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Peter: god, im glad i dont work there anymore. strangely enough, the place i work now has the same thing with the chairs going on. theres a room net to my office that has like 23......

in response to: My Old Office by Peter

CartLegger: I am just an observer at this point, enjoying the inertia of this passionate and informed debate. I am glad that citynoise can be the place where the Synagogue has finally spoken--thank you Rabbi Andelman.......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

adam: Okay, where do I begin? I have lived in Jacksonville for pretty much my entire life. I am 29 years old and I recently moved to Ft. Lauderdale, FL which is a much......

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

Andrew C: This really is fascinating stuff. I knew Netherne very well in the 1980's both as a patient in an acute ward and as an 'auxiliary' in a psycho-geriatric ward. I can't speak highly enough of......

in response to: Netherne Mental Asylum by Simon Cornwell

Renee: Hi AP & Bayside Watcher - I agree wholeheartedly and there are no arguments here. The entire place is a complete disaster. If you scroll up a little, you'll notice that I've posted several......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Bayside Watcher: Renee, your concern and outrage for the condition of the mausoleums and the internal crypts are spot on. And reinterring the remains of the dead in those crypts and securing the mausoleums should be......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Jessica: Werribee is not a dangerous place. Yes, maybe the station could be dangerous at night. Just get on the train/bus, and nothing will happen to you!...

in response to: Werribee Station by benji

mary elizabeth shaw: Beautiful pictures of a truly remote place. how is the hiking? kayaking?...

in response to: Kangirsujuaq by EvilGentleman

Hey: You bet find one of the coolest places in NY it reminds me crashed plaxes of industrial or urbanic in Ukraine, Kiev and DOnetsk. Very cool...

in response to: Riverside Gantry by Peter

Humboldt1: PlGrd, Nice to see you are back from CityData. I was starting to get really down about black renters in general, but have had a new renter (black family) in my suburban place in Itasca......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

JO: I grew up in good old LJ. It's not all that bad if that's your thing, I got out of there as soon as I could. My parents still live there and they......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 8 by Scott Sargent

Keith Bernstein: The actual title is: Vintage Film of Brooklyn Trolleys Circa 1930s It is a great video memory of a bygone time. I remember trolley tracks on Utica Avenue into the 1950s, before they were paved over,......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

NWhyC: Rabbi Andelman, You say we should feel free to contact the president or rabbi of the congregation if we wish to know more. Though this sounds hopeful, I did contact not only Rabbi Friedman but also......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

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......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Peter: im glad to see this place made so accessible to people... the lights and stairs/walkways are good additions. did you see the 110+ year old ##"remember the maine!"## graffiti in there?...

in response to: Oldest Subway Tunnel in the World by adam

Matthew Goeringer: Scott, I will admit that Bessie is not the most exciting place in the world; but did you really look around? I don't think that you did. You took pictures of the School and......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 6 by Scott Sargent

chickenrgood: Wow this is fun stuff. I like chickens- sure who doesn't think they are fun to watch and oooh what pretty colors those roosters are! I have been coming to Kauai since the......

in response to: Wild Chickens by Tyfoid Kid

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

BethAnn: Ugh...I hate living in Jacksonville!! My husband is in the military and we had to leave wonderful San Diego to come to this dump! I am not black, but this place is so racist it......

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

CC: I was born and raised in North Devon (1946-1976). I lived on Smith Street. The building in the 3rd pic was the CIBC bank. It was robbed in the early 70s. The 4th pic shows "Bolen's......

in response to: Northside Fredericton by CE

Manong daikong: Another reply in favor of erredicating or at least thinning the chicken population. If you don't live here, you don't see the negatives. In addition to the pooping all over the place and......

in response to: Wild Chickens by Tyfoid Kid

Rick: Matty: You reminded me of the full-court basketball games that sometimes took place in the 241 schoolyard. On occasion, on the court would be Connie Hawkins, Roger Brown, Doug Mo and Billy Cannon (who lived......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

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

Richie Rubin: Davida,you wrote`a club opened on Flatbush ave.'Ben Mastiks'town& country club'was all the way down near belt p'kwy..after ave U! & I usta go dere & see top notch acts..I even have a menu from there[c.1957]but`Town Hill'[bedford/Eastern pkwy]was da......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Esther Herschman (Rechtschafner): I like this site very much,especially when people write about PS 167. I lived at 1125 Sterling Place (between Kinston Ave. and Hampton Place) until I was about 14.I went to the Erasmus Annex......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Doc S.......: When I lived around the Franklin Ave. Shuttle, the stops were: Prospect Park (Connecting w.......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

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

Willie: Doc, Rick - Town Hill at Eastern Parkway and Bedford Avenue was in the 1950s a place to have a drink and catch live entertainment. My mom and older sister remember seeing Sam Cook......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Richie Rubin: Davida;it was`Ben Masticks'club,down near ave.U/Flatbush ave. & the`Jewelbox Revue'was an all male dressed as females show but many top entertainers performed there..fun place..no?...

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

davida: there was a place that opened up on flatbush ave many years ago that had alot of entertainment. I remember seeing that moments there I know I'm telling my age. I really hope someone remembers......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Doc S.......: ...Town Hill, as I remember it, was more of an upscale restaurant and nightclub, rather than just a place to go to listen and have a drink - it featured a variety of entertainment -......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

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

jessiecat: The first place I went overseas from my home in Melbourne, Australia, was Tokyo.. By brain literally exploded and the subway was the most full on thing I've ever encountered.. It didn't help that the......

in response to: Tokyo Rail by Chris Jongkind

noa: Ahhh Bushwick, I love it there. my friend lives in a place where rent'd be 250/month if we shared a room together. How easy is it to get a job in NYC? I been......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Willie: Does anyone out there remember the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Nostrand Avenue? The old Loew's Cameo (pronounced 'LOW-ees) by the Assistant Principal of Lefferts JHS in the early '60s. Rubin Chemists on......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Peter: only a few blocks from my old place in {hell's kitchen}... nice photos, jack....

in response to: Manhattan by jack

Melissa: I'm a single female living in Bushwick. All the bad descriptions of the area may seem daunting (like the history of Maria Hernandez park or Knickerbocker ave), but honestly the place is a gem.......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

jack: nah, la is nice as many places are nice but brooklyn and manhattan, well, they're special. the promenade, ahhh, i remember romancing many a young girl there, and when i say romancing i mean......

in response to: NYC Glace\' by CartLegger

Sharon: I attended St Matthews for eight years 65'-73', and during those times were some great days of my life. I remember having a variety of places to have lunch when I was older, I......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Espen: Espen: 23rd Dec 2008 - 02:04 GMT i vent to New york in november 96 i was 19 years old travelling alone from norway and got robd at a park wile smoking pot waiting for a man......

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

Espen: i vent to New york in november 96 i was 19 years old travelling alone from norway and got robd at a park wile smoking pot waiting for a man who i......

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

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

EvilGentleman: Well Tom, something as big and easily visible as this would require either ladders or most likely {scaffolding}. I would definitely say the {toon graf} {mural} is a {commissioned piece}. The building is a hangout for......

in response to: Montreal Noise: Saint-Laurent 2 by EvilGentleman

anon (modemcable119.252-59-74.mc.videotron.ca): Well Tom, something as big and easily visible as this would require either ladders or most likely {scaffolding}. I would definitely say the {toon graf} {mural} is a {commissioned piece}. The building is a hangout for......

in response to: Montreal Noise: Saint-Laurent 2 by EvilGentleman

Renee: These pictures have fascinated me to the point of doing a little research on this matter. It seems that the Congregation Shaare Zedek used the funds paid by the families for perpetual care of......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

AP: I love that. Thanks for posting. I should make a pilgrimage before they raze it, since I'm in the NY metro area. I had no idea that existed. I know this pavilion is from the......

in response to: Abandoned... NY State Pavilion by Peter

JoseFromIrving: They should have built a precinct there years ago. My grandmother lived on Troutman between Knickerbocker and Irving during the 70's and 80's. Talk about drug infested. It wasn't until they put up make shift precincts......

in response to: Escape From New York by Peter

Nancy: I live right on Menahan Street this store is not there anymore it has been replaced with a new 99 cent store. I'm happy the store in the picture is gone it had this man......

in response to: Menahan by Peter

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......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Story: Hi, I am an artist living in Hackney, London in the United Kingdom. Me and a friend are looking to spend 3 months in New York next year doing the galleries and looking into artist......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Pantera: Unfortunately these cases or even WORSE happen many times. When I was a kid in my hometown Szeged (M.E.-Europe, Hungary) there were 2 abandoned cemeteries, a protestant and a catholic (mainly......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Kregorious: Ya I know of this cemetery, its only a few blocks away from my house. Its a shame what has happened to the place. Seems that the congregation that was in......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Mike: I think alot of American guys masturbate in public places because they are circumcised and there penis head rubs on there underwear and it makes them horny and they have to get it out and......

in response to: Pervert Masturbates on Subway by Peter

zagg: "kids re-grow in like 5 to 6 years while trees take decades" "trees give us shade, oxygen, and a place to sleep when we're homeless." These are just some of the reasons why I'm a tree planing......

in response to: The Parade...again by TCL

US :): We think that you guys are Mean! La junta isnt that great, but it is a good place to grow up! those are just bad pictures! ...

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 8 by Scott Sargent

TCL: zagg, good point. I just take it for granted that everyone's into the season's sacrificial rites. I guess they're more "hip" south of the border. jack, I didn't know that. What a horrible thing to do;......

in response to: The Parade...again by TCL

JoseFromIrving: I was born and raised in Brooklyn during the 70's, 80's and 90's. I lived on Irving Avenue between Suydam and Hart St. I left in 1992 and moved "upstate" and I must tell......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

jack: wow, over 50 posts here and pic's, we have a thing about cemeteries, we the living view it as a scary, deserted area. some of us who are older see it as our next......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

CartLegger: Thanks Eric. Why just look? Why not make an impact on this place? I am considering a mission to clean this place up, on Sunday January 4th. If you are interested, you can find me on Gmail,......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Eric: I used to take my synagogue teen group to trim the vines and clean up a section of this cemetery right around Halloween every year. Then one year we all got horrible poison ivy, so......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

EA: I also grew up in the Luna Park houses (west 8th) from the early 60's, when the bldgs opened, to early 70's. I remember the Bonomo Turkish Taffy Bldg, and I remember hanging......

in response to: Luna Park: Coney Island by Peter

Rachel: What's even harder to believe is that it is an important custom in Judaism to visit the dead. We bring stones to place on their tombstones.. I know the final resting place of my great-great......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

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......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

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......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Afroblanco: Someone should use this place as a location for the BEST HORROR MOVIE EVER, and then use the proceeds to fix the place up. (seriously, that would be one SCARY flick)...

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

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......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

KittyC1978: I read the wikipedia on the cemetary just now, and it seems that they need to have a fund raiser or something, especially to get the unenterred back into their proper places. Why oh why......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Miss Postmortem: Those are wonderful photos. It is a shame the cemetery is abandoned. It is terrible that people would vandalize the place. It's horrifying that anyone would disturb someones grave or crypt......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Egg Face: Wow - I live in Bklyn, totally going to take a little day trip to check this out soon. I found a set with more pics (from spring or summer?) on flickr too: [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/franklynch/sets/72157601705548744]] thanks so......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

anon (h69-128-203-42.cncrtn.dsl.dynamic.tds.net): So beautiful and sad. Thank you for posting. I agree with the poster above. These places deserve to be preserved and mantained. Seeing how many have been broken into is horrid. ...

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Miss_Postmortem: Those are wonderful photos. It is a shame the cemetery is abandoned. It is terrible that people would vandalize the place. It's horrifying that anyone would disturb someones grave or crypt like......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

redchickpoet: I loved your photos. I found them facinating, but they broke my heart. I want to buy that place and keep it safe from developers. I wonder what happened. I'll have to research this one.......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Julia Astralla: to Allan: I graduated 167 in 1958, Wingate in 1962 ! the last paramount show was 1961 - 1962 ! (MAYBE .......) I know we had some elaborate plans of escaping the......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Marius: Step 1: Place bredz 4 birdz Step 2: Hide! Step 3: ??? Step 4: I CAN HAZ BIRDZ! (i.e. PROFIT!) (cute pic, by the way, did this cat really aggregate all those pieces of bread on its own? Or......

in response to: The Bread Collector by Peter

usmcsniper1: What I did not like about Eastern Pkwy, was that crime was on the way up. It was headed towards the infamous; ghetto status. Perhaps,we noticed how bad it was when we used......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Rich: Great pictures, I've walked along those same streets many years ago and most of the stuff looks the same especially the armory then again they don't change. BTW the place where you said you would've......

in response to: Two Neighborhoods by little ukraine

Pronto Permissio: Dear fellow victims of Park Slope Window and Glass, I managed to get the cell phone and private land line numbers of the owner of this scamming "business" from a disgruntled employee. Though I think it......

in response to: Park Slope Glass & Windows by sine

steelisreal: This place makes me uncomfortable....

in response to: The Gaping Maw by Peter

steelisreal: It is still there, I just don't live in that city anymore. I wish I had a place like that here in San Antonio but I have yet to find one....

in response to: Firehouse by steelisreal

Joe Blow: just be sure to dip if you see vs in front. they like casing that place and following writers out, so make sure you dont try out your new gear til you get home or......

in response to: Scrap Yard nyc GRAFFITI STORE by art views

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......

in response to: Verdun Neon by CE

Rich: Hey Pete, people watching in Crown Heights has aways been fascinating to me, that's why I can relate to just about every picture you post about the area, I just wish I had the foresight......

in response to: NYPD by Peter

Carol Cohen (FOXY): Allen, Please don't refer to me as a blur I really exist and my name is Carol Cohen. Judy Oshinsky and I were good friends and I lived on Eastern Parkway and Utica Ave., right next......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Julia Astralla: Does anyone remember that Mr. Abramowitz was the principal @ 167, in 57-58 ? I lived on st. john's place, off utica ave. Did anyone like......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

andre : kangirsujuaq are a nice place do relax in spring time....

in response to: Kangirsujuaq II by EvilGentleman

Esther Herschman (Rechtschafner): Mr. AJ shure- you graduated from PS167 in 1958,the same year as I did. Sorry, I don't think that I remember you.What is/was yur first name? The name Joel Prussin rings a bell. Wasn't he......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

dogloverhanley: love it...wish i was brillant enough in my younger yrs to be photo wise. marge hanley from knickerbocker&dekalb grandmother lived on sterling place 1950's....

in response to: Brooklyn Graf Trux by sine

She Said it: It´s funny how people keep asking if brooklyn is safe for a white girl.What does the color of your skin have to do with being safe or not?? Jayne why dont you explore brooklyn and......

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

bobcatbasketball: this is the coolest town to grow up in...granted there is nothin to do but like people have said before but we make this place fun...this town is defently not boring...theres oil under the old......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 13 by Scott Sargent

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......

in response to: Verdun Neon by CE

john g: much like marriott its bin a while since I lived in catford (culverley road) but its still the only place I call home as well....

in response to: The Giant Cat of South London by I.T.U.C.

Esther Herschman (Rechtschafner): I agree,this is really a nice site.It is nice to think back on Memory Lane. I remember the "field days", in Boys High Field on Maple Street. In my day,it started in fifth grade.......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

poolboy: I LOVE this place. My grandparents lived just down the street and i used to go there. Now, 21 years later, i find myself going out of my way to go here. I love the......

in response to: Decarie Hot Dogs by CE

diann L: come on...its wonderfull its nature...if these birds are living here in Staten island...maybe..well...we live in a good, healthy place..leave it to the birds..LOL they better hide this Thursday....yikes!! ...

in response to: Wild Turkey Parking by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Richie Rubin: JANE;wowie!.YOU got some memory!.now;it ALL iz comink back to ME! I lived on St.Johns pl.nr.Utica ave.& am 7[seven]yrs YER SR,ergo, YOU were a`squirt'when I bowled @`da Pit'& danced @ many`affairs' @`President Chateau'& consumed `tons'of pickled herring & chopped livah......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Peter: youre right, rich. just up the block, more or less, from my old place at {park place} and {washington}. seems like some of brooklyn's oddest ride that shuttle train, ha. people-watching around there is lots......

in response to: NYPD by Peter

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

Rich: This is the corner of Franklin & Park Place, the lady in white might be going to the shuttle train station. Is there still a supermarket a few doors down from the laundromat? No I......

in response to: NYPD by Peter

Arnie H: Richie I know only too well what you mean. I'm now in N.J. for over 30 years and still miss Brooklyn..... There's no place like home!!!.... I guess Dorothy knew it all the time....

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Richie Rubin: Arnie H; hmm,I was a`hippie'attending`Fillmore East,'Electric Circus,Village`haunts'& awaiting`WoodStock'in late`60's..after `WoodStock'I went to`Altamount'fiasco in N.Calif...but`twas in winter[Dec.`69]& I was wearing shorts& sandals & riding a`HOG' while getting a tan!.yep,calif.was such a different place/life `69 was MY last yr as a......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown