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Liz: Dear Mr. Hammond, I was born 1948, so I don't think we hung out together, but my Mom was a nurse at St. Mary's, probably at the time your siblings were born I have......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

upfromflames: Lou: It depends on what part of Bushwick you are talking about, as the process of demographic change proceeded differently in different part of the neighborhood. In ther southern side of Bushwick--south of Myrtle--the process......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

colavitos ghost: wow, these pictures give off a really warm, almost tropical feel. very interesting looking city. almost looks like a mash-up of a north-american and asian city....

in response to: Darlinghurst by Ross

design_e: Often when I stumble, I skim through stuff, but this held onto to me and looked through it all. Thanks for capturing that important bit of American NYC history. ;)...

in response to: The Freedom Tunnel by Peter

Who Cares for Kensington: Carol, I left the neighborhood because I felt forced to do so by crime and apparent bleak future prospects.I moved to another section of the city that wasn't the greatest, but it served and a......

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

serlingrod: the city skyline embodies an idea of the collective imagination of the city's inhabitants and institutions. The silhouette of man's built environment provides and essential image for a city's dreams and aspirations. thanks so much......

in response to: Downtown MinneApple by Tyfoid Kid

Chrissy: I grew up in Kensington in the 70's. Great memories. Wanted to know if anyone knows the store that was on Front st that sold pork pies. My grandparents would bring them......

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

YourOwnFault: For all of you who left for the suburbs, you have nobody to blame for the decline of Kensington except yourselves...you abandoned it! You chased after the imaginary American Dream of a big car and......

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

serlingrod: I do not defend the status - I wish to change it. I do not "draw a salary on the backs of the suffering" - the little funding we receive goes towards helping these people......

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

Peter: {citynoise}: where {american} {tourists} come to find cheap {prostitutes} in {montreal}... lol....

in response to: Red Light District by CE

zagg: With so many vegetarians, maybe I'll have to have an entire post dedicated to my vegetable garden: JUST YOU KIDS WAIT UNTIL MY EGG PLANTS BARE ME SOME PURPLE ORBS OF YUMMNESS (now only 73%......

in response to: Anti-US Beef/2MB Protests by chiamattt

Peter: wow, the comments in korean are fascinating... i mean, im as prone to think that america is the global authority on conspiracy, but i think its a bit of a reach to say that america......

in response to: Anti-US Beef/2MB Protests by chiamattt

chiamattt: OK, despite "dying in a den of demons", I am Canadian, not American. So please don't put me in the same den of demons as them. CANADA HAS ITS OWN DEMONCRATICALLY ELECTED DEMONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

in response to: Anti-US Beef/2MB Protests by chiamattt

zagg: Not even a LITTLE evil, Chiamatt? Come on, own up. - zagg, who is not anemic, but that may be because she quit eating American Death Beef years ago....

in response to: Anti-US Beef/2MB Protests by chiamattt

zagg: Oooh, I guess I really pissed him off with the American Death Beef fashions shot! OH NOES!...

in response to: Anti-US Beef/2MB Protests by chiamattt

chiamattt: ZOMG THE NETIZENS HAVE FOUND CITYNOISE!!!!!!!!!!!! RUN FOR THE HILLS!!!!!!!!!!! PROTECT YOURSELF BY STRAPPING STEAKS OF AMERICAN DEATH BEEF TO YOUR CLOTHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...

in response to: Anti-US Beef/2MB Protests by chiamattt

정이 김: South Korea is the Country not a City name! You are ignorant American if you do not know we have many city in ONE Counry called South Korea! Go back and eat your Dirty USA's......

in response to: Night Walk 3 by Chiamattt

정이 김: American want to send beef infected with mad cow — so dangerous that the Americans refusing to eat it — to my country! Myung-bak Lee sign a deal with America to lift a ban of......

in response to: Anti-US Beef/2MB Protests by chiamattt

chiamattt: Jack, it's not like the United States is going to 'give' the beef to Korea for free. In previous years (prior to 1994, i think) the Korean market was worth a little more than 3......

in response to: Anti-US Beef/2MB Protests by chiamattt

eccles: That sure sounds nice, Jack, but who will pay for such an effort? Because I guarantee that the American beef industry is going to pursue profit over domestic philanthropy any day of the week. It's......

in response to: Anti-US Beef/2MB Protests by chiamattt

jack: screw 'em, lets give the beef away to the poor people and welfare cases we have here, lets feed our country first and take care of Americans first....

in response to: Anti-US Beef/2MB Protests by chiamattt

EvilGentleman: Jennifer, you must be unfamiliar with this site to post comments such as you did above. If you browse CE's other articles, which you can do by clicking on his name just under the main......

in response to: Red Light District by CE

Peter: you know, pow, i didnt even notice that but youre right- the one on the left is much nicer and more unique. curiously, i grew up in a town down south that had a huge us......

in response to: Hydrant to Hydrant by POWcityblog

Kyle: Only in AMERICA,==In 2008, Do We know have so many prude's verbally speaking out, attempting to perpetuate the FAULTS idea the Penis is Bad or shamefully , or nakedness is shamfull....that is simply for......

in response to: Public Urinals: Amsterdam by Peter

MrBrenzo: Hutchinson Kansas is a boring place, if you are a boring person. I lived in Hutch until I was 15 and remember it fondly. the state fair only happens once a year, but it was......

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

Neath: It should all be standard North American sizes for the trailer. Maybe some sag and some bad signage but you just have to feel that something is wrong. Driver's fault all the way!...

in response to: Wedgie!!! by Montrealbunny

Linda Kornilieff: this is the most awsome site i've ever seen.. I drove from Athen, TN to Trinidad, Colorado in July of 2007 to visit my brother. he took us to this awsome castle.. Jim biship......

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

kidcapri22yrs: ok, ok what some people are saying are that, the nazi-ideology has infiltrated the american gov't from 1930's to present, built one of their many capitol structures to capture and enslave non-anglo americans. what are......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

yeah yeah: i think its amazing how people are suggesting that jacksonville should become like miami or orlando in order to become more "entertaining"... havent any of you people taken a walk around outside or a swim......

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

ROB WALLS: i think irlam is great, i have lived and died here in this sunny suburb. But the sadest thing i have ever watched with no power over is the demise of the fish population of......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

carrie: while i do agree that our nixon-era bred conservative government does employ a 'world cop' approach in their international relations, and also recognize the dangerously slippery slope this entails, i can't stomach yet another accusatory......

in response to: Exremist school.. by Rune

Peter: i bet if you lined up just as many similarly attired americans, itd be a truly ugly scene; so i guess i agree with chiam on this one. also: we should see who can identify as......

in response to: Cosplay by chiamattt

chiamattt: jack, its funny you should say "in an area of possible war" because NO ONE here thinks the DPRK will invade the ROK. It's just not gonna happen. Also, there are NO real guns here.......

in response to: Cosplay by chiamattt

EvilGentleman: Beatiful set of photos. You really captured the emotions of the rallies. I especially like the irony of the girl wearing a mask that says, "NO CNN", but a baseball cap that says, "American Blue......

in response to: Olympic Torch Relay by chiamattt

jack: i was in berlin in 1961, there was a young man hanging dead on barbed wire, shot while trying to escape the east, tensions were high, the russians stood looking at the americans, the german......

in response to: Berlin April 22 2008 by hool

Julian Austin-Seal 23/4/08: Been living in Flixton for the last 18 years, gotta say some parts are almost like scenes from such film as 'Stand by Me', some times Flixton resembles scenes from 'The Wonder Years', dont know......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

saul altman: There are 1 out of 100 Americans in PRISONS ...

in response to: Coney Island Low by Peter

CB : It is easy for anyone to put down our inner city areas and declare them a war zone. But the truth of the matter is that if we had more people involved to make change......

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

saul altman: i don't mind expressing my views, however if you have something to say to me about my views step up to the plate & let me & know who you are & whats your interest......

in response to: Coney Island Low by Peter

Joe: To hairsy. I thought I would add clarity to my message from April 16th. The only thing that I left was Kensigton. My first marrige ended when my wife left me and this opened the......

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

tasha: i curently reside in the projects the philadelphia housing auth. i go to school and have a job but still proverty stricken i believe the book portrayed good image of the projects. people who......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

EvilGentleman: As far as the urban legend aspect of things goes, how could we get a website like [[http://www.snopes.com]] to have a look at it, and see what they dig up? I am really curious about......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: dirana1, thank you for commenting. I can respect your opinions and your insight into the prison is a welcome bit of education for the rest of us. I am certain you know a lot more......

in response to: Kingston Penitentiary by EvilGentleman

Joe: In response to LINDA from 4/13/2008. I left 29 years ago and also felt at that time that I had to GET OUT of Kensington. I had just purchased a home there (my wife wanted......

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

CE: I have a friend who recently travelled through Europe for a few months and on a few occasions she said that there were people who were less than pleasant with her because they thought she......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

jeeff: you've probably already checked the new york times archives (free access with signup), but if not it has about 70 hits for "federation of american motorcyclists", with lots of articles from that time period....

in response to: Brooklyn Motorcycle History by cycles-past

Nobody: Saul- perhaps sarcasm doesn't travel well through the internet. I do have a few points for your consideration, though: 1. "thats there [sic] idea of a community. Whose idea? The people who live in the projects? I......

in response to: Coney Island Low by Peter

saul altman: I'm not talking about building projects, thats there idea of a community, what i envision is apartment buildings,2-3 family style homes with lawns trees you know a place were all solid Americans can start families &......

in response to: Coney Island Low by Peter

Born and Raised in NYC: Here's a little Montreal story: I remember very well as a little boy being with my family in Montreal at a flower expo located in the old Expo fair grounds ... I was standing with......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

Born and Raised in NYC: Alright Evil I was a little harsh .... the Americans pretending to be Canadian story gets under my skin ... again I've never hear a serious case of an American pretending to be Canadian (people......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: To Born and Raised in NYC: Sorry to ask, but exactly who made the condescending comments, and which ones in particular are you referring to? I just re-read everything here, and the general vibe I get......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

Born and Raised in NYC: Incredibly condescending comments but coming from a Canadian I'm not surprised. Never judge the majority attitude of any given place by graffiti since the majority population are seldom represented in the sentiment expoused it's usually drawn/written......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

Paul: I live in downtown Toronto and I think our downtown is quite impressive, with the coloured lights on the Skydome and CN Tower it really enhances the night view and the Royal Bank Plaza glitters......

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

saul altman: i wonder where the city of New York will build the next death town just like the one they created in Coney? They just don't get it, we need to build a community where all......

in response to: Coney Island Low by Peter

Peter: tom: i think its ludicrous to simply look at the "thousands of lives lost that day" without trying to dig deeper into the why and how of it. i think it disrespects both those who......

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

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

Junito: Wow! It was hard reading all of that. Lets all study our cultures of the western hemisphere (e.g., Tainos, Aztecs, etc,.) We are decedents of moral, loving, industrious and spiritual people. We are greater then......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

europeaus: I think the problem is just inside American brains......

in response to: Public Urinals: Amsterdam by Peter

Peter: bob: i was poised to go to great effort to provide you links to mass-media sources that refute almost everything you say- about the misplacement of blame in iraq, about soldiers who refuse to go......

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

Graham Kingsley: I have discovered quite recently, possibly in the last couple of days that Adelaide Cricket Club have become a Internet Service Provider and competing on the world stage. It does show that the Australians......

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

EvilGentleman: El, since they were government-funded homes originally intended for the families of veterans returning from WWII, it is most unfortunate that the government decided to stop funding them. If you look at the comments in the......

in response to: The Destruction of Benny Farm by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: Good point, but in Montreal, we have speed limits, unlike on the autobahns. And North American headlight flashing is usually reserved for emergencies, telling drivers to go ahead at stop signs and letting big-rig drivers......

in response to: Things I Hate About... Traffic by EvilGentleman

sage: Guy McLaren says in an earlier post: "All wild animals are dangerous. Especially African ones." My response: All domesticated humans are dangerous. Especially american ones. I've lived with raccoons, coyotes, bobcats, mountain lions, rattlesnakes, and opossums my whole life--and......

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

CE: Wow! that street is filthy! The amount of trash on the streets seems to be one of the biggest differences I've seen between Canadian and American cities. Even in my neighbourhood in Montreal,......

in response to: Keep Bushwick Clean & Rats Out by Peter

anon (206-248-159-228.dsl.teksavvy.com): Wow! that street is filthy! The amount of trash on the streets seems to be one of the biggest differences I've seen between Canadian and American cities. Even in my neighbourhood in Montreal,......

in response to: Keep Bushwick Clean & Rats Out by Peter

Hunter: I'm back again, and will comment again on Tex's "statistics". Tex your reply to my criticism of your use of crime statistics was simply to attribute the data to the FBI, but I did not......

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

bob r: born in bushwick in '53. lived on Bushwick Ave one house off Jefferson, may have been 1212. I was 4 years old, my sis 3 and younger brother was an infant. While watching American bandstand,......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Giddie: I request at least a post of one city in Sub-Saharan Africa at least Nairobi which has a nice skyline in African standards. Despite having some weird shanties in the outskirts, Nairobi downtown area has......

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

george: i remember when the west side highway was still elevated that far down. past the intrepid. im 28 now but this was like 1983 maybe? that truck was still there back then but it had......

in response to: Ugliest Building in New York? by Peter

Fred, The.: Mr. Texan.. I also look forward to being in Texas. I did attend a grade school here in Hutch years ago but I had to quit......

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

Janet .Witcomb(nee Sutton): To add to the info. from my sister Jenny Foster. .we lived at 48 Harewood Road. I went to Eccles Grammar School in 1952. I also attended St Johns Sunday School . Does anyone rember......

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

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

jack: native americans believe that trees are special, there is a spirit for all life on our planet, God made trees and we kill them, let us forgive the people that did this and pray that......

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

steelisreal: When I was living in London, you would be amazed at how many Americans would go to an "arcade" and expect to see video games instead of the shops that line the street....

in response to: Ye Olde Arcade by EvilGentleman

Peter: hey "like it is": even our 'beloved' [[4368:hutchinson, kansas]] has more sex offenders per capita than {bushwick}! your brand of reactionary bullshit is just that... bullshit. whats your point? i mean... i live in {bushwick},......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

jack: all in all it looks very nice and modern, sorry that they push Christmas on us so quickly, i have people already with Christmas decorations on their homes and its not even thanksgiving day yet,......

in response to: It\'s Christmas Already? by Elicar

sarahthecanadian: i agree toronto is amazing and im not even from it. im from winnipeg, ive been all over canada and i love every bit of it. cmon lets not forget we gotta show those silly......

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

Doug Burdette: Although I have traveled the world several times I still live in Aberdeen. The Ideal diner is probably the one place in town that constantly reminds me of my youth and of a great era......

in response to: New Ideal Diner by EvilGentleman

chiamattt: Thanks for the pics dude. It's nice to know people are still willing to go out and protest something. I don't know I would if I were American. Didn't Halo 3 come out or something?...

in response to: End This War by serlingrod

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.

artisan, London: jack you (unfortunately) typify our view of over-bearing obnoxious American attitude. Unless you are one of the few who actually have a tre sense of irony... for the love of (an old man's pub & the......

in response to: London Streets by steelisreal

anon (pool-71-99-185-128.tampfl.dsl-w.verizon.net): Unfortunately, our government right now has the same opinion as this person called "the university of chicago". This is very disturbing. Please vote for Clinton, she has the best chance of changing the way things are......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

CartLegger: To me, its about one's inner relation to the outer environment. The terms was originally conceived of by the Situationists of 1960's France as an conceptual art activity focusing on one's experience of space. More recently, American......

in response to: Conflux Festival: CrippleBush Ghost Tour by CartLegger

Ivo: Ooooh, I love those cars, I'm a HUGE fan Cadillac Eldorado and with the horns it's even better and I'm not even North American! ...

in response to: You\'re In Calgary When...#2 by ksedge

serlingrod: Montrealers seemed very tolerant of my girlfriend and I whenever we asked to speak English, for Englsih menus, etc. They would start off in French, notice the confused looks on our faces, then switch to......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: Georges, The predominant prejudice in Montreal is still language. As an English-speaker, I seldom notice anti-Americanism among the French Quebecers. This may be due in part to my not being to understand most of what......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

Georges: "The simple reality is, Americans are welcomed warmly by most Montrealers, and generally disliked but tolerated by the rest. And that dislike is often because they are getting mistaken for Torontonians, or other English-speaking Canadians. " Jeez,......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

saltbake: I´m afraid to say that this town is the worst place I´ve ever lived. I grew up in a really small town in South Dakota, and I can say that Hutchinson does not even have......

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

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

Fran: I grew up on Rorer St and Tioga during the 50's until 77. What a wonderful place to be raised. That big white parking garage building was not there and when the circus trains......

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

Chiamattt: The irony is that Americans are, as a nation, known for not traveling abroad. I wish more did. Perhaps they'd understand the world better. There should be more "Yankee Leave Home" grafs out there. ...

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: The simple reality is, Americans are welcomed warmly by most Montrealers, and generally disliked but tolerated by the rest. And that dislike is often because they are getting mistaken for Torontonians, or other English-speaking Canadians. Dislike......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

serlingrod: my friends advised me to sew a Canadian flag onto my bookbag before visiting, lol. are there alot of americans in this part of town? ...

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

Africarose: I'm no New Yorker no American, I have just been in the US for few weeks and came here to work with an organization. I come from Africa. I have found an apartment in Linden......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

colavitos ghost: i recently found out that "cuyahoga" doesn't mean "crooked river," after all. that would be a bit too literal, don't you think? the name of the river, in fact, derives from a native american word......

in response to: Bridges of Cuyahoga County by Jon

EvilGentleman: Well, how about we let the place that used to be in Yugoslavia call itself "The Slavic Republic of Northern Macedonia"? I dunno, just trying to state what I feel is right. The only Yugoslavians......

in response to: Θεσσαλονίκη by zagg

joey: your whole post has a sci-fi feeling. post american apocalypse...

in response to: The Tent of Tomorrow, Revisited by procyon

Chiamattt: If the US government can't maintain US infrastructure, how in the hell are they going to rebuild the Afghan and Iraqi infrastructure? Seriously Americans...when will demanding change from government on a large-scale replace xbox360 and......

in response to: Bridge Collapse 1 by Tyfoid Kid

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