... Heero: How can you say Urban Freeflow is GOOD?
They act like they're the official parkour organization.
Even more so, they even tried to create competitions. I don't know about you, but competitions will destroy parkour and make...... crazy : hello everyone
i met a dancer just yesterday at super sex she was great she told me her name but i forget all what i know is it begine with M ...pls help me know...... ChiPhi: True Morgan693 that due to some nuture and nature aspects of our upbringing, it may be easier for some to "pull themselves up by the boot straps". However, the excuses and crutches have to...... Joseph La Rosa: Hey Brooklyn, what nice things are being said about "the old neighborhood". My name is Joe La Rosa and my family used to own LaRosa bakery on wilson ave. My dad was Joey....... 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...... morgan693: Lot's of interesting comments here, but a lot of misconceptions, in my opinion. Not everyone can pull themselves up by their bootstraps, contrary to popular belief. People have different intelligence levels, different life...... 81s bein animals: HAMC and all the other 1%ers have long since left their roots as a brotherhood of rowdy riders. They're criminal organizations who are about as cute as MS13. Anyone who thinks any different is...... suzi sidewinder: Robert Oppel's wondering why Jim posted his reply on March 22nd, 2008 and then cowardly bailed out of communication. The Res-Erection Of Robert Opel, Jim. Get it, or Forget it?... 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...... EvilGentleman: I forgot I deleted my cookies during my last virus scan. Editor, could you be so kind as to delete my anon comment, as well as this one?... Very interesting...!: A lot of UFO and more interesting info below
http://www.dkb-mevlana.org.tr/GURZ_eng.htm
let me know for any more to know
fmelani@rogers.com... davida: Oh I forgot to say that I loved going to Ben and Sol for deli food. Do you remember Nino's Pizza that was the best on Franklin Ave. I still can't find good chinese food...... Editor: Or, you know, you could learn to post photos properly so that they dont crash the page so bad that they have to be deleted. Just a thought... you might want to look here if...... 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...... Editor: Richie: your unconventional use of punctuation is probably to blame for your truncated comments, as this site might interpret it as "code", particularly as symbols like ; ' [ and so on are pretty standard...... 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...... Kara: oh my lord norway is georgeus
... Stan N: The movie theater around the corner from the Loews Pitkin was the Loews Palace. Someone had mentioned that he had forgotten the name. I also ate a lot of the combination plates at the shaky...... CartLegger: Very good point, and powerfully described. These areas are in their own way forgotten, started by Jewish communities long since moved on in demographic transitions past.
This cemetery is actually one of the oldest Jewish...... Dee: My thoughts . . . meh. It's always sad when cemeteries go unattended and the resting places of loved ones forgotten . . . but to my mind, it's a responsibility of the survivors to...... Rob: Wow. How does this even happen?
How can people have such disrespect for the dead. It makes me sad to see a cemetery in such a state. An...... Mateo: Great pictures! Abandoned cemeteries are fascinating. I always wonder how they came to be forgotten, especially ones such as this with such ornate stones and fanciful crypts.
It's...... anon (68-189-222-220.dhcp.ftwo.tx.charter.com): These are absolutely GORGEOUS.... 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...... 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...... kallaneboi: Pigeon trap cat forgot step 3: hide... EvilGentleman: Just the car. The engines were CN, about 4 cars forward of this one off the right side of the photos.
I must admit that I am not sure whether this car was carrying automobiles or...... Peter: oh, sorry, i forgot to mention it earlier... its {NORES}, out of the metro {washington, dc} area
[[http://www.robotswillkill.com/graffiti/showgraff.php?artist_id=4779]]
[[http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A32246-2003Oct15¬Found=true]]... Diane Roberts...: Great ideas Rohinton...would like to see an article on "The Pav" on the boardwalk...meeting place to hundreds of teenagers in the late fifties early sixties.
I grew up on 3rd Ave having an extremely happy...... Richie Rubin: Julia A;da`Skyliners'were from cleveland,ohio.& nevah lived in
b'klyn,but stayed & St.George hotel durink concerts!&Carole Cohen
didn't marry Jackie Nolan..Helen Blitzer did!WE all useta go to
`Town Hill'to see terrific shows..& needless to type/say dem R&R
shows[Murray the K']@...... 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...... Rohinton Ghandhi: November 27th, 2008
To City Noise Editors,
I have recently begun writing articles for the Verdun Messenger's new English Corner segment. They cover Verdun's history and the people within it.
I thought your group...... Don USAF Retired: I was staioned at PBURG from june 1958 util may 1963 the real reason bases were closed was so x
congress could send the money to other countries as a free b. they colsed GEORGE air...... Pronto Permissio: Oh this makes me laugh. I've used them a few times, all with similar results (or lack thereof) as some of the individuals above. Seems like a mixture of forgetfulness and their convenient location has...... Donburi: AVOID these cretins AT ALL COSTS! What everyone above said -- they will take your deposit, promptly forget about you, then exhaust you with so many delays and astoundingly inane excuses that you almost give...... rachamim ben ami: Wow! People are still riffing on this crap? ##"Hells Angles are evil!/Hells Angels are great, they make our block safe!"## What a bunch of garbage. Either way no one here seems to know one way...... Diane Dole: Hi Pat, we will have to organise a reunion one day, We carry on proudly our tradition that great gandad felt passionate about. We had some great times with Annie and Polly and all our...... pat barfoot: hi. to everybody who is interested in pearly kings and queens. my mother annie was the eldest child of george and emma dole they had 19 yes 19 children .alf dole was the second born...... Peter: indeed. catty-corner from that giant gas station thats been there forever.
the part you didnt hear about this post is that about 1 minute after snapping this shot, i turned left there onto bedford; i found...... Richie Rubin: PETER;try: > brooklynpix.com < great pics of All neighborhoods!
& > nycsubway.org ... Fran Jetcyk: I am looking for a picture of the wagon and horse that delivered milk. I forget the horse's name that thrilled me on Columbia Ave. in the early '50's. I fed him or...... Peter: any chance you guys have photos of the neighborhood (or brooklyn in general) from back in the day? after following this thread, id really love to actually see some of it. if you need help...... Robin R: Hi Marg Gunhouse (Nee Dodds)
The place where you had your first date with the great 35 cent smoked meat sandwiches was called 'Curly Que' and has neon signs in their wondows advertising the best smoked...... Peter: as a current bushwicker, ive really been enjoying reading you guys' reminiscence here about the old days. you guys should also check out other bushwick posts at [[http://citynoise.org/search/bushwick]] and see if any of the neighborhood...... 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...... Alan Kupperberg: Richie, I've gotta admit I have no affection for organ meats, except for chopped liver. So lungen stew doesn't sound appealing to me.
Your family's recipe for kishke sounds like "moider!" I...... 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...... Richie Rubin: ALAN K:`Coney Island Joes'[in brownsville/E.N.Y]W/train
tracks behind da joint..yep,great`hotdogs'[franks were
made of 100%beef[parts]&greasy fries!I usta work a few
blks down Linden Blvd @ COCA-COLA bottling plant nr
Georgia st.in early`60's,did anyone ever go to the
`batting cage'/min.golf on Penn.ave.nr Belt...... Keith Bernstein: Hi Richie--a trifecta between two Tilden guys. My father took me to the St. George pool during the 1950s and once to Betsy Head pool around 1960 and to the Coney Island fireworks several times.
Here's...... Richie Rubin: Esther H;Dem St.Johns pl.buses*were powered by 2[two]
overhead electric wires[`TRACKLESS TROLLEYS']the last
one ran in 1960..WE[St.Johns Boys]usta`hitch'`em by
hangin'on in back..& jump off @ OUR leisure! as far
as I know,no kid was ever hurt doing this derring-do
feat!..oh,&`SAM ASH'music...... Esthr Herschman (Rechtschafner): I enjoyed this site very much. I graduated from PS167 in 1958.Now i will try to list yu some of my memories. Kindergarten teacher Miss Shapiro. (there was another kindergarten class and teacher -Mrs. Pinkerton....... Peter: did you see the links i posted above? in addition to those, all of the following sites appear to show the identical image (though sometimes at different resolutions)...
it was posted here in 2004: [[http://www.thatsweird.net/picture37.shtml]]
it was...... Jane: Alan: send them to editors@citynoise.org and have them post them here for you?... RICHIE RUBIN: Folks,da reason I typed in CAPS..yep:BIGGER & EASIER
to READ!..no?but it seems `tis`illegal'on dis site[?]
so I'LL continue w/dese teeny lower case stuff..dig?
Richie Rubin..& ALAN K;`Jungle Jim's coconut whip'
on Amboy st./Pitkin ave.was da best!in fact,I recall
`Jungle Jim'wearing...... 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...... Nobody: Richie -- might it be possible to not comment in ALL-CAPS? It's kind of hard to read, annoying (people consider it the equivalent of YELLING online) and I think it's been getting your comments deleted...... Jo ggreat niece of George Dole & Emily Baker: Hi Diane, doing the family tree at the moment, and found out that George Dole, Pearly King of St Pancras is my Great Great Uncle (my GG grandparents are George DOLE and Annie TUTTLE), does...... 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...... 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...... procyon: gorgeous. especially the last two.
what is the plan for it exactly? the drawing on the left looks like people relaxing in grass next to the existing structure, but the one on the right looks...... anon: you are a man of little vision, George. ... 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...... sythero: WOW! this is my hometown too; infact the orange bicycles in the 3rd picture are custom made in Chatt by a friend's father named Mic George. About a year ago we bartered for one...... Peter: oh yeah! nice, man! i totally forgot to check this out yesterday... ill def add it to my quickly-growing list of "places to visit via bike before winter comes". nice {golden-hour} shots, too... ahh yes,...... Peter: they forgot to add: "...beyond its $2+/lb scrap value", hehehe... i like that second shot, too... im always a sucker for any shot with a nice sky and powerlines in it...... upfromflames: [[img:29233]]
George: sorry to see your shop go. but what the hell were you thinking?
you could have sold that thing--iconic image that it is--and made better money for your family. And not destroyed a work...... Angela Bentley: Hi everyone I asked this question before didn't get a response but I grew up all over brooklyn, last years in the city I grew up in ridgewood area Palmetto ave, gates ave and onondonk...... 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....... Mitch Spector: About the disappearing pictures...I forgot to add comments/descriptions and inadvertently sandwiched them together edge-to-edge, making them look as one. Asked the editors to remove my post so I could repost it properly, which got done...... Robert: since the 80`s , The N.S.B Norgate Solide Brothers,,,there are extremly dangerous crews affiliate
with a lot of Gang in Montreal City,thers rolling Cote-Vertu Metro with the BLF Bronw Latin Family,Décarie street and...... Bosley: Don't forget the "Patio"movie theater, on Flatbush Avenue, across from the 711 Chinese restaurants. I think it belonged to the "Century" chain. Before the Patio apartments were built on the site, I loved to walk...... Norge: I hunt them all the time with a powerful .25 caliber pellet gun. They are extremely wary and impossible to sneak up on---they WILL spot you long before you spot then, so the only...... procyon: Medicalfools: I also know that some higher-ups want the best for it--someone posted a letter to that effect from Dorothy Lewandowski elsewhere on citynoise, and I recently read that they've started applying for a spot...... 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...... 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...... Gonebutnot forgotten: Grew up on Montrose Avenue across from Most Holy Trinity Church. What a beautiful church. Always reminded me of St. Patrick's Cathedral. Had cousins who went to school there and remember walking to...... 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...... Gemini: JP1515JeffersonAve you forgot the Scelly court. the kids just drew one on our street. They have the numbers in the wrong places but we have one. LOL.... Peter: nice... these remind me of {revs} "pages":
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[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revs]]... eyeofodin: If you would like to follow the construction of the Freedom Tower (the tallest of the towers to replace the twins), here is the link http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=419362 Go to the last page if you...... Lexxi: Great to know that the legend of Mr. Rufus Rockhead lives on with the naming of the street near Atwater Market, unfortunately most Montrealers have no idea of the history associated with this brilliant man...... Steve - Albox, Almeria: If
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;...... Dr Jayne: Great site. Did anyone go to dancing school at Miss Helen's School of Dance in the early 1960s? Probably on 19th ave? If you did, there was a family with three girls...... Bill Diggins: i grew up at 77 granite street. off bushwick ave. pilling and chauncey and halsey streets nearby..dead end street that led to the bing belly hill over the tracks near aberdeen park. railroad boys??? ...... Xavi: Humboldt Park has its social ills (and as you can see from the rest of my diatribe, there are specific historical/social/political reasons why) but it is a ghetto struggling to maintain the rich social networks,...... thesouthernapple: Hey everyone,
I'm sad to see the neighborhood in such decline. But I'm glad to see so many memories here, about the Ave.
I graduated Valerdictorian from St. Marks in 1985, and I know that...... George: Sign is now scrap metal. bye... lianna: I hate people who complain about staten island. if you hate it so much than do something about it! there are plenty of people here[including myself] who do not perpetuate the staten island stereotypes. you...... zagg: I wonder if those are organic?...
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