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Peter: lol cartlegger: thats why i told you it reminded me of ##spies like us## when i was last there ;) today, i spoke to a navy veteran who was stationed on one of the last few......

in response to: Secret Transmitter by Peter

chrissy: Hey it's Chrissy Beerhalter from Tioga Street what's new and exciting out here? I see Lynnette out here posting so here i am .....looking for old friends from the neighborhood! ...

in response to: Fall in the East Bay by joey

CartLegger: OK, I'll bite. But I'll also cheat and use the words of Daniella Romano, head archivist for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. BLDG 1/291, Material Laboratory, Substation 27 Construction: 01/01/1940 ##"The last active Naval building at the yard,......

in response to: Secret Transmitter by Peter

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

in response to: Preaching to No One by Peter

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......

in response to: East on Eastern Parkway by Peter

Peter: i just noticed that [[8001:this post]] is of the same lot... somehow, i didnt see this post the first time around... you posted it almost exactly 4 months before i moved within a block of......

in response to: Missing Tooth and Open Sky by upfromflames

chiamattt: Post more from Seoul. I have been so lazy lately....

in response to: You\'re Doing It Wrong by Lillyluna

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......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

alanpigott@eircom.net: Yes Dominique.... it would appear that it is most definitely a print...and looking closer at it . it looks more like embossing than brush strokes.....would still like to know the history of the pictures...I'll keep......

in response to: About Convents by jack

al: i use the recipe of flour, sugar and water and i paste over my posters every time and it comes up clear as. ive never needed to use shellac....

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

oh snap!: awesome post. Is that statue just sitting out somewhere!? Send it to meee!...

in response to: English Kills Graffiti by Peter

Paul Baines: Westminster Council are up to the same tricks - they even posted a comment at my blog defending their actions :/...

in response to: Banksy Work Painted Over by Islington Council? by Jamie

Joe: Lynnette, It is interesting to view your posting from 9/29/08. Most are very familiar to me as I grew up in Kensington and attended St.Hughs. In your later posting you state that you are 48 and I......

in response to: Fall in the East Bay by joey

Avioris: Wonderful that you posted these. Such, almost documentary, pictures are hard to come by and are pretty interesting...

in response to: Glasgow Subway Pre-and-During Modernisation by Gap74

Peter: WOW. entries like this tend to be some of my very favorite on this site... good work! after reading [[wiki:Glasgow Subway]], i see that this modernization took place from 1977-1980, so that helped put a date......

in response to: Glasgow Subway Pre-and-During Modernisation by Gap74

anon (c-76-108-19-62.hsd1.fl.comcast.net): I see theres a new renaissance emerging!!!!the young kids cant hold it down so the old school is coming to teach and add the content and character thats been missing since the early 90's. I......

in response to: Miami Art Massacre by Bob Edelson

antblack: Barry, did you see my post above about Mr Tomaselli? antBlack: 30th Jan 2008 - 18:51 GMT Hey, Anyone remember Mr Tommicelli (sp)? Taught math at ps 274. Also had an old school meat market on Broadway.........

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

anon (233.58.236.121.broad.sz.js.dynamic.163data.com.cn): from all of these pictuers i think you gyus should pick the best skylines and then ask thepeople who posted it there to tell you some information on the skyline....

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

Peter: thats what im talking about! i really hope that years from now i can look back at posts like this and things will have turned out as well as i hoped for, at this very moment....

in response to: Voting in Brooklyn by adam

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......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Peter: heh, these are the only voting machines ive ever used in nyc, for every election since 96, the first i could vote in. these are also the same type of machines pictured in the original......

in response to: Voting in Brooklyn by adam

Taylor James: Hi, I'm a big fan of Freedoms work. I recently made a Facebook page dedicated to him and his work. I'm not really sure of the rules of using photos and posting links, but this......

in response to: The Freedom Tunnel by Peter

EvilGentleman: Mitch, I am as saddened as you are at the loss of Ben's, and I thank you profusely for your contributions. Without you, this article would just be a few pictures of a closed Ben's,......

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

Mitch Spector: Yep, it's indeed very much GONE. Made one final pass by this morning (November 5th) to check things out and it's not what I saw, but what I didn't see that caught my attention! It's......

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: Sigh, all gone. Just a pile of broken concrete now. Sorry I have not been posting pictures, I have not posted anything in ages. Still slowly taking pictures, but I keep finding other ways to......

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

Peter: when i posted this 4 years ago, i neglected to mention that the 6th photo is the facade of an old place on {4th avenue} in {sunset park} that i lived in in {2000}... wow,......

in response to: Brooklyn: Labor Day 2004 by Peter

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......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

I.C. Eric: [[img:29408]] Ah, i like taking pictures but i am not a photographer, so theres a high possibility that they will suck. I had alot of pictures of bushwick in my phone but that phone died, alot......

in response to: Flushing Ave by I.C. Eric

Editor: alas, comments have been closed on this post, as its become nothing more than a list of horny middle easterners and their mobile numbers! :-0...

in response to: Feeling Sixy? by Peter

Doc S.......: Hi, Esther Herschman (Rechtschafner) - I had contributed to this column briefly before. In one of your earlier posts you had mentioned a Mrs. Gradstein as your sixth grade teacher. FWIW,......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Teri: I had to add my two cents to this board after Keith Bernstein sent me the link. I lived at 1074 Eastern Parkway until I was 18 1/2. I went to 167, 210, Wingate and......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Michelle: Great pictures - one of the most interesting posts I've seen on Citynoise....

in response to: The Freedom Tunnel by Peter

Alan Kupperberg: Richie, my pop and I used to love "Smokey Stover" (by Bill Holman) and Smokey's cat, Spooky. "Nix nox." "Notary Sojack." Great nonsense. Anybody remember "Pottsy the Cop," (by Jay Irving)? Irving's......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

zagg: So, I know I'm pretty immature, and I never noticed this the first 10 times I read this post but ... anyone else now see by parking exactly where it did, in the 2nd......

in response to: Best Costco Moment of 2008 by EvilGentleman

toddsschneider: "Good place ... in the same family." Yes, Tom Vriniotis has taken over from Nick Vriniotis (the man on the blown up Montreal Gazette review posted on the side of the building)....

in response to: Decarie Hot Dogs by CE

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......

in response to: Forrest by Rune Willem

Mitch Spector: And here's the final weekly update, taken the morning of October 30th. This will likely be the last picture of the building standing (incidentally, ignore what I said about the windows yesterday, I was......

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

Jane: Alan: send them to editors@citynoise.org and have them post them here for you?...

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Jane: Alan, why don't you just post the photos here?...

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

CartLegger: ummmm...sorry, no more available. I had to miss the last public tear down due to a prior engagement. But keep your eyes on the Governors island website, as they post these events occasionally. good luck!...

in response to: Governors Island: The Death of Motel 8 by CartLegger

Alan Kupperberg: Eastern Parkway Memories By Alan Kupperberg Searching the Internet for information on Dubrow’s Cafeteria and the Famous restaurant on Eastern Parkway at Utica Avenue, I discovered this wonderful site. It brought back many wonderful memories for......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Keith Bernstein: What memories these posts conjure up! Although I can't remember exactly what Judy O looked like, I do remember her as tall and pretty and all of the boys in the class thought so. I'm glad......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

EvilGentleman: Went by the site today, took some pictures of a crew removing some of the upper bricks. I may post them when I get around to it. While doing this, I wound up speaking with a......

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

procyon: thanks! the thing about me, citynoise and honolulu is that (a) 2 of the 5 or so posts here are the Hawaii Graffiti series, which are some of my favorite cn entries ever and are......

in response to: All Things Go by procyon

N.B.: i found that if you get a hard edged object and run it down your poster and squeez out all the wheatpaste extra gunk it makes it tightly pressed and then spray a clear coat......

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

Parpar: The duplicate (and totally irrelevant) posts should be deleted. I recall seeing the front entryway to the school, with the signage and all, and it presents a markedly different picture!...

in response to: School for the Deaf by Peter

jack: sorry that i have not paid attention to this story i posted some time ago. i visited the nuns at the monestary in newark manny times and spent time there on self imposed retreats.......

in response to: About Convents by jack

alanpigott@eircom.net: [[img:29313]] This is Alan Pigott here again trying to solve the origin of a Picture that is signed ..." W. O. H. ...N.J. 1923..and also St Dominic's Monastery Newark N.J...I have already posted a photo of......

in response to: About Convents by jack

Mitch Spector: Here's another weekly photo update, taken on the very cold morning of October 22th. The building is starting to look less recognizable as they continue to de-construct it. My guess is the next photos I'll......

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

Urban Neighbourhood: Gentrification is one of those things that you either love or hate. The debate on it tends to be very polarized, but cities are not going to oppose it because it means higher property taxes......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Chuck: here is a secret of mine...... I LOVE ALLEYS ! these photos are great. please post more ! ...

in response to: Alleyways of the City by jack

***NDC***: i seen some new ja tags on a truck and my friend got some pics ill b postin em up soon ...

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

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

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

jack: its an italian solar clock. see each slice is pointed at a different time zone in the world time cock. right now the fourth slice is pointing to my time here in new......

in response to: Pizza to Go and Gone by CartLegger

EvilGentleman: Thanks for reposting, Mitch. And thanks for the explanations, editor. From the way you wrote "Come on guys", I suspect you felt I was complaining. Just to let you know, that is definitely not the case at......

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

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

in response to: Washburn Tunnel by ian

Frank Sulman's: Dear fellow people of Montreal City, it is sad to see that we are losing a great piece of history and landmark Bens Restaurant. It was brought to my attention at a meeting this summer that......

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

Editor: Mitch's comment was deleted at his request, and I removed EG's comment as it was to Mitch's deleted comment, and when I've left spurious comments like that in the past, EG has complained that such......

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

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......

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: What happened to the pics Mitch posted yesterday?...

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

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

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

Mitch: Hmm, only hours after writing that, I passed by and saw the workers were taking down the Bens wrap-around sign. At the rate they're going, the sign will probably be gone by tomorrow (at least......

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: Yeah, I have went by a few times to have a look, and there is a hole in the east face of the building now. I did not take pictures since it was dark each......

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

Bob O: Thanks for all the memories of Yorkville where I grew up from the 30s through the sixties. I was born over in New York Hospital, went to school at St. Ignatius and then Cardinal Hayes.......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

Bob O: Thanks for all the memories of Yorkville where I grew up from the 30s through the sixties. I was born over in New York Hospital, went to school at St. Ignatius and then Cardinal Hayes.......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

Bob O: Thanks for all the memories of Yorkville where I grew up from the 30s through the sixties. I was born over in New York Hospital, went to school at St. Ignatius and then Cardinal Hayes.......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

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......

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

Andy yerks: im working for metro north, so were allowed in there, but also, teh guard post that u saw is storage haha, its filled with just garbage and signs, there hasnt been anyone in there in......

in response to: Abandoned General Motors Plant by Peter

Peter: heh, i had a feeling that if i posted this, you might explain what was up, and voila :) thanks!...

in response to: Brooklyn Navy Yard Cogeneration Facility by Peter

Peter: hook us up, andy! how did you get a car out there? last time i was there, it would have been impossible, but they still had a small guard post. id love to ride my longboard......

in response to: Abandoned General Motors Plant by Peter

Andy yerks: Im working for metro north now, and for the past week weve been parking our cars at the old plant, im going to get some pictures tomorrow and post them here for u guys, i......

in response to: Abandoned General Motors Plant by Peter

Jay Parker: I was there on 9/20/08. I was visiting my home town with my son for the first time and wanted to show him this spot [along with E Manual on 66th & Montifore in Queens......

in response to: Shearith Israel Cemetery by Peter

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

Peter: its a nice photo, rune, but ive seen this photo several hundred times online in the past half-decade or so... its a pretty well-known photo meme. why did you post it here? is it even......

in response to: Forrest by Rune Willem

Peter: food for thought: General Motors employs over 30 times the number of people in {canada} as they do in india or korea, but i doubt we would hear you complaining about "hard working americans'" jobs......

in response to: Abandoned General Motors Plant by Peter

Hello, Brooklyn: Please dont come to Brooklyn... Please stay wherever it is you live if you're going to post dumbass questions like "Is Brooklyn safe for a pretty young girl?" Please, please, please do all of us a......

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

Allan: Found this site, and these posts are fascinating. PS 167 brings back memories. Graduated in 1959. Sorry I hardly recall any of my teachers' names. Might remember if I heard them. I do recall my......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

keith smith: HI Anne Fahy,my family moved into 33 Atherton lane in 1935,my grandads name was Walter and his wife was Eva,their son [my dad] was Robert,my grandad died in 1978 and my nanna in 1988,i bought......

in response to: People Shall Be Banned by an impossible child

elaine: peter! look up 'desire line' in wiki. i tried to post the link but am out of practice with your coding, and the robot thought i was spamming you. ...

in response to: Pollards and Avenue by elaine

Mary: oh and another thing, in Toronto we have are friendly to our environment and eco green and it's great and all but STUPID People insist on putting their COMPOST bucket outside beside their house and......

in response to: Raccoons, Cute or Dangerous? by Elicar

stalzz: The six shafts of light is one of the best you posted here. Bravo!...

in response to: The Freedom Tunnel by Peter

Laura: I always adore your posts, Chiamattt... ...

in response to: Just a Few More by chiamattt

wyoming native: Any pictures of Grove Street, 1920 to be exact? Please post!...

in response to: The Hotdog Man by Peter

xarconika: Interesting to read about appearing non-suspicious; I live in Detroit and you want to look as shady as humanly possible when you're doing that stuff, because you become a target for criminals if you look......

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

zagg: Interesting day to post this. ...

in response to: 23 Wall Street by Peter

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;......

in response to: Don Justo\'s Self Built Cathedral by Hasslehoff

Steve - Albox, Almeria: If (en español) Si puedes mantener tu cabeza cuando todos acerca de usted Están perdiendo el suyo, y que culpar a usted, Si puedes confiar en ti cuando todos los hombres duda usted, Sin embargo, para......

in response to: Don Justo\'s Self Built Cathedral by Hasslehoff

arquitecto: Xavi, good post. I feel your pain. I am a central american immigrant who grew up in cleveland. Went to school in Portland and am living in Sacramento CA. I have gained......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Joe Drexler: From a building design standpoint many blocks in Bushwick were attached "row frames" as known by firefighters these row frames differed from attached brownstones in that the space or void between the roof and the......

in response to: Why Did Bushwick Burn? by upfromflames

augydoggy: To all the naive people in here that think raccoons are cute and are their backyard pets: These are wild and cold-hearted omnivores that care nothing about you and would eat you alive if given the......

in response to: Raccoons, Cute or Dangerous? by Elicar

Pia: What a great site. I am soooooooo glad that I fell upon it. Wish I would have before now. It brougt back so many great childhood memories. I often say what a rich childhood I experienced......

in response to: Bushwick 77: The Casusos of Harman St. by upfromflames

Peter: your comment speaks of entitlement, nk. i guess thats where you have to use your own judgment and not assume every tidbit of information you come across online will be tailor-made for your specific needs......

in response to: School for the Deaf by Peter

Tracy 3rd Sep 2008 21:30 GMT: All I want to say is I walked that road day in and day out for one reason being to take my daughters to school . On the odd Occision when I looked around me I......

in response to: Black and White by norniron

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

nk: This picture is not a picture of the school - and it's sad that you would want to give the impression that the school actually looks like this. This is the back of the school......

in response to: School for the Deaf by Peter

Michelle M: Kaeleen.... I do remember you and a lot of the other people that are posting on here. Does anyone know of when they are going to have the next 2 day dance? Would love to go......

in response to: Yuba by Paul G

Peter: i think methrsk was trying to say that the "we apologize" was likely photoshopped in; we can only wish a state would be so bold as to post a sign like that for real ;)......

in response to: Private Parts ! by Maz

Maz: Not sure if I have understood that comment correctly methrsk, or understand the point behind it. I googled the 2nd & 3rd picture but the top one is my own I took at Chessingtom World of......

in response to: Private Parts ! by Maz

Sean O' Muileann: Do u think that bobby was scared, fighting for the cause is one thing, coming within an inch of your own life, knowing the risks and chances of being killed on active duty, but to......

in response to: Bobby Sands: An Cumann Cabhrach biography of 1981 by Marcella32

Mike L.: Taken somewhere near the Brooklyn Heights Promenade with cell-phone. Post-processed with Corel PSP/Topaz Adjust to flatten digital noise, smeared sky for effect, enhanced water detail, gave whole thing vague yellowish sepia cast. ...

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