Comments about panic

There are 82 comments about "panic"

Jason: What's most ironic is that liberals are deeply "conservative" when it comes to gentrification. They are seeking to take a vibrant city of constant flux and movement and freeze it in time. No one group......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Janice Seifert; July 2008: Hi Ronald Lees, I grew up on 600 Wishart St. Your sisters will probably remember me. My brother Joe used to hang out with your brother Earl and Freddie Beck. I used to love how......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

Lou Romero: The majority of Puerto Ricans are Catholic in tradition, so of course they gravitated to their local churches, as for education, that was their choice or discretion if the children were to attend the catholic......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

chance: i've seen plenty of hispanic, philipino, and other asian men in the club. ...

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

B Street: I grew up across the street from one of the few working factories in Kensington starting in 1965 until I was forced out 22 years later. While I too have fond memories of wall ball, swimming......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

CaptainVideo: What you are doing is no different that all white communities banning together to keep blacks from moving in because they are afraid that they will bring crime and lower property values. Humbolt is not......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

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

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Marissa There was a reason it was named as such, because that piece of ground they were built on and the land stretching back to where it meets Boat lane, has only a couple of......

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

FromAmsterdam: Me and 2 friends are going to new york for 3 weeks in januari. me and another one are white and the 3rd one is hispanic looking. whe should be allright by daytime in brooklyn......

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

Chris Rodriguez: Im not (just a 12 year old) im an honor student at bishop laughlin memmorial high school. Peter if you feel safe good for you... how old are you things are different for a......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

little ukraine: first of all thanks so much for sharing these photos. it feels a little more honest viewing these through the lens of our citynoise community than getting information elsewhere. it goes without saying......

in response to: Bridge Collapse 1 by Tyfoid Kid

bed sty-cee!: hello chicago folks-well lets have a little history lesson non of you are spanish, spaniards or latin. all of those words,terms or descriptions belong to europeans, aka white people. all so called hispanics,......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

whiteP: Ahh Bushwick, what is funny is how young professionals live like kings while blacks and hispanics can barely afford wholesome food. Whats even funnier is the way these so called thugs have the biggest mouth......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Dee: I also went to jhs 111. The years I attended were 1966-1969 the school was about a year old then. I hated it, and to the young man that said your friend wasn't encouraged......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Ali: i moved to bushwick about 6 months ago and i like it a lot. im white and i almost feel bad cuz i feel like since the area is populated with mostly hispanics, they probably......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Honey: To RoB.. Just because your life didn't come out the way you like it, please don't sterotype any other race. Stop assuming shit and get your facts straight. Ignorant ass!! I'm hispanic and still living......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

CATCH A BIKE THIEF!: We bought brand new bikes from these nice guys at CycOmotive on Bathurst. We paid $3,500 for the two mountain bikes. One was higher end Giant and the other one was Giant Pistol 2 16......

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

jack: many of the buildings constructed in the late 1800's that was used as housing by poor hispanics, blacks, jews, polish, german, italians and irish are still standing today and in livable conditions and very expensive.......

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

pierre: i lived on the corner of Evergreen and Dekalb in the mid 70's. i remember a fire on the opposite corner that took down the whole Dekalb side of the block, something like 10......

in response to: Why Did Bushwick Burn? by upfromflames

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

Jon Dominguez: To get back to the shooting of the kid that started this thread, has anyone ever wondered what this country would be like, especially its crime rate and its welfare budget, if all hispanic people......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Derek Jackson: Wow! Reading all this misspelled babble about being proud of being hispanic, about fighting the whites trying to take what's yours, and about complaining about gang violence is making me half-laugh, half-get pissed off. Homboldt Park......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

The Chi-ster: We need to see the bigger picture here. Its almost heartbreaking to see people of a common struggle wasting time and lives with petty arguments. I am boricua, I stayed on Kedzie and......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

JNJ: Your reflections are very impassioned and provide a perspective that I could never understand as a caucasian and an outsider to the neighborhood. I guess what I still don't understand is why, I would be......

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

Interested: Hi JNJ, Your reflections are very impassioned and provide a perspective that I could never understand as a caucasian and an outsider to the neighborhood. I guess what I still don't understand is why, I......

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

Kiana: Im a senior in high school.. in houston, texas. After graduation I plan to move to NY for school. Ive been to brooklyn and yonkers a few times - but that has not impact as......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

don't worry about it!: Coney Island is the safest neiborhood in brooklyn. I lived here for all my 15yrs and it's great. I go by myself alot of places and never had a problum. about the gangs their wannabes.......

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

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

peacefrog: As an American who has lived in Canada most of his life, visiting the US and especially NYC is a harsh reality check, and a reminder that the ravages of racism are still alive and......

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

Tyson: It seems as a viewer the kid just wants a question answered and non of you fools will answer it for him. Maybe he wants to help out in the neighborhood, so he asks if......

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

Chris Erb: It didn't work out so well, I would finish work at 3 am and then have to get up at 8am to go to school 3 days a week. All my free time was......

in response to: Light in August by Marlo

MIGUEL: JUST WONDERING-- DO YOY THINK THIS IS A GAY FRIENDLY AREA-- I AM A HISPANIC GUY WHO WOULD LIKE TO CHILL WITH OTHER GUYS IN MY HOOD? I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE TO JEFFERSON STOP......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Genaro: During the late 1940's and 50's, many of The Manhattan Elite thought it proper in calling the less popular working or the poor social White under class, WHITE TRASH! This would also include Whites who......

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

TheTruth: Nice try at history, Sylvia, but you've missed some huge factors. My family was part of that 1st wave of nonwhites to integrate Bushwick in the 1950s. They weren't Gentry -- sorry--even though they were......

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

Sylvia: I am a hispanic who lived in Bushwick from 1971 to 1993, moving there from the Bronx where I was raised. The irony of what I have been reading here is that when I......

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

EvilGentleman: I find it interesting to convert the demographic information for Bellevile found at [[http://www.bellevilleusa.com/demographics.html]] into actual numbers. The population of Belleville in 2000 was 2239, and broke down as follows: (including both politically correct and......

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

non-hipster: re: Bushwick. I'm dissapointed in several things I have read here. The fact that blame has been assigned to an entire part of the community (i.e. the whites) for driving out ethnic minorities. First......

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

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: It's next to the panic button, to the left of your purple troll....

in response to: Overkill Signage by Peter

elaine: ITUC, i was in liverpool from about 1979 to 1985, i went to art school there, which as you know is not far from chinatown. this was before all day drinking and there was a......

in response to: Not-Chinatown / Fish-heads On Ice by aer suzuki

Peter: a quick look at the wiki entry for [[wiki:bushwick]] shows that the displaced people youre talking about are far from the first to be displaced, whether from gentrification, changing demographics, modernization, urbanization, etc. i mean,......

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

Joe: I've lived on Jefferson btwn Irving and Knickerbocker for a year. It's gotten a little better just in that time. We moved here because we got priced out of our old neighborhood, Park Slope. Our......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

BOC: Ya think it cute to move to Bushwick. Ya don't know what ya doing to our neighborhood. It is known when white people move into to the neighborhood the price value of houses go up......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Hazel: Eveyone is asking if it safe to move to Bushwick, why don't ya move to Ridgewood which right next door. It a part of Queens but a few blocks from Bushwick. If your looking for......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

chiamattt: Panic on the streets of London Panic on the streets of Birmingham I wonder to myself Could life ever be sane again ? The Leeds side-streets that you slip down I wonder to myself Hopes may rise on the Grasmere But Honey......

in response to: For Jack by Elicar

Zoila: Lived in Bushwick all my life. Seen the worst, experienced the worst, seen the best, experienced the best. I am in college now. Quite possibly the most opposing place to Bushwick. It's......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Elicar: ##"elderly as opposed to the young and beautiful. "## Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. When I was in my first year high school, for some reason, our English teacher asked the class, "Who......

in response to: April 19 2006 Montreal by EvilGentleman

cerniagigante: Why does everyone call these people "Hispanics". Hispania, is Latin for Spain, part of the Iberic peninsula in Europe. Look at their faces, look at their eyes. These people have (at leat in part)......

in response to: Speak Out by M. Rojas

elaine: they don't need to be trained to be afraid of middle eastern people, this is the thing about moral panic, create a climate of fear and just watch it multiply. it's like a virus....

in response to: Stupidity Is a Virus by sine

elaine: fear? mass hysteria? moral panic? anyone? anyone??? help! help!...

in response to: Stupidity Is a Virus by sine

EvilGentleman: My cousin Bradley Phillips died in the early 1980's while saving the lives of two men who drove their car into the Saint Lawrence Seaway. Even though Bradley was a not a strong swimmer, He......

in response to: Postman\'s Park by elaine

anon (mail.tweezerman.com): There are still parts of Bushwick that are ghetto..that's basically the case whereever you have housing projects. Housing projects cannot be gentrified. The people complianing about those saying that a white neighborhood is safer......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

elaine: i wish i was. the uk can be quite liberal sometimes, but is as susceptible to moral panic as a certified hysteric sometimes. but we are allowed to jaywalk....

in response to: Sooo Adorable by Elicar

rich: I[54YEARS OLD] PLAN TO VISIT THE OLD HOOD IN JULY WITH MY BROTHER [65],HES IN N.J, IM SOUTH OF BOSTON..AFTER ALL THESE YEARS WE STILL MISS NORTH/ KEDZIE..ITS FUNNY, AFTER READING ALL THE WHITE/HISPANIC HATRED......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

insightoner: I have a great amount of respect for all ethnicities and I find that Hispanics and those of Latin decent the most interesting! I enjoy the culture very very much and my ex boyfriend was......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Staci: Wow. This blog is great. I'm a resident of Humboldt Park for two years now and just signed my lease for another year. I don't have a lot of time right this......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Lily: Thank you for the information. I agree with anon. I was born in Bushwick, I am now 17 years old. Bushwick has drastically changed and will continue. I think that the whole viewpt that b/c......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

908: am a white female from the suburbs south of Chicago. I am English, Swedish, German, Polish Russian, English, and Scottish. Driving through Humboldt Park .....It's beautiful. There are beautiful homes and parks, but the......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Lily: i agree with vanessasvargas. You could not compare the Bushwick of 20 years ago, to today. Crime has greatly decreased. Not saying it doesn't happen today, but you could not compare the crime extremity of......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Unknown: I am a white female from the suburbs south of Chicago. I am English, Swedish, German, Polish Russian, English, and Scottish. Driving through Humboldt Park .....It's beautiful. There are beautiful homes and parks, but......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

alexis : homophobia theese days are more then over,unless your living in alabama,here in toronto you have a gay comunity,free gay magazines everywere,you get jobs were ever,you have your parade,it seems to me all the gay comunity......

in response to: chicago gay pride parade by corsakti

jake: I moved out to bushwick with my wife a few months ago and we are really settled in. We have a beautiful place for peanuts (that we fully renovated) and there are a lot......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

hispanic: i always wanted to go to calgary,i just hear there are to many cowboys there and im scared they would attack me for beeing the wrong color!...

in response to: View from My Office in Calgary by Helen

What's Really Going On Here: It's interesting that this is primarily a concerned citizen vs. a s***head matter, not a cyclist vs motorist issue. The reason why it has exploded as the latter is due to the decades of......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

bee: taxi drivers might know this place as the hand car but every other fucker in the area seemed convinced that there was a 24 hour garage 'just down the road' when i was hunting for......

in response to: Hand Car by elaine

vanessavargas@yahoo.com: i have lived on menahan street off of myrtle ave for a little over a year now. Let me tell you now that bushwick is the next williamsburg...and if your thinking of moving here,......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

loca: watup yall.. Whats really good? I was born and raised in HP. To this day i still stay in da hood. naw i aint puertorican, im mexican, but yet a latina. I have made love 4......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Corporal Diaz U.S.M.C.: Some time has gone by since I first laid my thoughts on this forum. I can see nothing has changed sine I left Humboldt park. And to some degree it saddens me, but it does......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Puertorican Nena: This comment is to Historian who commented on the "true" definition of a latino(a), which I looked up and have retrieved this definition: La·ti·no NOUN: pl. La·ti·nos A Latin American. A person of Hispanic, especially......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Luis : First of all I would like to say that I am a proud Puerto rican/ mexican american and I would like to send a message to all my hispanic/latino people that we all need to......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Former Bushwick Resident: I am a 36 year old hispanic female. Lived all my life in Bushwick. Four years ago, I decided to move to New England and escape the city. I was a single mother of 3.......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

dynasty: look it dont matter who live in HP white,black.hispanic all it matter iz how they are well sept for dem PIGZ. i dont live by HP but when i hear bout these stories bout lil......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Mr Norway..: I have often read news from USA, (from the internett news)and also went into NYPD and LAPD web sides and looked at the most wanted lists... and i can see that it is only black,hispanic......

in response to: Injustice CASE... by Rune-Willem

vz: spartan accomodations: "home is wherever you lay down your head to rest" (even if it is for just two hours) you gotta know when the off-peak buses are-- sprawled across the back row, with nobody trying......

in response to: last chinatown bus of the night by vz

benrox: Alright - I've read a good amount of these posts. Let me start off by saying that I am white. I've been living in "the hood" my whole life. I don't live in Humboldt Park,......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

sophia: I'm a white girl.I love my home and i appreciate the diversity of Humboldt Park. I understand wanting to preserve Puerto Rican heritage in Humboldt Park it's importance. Gang violance wherever it amy exsist causes......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

kinglight55@aol.com: AMOR DE REY: My brothers and sisters i hope you all find yourself in good health when you read this... I am here to ask all of you to please try and help out as much......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

elaine: well, it's history and geography. the romany gypsies are one thing, then there are irish gypsies, and then there are elective 'new age' travellers. the new age travellers came out of a long standing squatting......

in response to: urban transgressions and taboos by elaine

some white guy: Why don't all you two-bit thugs get back on the block and make some money instead of wasting your time talking shit on the internet or if your such a hard ass, go pull a......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Peter: a bodega is a hispanic grocery... more like a mini-mart. usually open all night, with an atm out front. they sell sandwiches, beer/beverages, a limnited amount of groceries, lots of snacks, smokes, cleaning supplies, etc.........

in response to: Pet Bird Sighting by Peter

elaine: i like the chocolatey shoes. plus there being no complaints today, though it is printed in such a way as to produce panic, as far as i can see, which is less good...

in response to: No Complaints Today by GGP

LoKa: I'am a puerto rican from the north side and i personally think its fucked up that know and days we cant fucken walk out side and trust the people that live around us I'm a......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

King Demon MPst.: Amor to all brothers and sisters of the almighty nation.Black,White,Hispanic or any other nationality...One love...A.L.K.Q.N...

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti