Comments about where is it not safe

There are 100 comments about "where is it not safe"

Lynnette (Diaz) Madden: I had a dream about Webb's Bakery the other night. I woke up dying for one of their butter cookies with the chocolate center drop. I Googled Webb's and this is what I found! OMG--just......

in response to: Fall in the East Bay by joey

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

Excuzmepleez: To emc, Where is your "friends place" located? There are sections of Bushwick that I would consider fairly safe and other areas very questionable. What is good for the goose is not always good for......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

jsmooth: Reply to OPEN YOUR EYES... I thought that your response made complete sense and that you are right in many aspects of your comments and if my response seemed to come off racial than I apollogize.......

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

Janice Seifert; July 2008: Hi Ronald Lees, I grew up on 600 Wishart St. Your sisters will probably remember me. My brother Joe used to hang out with your brother Earl and Freddie Beck. I used to love how......

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

A.E.: There is a pervert on the morning local W train and/or R train. He is tall about 5'9, skinny weighs about 150 pounds. He is of Latin decent, dark, black straight hair worn slick back.......

in response to: Pervert Masturbates on Subway by Peter

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

CJ: Hello! I found this website because a co-worker of mine is considering a move to North Florida. I told her about my experiences but she didn't believe me. Perhaps she'll believe you......

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

serlingrod: In response to the last post - first of, let me say that I live in Philadelphia and have worked as a community organizer in Kensington for the past several years. I mention this to......

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

Who Cares for Kensington: Everyone has someone else to blame and I guess that's the ameriacan way for losers these days. Buildings, streets and real estate agents do no breed ignorance, but sub-cultures do and Kensington is definitely a......

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

EvilGentleman: To me, it would depend heavily on the particulars of the location where the photo was shot. If the man in the photo was in the midst of a well-frequented public space, then public domain......

in response to: A Homeless Man Sleeping with His Most Cherished Possession by Leroy Allen Skalstad

Open your eyes !!: I have read mostly all of the comments on here and it makes me sad to see how ignorant some people really are. What a lot of you need to do is......

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

B Street: I grew up across the street from one of the few working factories in Kensington starting in 1965 until I was forced out 22 years later. While I too have fond memories of wall ball, swimming......

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

Peter: truthteller: the signs on the building are standard nycha signage, stating "only tennants and their guests are allowed in building", you know, the sort of signs you see on section-8 housing all over the city.........

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Me: The crime in Hutch is nothing compared to other cities. Crime is everywhere,in every town or city and thats just the way the world is today. I still feel much safer living here than I......

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

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

Joe: I still wonder if my fond memories of growing up in Kensington are real or simply a product of youth. It is striking that most people I encounter have such a favorable memory of their......

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

Jennifer: This is so not representative of Montreal! Montreal is a city where you can hang out safely at night without being scared of everyday street gang attacks. Of course, attacks happen but not......

in response to: Red Light District by CE

Peter: hey "movin to wick", wake up! youre working with a conception of {new york} thats about 20+ years outdated... i mean, serously. youd think {brooklyn} was {beirut}. perhaps youve been watching too much ##law and......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Joe: Hello CB Dare, Sounds like you have very important things to say and the courage to go with it. I can only explain my experience with my early years in Kensigton. There is somethimg to be......

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

Tex: Statistics show the murder rate is almost nothing, but the non-violent crimes such as burglary, arson, theft, basically property crimes where people are looking to steal to get by, are higher than the national average.......

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

Marjie: Hi Mitch, I also lived on the 6th floor, facing rear. It was a lonnnnnnnnnng walk up each day. Linda was my friend. I remember playing in their apt many times. Didn't her dad have......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Joe: It is interesting to see so many postings from current/past Kensigtion folks (and others that give an address that has nothing to do with the neighborhood). I grew up there from 1957 throghh 1972, and......

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

Renee: I enjoyed reading this thread. However, there are a lot a personal prejudices and biases here. However, that's Americans for you now isn't it. I enjoyed the person who said judge people......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Ms fresh {F.Y.G}ALL DAY: ACHS is da most borin skool in history nd I mean it.yea imma freshmen nd already wanna leave.We only in da second semester nd I still have sum same classes,I have da same teacher twice,my......

in response to: Acorn Community High School by Peter

anon 2: This is a bit of a late response, but for people who wander across this later.... I grew up in New York City and San Francisco. When I was in Las Vegas, I made a......

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

Emily: I smiled to see a posting here with a pic of York and Emerald -- the same site I see outside my bedroom window every day. Things here aren't great but they're definitely moving......

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

janet: I moved from St. Johns Place between Schenectady & Troy to St. Johns & Albany in early 50's and boarded IRT to Manhattan at Kingston. Wish I could remember Famous Restaurant on Schenectady,......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

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

Floody: I agree that it will never get back to where is was in the past...nothing ever does, but please do not put down the efforts that the New Kensington Community Development Corporation is currently doing.......

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

Bob: The Hutchinson, KS haters amuse me. I'm sure some of them have lived in other cities, some have attested to it in their diatribes. However it seems that they are either young or......

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

rachael: hmmm... many of the comments i've read have either amused me or angered me...but I'll go on anyway... i'm a brooklyn native and originally from east flatbush. my parents left there to move to long island [for......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Gary: Much of what I read here reminds of comments about what gentlemen the German officers were in restaurants after they had invaded France! Listen here: The Hells Angels, each and every......

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

Genny: Oh dear, all these tales of sadness and I have my own to add. My previous bike was stolen last year from where it was locked in front of the Canadian Tire on Yonge St. and......

in response to: A Picture of My Bike by Walks now

BathBeach: In December of 2006, I moved from Salt Lake City to Manhattan. I lived there around 66th street for half a year. [rent: $2,500 a month]. After I had been here a while, I realised......

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

EvilGentleman: I saw this post the day it was first posted, and had not looked back it till today. What a lot of comments about stolen bikes in the Toronto area! Incredible. Reminds me of this guy......

in response to: A Picture of My Bike by Walks now

Neighborly : I've lived in Bushwick for 3 years... gotta question. Why do most the kids who are mainly artists, musicians, new to the area, mainly white folks, got some pocket money - you know who I......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Not from Hutch anymore: I would like to say that I do not live in Hutchinson anymore. I have, however, lived all over the country since I left. This includes New York, San Francisco, LA, San Diego, Seattle, Florida,......

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

February 6, 1958 United players killed in air disaster: The Munich air disaster took place on February 6, 1958, when the British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at the Munich-Riem airport in Germany.......

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

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

EYON*DF*: alright so here it is, armor etching cream can be thinned down with mineral spirits (certain kind of paint thinner), or you could get both armor etching cream and bath etch, that mix i......

in response to: Snatch by Peter

NAME: Brooklyn is a great place to be. I lived here since i was 2 and have seen many die, many leave, and many goin nowhere with there lives. 1st b careful about where u......

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

PhillyGuy83: People exaggerate so much about New York that its sickening. If you are from a picket fenced suburb and want to know if you'll be safe in some inner city neighborhood then more than likely......

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

Jimmy Legs: it's a strange attitude to adopt, rosecoloredglasses: bemoan safety issues but still admit the neighborhood is coming back. how does a neighborhood come back without change? and in this case one undeniable aspect of this......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

cristina : I'm a young, Puerto Rican girl who was born and some-what raised in Humboldt Park.(on spaulding & wabansia) I live in the southwest suburbs now, since all the gang-violence and poor public school system was......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

shoot it straight: Some of these post make me smile and some are just annoying. The neighborhood does have potential, which one doesn't? Change starts with the people who are there and where they see themselves in the......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

maybetoday: I believe you're referring to the Morgan Quitno list of "Most Dangerous Cities" that's released every year. Every year both the FBI (source of the data) and criminologists around the nation decry using the FBI's......

in response to: Benton Park by maybetoday

blueeyes: Last year, I moved from Williamsburg "Prime" (Bedford stop), where I lived happily but cautiously for 7 years. During that time my next door neighbor was held up at gunpoint at our front door (2005),......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

vvargas: all this talk about bushwick being unsafe and that only ppl looking to flip their properties are going to encourage you to live here is nonsense. change starts somewhere and it has already started.......

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

Cay: There are people moving into the neighborhood from outside it. This should be a good thing if they bring their money and their good will with them. It benefits all the residents. Bad things happen......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

upfromflames: Dunno where you are coming from with that. I am working out there now interviewing some of the folks of the block association, which helped the neighborhood to stay solid after the blackout, like starting......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

CE: If you had read what I wrote at the top you would know that calling this area of town the "wrong side of the tracks" was in no way supposed to be an insult towards......

in response to: Home Pt. 6: Wrong Side of the Tracks by CE

parkse nb: its nice to see pictures of home. but posted under this lable it pissies me off. not only to dwell on this being the poor side of town, if you zoom in on the people......

in response to: Home Pt. 6: Wrong Side of the Tracks by CE

upfromflames: Clarifications: I’ve found out a lot more about the Bushwick Initiative this week, after talking to Annie Marie Mirez, who helped to develop the program and currently helps to oversee it for HPD. The first thing......

in response to: The Bushwick Initiative: Holistic Redevelopment or Urban Renewal Retrofit? by upfromflames

zinzee: For those of you looking to move here: I live in Bushwick off of the Jefferson L. I'm one block from the L train. I really do enjoy the neighborhood. I did get......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

upfromflames: BD: I truly appreciate your response. Maybe that is why I posted it. Thanks for taking the bait! Your perspective is clearly rich in experience, and me, well, I am a non-NYer who has just......

in response to: The Bushwick Initiative: Holistic Redevelopment or Urban Renewal Retrofit? by upfromflames

jack: guten tag, it has been many moons since i walked a cobblestoned street in germany. i was in a small city called worms. i studied at the university of heidelberg, the rest of......

in response to: Sunset over Kreuzberg by SCAM28

EvilGentleman: I would agree with the majority of what has been said, but I will state my opinions on each issue, so it becomes obvious where I stand. I think the best way to have notification on......

in response to: User Survey 2007 by Jamie

JOY: I had the opportunity to visit Cabrini and the Schiller School. A group of young ladies from the school have taken pictures of the neighborhood, their homes, before they are gone. It's not about the......

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

James: This has been an interesting site and I have enjoyed reading the different perspectives from people, especially from the residents past or present of Cabrini Green. I am from Michigan which is about a......

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

jack: where those quonset huts used by the pilots? but why would they run you kiddies through emergency procedures in the 70's, there was not much going on. england, that mighty fortress, that island, sorry,......

in response to: The End of the Brotherhood Winery Collection by jack

Mushi: I am a white girl from Southern California living in Bushwick by myself. I feel safe. Cay -- you really don't need to worry about your son. The neighborhood is noisy, but fine. I've had......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

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in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

This is real!!!: I sit here sad as hell listening to all the disrespect everyone has for each other. WOW. im trying to understand how can we be so ignorant and not get our act together. I lived......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Scott: Just moved to Bushwick 2 years ago, very white, and a supposed part of this so-called "gentrification." I, and the other "white people" that live in my building all moved here for two reasons.......

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

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

chrissy: Also I live near Cabrini. It is safe as long as you keep to yourself. If you are looking for trouble, it is not hard to find. I also have never seen......

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

Ian: There is an apartheid in Canada. Ask any black or First Nations person about their current living and social conditions in this country, especially in multicultural Toronto of all places, and you may or......

in response to: Cheap Sex $60 by Elicar

susannah: I was talking to a friend just the other day about how the NYC crime statistics don't really make sense based on what we have personally experienced, I mean, what are the odds? And he......

in response to: Dawson CGEP Shooting by CE

Grant: You could come and you would, generally, be safe. But interviewing people is different than "walking through". If you actually wanted useful interviews it is sometimes helpful to have a contact or a......

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

Phill: Straight up they need to keep up public housing in Chicago. They're killing a community, and history. Questions too. Alright if i'm writting a highschool paper on the descruction of public housing in Chicago, and......

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

EvilGentleman: I am sure the staff at the local Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) store must think I am odd, since I will often hold my breath and dash at high speed through the entrance area, clinging......

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

Sirhcbre: I find it's best not to rely on nostalgia, it tends to be deceptive whereas it likes to leave out many of the bad parts of the past and glorify the good. Before God......

in response to: Murder at Dawson College by EvilGentleman

shelia/neworleans: Tyson All this kid has been talking about is some writing on the wall saying "White Boy Killer" and is it safe for white people to walk through Cabrini Green. He is not interested in......

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

Jersey PIG: Hey being in a biking family within the biking world,some outlaws and some not, Non-1%er myself, I understand that in the Biker world you have the 1 % that is OutLaw Clubs.. but just......

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

shelia/neworleans : I am sure that if one of those buildings is still standing you will have some remnants of the life that once was. Evil spirits don’t leave gracefully. As long as there is a......

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

Dave (a Bushwick native): I see it more as a class war than a race war. I'm from the last generation (born mid-1960s) of German-Americans from the Ridgewood/Bushwick area before the Great Exodus of the 1970s. If I claimed......

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

monster: norman oklahoma, just so you know, is the home of the flaming lips, the starlight mints, mainsite contemporary art, opolis productions and forward foods, just to name a few things. Not to forget the university......

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

Chris Erb: I have pictures of the protest prior to the arrest which I will post when I get home. If you were there, you would know that the protest was completly civil and low key.......

in response to: I Was Arrested Today by CE

Mushi: I actually just moved to Bushwick last week. I lived in Manhattan for two years but just couldn't afford it. Plus, I needed a larger space. For 30% less than what I was paying in......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Betty: Yea, I don't think so. First of all, these pictures do offend me, especially the last one with a girl who is probably all of seven looking on. Fact of the matter though is that......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Mauvis: I'm half white and half Korean and I moved to Bushwick a couple of months ago from East Harlem because these are the closest places to the city that I can afford. I have a......

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

shandy: I'm white and my place in Bushwick was the first I moved to when I came to New York. I had no idea what neighborhood meang what, I moved there firstly because my friend lived......

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

Penpusher: Here's the thing about the geography of NYC. Everything radiates from Midtown. During the late 90s, the Giuliani era, NY developed a reputation as being a safe city, a clean city and as Rudy claimed,......

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

anon (wnpgmb01dc2-25-214.dynamic.mts.net): Attention Smoking Cessation Re: Smokers Edge There is no question more Canadians are anxious to quit smoking as a result of anti-smoking regulations and by-law’s in effect throughout Canada. Many smokers who once thought about quitting are......

in response to: Montreal Goes Non-Smoking: Good or Bad? by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: First and foremost, **never, ever** walk out to the water on the tidal flats. Those mud flats can sometimes extend for miles into the bay, and the Minas Basin of the Bay of Fundy has......

in response to: Down Home Charm by Michelle

anon (cache-dtc-ac06.proxy.aol.com): I grew up in Marine Park. It is a safe, residental, working class area where a high population of police and firefighters live. Not pretentious, and with a nice middle-income suburban vibe. Most places in Marine......

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

Mirela: I am an not smoker. I am glad I won't get smoke in my face at a concert or in restaurant during lunch time or in a plain when I played 1000$ and it's a......

in response to: Montreal Goes Non-Smoking: Good or Bad? by EvilGentleman

Joe: I've lived on Jefferson btwn Irving and Knickerbocker for a year. It's gotten a little better just in that time. We moved here because we got priced out of our old neighborhood, Park Slope. Our......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

yippie skippie: NYC is a cesspool, maybe you live in a less stinky area with better ventilation, and don't venture into the nastier parts like South Bronx, Harlem, Washington Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant, or Brooklyn.... but the nastier......

in response to: 7 Train Pervert by CC

Hazel: Eveyone is asking if it safe to move to Bushwick, why don't ya move to Ridgewood which right next door. It a part of Queens but a few blocks from Bushwick. If your looking for......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

EvilGentleman: Yeah, it was heavily attended, too. Over 54,000 people were there, although you cannot see it because of the way I cropped the photos. The empty seats you see were the only empty seats in......

in response to: Monster Trucks by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: I remember during my 1999 tour of America: The Eastern 30, we stopped at a supermarket somewhere NW of Lafayette to get some munchies to keep the family going while on the road to the......

in response to: Does Anyone Else Find This Stupid? by EvilGentleman

anon (mail.tweezerman.com): There are still parts of Bushwick that are ghetto..that's basically the case whereever you have housing projects. Housing projects cannot be gentrified. The people complianing about those saying that a white neighborhood is safer......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

EvilGentleman: Elicar, I remember one Toronto experience that absolutely terrified me. I think it was back in 1977 or 1978, My mother took me up to the top of the CN tower (Dad stayed below to......

in response to: Sooo Adorable by Elicar

EvilGentleman: No matter how open-minded or compassionate I may consider myself to be, I am ashamed to realize that I have never actually thought about the fact that the events of that September day have been......

in response to: Kinematics by Peter

jack: is that a cocktail glass with a stirrer above it. could this place have been a cocktail lounge. i think this is where matt helms dropped in for a singapore sling. or......

in response to: Customer Parking by joey

EvilGentleman: K-Money: You wonder why I was in Cabrini Green at 1:30 AM? I was passing through, of course. Being hungry and needing a break after spending all day on the road, I went to the......

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

Margaret: Hi, I'm finishing up my senior year at Northwestern in Evanston. My parents are immigrants from Eastern Europe and I have spent most of my undergraduate career interested in communities and increased educational opportunities......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti