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Lou Romero: Amazing !! I didn't realize the quality of life and safety had began to decline as early as 1962. I know that the "white flight" was in full swing from 1965 onward, many neighboorhoods still had......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Brushman: Today, lawyers would have a field day with our antics. We played Kick the Can, where everyone would hide in various places and then try to run in and kick the can before being tagged by......

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

Country Boy: Peter, am sorry I didn't see this months ago so I could respond then. Thank you for your photos and update on the progress at "ground zero". I apologize for everyone for not being as......

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

janet: Hi Alma--Sorry, the name Rubin is not familiar (though I knew a Judy Kessler). But I certainly remember the fish store! (Thanks for reminding me that one needed to walk up a couple of......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

platano: there not german lol one of them is puerto rican and the other 2 cocasion friends of mine ...

in response to: Graff and Regraff by CartLegger

Jamie: I've never been to Germany, but photo #3 in an odd way i think sums up just how i imagine germany to be. nice photos. as always ;)...

in response to: May 11 2008 Berlin by hool

Norma Bannon (nee Bolton): Hi Stuart, I don't remember being in Mr Killers class... I will scan the pic I have, hopefully it will come out half decent, tho it's not a good copy to start with. I remember......

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

jack: Guaranteed that the last two guys were German soldiers in WWII. I bet they could tell a lot of stories......

in response to: May 09 2008 Berlin by hool

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

NewYorkDave: Hmmm, I just realized that that route wouldn't have made any sense considering the number of blocks involved. The pretzels surely would have been cold by the time he reached Onderdonk--unless he were running the......

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

Sylvia Aviles: Hi again, Can anybody tell me what happens to Melrose St. I lived there in the 50th and 60th. I live now ( since 1972) in Germany....

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Alan Taylor: Hi Sheila & Cyril, I recall both farms and used to go and watch 'young' Max Shacklady and his followers practice wrestling in one of the upper barns behind which the threshing machine with long belt......

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

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

Sylvia Aviles: I grew up in Melrose St. Corner Bushwick in the 60th. There was always something happening. But nothing as bad as I read here.I miss going back home, but I know it could never be......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Norma Bannon (nee Bolton): Does anyone remember a disco in Cadishead? I think it was called Chains and was above the old Co-op? I used to dream of going there when I was a 'grown-up' and just......

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

Deb Simpkins (Massey): Hi Marissa, a little more from Venice... "When I was about 5 years old I lived at No.3 (The White House), Fiddlers Lane. I had a happy childhood until my mother died. She doted on me and......

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

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Rob Really interesting old photos.I can all but see the "back entrance" under the railway to the Steelworks canteen. I wonder if there were many loyal workers there as my father-in- law was, after spending 50years......

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

noname: I work in a business that allows me to see the finest of Hutchinson and surrounding areas. Hutchinson it's surrounding population consist of the following: Retirees, poor families, meth addicts, leeches. No more no less.......

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

mikizzle: That's how the Germans roll, they cops actually let them tag up certain walls and after awhile someone who can do better will paint over it and replace it....

in response to: Rookie & Besok: German Graffiti by m_mcconnell

Mist One53. Tdt=The Deadly Type.: Hello JA From Mist1 Sheffield England uk. I was first in Nyc in 1989 and saw SANE eveywhere. At the top of the World trade centre, not much bigger that this text on the screen.I......

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

Chris: I just happened over this page while looking for something via Google, but I couldn't just let this go- I grew up in Hutch, but no longer living there. I moved to the West Coast......

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

RD: Does anyone here remember Bobby Fischer? He lived at 560 Lincoln Pl (corner of Franklin) during the 50's when he was becoming a chess prodigy. I saw him a lot because my Brooklyn Eagle route......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Fred: To Amelia: Difference of income. My brother works as a waiter on one of the ships between Oslo and Kiel (Germany). (Only) As a waiter he earns approx. USD 80,000 a year, you got an......

in response to: Typical Norwegian Food by Rune-Willem

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

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

FRED MEGLIO: I LIVE IN BUSHWICK SECTION FROM 1946 TO 1979 THE 50S AND 60S WERE GREAT! LIVED 1403 GATES AVE BETWEEN WILSON AND KNICKERBOCKER AVENUES WE NEVER LOCKED OUR DOORS AT NIGHT TILL THE 70S CAME......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

jack: sorry about the health care problem there, i am on medicare now but all my working years i paid over $400 a month for my health plan, it was the best, when i had open......

in response to: Windows Health Care by EvilGentleman

Giulliani.: FX does have a problem with LEETO, Cause HEF IS A BITCH who can't paint streets for his life. Hes just some washed up LEGAL EAGLE FAGLORD. I can appreciate that RIME and HOST they......

in response to: Leeto & Beef by Peter

Andrew Smith: Shops in Irlam that no longer exist, but will stay part of my memory of growing up in the 80's. On Fiddlers Lane - Joyce's Fabrics, Bambers newsagents, King's sweetshop, Bates's hardware store, plus the Greengrocers......

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

Anonoymous: I will try to be succinct with my words. The symbols, ideology, artwork, whatever you prefer to call it serves one grand purpose, and this purpose, I will reveal in the conclusion of this......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

Rodent: I heard that they had very big rats in the projects, And when you throw food at them to get them to run away and leave you alone, They will grab the food that you......

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

Gerd Gallus: Hi, I loved the cat. I live in Germany but in the 70s and 80s stayed with a friend who lived in Grove Park. I passed the cat many times by bus when on tour but......

in response to: The Giant Cat of South London by I.T.U.C.

Fattfree: The house on one side of us has a pool (racoon's drinking fountain/bath). On the other side the neighbor feeds squirrels, birds, etc.(their "restaurant"). So our yard was the "bathroom". Last year,......

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

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

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.

Michael: I grew up in Yorkville in the 1950's. We lived on 90th St between First and York. I remember the fireboat station at the foot of 90th St just outside the fence at Schurz park.......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

Jonathan: I tried Parkour one time in Kaiserslautern, Germany at a conference and loved it, though I was very sour for a week afterwards. Regardless I want to keep doing, though I live near Nurnberg now.......

in response to: le parkour: london waterloo jam by 3flow

jack: as soon as you said it i realized i knew it, just wasn't there at the time, i don't know about the less hairy legs, european girls don't shave the legs or armpits, the hairy......

in response to: French Dog by Ilona

Xavi: Most of the eastern part of Humboldt Park until the mass Puerto Rican migration of the 1940's and '50's was Jewish and Polish, with some German and Italian elements. When those ethnic groups were......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

germz: 26 (?) pics: 16 contain large (25% or more of total) areas of underexposure; 15 contain garbage or spills; in almost every case something is tightly packed -- people, magazines, autos, bikes, etc. it does "feel"......

in response to: 08-05-07 by chiamattt

ffox88: Hey... some heartfelt stories to be read here. I had my bike (Grey Kona Condercone 2004) stolen last week in Riverdale. I'm devastated. This bike has been with me over 12000km all over Germany. For......

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

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

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

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

EvilGentleman: Wanna bet that Antoine gets sick more often than the rest of us? If so, it is probably due to the fact that his body has no germs to build immunities to. Put down the......

in response to: Decarie Hot Dogs by CE

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

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

DeadRagabash: First off, I was born in a nice little Indian Reservation in Oklahoma, lived all over Okalhoma lived all over New Mexico, Texas & Colorado. As well as 15 odd places in Germany over 2......

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

John : I picture some tired old guy in some old house sitting on his bed with his rifle in one hand and his army boots and ill-fitting services shirt on still waiting for that old black......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 7 by Scott Sargent

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......

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

Bonnie: I too lived on Wilson Ave., between Cooper and Moffit Streets -- in the 1950's. We lived on the 3rd floor of one of the cold water railroad flats, right down the street from......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Lady Fualk: Hutchinson is a joke. I wonder why there are so many people posting on this site? I had to search for Hutchinson Kansas Sucks on google to find it.... People must a tired of it.......

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

GalaxyGrasshopper: Wow, this really takes me baaack! My mom scooped us up from L.A. to Hamburg Germany when I was eleven. I hated that place, or so I thought. I came back to......

in response to: May 14 2007 Hamburg by hool

Chiamattt: Great shots from Germany man. Is the dog in the first picture a fake? heh...

in response to: May 20 2007 Berlin Part 2 by hool

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

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

maybetoday: I don't know much about the rest of Missouri's architecture. Because of St. Louis' role as a prominent hub for immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century to the early-twentieth century, its architecture is quite varied.......

in response to: Old North St. Louis Pt. II by maybetoday

upfromflames: So I hear these boys and girls are German,and that it will be renewed every few months. Anybody know anything more about them?...

in response to: Graff and Regraff by CartLegger

otto: nice! that reall amazing the Germans really have there own style...

in response to: Rookie & Besok: German Graffiti by m_mcconnell

SCAM28: wow jack...that's beautiful, in a weird kind of way... I guess luckily I'm too young to have experienced these times, but I've been lucky enough to have experienced that situation...however it was in California and we......

in response to: Seasons in Gropiusstadt, Neukölln by SCAM28

jack: when i arrived in bramerhaven on christmas eve in 61 there was a body of an east berliner lying on the barbed wire dead from russian bullets. we were immediately put on alert and......

in response to: Seasons in Gropiusstadt, Neukölln by SCAM28

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......

in response to: Seasons in Gropiusstadt, Neukölln by SCAM28

Guy McLaren: Canon Rebel Xti, 75mm focal length, F/5.6 1/160th shutter ISO 100, Jack its an awesome camera Catherine, He is part Husky, Part German Shepherd, Also a great watchdog, He watches me pick up the car......

in response to: Walking the Dog by Guy McLaren

.nanotech.: they all have occult & N.W.O meaning, Also, the are images that trigger Monarch mind control slaves.. the CIA has hi-jacked our country, the are heavy in to black operations, that use german (nazi) scientists.......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

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... But lets think happy thoughts ^^...

in response to: Sunset over Kreuzberg by SCAM28

EvilGentleman: I could have sworn the first conquest of Alexander was Greece. So the big question would then be, was it a civil war or an invasion? Considering the classical Greek habit of describing both Macedon......

in response to: Θεσσαλονίκη by zagg

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

jack: many of the buildings constructed in the late 1800's that was used as housing by poor hispanics, blacks, jews, polish, german, italians and irish are still standing today and in livable conditions and very expensive.......

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

snapone: yes and hi, fist of alll!! i can only agree,...the no.4 pic isdangnice! i couldnt stop lookin azt it over and over!something very special caught in that pic! really admire it....great shot!thank you for sharing......

in response to: Around New York by little ukraine

jackie: I have not seen one of my cats for two days and that is why I went to this site, to see if a raccoon could possibly have gotten him. Guess so. This......

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

.nanotech.: [[img:18501]] NAZI REGIME.911.REICHSTAG - parliament of Germany [[img:18502]] Even the location was a deliberate attempt to conceal it by constructing it in Denver Colorado's 1 mile high mountain area, knowing that planes flying at a maximum altitude will......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

.nanotech.: [[img:18457]] [[img:18458]] [[img:18459]] [[img:18462]] [[img:18463]] [[img:18464]] [[img:18465]] [[img:18466]] [[img:18467]] [[img:18468]] [[img:18469]] [[img:18470]] [[img:18471]] * 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,......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

BREZZ: i wish i could understand german otherwise id be able to read the graffiti...but i cant damnit haha. co.0l @s h3||...

in response to: Berlin Wall Graffiti by Heiko Burkhardt

Thomas H: I grew up on Stanhope and Knickerbocker lived there and around there from 1951 to 1966. I remember Knickerbocker shops and Bargin Town on Broadway.I remember sleeping on the fire escape and hitten two and......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

mark rogers: It was in the mid 70s called Clares. It was like a mini supermarket that sold everything and had a barbers upstairs. Emma the jerry works was a shoe factory that was home to german......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Laaage, Gy.: A great friend of the German people. Left us all too soon !...

in response to: Patton Statue by steelisreal

Heila: She could have family. Was she English German or Belgim? She had black hair and brown eyes....

in response to: Barberton 1 by Guy McLaren

little ukraine: wandered past this building tonight and got some info on it- it is the ottendorfer branch of the nypl. http://www.nypl.org/branch/local/man/otinfo.html "The Ottendorfer Branch of the New York Public Library opened in 1884 as New York City's......

in response to: Anders Celsius by little ukraine

cpasswaters@hotmail.com: I just bought a souvenir bell from a local flea market from Germany with this Cathedral on it. I was just interested in the history....

in response to: Köln dom by ian

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

jack: i knew gypsies in europe. they travelled around in colorful wagons. some pulled by horses and some by an old car or truck. they lived off selling cheap jewelry, tarot cards, playing......

in response to: Gypsy Beggar by steelisreal

garry: How would people like to have a family of people next door who every evening around 4pm put out a lbor 2 of seed for the birds but the nly ones getting it are the......

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

JNJ: "I was running in Humboldt Park the other day, as I have for a few years, when 2 Puerto Rican 17ish year olds rammed their bicycles into me. I stepped to them, as it were,......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

Merchant Marine Memorial: I don't know if Happy Grammie is still around, but the memorial is to the merchant marine -- the men of the shipping companies who ferried goods (and sometimes troops) to Britain during WW2, at......

in response to: Battery park( NYC) memorials and sculptures by barry

Jerry Pflugh: 17th Oct 2006 : My dad, Ted Pflugh, was Commander of that VFW post, the Mohr-Christie Post #158, several times during the fifties, and my mom, Eileen, was President of the Ladies Auxiliary. They were in office when the......

in response to: Disused VFW Hall by mike a

S: That was a pretty antagonistic and incoherent post JMJ, and I find it to be consistent with other white racist feelings that I some times experienced from some residents of Humboldt Park. ......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

JNJ: Everybody is missing the point here and underlying factor. I grew up in Humboldt Park. I lived there for 32 years. Yes, it was stressful. However, I had allot of fun......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

ksedge: haha with a marker? ok, ok, a white german shepard with a marker colored mohawked wins! you win zagg. you win....

in response to: Cool Dog by ksedge

zagg: No, BUT he had a mohawk inbetween his ears. A white german shepherd with a small mohawk. I win....

in response to: Cool Dog by ksedge

jack: good story, you drew a picture with words. is it true or is it a story? anyway i understand how you feel about the pro, i remember once i went to a women......

in response to: Rainy Days and Mondays by a disturbed young man

EvilGentleman: She appears to simply be a good-looking German, Austrian or Swiss (I think her book has a German title) woman that zagg spotted and took a picture of. Being female, she can get away with......

in response to: Everything Looks Perfect from Far Away by zagg

Cathy Bernstein, east 84th Street: Carl Schurz Park: It’s easy to hear this park’s name and think Carl Schultz, the creator of the beloved Charlie Brown cartoons. In reality, Carl Schurz Park was named in 1910 to honor the soldier,......

in response to: Saturday Walk by Laura

EvilGentleman: The fact that someone would have the gall to name something in this area after the Algonquins, who are the traditional enemy of the Mohawks, is quite distressing. The Adironadacks are the homeland of the......

in response to: Adirondack Signage by GGP

Karlo: Ok ok,now you ARE funny. 'Loyalists the world over'.... Oh,you mean your support groups such as Combat 18 (for those who dont know,C18 is a 100% Nazi organisation..18 stands for the 1st and 8th letters of the......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

Tony: I WAS born in a house on Bushwick Avenue and Halsey Street. My father and mother were both immigrants from Italy, They left italy for the new world to improve their lives and to......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Flatdown: Hi - has somebody living near Tarrytown taken some additional photos of the former plant-area? Here in Germany we have a big community with fans of the Pontiac Trans Sport which was build in Tarrytown......

in response to: Abandoned General Motors Plant by Peter

"harpo" from middle village: My old church and school St. Brigids looks like some Guatemalan refuge camp . All the freaken phony whites from the 70 and 80' s moved out and ruined the neighborhood - they were mostly......

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

"harpo" middle village: My old church and school St. Brigids looks like some Guatemalan refuge camp . All the freaken phony whites from the 70 and 80' s moved out and ruined......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

zagg: Well at the least, Chiamattt - it's what we Great Lakers would call a yacht. But just for kicks, I looked up the meaning at websters.com and it fits: Main Entry: 1yacht Pronunciation: 'yät Function: noun Etymology: obsolete......

in response to: The Discount Price of $35,000 a Week by Cameo

jack: wow, really great. st. petersburg was once stalingrad, but they placed the name back after the dictator died. many russians died fighting the germans. i believe 16 million russians in all died......

in response to: Vspomnit\': to Remember by Marlo

JG to AH: Report from the front 2006. Looks like our new plans are working mein Fuhrer. Now with America destroyed it won't be long before the whole of the free world is obliterated again once and for all!!! ......

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

EvilGentleman: General Eisenhower went on to become President, while this old General did not die, but just faded away. Old Blood and Guts was one of the most controversial and amazing men of the 20th century. A......

in response to: Patton Statue by steelisreal