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Mitch: Well, the May 21st deadline passed and Still nothing at all has changed at Bens--still standing and untouched. Haven't heard anything on the news either about its fate.
I think Hydro Quebec disconnected its power a...... John Dereszewski: I also don't understand this. Bushwick Houses is a large - and rather oppressive - complex situated at Flushing and Bushwick Aves. on the Williamsburg side of the border. As Adam notes, these are pictures...... Rob Tynan: Hi Jon,
Couldn't agree more regarding development.....I don't know that pond, but there were other ponds near the old slag heap bordering Hollins Green. We used to get frogs, newts, stickbacks etc from there.... CE: I was there during the celebrations but left before the riots began. I was going to bike back up at about 1:30am but unfortunately got a flat tire when I was leaving (and my...... Anne Fahy: Hi Keith (Smith)
What number did you live in Atherton Lane? My husband Brian Fahy lived at #43 for most of his early life. They moved to 19 Victory Road, when he was already working at...... Anne Fahy: Hi Keith (Smith)
What number did you live in Atherton Lane? My husband Brian Fahy lived at #43 for most of his early life. They moved to 19 Victory Road, when he was already working at...... groovehouse: My borders thank you!... Peter: im a fan of your borders.
i like the photo too. the {parking building} made me think of [[348:this post]]...... Peter: cherie: {broadway}, in the area around {hart} street is the border between {bushwick} and {bed-stuy}, so i suppose it depends on which side of {broadway} the place is on, heh. the west side being {bed-stuy}...... Sheila hilton: Hya Sue,
I also used to go (albeit for a very short time), to the dance place above the Red Rose Inn. Didn't it used be be called The...... Junito: [[img:26421]]
This Alexander von Humboldt
(September 14, 1769 – May 6, 1859) was a Prussian naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835). Humboldt's quantitative work on...... James: This is off Westheimer, right? I can see Taxi Taxi's checker border...... EvilGentleman: The areas bordering Verdun are pretty much the same, as well.
Pointe-Saint-Charles, east of Verdun, is historically Irish, and today is a mixed community where English is not a problem.
Ville-Emard, to the north of Verdun, has...... EvilGentleman: Beats me, Ivo. Do you remember the gist of what you were saying? I know I hate it when someone says something that is borderline offensive, I reply, and then the editors delete the comment...... tom: Does this wall go all around the West Bank? I thought it was just between Israel and the West Bank. Does it go along the Jordanian border as well? Are the Palestinians...... Peter: its hard to be objective about "safety" and "neighborhoods" in nyc in general, as everyone has their own stories and experiences, and fluke things happen in every neighborhood, from the hood to park avenue.
but i...... todd from kansas: Scott, first of all, I do not know where you live but I would guess I would probably find it uninteresting. I think the only interesting cities in North America reside south of the border,...... steve : Cartlegger; I'll try to be brief with some details. Please don't hold me to the exact dates because I am going back from memory and not researching. Barren Island as we knew it...... Alexander The Thessalonikian: An ethnic group is characterized by the common language, customs, religion, inscriptions, area of origin and ways of education and living. By that means all the area of todays Greece was inhabited by Greeks since...... 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...... maybetoday: Columbus is the most populous city in Ohio. But, it's not as dense as Cleveland or Cincinnati since its borders stretch out pretty far. I didn't see anyone else walking around the neighborhood....... Andrew Smith: Paul - the area opposite Irlam Locks was a bit of green land between the canal and the 'old river' (the River Irwell old course - the Ship Canal swallowed the Irwell). I have always...... Armstrong: I just got an apartment on Starr St and Knickerbocker so I a little bit resent rosecoloredglasse's last comment. at the same time, I'm a realist and yes, that area would be considered blighted by...... zagg: "100 Years Old and Twisted' --- is that the description of this photograph, or the description of you, Jack?
J/k .... love the tree + love the stone border around it --- very cool... 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),...... jj: It invariably IS immigrant crime. No wonder the US wants to put a wall on its southern border. Excuses can be made; rationalizations can be offered. It's always been shown that immigrant...... SCAM28: Yeah a lot had to be done after the war and actually they've just started to rebuild a lot of the bordering towns around Berlin that used to belong to East Germany in the last...... SCAM28: @jack: Oh definetly...Germany was basically the border between the East and West during the Cold War and there were just hundreds, probably thousands of spies and secret ops...
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* The Queen of England has reportedly been buying up property in Colorado under a proxy.
* There is a lot of "secret society" symbology at the airport,...... elaine: bordered by miseryvill and hardship....... fuzzytank: that is a sweet windmill, very iconic
i dont like the big borders tho... Alexander The Thessalonikian: People from US shouldn't argue with the fact that a country with a glorious past like Greece is offended when a name that characterizes the most of the northern Greece and that has special meaning...... Derek Jackson: Wow! Reading all this misspelled babble about being proud of being hispanic, about fighting the whites trying to take what's yours, and about complaining about gang violence is making me half-laugh, half-get pissed off.
Homboldt Park...... Guy McLaren: Catherine 66 Jaguar 3.8s also in some quarters known as the MkII. Manufactured in England
Jack Eastern Transvaal is the previous name for Mpumalanga which is a province In South Africa, Thats at the Southern tip...... Lin Lynch: I am looking to move into an apt on Stockholm street, 3 blocks away from Wycoff Hospital. it's a private house, with an apt on the top floor. I have heard mixed reviews...... The Healing Leaf: Hey, Ulsterman and Republican! Yo!
Interested in what my Canadian government did to our First nations people 100-150 years ago? Exactly what the British did to ALL the original Irish 400 years ago, and beyond!...... Børge: The funny thing about norway is that people have through time lived seperated by natural borders like mountains, forests and our fjords. This has created alot of different cultures throughout this country in ways of...... autumn: Desperate - I think we are in similiar situations - My property borders on the Colorado National Monument. Skunks are wonderful for the grubs in the lawn, racoons are much more destructive. Please check ordinances...... zagg: I always notice the difference between Canada and the US when I cross the border to Michigan and suddenly every space is covered in advertisements. Sure we have ads, no doubt but I would say...... Brad: Wow, that looks really nice. How does Harlem compare to some of the other areas as far as gentrification? Seems like its location on Manhattan would have made it prime real estate. I remember grabbing...... Astro Guy: Great. Just great. How the heck am I supposed to relax when I’m outside on clear nights at the telescope?! I’m in BC, right down in the extreme South-West, by the US border in a...... EvilGentleman: Wow, what style...
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What I find amazing is the incredible waste of resources. Water is so precious in the desert, and the Colorado River feeds Western Arizona, Southern Nevada and Southern California (including LA and San...... anon (host81-138-12-194.in-addr.btopenworld.com): Going back to April or something, I just have to say that probably the same proportion of blacks are in UK prisons if not higher. I know because I have been inside some. The US...... EvilGentleman: Love it! More complete than any of my collections, too! But I would have crossed the border and used the American interstates. The stretch of the Trans-Canada from Ottawa to the Manitoba border is **murder**!...... EvilGentleman: I just noticed that the border was around the picture **before** the actual image itself loaded. How did you do that, and can non-editors do it too?... KING CISCO 95TH ROSLAND: IM READIN ALOT OF SHIT ABOUT HUMBOLDT MY AUNT LIVED THER FOR 4 YEARS AND I SPENT ALOT OF TIME OUT THERE. (IM MEXICAN). I GOT SOMTHIN TO SAY ABOUT THE FOOL TALKIN ABOUT EDUCATION...... EvilGentleman: That picture was taken from the corner of Atwater and Sainte-Catherine, at the west end of downtown. The metro station is Atwater. Westmount is generally a lot more residential, but I wanted a picture of...... anon (198.138.134.32): I'm about to move Decatur Street. What's Bushwick like around the area bordering Ridgewood?... mug: looking at the most boring town series i have noticed that Kansas seems to claim most of the top 10 - of this they should be proud - something to put on the "welcome to...... Michael Barrick: Your description of Vancouver puts it in the wrong mountains. The Rocky Mountains are over 500 km east of Vancouver and are southern portion of the border between BC and Alberta. The mountains visible from...... EvilGentleman: Hmmm, interesting. I have never encountered this data before. I know that if you look at a topographic map, you can see an easily identifiable line of hills and mountains sticking out of the flat...... Marlo: How do you explain a bloodied chainsaw to border crossing authorities? "I was trying to open my catsup package and needed something sharp."
That is very disturbing... I do recall hearing something about it on the...... dude: wow. georgia at the south carolina border. did you sell your surf board?... EvilGentleman: Directions from Montreal to San Diego:
Autoroute 20 West (becomes 401 West at Ontario border) Go to end of road (Windsor, ON)
North on Huron Church Road to Ambassador Bridge. Stop at US Customs in Detroit, MI....... Peter: i really like these, jamie. youve got some good shots here. and i like how youve been doing the borders... it makes them look like the oldskool peel-apart polaroids. ... Proud Bushwacker: I grew up on Wyckoff and Cornelia (BK) on the border of Bushwick and Ridgewood. To tell you the truth, my mom put me in schools in Ridgewood, the schools have always been better...... zagg: plus when dealing with 300 photograhs-ish from one section of time, you stop wanting to do the little details like making the borders :D... EvilGentleman: I'm off to look for the pics now, but I warn you, Google Earth shots can be up to 5 or 6 years old, so do not be surprised if it shows the lake full...... Jamie: It'll be picasa messing them up then. U prob don't notice the border in windows's my pictures for the simpl reason that the window background is also white. If u bought your camera new it...... Biff: I don't seem to have any software for resizing .My orginal photos are too wide. I e-mail each picture to myself Using Picasa2
and hope for the best, save it to my Pictures (Windows tm)...... tangent: cool, an **[[1837:anti-sit]]**. I'm curious to know why you add white borders to all your images and make them so small. i'd like to see them full sized, and better quality.... EvilGentleman: No worries, we got the Mini-Me Bush, or Bush Jr. for Prime Minister now. Bush thinks he **already** owns us. Why would he invade Canada? That would be like a US invasion of Puerto Rico....... Tyfoid Kid: Funny the fascist president Bush wants to close the border with Mexico because of the supposed security threat from terrorists. Where have most of the terrorists in North America been caught in the last 6...... colavitos ghost: Chris,
Terrible (but compelling) story. All I can say is that I wish you the best in fighting against this bullshit you were put through. I´m in Mexico right now and, needless to say,...... joey: july 2006. cody's books on telegraph ave. is closing. what if . . . borders books moves in?... EvilGentleman: Definitely looks like an urban bikini to me. I ain't never seen none a those there type 'kinis in the boondocks, y'all. But remember how my Babelfishing article was considered out of bounds? I guess...... Elicar: Speaking of a thread evolving to a different life of its own...
Apartheid... in Canada?
For a country who has opened it's borders to everyone, for a country who has legislated equality in the workplace, for a...... EvilGentleman: I believe the itinerary of border crossings on my trip went something like this:
By Airline: Nunavut, Manitoba
By Greyhound: Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec
By 1999 Pontiac Grand Prix from Avis: Quebec, Vermont, Quebec, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, New...... anon (cyfairisd-062.phonoscope.com): No, Hell no ! I wouldn't want for neither Mexico & the U.S. to come together and become one nation ...that's american globalization of the world. Why ? well both nations have their beginnings &...... Tyfoid Kid: So the next time I'm "Up North" by Rainy River I can just hop on the road across the border and boom I'm in Toronto?? Cool!! Eh maybe I'll just get to it via...... Elicar: "Over the years, Highway 11 grew to stretch from downtown Toronto all the way to the Minnesota border. Highway 11 became synonymous with Yonge Street, the name of the street in Toronto which formed its...... jack: my fellow americans, as your next president i will end all taxation, i will open up the borders to mexico and make sure there is a chicken in every pot in every home, and blah,...... EvilGentleman: And lest someone accuse me of America-bashing because the antagonists in the previous story were so clearly all Americans, Canada is no better. A year and a half later, in December of 1990, my American...... EvilGentleman: On May 5 of 1989, I was in the middle of a long road trip with my best friend, Mike. We were in San Diego, California, after having driven 5000 miles through two Canadian provinces...... Elicar: If America has almost closed her borders, Canada has opened hers. Not only do we accept qualified immigrants with open arms, we have legislated that certain groups be given (more) equal chances in the public...... EvilGentleman: Sorry, hool. From what I have seen, I have been encouraged by a large group of the regulars here, including the other 4 of your fellow editors. I shall try to keep your wishes in...... Peter: i am growing very leery of how insular, provincial and xenophobic america is becoming... it smacks of fascism and... dare i say it... prewar germany. after all, every single one of us living in america...... joey: how did you do the borders?, curious... Jamie: are the big white borders intentional?... fresco aka. the O: "the art of getting over" its a book that looks like a blackbook go to your local borders ar barnes and noble and ask
for the book i say this book today it has...... Micah: oops tried to post a link but it didn't seem to work. If you really want to see it you'll have to copy-paste this:
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporters_Without_Borders]]
##(Ed. - enclose a url with double square brackets to make...... Elicar: My friend just received an offer to his house. They are closing May 12. His house is at Gerrard and Coxwell, was built in the 1920's, a three bedroom very small semi-detached (I believe that's...... Humbolt Park - Dave: Staci,
There's a book I purchased unfortunately at Borders bookstore titled "Images of America, Puerto Rican Chicago" by Wilfredo Cruz. It covers everything from Families, Community life, Political/Social Activism, Arts and Culture.
I look forward purchasing your...... Staci: Wow. This blog is great. I'm a resident of Humboldt Park for two years now and just signed my lease for another year. I don't have a lot of time right this...... EvilGentleman: I thought you might like that, Peter. You really seem to be a proud {New Yorker}. My family has always had connections to New York, too.
My dad lived under the {Brooklyn Bridge} (NE corner...... Americans=Assholes: Reply to canadian loser,
Ignorance and Illiteracy seem to go hand in hand, sure is a lot of that south of the border.... al: the driver was yet one more of the increasing amount of uncivilized individuals who are borderline human and primate society life. we run across them all the time, they are the ones who feel threatened...... nobody: Maybe she was polite about it - we don't actually know. If it was, say, an empty coffee cup that he dropped on the ground, and she picked it up and dropped in in his...... Catherine Penfold-Waxman: If only Nelson was still alive, you'd have all four dogs on the truck. Tell Coco if she can get to the Mexico border, I can sneak her across.... tenyen: those gastowers have particular resonance for me. short version of the long story is that I named a computer, which lived behind the [[1057:robot building]], after them. I particularly like the "stitch up"...... Jamie: this is bordering on a fetish peter... Peter: hey ellis g, we get it man.... ok? between what youre posting here and all over the forums at dailyheights.com, its sort of, well, bordering on spam.
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your street-art is fine and good, but youre gonna...... mark: "northern Ireland" is presented to the world as a legitimate, legal nation but that it is not. The border was gerrymandered and threats of war used against a country which had the whole of Ulster...... Reggie: Very one sided view, your obviously one of these tourists who once got a green jumper for xmas and now thinks he is a long lost descendant of St Patrick. You dont know shit and...... Colin: I'm not sure that the civicheraldry.co.uk web site is correct to say that the device is known as the Southwark Cross or even that it symbolises the London Borough of Southwark, without further corroborative evidence....... Dick Larregui: One of seven brothers & sisters all born and raised during and after the depression years on Main Street, downtown Brooklyn which at that time ran beneath the Brooklyn Bridge. It was bordered between Fulton,...... jamie: heh, two places i know very well. I used to nip across the border to clones to buy petrol. Thanks. Hey, and also barry if you'd like some image editing tips feel free to email...... Jamie: ##ARSE##MA's VARIETY! Superb. Hool, i am so glad that you're regularly contributing here once more. i've always admired the way you capture the everyday and borderline mundane with a special eye. your style is so...... R^6 : a little geography lesson - all the suckas who think they live in williamsburg really live in greenpoint. williamsburg is south of the wb bridge.realtors expanded traditional borders. the owners are no better. that r.i.p....... jack: i believe there were apartment buildings and cottages for summer renters at brighton beach. the hand ball courts are famous for some of the best games in the country. if you were travelling down ocean......
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