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luna park: it was a giant, impressive piece of rooftop graffiti done by a guy who goes by read more books AKA reader AKA booker... the big skulls made me happy every time i rode past on......

in response to: Lofts for Rent by Peter

Lillibette Irish expat: What most of the people that have responded to this fail to realize is that "The Troubles" in Ireland have LONG ago stopped being about religion. It was/is rather like the black-white thing in......

in response to: NYC: The Empire State Building at Sunrise by Peter

Dean Ogden: Hi Cyril, ive been on Google Earth its great isnt it? And i still pass the house quite often (I somtimes cut accross the moss to get to work if the traffics bad. My aunty......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

NervaVels: I lived on the block of Green/Evergreen/Harman for almost 20 years; prior to that, I lived on Jefferson St between Knickerbocker and Irving (still remember getting picked up by the bus to go to a......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

anon (ppp-69-219-38-192.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net): Thats so true sb people should not go by every thing that they read and every thing you said is true, when ever the gangs was in war they will tell every one to get......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

janet grayson: Just reading these posts bring back very fond memories. I remember the Schenectady Ave. (at Lincoln Place) pickle lady with her barrels of sours and half-sours. Also, I too stood among the crowds......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Xavi: Most of the eastern part of Humboldt Park until the mass Puerto Rican migration of the 1940's and '50's was Jewish and Polish, with some German and Italian elements. When those ethnic groups were......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

madame maxime: I've moved across country and have lived in many different states. Always I carried my books with me, and when I went to graduate school I kept accruing more. The last move from......

in response to: Booktrash by Peter

Madelyn: Wow! What an experience it has been reading all these posts about the neighborhood I grew up in! I also went to Enrico Fermi, remember Mr. Lily and played violin in the orchestra. I graduated......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

realworldgirl9: You know, the reason our entire country is in a shit hole right now is because of the lousy attitudes of people today. I have lived in many places in my life, for instance:......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

S.B.: first of all you shouldnt go by what you read in books because everything isnt true. I lived in 1943 W. lake for 18 years. I loved living there it was always some place I......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

BDweller: My friend Mike graduated from JHS 111 in the early seventies. It had already acquired a rough reputation by then, as I recall. Like Pierre said, the gang/thug threat was present. All......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

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

English teacher in Brasil: whatever I read on here is very interesting. I am doing Ireland at the moment with my year nine here in Brasil (Campinas in the state of São Paulo, a city about double the size......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

JNJ: Everybody is missing the point here and underlying factor. I grew up in Humboldt Park. I lived there for 32 years. Yes, it was stressful. However, I had allot of fun......

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

Liam: Nuvolari, If you want to know about the troubles in Ireland I recommend the Peter Taylor series. He wrote 3 books: -Provos -Brits _Loyalists You should read all of them to understand all sides of the conflict. ...

in response to: Black and White by norniron

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. ......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Sammy Finkelman: EvilGentleman: 10th Mar 2006 - 16:55 GMT I cannot believe there are people who would throw out books that are still readable! What a waste! Have they never heard of used book stores, > or perhaps......

in response to: Booktrash by Peter

Maureen Blair: I read cowboy magazines and books when I was a little girl in Jamaica. I have always known about black cowboys and their contribution to the West. I am a cowgirl at heart (to the......

in response to: The Federation of Black Cowboys by sine

jack: ok calm down. people who hate are a very small minority. ordinary people tend to keep silent on many subjects. this country is free for all peoples. but the laws must......

in response to: Speak Out by M. Rojas

EvilGentleman: jack, there is a futuristic post-apocalyptic series of pulp fiction sci-fi novels called Deathlands (Gold Eagle Books) that I read. The character of Doc Tanner is supposed to have been kidnapped across time from his......

in response to: Love Graf Tree (Zelkova Carpinifolia) by elaine

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

EvilGentleman: My parents and I used to own used bookstores in Chatham, New Brunswick and Cornwall, Ontario when I was a child. (I owned the comic department, as the starting inventory was all from my collection).......

in response to: Booktrash by Peter

EvilGentleman: I cannot believe there are people who would throw out books that are still readable! What a waste! Have they never heard of used book stores, or perhaps donating to libraries?...

in response to: Booktrash by Peter

Nina: Interesting to read what everyone is saying. That idiot Argent47 who filed charges against a homeless person who threw a butt at you that you threw out your car... well.. what a proud moment......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

groovehouse: "all this talk of snowcrash has me feeling like i should read it now... hmm. citynoise book club :)" I went looking for this book yesterday at a discount book store, no luck, so I may......

in response to: Ecumenopolis by jeeff

anon (49.Red-88-0-24.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net): From more than 40 years ago, Justo Gallego was reading books of architecture and he has been working in those years seeing in direct the way of resistence of materials, so now when he......

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

elaine: well if i wanted to read it from your recommendation then i really do now - check out this review [[http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/scienceandnature/story/0,6000,1488815,00.html]]...

in response to: Grubbin\' by Nairi

jack: i like horncastle in june, how about you? i like a gershwin tune, how about you? i like to read good books, cant get my fill, moonlight and motor trips give me a......

in response to: Pre-Christmas Lights by jamie

spooner: Bobby Sands and his 10comrades have gone down in Irish history as legends,our children will read of them in their history books in school and they'll understand what they've done for the Ireland of today.They......

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

mee: i just googled sane smith and came across this forum. sane - david smith - was my boyfriend when we were in high school. he died by committing suicide (he jumped off a bridge). it......

in response to: Sane Smith: Puttin' the Green in Greenpoint by Peter

Dave: From what I've heard, Sane committed suicide, because his graf writing was going to get his Dad, who was a Harvard Professor, sued for like $1million. As for Sane's older brother, Smith, he still writes,......

in response to: Sane Smith: Puttin' the Green in Greenpoint by Peter

GGP: this cat is so regal. next time you're in a good used book store or antiquarian book shop, keep your eyes open for a book by Paul Gallico (author of the Poseidon Adventure, the Snow Goose,......

in response to: Cat on the Fence by joey

jack: its not crooklyn you ninny, its brooklyn. you think your something because you inhabit the area now, but years ago many people worked and created families and a great symbol of americanism was born......

in response to: GANGS ON NYC by StripesA4

king love lady : i've read both those books my bloody life and once a king always a king.i live down here in mia and too me that that kid went thru alot of shyt from bein beating......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

jeeff: haha, read more books....

in response to: Warehouse Top by Peter

jack: no one commented on the GOD sign. GOD is the only one who truly loves you and yet we hate Him. the republicans did'nt come up with the red color, it was the liberal......

in response to: Politics, American Style by GGP

Peter: I was reading a short story about a man who designed a device that allowed humans to see things outside of their range of vision... like ultraviolet and infrared, etc... of course it took a......

in response to: Bleeds into Sunrise... by Peter

Marc: i have been writing and working (very hard) and traveling, but nothing in the citynoise genre as of late- though i desperately want to! Have to trepan some other stuff out of my head first........

in response to: hackney city farm by elaine

elaine: ackroyd's main idea, apparrently, is that london is like a volcano and some bits are fast flowing and some are fixed, and that over 2000 years there are areas which have stayed the same,......

in response to: Hack the City by Marc

elaine: no, I must read him, I seem to have managed not to for some reason. I have been told recently that I must read downriver as well. what i always loved was soft city by......

in response to: Hack the City by Marc

naeneedfuraname: Re: Shankhill Road I think it's funny that these hubcap stealin', bead rattlin', soap dodgin' fenian bastard rebels think it's their country, when historically speaking, there have been links between Scotland and Northern Ireland since the......

in response to: Shankill Road: Belfast by Jamie