Comments about row houses

There are 72 comments about "row houses"

Doc S.......: ...I graduated from P.S. 241 in 1958 - lived on Union Street (1060) between Franklin and Bedford. I vividly remember Ben & Sol's, and Radin's delicatessens - I ate at both. The Pharmacist at......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Cecilia Midiri: I have to say that it is so true about monkey see, monkey do...every weekend when I'm off from work, I get out to sweeping and I never end up alone doing it. Sometimes......

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

living in Hutchinson: Wow. Interesting website. I would like to comment too. I live in Hutchinson. I have been here my entire life. I moved to big cities in other states for a few......

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

river otters21 girl: It is a darn shame to see hear what happened to Kensington. Oh, I agree with YourOwnFault 100% except that this cancer known as white flight took place more recently than the 50s and......

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

sandy: my opinion is that Kensington was designated to be a dumping ground for section 8 .It is an abused program to say the least.slumlords are even getting sick of fixing up the houses that these......

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

luna park: there are actually large swathes of brownstone rowhouses in brooklyn, where the houses are set back from the street and allow space for front yards. in many cases, the yards have been paved (as is......

in response to: Beware of Owner by luna park

eric guerra: Its me again. No matter how bad it is, it is still my birth place, St. Josephs Hospital, lived on Preakness Ave for half my life, then moved one block away to Ryerson ave. I......

in response to: paterson factory - may 2002 by adam

Matt Parde: I was born and raised in Belleville, lived there for almost 30 years. I always had something to do and had a lot of fun. It's nice to know who lives in your......

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

Deb Walker: I lived in Atherton Lane (as mentioned before) mine was the second house (19) as you look down the street from the end that Rob took the photo - used to be able to look......

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

The terrible disaster: This article has been republished as I was asked to supply the details a second time. --- We had walked on Cadishead Moss in the morning on Jean Dodd’s health walk with possibly 60 inspired walkers. When......

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

Eric from Port Richmond: A Richmond boy with a few comments. Its NOT just Kensignton that took a turn for the worst in the area. I grew up in the late 70s and 80s in Port Richmond. The neighbors would sit......

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

Deb Simpkins (nee Massey): Wow! My Uncle Cyril (Bagshaw) put me onto this site and I have just spent the last hour reading all the comments. My mum (Edith Jaques) was born in Irlam and my dad (Jim Massey)......

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

Alan Taylor: Andrew, Sheila, Cyril et al, Platts Brook was a popular play area and it went underground through vertical iron bars and waterfalled about 10 feet under Liverpool Road opposite Ferry Road. The part that was from where......

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

Sheila Hilton: My children talked about playing on "the Jezzies". I didn't realise at first that they were talking about the jerry works. It was always the jerry works; never the jezzies when we were younger. We......

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

D.Bennett: Damn it`s like every time get on here i see a new paragraph about someone who has died from the hornets and often someone i new like (tony Wood aka Nuke i......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

anon (mn-71-55-143-56.dhcp.embarqhsd.net): i lived in the row houses on the west side of cabrini and that shit was the bomb the laws hit the buildins all the time!!!!R.I.P CABRINI.......

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

Graham Bate: Hi Andy, This thread is a real blast from the past! so many names I recall, Brian Bagshaw, Roy Bamber, Steve Weir and all the history that goes with the town. I come from Irlam myself......

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

pearly princess peckham {tammy}: hi to everyone that knows me. its very sad the way people talk about pearlies. my mum rest her soul was one of the greatest pearly Queens {Ann Major} my dad Has always been a......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

Rob Tynan: Natalie Waterworth My great grandfather John Tynan, ran School Farm which was on the corner of Springfield Lane,opposite the endowed school. It was demolished approx. 1918??. He also used to drive the coach for......

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

Andrew Smith: Cheers for the photo's Robert - good stuff. Looks like they had to knock down a row of houses to build Cadishead library unless the had already gone....

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

MaGoo: I grew up on Lawn Guyland in the 70's; most of my neighbors were "caucasian-Americans" who were from Bushwick and East New York. They had been displaced by the "diversity"- when the city used THEIR......

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

rosecolored glasses: i had taken a picture of the house on central ave and hart street but misplaced it. the house is on the north side of central, it has black bars to the second floor. Its funny......

in response to: Bushwick Gates: Part 1 by Peter

99¢Dreams: Peter, you didn't just run with my idea -- you sprinted with it! And I guess the finish line isn't yet in sight since you titled it "part 1". Great work -- I just......

in response to: Bushwick Portals by Peter

D.Bennet-lived in 1943 apt 606: I grew up in the Henry Horner Holmes a.k.a. the Hornets i live in 1943 4 trey i also grew up with pharoah and laffy and that movie portrayed them as innocent fun loving children......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

Djrobluv: I lived in EO for 15 years 1980-1995 South Harrison St & Webster Pl. Boarder of Orange and E. Orange. When we first moved to EO our block was quiet not too much going on......

in response to: The Projects of East Orange by Peter

Bobs Ferry Accident: We had walked on Cadishead Moss in the morning on Jean Dodd’s health walk with possibly 60 inspired walkers. When the walk had ended I had a chat with Mrs Heap the ‘Irlam Historians’......

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

kayak girl: Barren Island is the coolest. At the height of the rendering plants' days they had their own schools, hospitals, etc. It was a real community and had a majority of African American citizens.......

in response to: Barren Island by CartLegger

Kitty: I am a military brat who was born in Japan. My early years were spent in public bath houses, and not the type you hear about in San Fransisco. This is where you soak in......

in response to: Public Urinals: Amsterdam by Peter

Dee: I don't know if people remeber but alot of the kds used to throw things at the firemen when they were on a call. Also the houses in Bushwick were all clapboard so......

in response to: 180 Central Avenue: What Was Lost by upfromflames

Peter: that last shot is amazing... isnt that about where {bushwick} ave and {flushing} ave intersect... at the {bushwick houses}? im still learning the neighborhood... i think i recall you mentioning that the {bushwick houses} (that brown......

in response to: Bushwick: Municipal Tag by upfromflames

Local ASS: Hey, Hutchinson is growing! With old folks homes and fat women having worthless children. READ THE HUTCHINSON NEW ASSHOLE. LAST YEAR THE JOB GROWTH IN THIS TOWN WAS 1 JOB!!! WOW it is growing! And......

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

maybetoday: While on my trip, I noticed bay windows nearly everywhere I went in Boston. If I recall correctly, the building in the second picture is in the theater district. I remember seeing those......

in response to: Fifteen Pictures of Boston by maybetoday

jeeff: hi maybetoday, i liked this post. there seems to be a real strong circular undulating rhythm to the row houses in your photos. is this a boston thing, or just one neighbourhood? ......

in response to: Fifteen Pictures of Boston by maybetoday

upfromflames: cjh: thanks again for your post. I used it on a walking tour of Bushwick today. One more story to add to the many, found in buildings gone, standing, and yet to be. Hope you......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

EvilGentleman: The owners of the bar had considered launching a lawsuit against the Montreal Mirror for the slanderous lies in this article. [[http://www.montrealmirror.com/2007/022207/news2.html]] The allegations about the rooms upstairs really caught all of us who frequent the......

in response to: Fire on Ste Catherine by CE

Manoj: So here we go... what was supposed to be a topic about cheap sex and stuff has turned into a debate on racism... and further worse - apartheid! Well, having lived for 2 years now in......

in response to: Cheap Sex $60 by Elicar

jack: i remember masim's on chambers street, as a matter of fact from cedar street at washington to church street to chambers was litterally an electronics street fair, every store had radio components laid out on......

in response to: Maxim Radio, et Al by GGP

Peter: certain neighborhoods are just denser-than-average in free-standing clapboard/shutter-style houses like that, while other areas have more brownstones, etc... im assuming this is most likely {bushwick} or {bed stuy}......

in response to: No Children at Play by upfromflames

CE: The old housing stock in St. Louis is so strange. They look like detached rowhouses from different cities planted down along the street. Very neat....

in response to: Cherokee in Benton Park West by maybetoday

zilep: Bought a house in the heart of Bushwick- on Central avenue and Cornelia streets (one of those cookie cutter homes with all the meters showing- you know the ones the BROWNSTONER people love to hate).......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Dcchanged man: I lived in bushwick from 1968-1982 Comfort and hell in bushwick depends on which pocket you lived in. The dead end streets of buswick Aberdeen , Granite , Desales Place and so on where a lot......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

K Bernstein: I lived in an apartment building at Eastern Parkway and Troy Avenue in the 1950s. Eastern Parkway was a beautiful street, with its two pedestrian malls with benches and trees. The street was lined with......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

SCAM28: Yeah a lot had to be done after the war and actually they've just started to rebuild a lot of the bordering towns around Berlin that used to belong to East Germany in the last......

in response to: Seasons in Gropiusstadt, Neukölln by SCAM28

hanne: Thank you so much Barry - I forgot that I posted my question here, and I just checked back. Very helpful to know that Castle Balfour is actually two rows of houses - I......

in response to: Castle Balfour by barry

SULLIVAN: The Prospect Park zoo had elephants, polar bears, monkeys, lions, tigers, and a pony track where kids could get a ride in a poney wagon. In addition, there were row boats & peddle boats on......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

upfromflames: Crown Heights is partly Chasidic Jewish, partly Caribbean black, two communities who have conflicted for years over the territory. just check out the flags on the houses to see who's who. Its also got the......

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

barry: Hi Hanne , Castle balfour are two rows of houses that are beside the town police station. ...

in response to: Castle Balfour by barry

Brad: Wow, parts of Brooklyn look so amazing. I remember the last time I was there riding the subway around, it was so cool looking down the streets from the elevated sections at the rowhouses. I......

in response to: I\'ve Lived in Crown Heights for Just About Fifteen Days by little ukraine

Paul: Dave, Thanks for the picture of Galliers. It looks just like I remember it. I remember going in there to pick up "The Pink" with all the football results. You mentioned it is......

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

Grant: I am sitting in an apartment in 1230 Burling (one of the buildings in Cabrini Green) as I type this. I have lived here since 2000 (and before that I lived in a house......

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

WindyCity4life: Their is no glory in public housing,especially in Chicago.Of course I think it's wrong that CHA is making those people live on the streets.For some reason public housing will always be a problem in cities......

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

okcomputer: Susannah: Clayton Park, the area of western Halifax where I live and this shot was taken, is becoming more and more densely populated. Rows of town houses, large apartment buildings crammed next to each other,......

in response to: Parkland Pond by okcomputer

EvilGentleman: The PMQ's in Dartmouth are abandoned? Are those ones associated with the naval facilities in Halifax and Dartmouth, or with CFB Shearwater to the south? Is CFB Shearwater still open? We still have PMQ-style buildings......

in response to: Bridge Trash by okcomputer

Peter: whether its the "box-store fad", "urban sprawl" or "houses on big lots", many people tend to dislike homogeny... you know, where everything starts to look just like the others... rows of stores or suburban homes,......

in response to: Yuppy Scum by CE

TheTruth: "I see it more as a class war than a race war." "...But that doesn't explain why, poor or not, the residents of Bushwick didn't have enough self-respect to take care of their neighborhood." Dave, did you......

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.

EvilGentleman: Maybe this house was the first one on the block, and the row houses squeezed up against it in later years, making it look out of place....

in response to: Tuck Away House by CE

Boricua/Mexicana las dos: My mother has done a great job bringing me up, from her having nothing, not a stable home, not a family that supported her, not any motivation, she made it her life goal to make......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Sally: Today is memorial day in America. THEY ARE HOLDING PARTIES AND BBQs and HAVE TOTALLY FORGOTTEN THE ABOUT 2 WORLD WARS WHERE I LOST FAMILY MEMBERS, NOT TO MENTION THEIR OWN TROUPS IN THIS LATEST......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

Tara: Raoul - Some homeless people can get work, but are just lazy bums and I put animals before people anyway. People have voices, they can help themselves, but animals are virtually helpless. Microbe - Not many......

in response to: A Grisly Example of Man\'s Inhumanity by GGP

Chris Erb: The townhouses next door were actually designed by my landlord. There are a bunch more to the right and behind and are about 10 years old. It's actually not a bad development for......

in response to: Post a Picture of Directly Outside Your Window by CE

elaine: i am all for game. slaughter houses are so awful, quite apart from sympathy for the animals, i wouldn't want that amount of fear and pain on my plate. things like bambis are good cos......

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

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......

in response to: Cross Street and Blossom 2002 by Jamie

elaine: personally i favour what is generically called 'brown sauce' on my breakfast, but in fact, of course, there are two brands, 'daddies' and 'HP' (houses of parilament). these are good tangy sauces. in scotland there......

in response to: Breakfast: Before & After by Peter

barry: I have only bean back there 3 times in the past 10 years, my last time was july for my sisters wedding an I got the impression that averey thing has changed.New houses all over......

in response to: 7th Century Church by barry

barry: I don,t think the plague did reach ireland,What did occur was a potato famine(1845-1850)FAMINE FEVER-cholera,dysentery,scurvy,typhus.Same thing i guess.Potatoes were irelands main crop and food source.Landlords at this time respond,s to there tenants who could,t pay......

in response to: 7th Century Church by barry

Jamie: These two fellows are within spitting distance of each other. The neighbourhood inquestion is in dramatic social decline. It's a timeless scenario, which starts with abandoned sofas, matresses and other miscellaenous items of unwated home......

in response to: Outdoor Sofas by Jamie

jeeff: hi jo. here's a quickie travel guide for toronto, ##but## i'm writing this with one condition for you: please take some photos, write some stuff, and post an article here about your trip! first off,......

in response to: Toronto for a week by jo

from snopes.com: Legend: Old running shoes hanging from trees and power lines are 'gang signs.' Origins: All across the United States, you'll encounter discarded shoes hanging from wires, poles, and trees. Theories as to......

in response to: Shoes by Peter

elaine: some of my favourite domiciles have been slums at the time of living, but i am of that ilk, and maybe i have grown out of it too. when my beautiful faded - grandeur georgian......

in response to: Brownstones in by joe urb

CAPTAIN AMERICA: email: finaljustice05@yahoo.com You take great pictures. You're Crazy! Here's one for ya. Please trust me. I live in El Paso, Texas. I lived in "East New York, Brooklyn", until I joined the Military 6 years......

in response to: Brooklyn Broadcast & Audio by Peter

Marc: damn they figure out so much cool shit about humanity by sticking a million freaks together to poop in each other's drinking water!! the 2nd largest chicken producer in the states, Tyson, kills something like......

in response to: I Know: by Peter