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michael >chazoshay@hotmail.com: smith i met you one time with ezo and a few of you guys in harlem on 116th lenox ave i was probably like 20 yr old and man i waited for the day to...... terrified of racoons: ilive in westphilly and i am used to rats and mice stray cats but racoons that's like everything i just named wraped up in one. They look cute as youngsters but let your as...... BushwickBaBY08: i live in Bushwick..right on Knickbocker Ave.btw.Jefferson n Troutman..well to start it off.. Bushwick needes to be shut down..its full of 14-16 yer old girls whom are pregnate..thats so uncalled for..but what can we do...... Ursus: I have just applied the Black Anti-Vandal/Intruder paint to My connifer because the local brats were severely damaging it, It looks a real eyesore from the damage they caused so I decided to coat it...... CLaSS oF '09 [Ms. Me]: Class of '09..YESS!!!, we're seniors now. But i would be wrong if I were to say that our journey thus far has not been memorable. As a senior, I've definitely grown up since the first...... Jeff: I went to Super Sexe a few times around 2002-2004, had a great time. Gorgeous women and good price, very entertaining overall. I have done nothing but spread the good word since, telling...... anon (modemcable030.78-83-70.mc.videotron.ca): our hospitals are full of rats. does that mean we should not go there.BE FAIR......... MY FRIEND... alma: well, between flashing and a rape, there's a whole world. flashing, in purist america, really is overrated. and "blondes" overreact. "oh my god, he was doing "that" ya know" and stuff.
a poor, clueless, lifeless guy,...... missyelliott: So do you live in Kauai "eyefodin" ? Do you live under a tree where they are 4 times as loud as a bullhorn at a hockey game? probably not. Again they are...... missyelliott: If you lived in Kauai and had these god aweful rats with wings crowing under window at 1 and 2 am you wouldn't be saying "how cute" they are! They carry diseases, any ground...... richard: the rats jump up from the toliots bad dirty old shithole
... Dee McArdle: I was just going to mention that book by George Brennan. Kevin beat me to the punch. Bats, Brats and Stats is truly my favorite Yorkville based book.... Kevin: I would like to recommend a great new Yorkville book out by a Yorkville author,George Brennan,called Bats,Brats and Stats. It is about being among the last era of stickball players in Yorkville through the author's...... re: samuei: i am employed to the tune of 50 grand a year,noname,and i dont give a rats ass once again.... re: samuei: the idiot who took the pics does not know a damn thing.that building is the old saint elizabeth hospital and was never located across from any highway.i love hutch and dont give a rats ass...... unknown: half or at least a quarter of this grafitti is legal work wich was done with property owners permission. about the vandalism aspect of graffiti.. hamilton has used moey from grats and from the cities...... Peter: though im not sure what to think about the preponderance of south park/rugrats/pokemon characters, but that {chav} {statue of liberty} sure is something else! hehehe.
also: much of the {graf} reminds me of oldskool nyc graf,...... 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...... rachael: hmmm...
many of the comments i've read have either amused me or angered me...but I'll go on anyway...
i'm a brooklyn native and originally from east flatbush. my parents left there to move to long island [for...... Anonymous: the Democrats for more than 50 years has had a run of Brooklyn, NYC. Left the Bushwick and surrounding areas in total ruin, with crime rampant, profound social apathy, and proliferating vermin to name a...... Steve: I worked there from 1977-1993 chassis dept. then left to work at the Saturn plant when the plan to close Tarrytown was announced.
Now retired. I worked in some of those water filled pits during...... Cabrini Mean: We fed the rats apples so they could fart. Some days I took some to school or the crack house down my way. My guitar gently weeped as I shot up at Cabrini Green.... Rodent: I heard that they had very big rats in the projects, And when you throw food at them to get them to run away and leave you alone, They will grab the food that you...... chiamattt: Thanks adam.
Testeez, I am a Torontonian that has been living and working Seoul, South Korea for the past five years. Every year or so I head to Osaka to get my Korean employment visa...... 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...... tom: The bridge was designed and built under a Democratic administration (Karl Rolvaag). Approximately half of the time since its construction there has been a Democratic governor in the state. The Democrats are now...... Popeye & Maniac: Too many rats in humboldt park... I saw one run across the floor in a restaurant 2 days ago... I thought you guys were clean?... Bushwicks baddest chic aka Bobbi j : this goes out to all you bushwick peeps i was born and raised on irving the streets were two way back then i went to 86 what you know about that the 83 was not...... Dee: I remember this very vividly. the looters were running down my block with televisions, diapers, stereos u name it. We sat on my stoop just watching. Now I'd be petrified but then well...... CartLegger: and congrats on the new camera. Swell zoom that is. ... Bekkah: "I could fall in love with Jersey at sunset, but I leave the veiw to the rats, and tiptoe.. back."
-Ani DiFranco
Nice pics.... Ellie Marino: i think Gwen is very pretty i wish i looked like her she is pretty enough for eney guy congrats... 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...... Grace: Cat Urine doesn't do anything. There are wild cats living in my area and rome in my yard. I think they live in harmony with the possums and raccoons.
I understand that the raccooms...... groovehouse: Yeah... no offense, but it looks like a quickie photoshop job. Congrats though.... Anthony Joseph: His effort is relentless, his vision is elegant, perhaps the self-important politicians, bureaucrats and clergy who disparage him for his sincerity will one day come to another point of view. I hope that his...... little ukraine: hello, jack's daughter, and welcome! congrats on the recent master's degree. we seem to share similar feelings for the library. as for my personal opinion, i think it would be best to...... pariah: Sometimes I wonder if the people defending Bushwick actually LIVE here.
Gang violence (Bloods) is up, especially around Bushwick Houses (housing project). Streets are still covered in garbage. Car alarms because of break-ins still blaring nightly....... jack: ##[Ed: this comment was posted as a separate article. i removed the article and appended the comment here. please try to keep your comments confined to the relevant article.]##
no photos, sorry folks. i...... EvilGentleman: The last image a Banksy? Heck, it better be. It came from his website.
[[http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/indexrats.html#]]... groovehouse: 15,000 while not life changing, is a very cool accomplishment! Congrats benji and congrats CITYNOISE!... jack: in brooklyn we have a variety of rats and roaches for backyard animals not to mention some people roaming the streets at night.... vanessa vargas to BOC: ummm...you must have been high when you wrote that response talking about me being a realtor! i am far from a realtor...and i happen to live on menahan...probably not too far from you. ...... karen:jun06-2006: i have a family of raccons that i have been feeding for yrs-i feed them cheap dry dog food or any old leftovers i have- they love spagetti-bread crackers-i have 4 cats and they seem...... Chris Erb: This building is actually quite nice to Fredericton standards. Even though Fredericton is one of the richest places in Atlantic Canada, it's still quite poor compared to much of the rest of Canada. ...... kc: Yeah, that rat issue I imagine would be more about the shells falling to the ground below...although rats and mice don't really seem to follow the chipmunk/squirrel predilection for seed eating--or hiding! Used to have...... rob: I was watering my grass and reeling my hose in and heard sound in the branches, at first I thought it was the leaves moving from the woater hitting them or rats, since the sound...... elaine: i am on the 4th floor, and although rats can climb, i don't know that they would come up specially. i did see a squirrel on the roof of the opposite building once, but i...... kc: looks very quizzical, that first one. fun! I'd love to do that, but you don't see all that many feeders in NY, not out front at least. I think my building's tenant guardian would be...... yippie skippie: NYC is a cesspool, maybe you live in a less stinky area with better ventilation, and don't venture into the nastier parts like South Bronx, Harlem, Washington Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant, or Brooklyn.... but the nastier...... EvilGentleman: Expanding a bit on my previous comment, it all comes down to responsibility. If you are a poor kid who has a parent who automatically tries to beat up any kid (or their parents) that...... Liz: Elicar, Congrats on your (eventual) success w/ panning! It is something that I too have tried, but never got the results that you did in that first pic. So way to go!... 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...... just another reader..: that picture is stunning. the sky is so blue. it's amazing. congrats!... rich: grew up pierce/kedzie in the fiftys,hood was mostly norwegians/poles and irish.2 luthern churches, at pierce/spalding and lemoyne/spalding, not much crime at all,kings were just starting near div.st,we were the hirsch st lords. one of the...... Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Congrats on being a Granddaddy, Jack!
... Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Mini zebras! I could just paint some stripes on a couple of New York City sewer rats.... HAMMER 33: No juice, just many types of city bus here in hamilton, including trollys while we had them. Short sighted pols and bureacrats got rid of them in the late '80's... Squirrel: To carry this discussion along an even more oblique tangent:
Do an inventory of all the animals that people consider 'pests': rats, mice, seagulls, raccoons, cockroaches, sparrows, pigeons etc... What do they all have...... Squirrel: Geez people, what's the matter with you? Raccoons are cute and harmless.
I had a whole family of them living in my backyard. I spent all summer working in the back yard...... MeatMan: What a shame...
This really tends to show what happens when you pack a bunch of humans into a small area -- they start eating each other like rats. It all comes down to a...... Monster: Mach, your point is to talk to this guy? I'd agree with you nine tenths of the time but I've had this happen right out side my doorway in Vancouver and it's frustrating, watching...... Decepticlown: Does anyone know if anything has happened to this guy yet and where can I get his name and place of business. Would love to mail him shit, dead rats and vomit. What...... Futon: Congrats on making the front page of the Toronto Star hool!... nex: We've seen people get beaten to a pulp for a lot less by idiots who obviously don't give a rats ass about you, the individual, or anyone else.
I'm not saying that one should not voice...... jack: sugar for the aristocrats.... Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Colavito: You have a point about the woman's shop. It must be infuriating to have your business tagged up. I'm so glad it crossed your mind that I might be joking about book burning. I...... Catherine Penfold-Waxman: On beauty and decay: I was sent a poem from a book by Toyohiko Kagawa, called Songs From The Slums. He grew up and worked around the Kobe slums of Japan and was thrown in...... SadStateOfAffairs: JJ - You make me feel very small. Congrats on not being eaten up by the hate and prospering. Endeavor to persevere and tell your story. It is a good one. Thanks.
... Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Congrats on the new bike. I love the orange hues in perfect contrast to the steely blue bike. Do you live by a nuclear power plant or was the colour just lucky happenstance?
... Peter: jeeff: i was thinking hte same thing... heh. that sort of thing isnt unheard of around here. people will squat in just about anything that keeps the heat/rain/snow/rats off of you.... elliexx: i recently saw a program late on at night which opened my eyes to wonders of this artist: Banksy. His work is very inspiring and he takes art onto a whole new level for example...... adam: congrats. rad stuff!... Whites in HP: I am white and have been living in HP for two years and I have not had one issue. I have seen others duke it out or get shot but that is because of the...... Kitty: I've been thinking about the nature of living in a big city (and I've lived in NYC for 12 years now) and it's funny how you learn to just roll with everything thrown at you....... Neck Face: The manager at Kinko's called, told me to bring in some I.D. so I guess I have another crapie Job. At least if Iam working at Kinko's I will be involved in the art world....... harold: you slept in the park with your camera? congrats on not getting mugged.. you mustve seen more than what you showed in one homeless night... Chino: Carbon monoxide, rats, pollution, abandoned warehouse and blood stains next to beautiful
flowers in the midd 80's to late 90's is how my youth was raised. Yet I still love my city better know as Chicago!...... jack: triangles, rectangles and curves, you caught it, congrats. ... IhateRats: Definately some shady shit goin on here. The PO should work on their slang a lil bit. I herd PBCC is teaching an ebonics course. That or go pick up Big L's The Big...... Deshant: Not all of Williamsburg has been gentrified as you can see. Talks of displaced SoHo brats and pregnant hipsters make up the Bedford Ave. population but the Orthodox Jewish and Latino population still keep the...... GGP: great post! I agree w/ Tina that it would be great to hold support groups or creative writing/arts workshops for patients in that space, along with an gardening program! write a grant, get some funding,...... jack: i was 17 when i stepped out of the subway at rector street in june of 1960. i walked down to washington street and cedar street and started working in a printing shop which...... Peter: thye have rats too, im sure, just hopefully not in the kitchen area!... elaine: ##so## glad that was rants and not rats as i misread it, i thought there was a very dark twist in the tails of many drunk rats there.. most tom waites ... Peter: heh heh! you guys got it! congrats! >;)
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics]]... Peter: congrats on being the first to post anything about iceland here :) cant wait to see more pics! good luck with the hardware problem...... Jamie: the addition of rats to the last one ##is## indeed a {banksy} if i'm not mistaken.... hasslehoff: it was with much amusement that i studied the generaly apathy on the day of "The Big Wedding" Nobody gave a rats ass; even old people. The sort of people you would generally expect to...... johnny brit: all irish are fuckin twats that deserve a life of rats if not death. go fuck a log, boys. youre dead in the ater, fucking lame ass bastard irish cunts!...
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