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Dino Saraceni: This is a fascinating thread! I moved into Yorkville last year and have lived in another part of the Upper East Side the past three years. I cannot imagine an elevated train line running through......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

Peter: serlingrod: yup... too bad i found out about the transit strike when i arrived at 30th street station and went to purchase an all-day transit pass. did it all on foot, west philly and much......

in response to: Bird Repellants & Odor Control by Peter

peggtann: I grew up with the old radio programs. It was a time that people used their imaginations. Reading books also used imagination. It is good to see younger people listening to the old radio shows.......

in response to: Signal Gasoline by fuzzytank

EvilGentleman: You might want to start here: [[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=45861094177&ref=search&sid=539626592.4166407987..1]] (It's a Facebook group titled "I was stationed at Plattsburgh AFB") Although you are probably not a military veteran, I would imagine the folks there may be able to point you......

in response to: Snafu at the Former Plattsburgh Air Force Base by EvilGentleman

ALBERTO RODRIGUEZ: Hi, I was on the train before this #4 Express. This was early in the morning and my train was too packed. I needed to get to work early that day, and did not want......

in response to: Free Robert Ray by Peter

Dewayne Louria: My father was stationed at Plattsburgh AFB (did weather). We (Brenda, Michelle, Eddie) lived on Kentucky Circle, went across the street to Northside School (3rd grade Mrs. Patnode) and loved the snow, ice and......

in response to: Snafu at the Former Plattsburgh Air Force Base by EvilGentleman

albert cooper: some more information.netherne was to all intent and purpose "self contained" in that it had a woodwork department,a plumbing one,a glass and paint one,an upholstery one,a shoemaker one, a tailoring one,a laundry,pharmacy and a kitchen......

in response to: Netherne Mental Asylum by Simon Cornwell

shymo: I went to high school in Norton, and it sucked ass. Kids hung out at the library or just cruised the streets every damn day for fun. On weekends they'd go get wasted......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 5 by Scott Sargent

Radar: As Jen has posted the Merkland Street station chamber is still present. A group called Hidden Glasgow had the chance to go down and see the remains of the old Merkland Street station and walk......

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

j.velezsoto: thank to nerva for bringing me to memory lane.i too remember the factory that blew up in and wilson greene avenue.i also remember deans on knickerbocker and were is today burger king it was......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

My Block: Wow Laura, great story, I'm sure you got an "A" especially if the responses your article received had anything to do with grading you. I read every one of the responses and enjoyed them immensely.......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

joey: me? i'm a commuter with a camera waiting for my train. coliseum BART station....

in response to: Mornings on San Leandro St by joey

John Dereszewski: God, this used to be one of the loneiest stations in the City. No longer!...

in response to: 2 Subway Stops by adam

Sue Fenton - PAFB 62 - 66: My dad was stationed at Plattsburg AFB from 1962 - 66 - he had to retire after a heart attack. We lived on Montana Drive,my mum was English. Does anyone remember my dad...he......

in response to: Snafu at the Former Plattsburgh Air Force Base by EvilGentleman

Nick: Construction zone or not, its still a large hole. 8 years today and theres still nothing meaningful their. Even taking off 2 years of that for clearing the site, thats still 6 years where theyve......

in response to: Ground Zero: lower Manhattan as it looks today by Peter

Beth: I saw someone above ask what type of activities are you looking for. Well, I have a 20 month old and I moved to one of those planned communities with the amenity center, pool, tennis,......

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

anon (pool-151-202-89-179.ny325.east.verizon.net): Don't they use the old cars as parts of "work trains," those trains you see late at night made up of old cars that do maintenance on the tracks and in the stations?...

in response to: Redbirds by Peter

Dudley Chapman: Yes, I agree with Paul. The Shrimp Scampi was great there. I used to have it with my friend Andy Menard when we worked at the radio station, WNBZ, when it was......

in response to: Dew Drop Inn by GGP

Franny Wentzel: To Peter... maybe you have some insight into this unspoken conspiracy... UNCOMFORTABLE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ATTACK: Was it an inside job? 1) Why were a handful of rebel fighters able to penetrate the defenses of a battle......

in response to: Ground Zero: lower Manhattan as it looks today by Peter

brian: With regards Merkland st station chamber, it is in fact still there. Heading towards Govan the chamber is just visible from the inner circle platform about 50 metres in. it is easier to see when......

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

anon (64.150.176.78): There was another bridge built in the 80s to replace the original one. It is the closest the city has to a "city" traffic system, and the drivers are terrifying. I live in......

in response to: Northside Fredericton by CE

Teri: I grew up in Harrison and remember when the industry was thriving. Adam asked why the decline - Industry first moved south, or mid-west - for cheaper labor. Then ultimately overseas. This......

in response to: Sidetracked in Harrison: Warehouses North of the PATH Station by Peter

William : Amy good pictures of the HARRISON station? Thanks and the trains there ...

in response to: Sidetracked in Harrison: Warehouses North of the PATH Station by Peter

Franny Wentzel: If you really want to get rid of racoons leave plates of lutefisk out for them. You will of course have an infestation of Norwegians... but they go away on their own when the 'fisk' runs......

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

jack: I came back to Coney Island a few nights ago and when I approached the Wonder Wheel, this big guy that's standing there asks, How do you get to Bensonhurst from here? I turned around,......

in response to: Coney Island Memories by Sean Hopkins

hk: The wires are still there because that substation at 12th and Noble is still active. SEPTA is replacing the substation with a new facility atop the end of the Viaduct near Fairmount; when it's complete,......

in response to: On the Reading Viaduct by vz

rf46@hotmail.com: Forgot some of the few memories Gansfus bar on 93rd where we would have one of the older guys buy us containers,the blackout and hanging out at the brewey, Reifs and his mothers surprise German dishes......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

Tex: I saw in the Hutch News today a Texan moved to Hutch, stayed a while, decided to go back to Texas, but since they don't have a bus station in Hutch he had to get......

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

Elsie Roberts: Great site I lived at 254 Barton Lane Eccles. As a child was a pupil at St Catherine's Church School Two teachers a Miss Bagot and a Miss Broom. I had to cross the Barton swing road......

in response to: Barton Power Station by Dave

Maggie: OMG! This site has brought back so many memories, good and bad but mostly very fond ones. I grew up in Bushwick from the mid to late 70's until early 90's and regardless......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Renee Snell: Hi - I'm wee Boaby's sister - we lived at 37 Marlow Street -I was born in 1948, my sister May Snell was born in 1945, before the war ended. All 3 of us......

in response to: 11 Stanley Place, Kinning Park by kobe

SAR TMB: [[img:34182]] HERE ARE SOME OLD TAGS FROM 11 STATION ON THE J LINE, I TOOK IN 1977. KEEP112,COOK,ZEP,MOVIE,DAM,COLT,SO-ONE,KEVIN,DC-10...

in response to: Old School by Dr. Revolt

Lila Vincent: Does anybody know what happened to the mural painted in ythe Assembly Hall at Bushwick High School in about 1924 by Charles Basing, the man who did the mural on the ceiling of the Concourse......

in response to: Bushwick: History in the Making by upfromflames

Peter Quinones: that the only thing left of the monorail is a small brick power sub station near Glovers Rock near the road into the Orchard Beach parking lot. Anthony ......

in response to: Ruins of Bartow / City Island Station by ntatap

Jen: The remains of the Merkland station are a blink and you miss it event but on rare occasions you can catch a glimpse of the frame work of the old platform. I found this picture......

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

Gabriel Reese: Thank you all for your great memories. I am an artist working on a public art Project for the Department Of Transportation. We are looking for participants who grew up in the Crown Heights......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Barbara Ehrentreu (Levine): I'm so happy that I got on this site! I went to PS 167 from 1950-1956 and JHS210 from 1956-1958. I graduated from the 6th grade and was in the SP there. I remember the......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Laurence A. Brown: I was stationed at Plattsburgh from August 1958 to Janurary 1961, it was the home of the 380th bomb wing 8th Air force, I remember blazing the trail on route 9 to Montreal so many good......

in response to: Snafu at the Former Plattsburgh Air Force Base by EvilGentleman

Mary Ann: Memories are made of many of above comments. I graduated from St. Matthew's on Lincoln Pl at Utica Ave and St. Matthew's church in the 50s, then attended Bishop McDonnell Memorial High which was......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Josie Harken "Canada": Great photos. Used to love standing at the entrance of a subway station just to get a whiff of that wonderful smell. Does anyone have any photos of old station toilets? Remember......

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

Liz: I'm thinking of moving to New Cross Gate,Musgrove Road off Jerningham Road..it seems like a lovely quiet, leafy area and I'm glad I'll be fairly close to the park.Is this area fairly safe? I'm just......

in response to: bleak day, new cross by elaine

Joseph: I was in Oslo last month. I stayed at the Radisson SAS next to the Central Train Station. Got knock down by police officers chasing after a shoplifter in the station -broke my......

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

ntatap: Im game. I will contact you. I e-mailed my historian friend about the the monorail and this is what he wrote back to me:" the monorail started at the BARTOW station and ran about one and......

in response to: Ruins of Bartow / City Island Station by ntatap

ntatap: Hi Peter, I dont think it had anything to do with the monorail. I think the monorail terminus was near by, I will ask a friend who is a Bronx historian about it and post the......

in response to: Ruins of Bartow / City Island Station by ntatap

Peter Quinones: I wonder if this station was also for the long ago City Island Monorail which I believe stopped just from crossing the bridge into City Island Peter Quinones > pquino7426@aol.com ...

in response to: Ruins of Bartow / City Island Station by ntatap

Peter: seriously... i saw a pile of bikes like this at the {harrison path station} yesterday... to think of how many people ride to public transportation there, and its out in the industrial wasteland... and you......

in response to: Bikes by David

Peter: wow, now THIS is an instant favorite. im so glad you took photos of this... and shared them with us today. i dig it. just this weekend, i was out in {east new york}, looking......

in response to: Jamaica El Being Torn Down by ntatap

serenea: I have lived in Jacksonville for 10 years and basically hated every moment. It is true that there is no excitement whatsoever unless you live on the north side and frequent the police stations. I......

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

Sanzay: Jack, is that boat station stays alive now or not anymore? There are several boat piers along the Neptune Avenue behind the parking lots and car shops....

in response to: The Ghost Ships of Coney Island Creek by Peter

jack: i enjoyed this posting. we used to call this creek, 'perfume bay' when i was a kid. i believe the el on mcdonald avenue runs over the top of it at its beginning.......

in response to: The Ghost Ships of Coney Island Creek by Peter

Kevin: I took a tour of this facility a few years ago given by a local historian (who actually had keys and legal access to the buildings). Earily on many of the patients were simply alcoholics, drug......

in response to: Kings Park Psychiatric Center: Digging a Little Deeper by Sean Hopkins

ntatap: I was told that this station was not designed by Cas Gilbert. He designed some of the other stations on this line but this is not one of them. I was also told that after......

in response to: Ruins of Bartow / City Island Station by ntatap

Franny Wentzel: There is a conspiracy that needs looking into... UNCOMFORTABLE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ATTACK: Was it an inside job? 1) Why were a handful of rebel fighters able to penetrate the defenses of a battle station that had......

in response to: Video Stills of the Pre-9/11 New York by EvilGentleman

Bill H: Peter: Your photos are really something to be seen. Brooklyn has really changed since I grew up there. My parents bought a house at 1187 St Marks Ave in 1929 just before the great......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

got_seoul: Yea, time to wear your dust mask, or even better... why not try on one of those rediculous masks that the subway in seoul has (locked) up in a cabinet in every station - I......

in response to: Yellow Sand by chiamattt

Maria in Maine: I remember early Memorial Day morning how quiet it was except for the sounds of the parade bands getting ready for marching. I remember always getting a new American Flag to hold to watch......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Gary Wood: I was stationed at PAFB from Dec. 1957 to June 1960. It was one of the best times of my life. Being a SAC base, we had many alerts, which kept all of us......

in response to: Snafu at the Former Plattsburgh Air Force Base by EvilGentleman

ani: Arriving from Los Angeles, my first impression after getting off the train at New Cross Gate station was the aroma mixer of barf and urine, also a soft spoken addict sitting on the ground asking......

in response to: bleak day, new cross by elaine

ntatap: This station is hidden in plain sight. Its about 100 feet from the road and can be seen from the passing Amtrak trains. The station is set back from the active rails and seperated by......

in response to: Ruins of Bartow / City Island Station by ntatap

CartLegger: Yeah, very cool! This looks like a great place to poke about. Using [[http://www.wikimapia.org]] I've noticed a few other old stations on the amtrak right of way. Never knew about this one, though. Is there......

in response to: Ruins of Bartow / City Island Station by ntatap

Alison: Wow, these photos are beautiful. I live just opposite Cessnock station and I take the tube almost every day. I suspect the photo of the long passageway at Cessnock is a different entrance to the......

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

Peter Puleo: Hardly! Broadway Junction was once called Manhattan Junction, the station as we know opened in 1913. All those steel girders you see are the remnants of the old Fulton St and Pitkin Ave Els. Until 1918 the......

in response to: Lines and Shadows by Peter

Jill: Hei allesammen! OK, firstly, Pølser is pronounced (Puhhhl-seh-rr). They sell them at the gas stations instead of greasy nachos and chips, although we have those too, the hot dogs in Norway are......

in response to: Typical Norwegian Food by Rune-Willem

ReCyCler: Newtown Creek is part of the Hudson Estuary, flowing west for 3.5 miles between Queens and Brooklyn and empting into the East River. The creek is comprised of small branches known as Dutch Kills, Maspeth......

in response to: Newtown Creek: The Bad Old Days by ReCyCler

anon (66.173.230.228): Very exciting! I really enjoy the look of the abandoned railroad station with the multiple tags. Ad Neck Face?!? Awesome, haven't seen him in awhile!!! (Love the rust)...

in response to: Under the Bridge Pt. 2 by Peter

EvilGentleman: Sue Purcell: I suggest you call Nunavik House, the medical transit house for patients from Nunavik at 514-908-0253. I doubt they have anything on hand, but they may be able to at least give you......

in response to: Muktaaq and Arctic Char a La Box by EvilGentleman

THINK: I see. My family moved to East Orange (North Oraton Parkway right off Springdale Avenue) in 1969. It was a lovely place to live and I have fond memories. I did not know, as a......

in response to: The Projects of East Orange by Peter

R. Ashok Kumar: TREES ARE THE BEST DAMS:THEY DEFY GRAVITY! Dear Fellow Earth Residents: Electric Load Demand triggers DETERMINISTICALLY worldwide earthquakes because dams meet the load changes by building giant surge waves of pressure heads of 100 km/sec or......

in response to: New Croton Dam by CartLegger

Jamie Owens: I got here from the internet station AM 1710 Antioch OTR. "The Whistler" S.I.G.N.A.L. signal gas, signal gas commercial. {:-> Nice to see I'm not alone. I'm 26 and I've enjoyed radio drama since......

in response to: Signal Gasoline by fuzzytank

CartLegger: BTW, this is a wasted access route. I mean, it could carry so much more traffic, but it only carries one train a day! most of the stations (I'll post photos of one soon) are......

in response to: Down on the Forest Park Railway by Sean Hopkins

a stripper from super sexe for tyler: I agree that super sexe from two years changed, changed a lot. I'm dancing there from 5 years ok, from when it was no contact. I stop dancing there when it change contact, but I'm......

in response to: Club Super Sexe by EvilGentleman

Mike C.: Just came accross this site while looking for information about 14 Holy Martyrs School. It is very interesting to read about many genertions who have been raised in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. I even......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Mime: An eye brow lifts... A mustache twitches... A cigar stub is flicked aside by thick, stubby, nicotine-stained fingers... ...No more taxis or gas station....

in response to: Taxi Standoff by Peter

Serhio: Terrible photos! It looks like dark dull vault. Moscow metro is the best and most beautiful in the world. Moscow metro stations are palaces in comparison with this awful basement....

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

CartLegger: And don't forget the ergonomic agony of walking through Penn Station! This woulda been a damn sight finer than either of those brutalist under-acheivements. Nice find, as always!...

in response to: National Penn Colosseum - a Building That Never Was by Franny Wentzel

Steve - Borehamwood: I've been chanting Gauranga for over 30 years and this name is extremely powerful and special. The first time I actualy heard the name was on an old Quintessence album released in the early......

in response to: Call Out Gouranga! by Jamie

jay: Well I found this thread trying to find out whether or not I'm getting too old to be skateboarding. It is really encouraging to hear that many of you guys across the age spectrum are......

in response to: I\'m Too Old for Skateboarding by JJ

valerie margaretta: Tracing family tree ancesters I have been told that Harry Jessop whose second wife was my grandmother was in charge of the Barton Power station around the 1920@s or early 1930@s . Can anyone please......

in response to: Barton Power Station by Dave

Mr. Popo: Mephisto is definitely blowing up BIGGGG TIME.found this nice little mephisto interview on an art blog called sweet-station. thought you might like to check that out. peace. link to the interview: http://www.sweet-station.com/blog/?p=1496...

in response to: This photo was taken at the New Zealand Hip Hop Summit which took place this past weekend in Auckland by darren

Richard: I see there's some mention of Carrington Power Station here. I am involved with the new CCGT station that will be built on the old site. There was a launch was the other day. ......

in response to: Barton Power Station by Dave

Peter: antonio luciano and the malbone street/brt transit-strike crash of nov 1, 1918: [[http://www.nycsubway.org/articles/malbone01.html]] [[http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/Franklin%20Ave%20station/franklin.html]] remind me to tell you about the crazy subway-buff lecturing the entire rush-hour Q train car one afternoon about the crash... in lurid detail,......

in response to: Shuttle Train by Alexis Robie

EvilGentleman: Peter, when I working at a gas station as a young man in the late 1980's, I used to get all kinds of customers pulling up and asking stupid questions like: Do you sell gas? Does my......

in response to: Ye Olde Arcade by EvilGentleman

Nate: This is right by the Keystone plumbing and building materials store, near the North Side police station. It is indeed a very nice mural, I wonder if the rest of the ghetto appreciates it?...

in response to: The Pittsburgh Swap Meet by serlingrod

Ken: I worked at the Signal Gas station that was at 13th and Sandy Blvd. ( I think 13th was the cross street) in Portland,Oregon when I was in high school. The station was across......

in response to: Signal Gasoline by fuzzytank

dubdoc: I'm always curious looking into these as I enter or leave stations. Is somebody actually sitting somewhere watching all these things? or are they just being recorded for later evaluation.....

in response to: Somebody\'s Watching Me by Peter

little ukraine: i recognize this from my years commuting to Flatbush Ave on the LIRR. it can be seen from the train was one passes through the dark cavernous East New York LIRR station....

in response to: Apex Airtronics, Inc. by Peter

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

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

Rich: This station isn't as far as Far Rockaway and when you travel that far, you get to see some amazing sights. The Atlantic Ocean with no land in sight as far as your eyes can......

in response to: 88 Street - Boyd Avenue by Peter

joey: hi EG - i heard on our local npr station they would have 'big ben' tolling in the new year; 4 pm PST - GMT midnight. so i knew when to do my post....

in response to: Rooster Crowing It\'s 2009 by joey

Rich: Hey Davida, This is Rich from the hood. Was it the Fox, downtown at Nevins St station with "Murray the K" and all of the old groups? If it is, it's a utilities center (Con Ed)......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Debra (Brown) Bowden: I lived next door to this gas station in a house that is now college student housing...I am getting old...I too remember the ice skating pond by the hospital. Haven't been back there in years......

in response to: Kimchi? Sushi? Slush Puppy? Fill\'er Up! by GGP

CartLegger: And why would someone ever want to go to this far off station so distant down the line???...

in response to: 88 Street - Boyd Avenue by Peter

yoyo: Okay, I'm giving my opinion. Everybody here is trying to sound so smart, but in reality it's your opinion and not reality. This planet first of all is not ours, it has been lended to......

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

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

Doc S.......: Richie: Yes, according to what I can figure out (Google, etc.), it happened at what is now the Prospect Park station of what WAS the old BMT line (I don't remember what they renamed the......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

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

Peter: its pretty telling that the 83rd precinct is just blocks away, but residents still feel like they need another. i suppose it ##would## beat having the makeshift trailer cop stations up and down {troutman} again......

in response to: Escape From New York by Peter

jack: don't remember that station, i used to get the A train on at 111th street....

in response to: 2600 by Peter