Comments about stoop

There are 48 comments about "stoop"

Warren S. : Jeeeezzzz... guys! Richie... Joe, thanks for the support on this one. Once I had my responding comment out there, I couldn't return for a while just to cycle it out of my system a tad.......

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

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

JP1515JeffersonAve: I find it amazing that so many have so many different views yet we all have a common thread...the Love of our hood. I grew up in Bushwick back in the 70's through the 90's.......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

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

Dennis: Hi neighbors,I lived at 6 Covert Street between Broadway and the almighty Bushwick Avenue. I too remember those classic games of playing skelly,stoop ball and johnny on the pony ouch! I just caught a neck......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Ecto 5000: i lived on Menahan st and Wilson ave rite on the corner in the projects.They were called p60 now they are called Hope Gardens, ive moved away and came back and things have change.But for......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

maureen.downing@comcast.net: I lived on E. 89th St. between York and East End Avenues from 1940-1955 and have tons of great memories of coming of age in Yorkville during World War II & thru the 50's. ......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

Richie Fisher: Wow. I lived on the corner of Harmon and Wilson till June, 71. Cried wnen I left. I went to St. Barbs, grad. in '71. I lived 2 houses fom the other Fisher's, Georgie, Kenny......

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

herehere: my father grew up on hart street thru early 60's. took him back to old neighborhood for tour. area is slowly coming back but still very bad sections. give alot of credit for tearing down......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Michelle: "prospects wife", the only reason I wrote to you is because all the lamo-s who are keyboard jockey's on here are a joke. I can't believe every article I read and you seem to be......

in response to: Hell\'s Angels - New York City by sine

bill: Born in 1941 at williamsburg hospital. Lived at 99 Stockholm until '46 when we moved to 41 Cornelia Street betweenBushwick and Broadway (third house down from the congregationalist Church. went to PS 56......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Post-84 New Jack: See, thats the general difference in our perspectives, "W-Bear". I prefer to look to the future, and push things to new heights than to dwell on the past and the past's faded glories and talk......

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

Bobby I: It's a shame that time goes by so fast. I lived on {Starr} between {Wilson} and {Central}, before JHS 111 was there (it used to be PS 53) and it had a nice little schoolyard......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Diana Manchur-Henke: Rick, Michael lives upstate now near Albany. I'll let him know you asked for him. My father passed away 2004. My mom lives in Queens and is doing well. I'm glad the neighborhood is......

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

revisited: my father grew up on hart street thru early 60's. took him back to old neighborhood for tour. area is slowly coming back but still very bad sections. give alot of credit for tearing......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Brooklyn-Pete: Bushwick is not the worst neighborhood in Brooklyn, it's definately no Park Slope but it is not as bad as some would have others believe. The neighborhood is very noisy and extremely filthy on many......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

bushwick facts:: in the 60-70s all white italian and germans on irving side Puerto ricans were from other side of central it was like a border muslims locked down bushwick ave in the 70 -80s and prior......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

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......

in response to: Bushwick \'77: When the Lights Went Out by upfromflames

CartLegger: oops. I should not post so early in the morning. I was pointing to the stoop boxing post I did this week. ...

in response to: Dongdaemun by Chiamattt

Anne M. Berger: I grew up in Brooklyn in the forties and fifties. It was truly the melting pot. I went to St. Joseph's on Sydam St. My Irish friends went to St. Lenords on Toutman?......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

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

jack: you guys are too young for me, in my day (and i can't believe i'm saying that) we didn't have arcade games, for that much we didn't have many tv's around so our arcade game......

in response to: Ye Olde Arcade by EvilGentleman

bkzmeridian: I grew up on Benny Farm(50-60's)....many fond memories. We considered our apartment home, not a rent. I remember my mother scrubbing the front stoop down to the next landing and so on. We had pride,......

in response to: The Benny Farm Condemned Housing Projects by EvilGentleman

Jim QV: Tony, I read your posting and wanted to respond to it. I was born in Queens, but my Moms whole family is from Bushwick. Her grandfather (my great grand dad) was the original owner of......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Kem: I attended P.S. 299, I.S. 383 and Bushwick High School so yeah! I'm born and raised there. I haven't been back for some time. Most of my memories I hold dear beacause they do make......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

jfilip: Actually, the Kiss and Bar are currently having a domestic dispute. At that moment Kiss is threatening to jump to teach Bar "a fuggin' lesson". Bar is just about at the point here......

in response to: Step Back from That Ledge, My Friend by zagg

youre stoopid: Sorry - but I have totally missed the connection between "hope" and "plastic bag on top of a tree". Is it me or is there not one? I think you've watched American Beauty one to......

in response to: Like a Ton of Bricks by FlamingRRose

jack: 27 - looking out your window and seeing a bridge. 28 - looking out your window and seeing the girl in the next apartment building getting dressed, (ahem). 29 - sitting on your stoop and never see......

in response to: Things I Love About... Living in the City by EvilGentleman

Morgan: ahh this is crazy that i found this page but thanks so much for all the wonderful compliments and responses 1) my mother and two strong men carry those boulders from various places in the neighborhood......

in response to: Boulders on B Street by GGP

rich: culture club i couldnt have said it better.i grew up there from 51-69,didnt have anti mex-pr stuff when they moved into the hood..2 of my best friends were mexican,we used to eat over at the......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

jack: in our class there were mostly irish and italians. a few polish and a couple of germans. there was one boy we picked up on the way to school who lived down our......

in response to: The Meatball Caper by jack

joey: as i remember, it was a muggy, august afternoon- overcast. we parked about a mile away on the far side of euclid and walked up. the feast is the same old thing every year except......

in response to: The Feast in Little Italy by joey

Peter: yeah, i know, right? i wish we had a used book store around here. nyc seems to be a very temporal/disposable-oriented/non-sentimental place, on many levels. most people just stack them on their stoop or curb......

in response to: Booktrash by Peter

anon (d149-67-171-142.col.wideopenwest.com): In 2002 I returned to N.Y. to attend my 40th High School reunion on Long Island.(My family was one of the early ones to get away when the neighborhood changed.That was in 1956 ,and I......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

jack: hi mom, i'm home. hey, where is everyone. mom, mom, whats going on here. where's gramps and dad? and the house, what did you do to it. i'm home but the......

in response to: Rap-Id-Wrap\'s Demise by Peter

jack: the village, little italy. my family lived on mulberry and also broome streets in the early 1900's. i remember many summer days sitting on a stoop on broome street looking at the asphalt......

in response to: A Few More Bits & Pieces by Lawrence

Liam: you know the worst part about this, that guy is a stupid socially irrispobsible frat boy that never grew up, and his wife is hot, that's karma for you. Leah there are better ways to make......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

ketchup-wrappers, not hamburger patties.. c'mon! : my friend was pulling out of the mcdonalds drive-thru, and he stopped his terribly maintained rusting hulk of blue-smoke pollution belching, heating-oil fueled, catalytic-converterless '92 oldsmobile, to open up each one of the individual ketchup......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Jacques: "Besides if there is no litter bugs out there alot of people would be out of a JOB." ARe you serious? And the rest of you who have stooped to this level and made this outrageous......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Leera: Yea. U kno, road-rage is stoopid, but when u see some guy tryna beat up a girl and smash her bike, u think da fucker deserved it. And he prolly did. So yea, good for......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Jamie: not to mention stoopid...

in response to: Disappearing Skyscraper by Peter

Jackie: Hi Withheld. You're stoopid....

in response to: Beware: Perv Alert! by friendly_chic407

Peter: you missed the best part! that ##huge## mural, on the wall headed up Bergen, that depicts tons of boulders and rocks with faces staring up at a starry night. so strange. i noticed it was......

in response to: Boulders on B Street by GGP

stoopidoodoodumb: that is inkhead...not inkheads. this mistake is made by people who don't know shit about shit. Inkheads IHS is a crew from new york/miami that really came out in miami, but crushed it in NYC......

in response to: Brooklyn: Inkheads by Peter

Peter: ahh, dog sculptures chained up to the stoop... classic NY!...

in response to: Mostly Yorkville by GGP

Traumacord: Do you know where I could find pictures of black people sitting on stoops in Harlem. I was born and raised in Harlem in the 40s and 50s. I live in Maryland now......

in response to: The Stoop by Peter

Peter: well, linda, i can see how you might be a bit befuddled, but then again, this postmodern world isnt without callousness for the inflexible. where do you live? i live equidistant from spanish harlem and upper broadway.......

in response to: Nonplussed as Ever and Loving it: by Peter