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Mitch Spector: I took updated photos exactly one week later, on Sunday, October 12th. As they continue to strip away pieces of the building, it's interesting to see what sat hidden underneath the wrap-around sign all those......

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

Angela Bentley: Hi everyone I asked this question before didn't get a response but I grew up all over brooklyn, last years in the city I grew up in ridgewood area Palmetto ave, gates ave and onondonk......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Jules: Okay....BORING is the reason my husband and I left Jacksonville in July '06. We did everything a modern Metropolitan couple could do. We lived on the river, we had season tickets with the......

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

magan: I'm from montreal all a long st cathrine you have strip clubs and hoes all over your best bet is to stay in the middle of the orange line and green line of the metro......

in response to: Red Light District by CE

BELROC IOF XP: Thanx for all the love people. It's starting to get cold out!! Anyone that knows me knows I love to paint on cold ass winter nights. Maybe I'll have something new this year. Yo, what up DJHALO,, Long time no see!! I......

in response to: Bel Graffiti by BelRoC

Editor: Mitch's comment was deleted at his request, and I removed EG's comment as it was to Mitch's deleted comment, and when I've left spurious comments like that in the past, EG has complained that such......

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

To the editors : Just want to say I write something, the next day its gone, so who ever is erasing is such a loser. Its funny to did you know there is a video about the people who work......

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

Matt: We recently inherited a 27 year old corella. he is a fantastic talker and entertainer. He loves my wife and also the lady who gave him to us but he seems quite keen to bite......

in response to: Parrot Biting by Jamie

Robert: since the 80`s , The N.S.B Norgate Solide Brothers,,,there are extremly dangerous crews affiliate with a lot of Gang in Montreal City,thers rolling Cote-Vertu Metro with the BLF Bronw Latin Family,Décarie street and......

in response to: Norgate Shopping Centre by CE

your all queers.: i hope you guys have noticed neck face is probably taging some shit right now and he dosent give a shit what any of you have to say. and damn. if manny every fucks with......

in response to: Fuck Neck Face by sine

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......

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

Janet: Thanks Stan for the Strand reminder--but wasn't the Strand on Fulton Street, just before the downtown movie and shopping district began? If you emerged from the subway, you were just about in front of the......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Andy yerks: im working for metro north, so were allowed in there, but also, teh guard post that u saw is storage haha, its filled with just garbage and signs, there hasnt been anyone in there in......

in response to: Abandoned General Motors Plant by Peter

Janet: Well, the adage 'the more things change the more they stay the same' does not apply to the old neighborhoods or the old movie houses where those of our generation got a colorful taste so......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

santiago city manfred: santiago there in a skyscraper construction in the coastal center complex ... Measures will be 300 meters:[[img:29123]] [[img:29124]] ...

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

manfred: [[img:29120]] [[img:29119]] {santiago}: there in a skyscraper construction in the coastal center complex ... Measures will be 300 meters: [[img:29123]] [[img:29124]] I think that santiago changed to just look at the past years: [[img:29121]] [[img:29122]] ...

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

anon (85-38-21-190.adsl.terra.cl): [[img:29120]] [[img:29119]] {santiago}: there in a skyscraper construction in the coastal center complex ... Measures will be 300 meters: [[img:29123]] [[img:29124]] ...

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

Andy yerks: Im working for metro north now, and for the past week weve been parking our cars at the old plant, im going to get some pictures tomorrow and post them here for u guys, i......

in response to: Abandoned General Motors Plant by Peter

Bill C.: I have photos from inside the plant,These photos are from the paint dept.Sometime in 1985.I worked in the paint dept for five years.Elpo dip.Here is my email buickttype2005@yahoo.com.Thanks........

in response to: Abandoned General Motors Plant by Peter

unknown: I met my now fiance in a small town. I learned that he was born and raised in CG until he was shot not in his neighbor, but on the southside of the Chi. The......

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

Mitch: Well, sorry to say the dreaded day has finally come! This afternoon (September 25th) demolition was started. The bay windows have been covered from with orange plastic sheeting from the inside, and there's a barrier......

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

PriMeTiMe.: ed boxx is redfoxx. same guy. rights a lot of quotes aroud the stl area. he hits some really cool spots around eSTL. powell square has web sites about what there doing to it. excavating......

in response to: St. Louis Graffiti by Brad

Gonebutnot forgotten: Grew up on Montrose Avenue across from Most Holy Trinity Church. What a beautiful church. Always reminded me of St. Patrick's Cathedral. Had cousins who went to school there and remember walking to......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Allan: Richie, I lived in the same building as Judy Oshinsky. I have a few photos of us back around '55-58. She had 2(I think) brothers. On the corner of Schenectidy and Union was a dry cleaner......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

my little town has grown up: so strange to see the quaint little town I grew up in, start to turn all metro. Japanese,sushi bar, korean, wow. I remeber when we went to Petes candy shop after school or hung......

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

Marie: For the past three weeks I've noticed something has been getting in my trash, with the lid on it. Each morning the lid is off and trash everywhere. I finally saw it a RACCOON. How......

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

Stan: I was born at 1074 Eastern Pkway, moved to 919 then 915 and around the corner to Albany Ave, between Lincoln and St. Johns. My wife can't understand why we always lived within a few......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Mobaby: Really, man? You judge the 6th best place to live in America ( http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bplive/2008/snapshots/PL4052500.html ) by the Denny's off the interstate? Virtually no crime, variety of people, college town, art museums, unique campus and downtown......

in response to: America's Most Boring Towns: 1 by Scott Sargent

Ed "Class of 60": I guess there are some people that look in the mirror and don't like what they see. They blame everyone but the person in the mirror for their miserable putrid lives. They look......

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

kauaichick: I DO live here and I LOVE the chickens. I wake up at night and I smile and try to fall back to sleep. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. I'll sleep when......

in response to: Wild Chickens by Tyfoid Kid

Marinus Abrahamse: These are very valuable photos. I am a Hydrometric Surveys Technologist with Water Survey of Canada (part of Environment Canada). We have a water level monitoring gauge a few hundred feet below the Pottery Road......

in response to: Don River Flood by Michelle

sidney shure: THIS PHOTO WAS NOT TAKEN IN 1995 THIS PHOTO WAs taken in the year of 2007 please metro stop faken the funk...

in response to: NYC Graffiti Train, 1995 by Metro

RUTH NELSON SHERMAN: MY MEMORIES GO FURTHER BACK. I NEVER LIVED IN bROOKLYN BUT WOULD SPEND A LOT OF SUMMERS WITH MY BUBBY AND UNCLE A 1710 CARROL ST. MY PARENTS MET ON A BENCH ON EASTERN PKWY AND......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Daniel (lives in norway): yeah, this place can sometimes be a scarry city, but thats just like in america, if you walk around in new york, there will be a lot more voilence. this is a very calm place,......

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

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

xarconika: Interesting to read about appearing non-suspicious; I live in Detroit and you want to look as shady as humanly possible when you're doing that stuff, because you become a target for criminals if you look......

in response to: Wheatpasting: How to by An@Rch15T

Lexxi: Great to know that the legend of Mr. Rufus Rockhead lives on with the naming of the street near Atwater Market, unfortunately most Montrealers have no idea of the history associated with this brilliant man......

in response to: Rufus Rockhead Street by EvilGentleman

Brian Jacobs: Well, perhaps a compromise would be to attach signs to trees using an expanding metal collar with a rubber inner sleeve to protect the tree and allow the tree to grow without the collar......

in response to: We Nail Road Signs to Trees. by AG

Joe Drexler: From a building design standpoint many blocks in Bushwick were attached "row frames" as known by firefighters these row frames differed from attached brownstones in that the space or void between the roof and the......

in response to: Why Did Bushwick Burn? by upfromflames

thesouthernapple: Hey everyone, I'm sad to see the neighborhood in such decline. But I'm glad to see so many memories here, about the Ave. I graduated Valerdictorian from St. Marks in 1985, and I know that......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Tracy 3rd Sep 2008 21:30 GMT: All I want to say is I walked that road day in and day out for one reason being to take my daughters to school . On the odd Occision when I looked around me I......

in response to: Black and White by norniron

C, B and Ontario: It is great to read all of those who remember how we grew up and how things used to be. It brings back tons of great memories, I moved out of the area once I......

in response to: Fall in the East Bay by joey

nk: This picture is not a picture of the school - and it's sad that you would want to give the impression that the school actually looks like this. This is the back of the school......

in response to: School for the Deaf by Peter

patricia blackmer: I'm planning on a trip to calvary cemetary.... i have family buried there and i'm just fascinated with old cemetaries..... its a walk through history..... lovely picture...

in response to: Old Calvary Cemetery by jack

lianna: I hate people who complain about staten island. if you hate it so much than do something about it! there are plenty of people here[including myself] who do not perpetuate the staten island stereotypes. you......

in response to: All of Staten Island by champ

slayer fan: man i wish there was stuff like that were i live,but in greencastle IN the only thing i have to explore is an old car factory. u should come look at it sometime....

in response to: Abandoned Building Complex by David

Barker777: I love Jacksonville. We moved here from Northern California and have not been back to Nor Cal since - 5 years now. Same as Nor Cal – spread out but if you can......

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

Bea K.: Lou Romero, Upfromflames, all: I've heard so much about "white flight" just about all my life, that I honestly don't think that 'term' will 'ever' go away, how sad it that? I've also wondered if......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Lucifer: Fred is a likeable rogue, always drunk but more often than not he is polite with it. He likes women with large breasts who he refers to as Dolly Parton. I worked with him in......

in response to: Dancing Fred by clarky

Juergen (an immigrant): Dear EvilGentleman, it seems I'm the first one in this blog that MOVED into one of the Benny farm houses ( in the Prince of Wales section) and up until now I can only say it......

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

Peter: i think methrsk was trying to say that the "we apologize" was likely photoshopped in; we can only wish a state would be so bold as to post a sign like that for real ;)......

in response to: Private Parts ! by Maz

Maz: Not sure if I have understood that comment correctly methrsk, or understand the point behind it. I googled the 2nd & 3rd picture but the top one is my own I took at Chessingtom World of......

in response to: Private Parts ! by Maz

dave: I stopped there looking for a nice place to fish never realizing it's past history. Is this place safe?. After reading these articles I don't think I'll ever visit this place again.To bad because the......

in response to: Plum Beach by kc

Sean O' Muileann: Do u think that bobby was scared, fighting for the cause is one thing, coming within an inch of your own life, knowing the risks and chances of being killed on active duty, but to......

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

EvilGentleman: Based on the plaque below them, I suspect they are originals. But this is one of those cases of my not knowing about something I have driven by many times, due to my eyes usually......

in response to: The Olympic Rings and Flame by EvilGentleman

Maz, Netherne: Hi all, I found this site quite by chance a couple of days ago. I found it when I Googled the name of my village not expecting to find anything much but boy was I wrong.......

in response to: The Freedom Tunnel by Peter

Jason: Here's something to contemplate: Welfare and other social programas that "progressives" love so much are extremely costly. Between section-8, medicare, foodstamps and 101 other prograns a welfare family easily runs the tax payers $20,000 per year. The......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

The "JOKR": Damn metro you write good keep it up....

in response to: Metro Cope2 by METRO KD OTB DMC

Warren S.: Sometimes, I had to report to the cloakroom straightaway or directly to the hallway. One nun had a big steel edged ruler, named "Mr. Brown;" she whacked kids across the palms of their hands with......

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

chiamattt: Hey! Nice to see some shots from you again. I really like that first one. There is something about a television on the street. ...

in response to: August 07 2008 Toronto by hool

Warren S.: To: Mary A... I wonder you and I know each other... I blotted out so much of “back then” I forgot exactly when I would have graduated St. B's -- if I had graduated --......

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

PEARLYKINGJIM: Its been along time since i have been on this site thank you Mrs Strong for you kind comments which leads me to answer somethng that was said about me over the weekend two of my friends......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

jeeff: my hometown of london is supposedly in the very northeastern tip of 'tornado alley' and that's only a couple hours west of toronto by car. but i had never seen a funnel cloud in......

in response to: Cameraphone Funnel Cloud by jeeff

Warren S.: I think this is a fabulous Web-page; it brings back memories of Bushwick, Brooklyn and Queen, where I grew up. Until I was 14, I lived on RC church property in the "old rectory" building......

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

eyeofodin: malenky ukrainska, I grew up on Long Island as well, and I remember several tornado touchdowns in the 90's, especially out in Suffolk. I started the Meteorology Club at my H.S. (GEEK!) (syosset)......

in response to: Cameraphone Funnel Cloud by jeeff

anon (ool-44c698cc.dyn.optonline.net): and they say hip hop is dead, there is plenty of GRAF around NY u just have to look from metro north line to walls in the Bronx, BeeKay, Manhattan If u have the time......

in response to: Queens Graffitti by Frank Chang

מוטי ויסברוט: Amazing pic , sometimes without any added effects pics are spectacular , that is the greatness of a professional photographer . ...

in response to: Ghosts of the Christmas Past by Joyz Dimaano

awake: Alot people have been living with no direction and misdirection threw out there entire lives in the ghetto's,all over the world.The criminal mentality and immoral behaviors has not been wiped out off the face of......

in response to: GANGS ON NYC by StripesA4

Tony (47): As a frequent worldwide traveller (what with being an airline pilot) it's definitely been my experience that in many Canadian cities (Vancouver, Ottawa, Calgary) that the number of down-and-outs / bums / druggies / alcoholics......

in response to: Drugs, Drugs, Drugs by ksedge

Metro301: Great pictures and discussion MR. Evilgentleman! Thank you. Perhaps this is a strange question, but I will ask it anyway. Does anyone happen to remember a man that passed away at 47 years from a heart......

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

Katchie: I'm with Ryan! Ryan you bring up some key points! History, and of course what comes with hisotry, age and what comes with age, responsiblities. Therefore, your hypothesis is correct! For those who never met......

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

scared with eyes wide open: believe what you see. They want us to see it. It cost them billions to build this airport that wasn't really needed, No paints a giant mural for public display without prior......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

Cartlegger: [[img:28678]] Update: Joe won the case against the Parks dept, and got his flag back. But this year, he is going for something tamer. ...

in response to: Floyd Bennett Field: Let All Flags Fly by CartLegger

Wai- Chang: I thing girls in China love boys penis or, fuck so that is why hey celebrate the day of penis. and also China's people does not belive on anything so they habe to belive on......

in response to: Festival of the Steel Phallus by serlingrod

mort: sam. i must say that your description was not our experience and as kids we were not even permitted to walk the area circa 65-70. the only reason that i ever walked through was......

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

Sam: What is so very interesting to me in a sad way is looking at that area from Live Search (msn.com)....most blocks are empty..is here any project going on there to rebuild..the last time I was......

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

Lori: I have recently seen some pictures of the castle from a classmate that lives in Buela. I asked her where this intersting place was and am planning a trip to come see for myself! My......

in response to: Bishop Castle: Another Self-Made Masterpiece by Jim Bishop

Linda Steinmetz: found this site while looking for info on P.S. 113 - the one on Moffat Street. I Grew up on Moffat Street, same block as the school, We had one of the houses with backyards......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Maureen.: A miraculous achievment what a wonderful man and as I have said many times what has age got to do with it. Its the wanting to do something special and with faith you can......

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

teresa: I just visited this cemetary where my great aunt and uncle (Anthony & Emma Gentile) are buried. It was my first trip there, from Canada. I would like to locate any family and friends who......

in response to: Old Calvary Cemetery by jack

Excuzmepleez: This post is in response to "remember 1966." I remember the sad accident. It happened on Troutman Street between Central and Evergreen and it involved a boy named Joey Mistretta who was 9 years......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Paul in Seattle: My 1st trip to NYC was in '85, I was there to see the girlfriend and a sister's wedding. While she was at work, I walked this entire line from BANK Street (that's right kids,......

in response to: The High Line: by Peter

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......

in response to: Anti-Climb Paint by kobe

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

OU student: Driving through a city and taking a few pictures of the shittiest hotel you could have possibly roomed in during your one-night stay off the highway is a pretty idiotic way to judge a place.......

in response to: America's Most Boring Towns: 1 by Scott Sargent

santoro: for those of you concerned about your ink running just photo copy your origional and paste the copies yea you can only do them the size of a piece of paper but thats all you......

in response to: Wheatpasting: How to by An@Rch15T

Tyra: I'm currently a senior [class of 09] and I've enjoyed my years in ACORN. F.Y. I: if you're going to make comments about the school then at least make them memorable ones or use proper......

in response to: Acorn Community High School by Peter

Junior Apprentice: I particpated in camp @ OBVR for 5 days and that's all it took for me to fall in love with the whole place. Those are some really great shots of the Back blacksmithing shop......

in response to: The Past Is Closer Than You Think by ghost of grandin

AEROne: I met Etch and Deja when i was 12 out there nowim 20 and been bombin since liven in Ga now so there s not many other ppl getting up but its cool makes mine......

in response to: Albuquerque Graffiti Flood by Relapsed

ASEC ALG KOB: BEL! Infamous in Norwalk. I remember when you first started out and when I first started to be interested by graffiti. When you hit up my elementary school! AHahahaha that was great though. It had......

in response to: Bel Graffiti by BelRoC

Hands and Feet: Just got this today. The reality is this all started about the mid fifties or earlier. I remember moving several times before I was five years of age. This was due to depressed economics in......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

Jla: Hello to all my fellow kensington neighborsand friends, i lived in kensington all my life i grew up at 2nd and cambria then moved to D & clearfield. met my husband and moved to kensington......

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

platano: nice i need 2 find this spot lol yo check out the freights u might find something amusing lol ...

in response to: Watermelon Man by Cartlegger

EvilGentleman: anon, I thank you for educating us on the train parts. I think of trains as big noisy metal things that carry stuff, and sometimes have graf on the outside. I am a total moron......

in response to: Train Derails on Bridge IV: The Aftermath (With Graf Train Passing By) by EvilGentleman

Peter: This is a tale explaining the manner in which my way of life was rotated along a Y axis until it reached a position roughly 180 degrees from that which it started If I could......

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

Anonymous: In fact, I can know for certain, that if I were to walk out my front door right now and walk as far as past Ureka Gardens apts. with my i-pod on- I would see......

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

Jamie: These are great. There's something that film picks up that a CCD can't MORE PLZ...

in response to: Panama City, a Little Darker by artisan

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

Edward LAMB: I am very familiar with this tunnel having personally "discovered" the place way back in 1969... The following, if you please, is an excerpt from my own story : I had, one day, roaming through Riverside Drive......

in response to: The Freedom Tunnel by Peter

LSpegal: I didn't grow up in NY but I have a few ancestors who grew up or lived in Brooklyn. I'm researching them and the areas where they used to live and Arthur THAMM lived at......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames