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anon (c-69-139-11-88.hsd1.pa.comcast.net): hairsy: can,t remember the hot dog stand. I did remember cassidy's candy store at palethorpe and cambria; spring water from wissonoming park; seeing president kennedy at front and sterner st. if you get a......

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

Grant: Thank god Park Slope windows didn't show up for our two appointments we scheduled for an estimate. Sure they wasted 2 days of my time, missing both appointments, however after reading all these comments,......

in response to: Park Slope Glass & Windows by sine

Normanite: I used to live in Manhattan. Granted, this is a much different kind of action, Norman really has a lot going for it. In addition to what has been said, check the city's......

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

Who Cares for Kensington: Sandy describes a perfect example of failure of the most basic services. At what point does a city department administrator decide that he/she will not offer resources to respond to a problem in a given......

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

RN1980: My question to all you HATERS is: What makes your town/city so much better? Every community in this country as problems with drugs and poor "white trash" or "illegal immigrants". The photos posted......

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

Charlie Gouldie: I was born in Weir St 1960 and went to St Margarets, I still stay in Plantation next to the new Squinty Bridge. I still go round to the Stanley Bar where a lot of......

in response to: 11 Stanley Place, Kinning Park by kobe

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

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

Cathy Tarkowski Grant: Belleville Kansas is full of potential with many creative artisans and entrepreneurs. It also is ripe for development with the Republican River running nearby, beautiful old 81 highway running north of town with it's......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 3 by Scott Sargent

CaptainVideo: What you are doing is no different that all white communities banning together to keep blacks from moving in because they are afraid that they will bring crime and lower property values. Humbolt is not......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Sheila Hilton: Hi Cyril, I came across some (confusing to say the least)information relating to Woolden Hall. Make of it what you will: "Woolden appears as Vulueden in 1299.......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Jade-en-Ville: EvilGentleman, I have learned a great deal from your pictures and posts over the past few years. This post prompted me to respond, mainly to lend weight to your comments to Canadian-Canadian. EvilGentleman's perspective is, in......

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

GuRu: This town is like americas butthole. If there was something to actually do in town, maybe it wouldnt be so bad. LIke, say, reopen the teen center. That might cut down on the crime, and......

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

Larry: My town used to be okay. . . but now it is swarming with illegal immigrants and criminal activity. The town next to us has even more illegal immigrants. For the most part it is......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 8 by Scott Sargent

karlone: Very definately US Presidents. I can make out William Harrison, maybe Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant with the beard, then maybe Taft, Cleveland, Truman and Eisenhower. I believe the first 2 in the foreground are Bush......

in response to: Big Heads in Houston by Michael-Ann

Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Thanks guys. Yes it was the building that was next to the doctors surgery, on the corner of Fairhills road and liverpool rd. I remember there was a Lidl supermarket there last time I......

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

Young Hippy: Bob, that is exactly it. It is a town for RETIRED PEOPLE, Or close to retirement. You are simply someone who has settled for what is around you. Maybe you should look at yourself, Hutchinson......

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

Shameeka Hollis Queens: Sweety, I'm sorry to hear about this, I shared it with my friends in High School and i can't express the sorry we feel. We pray for you, as a matter of......

in response to: 180 Central Avenue: What Was Lost by upfromflames

Kyle: does anyone know about parkour in the east midlands cus iv been doing it for a while but i live in Grantham and there is nothing to do....

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

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

Commodinson: Wow, that is what I like to hear. THE TRUTH. This lady and her story are typical of Hutchinson. It is a place for FAILURES. Granted there are some good in the population, but this......

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

Peter: guy: thanks for your posts; im glad to see youre taking a crack at going pro- best of luck! additionally, ive enjoyed looking at your posts; the ones concerning exotic animals, especially, are just so......

in response to: Its Been Almost Two Years Since I Posted by Guy McLaren

Antwerp Kurzweil: dangerous citizens? man, what you need to be worried about is the dangerous NYPD. sure, there's always the chance you'll get mugged in nyc, but then again, theres also a chance you'll get an undeserved......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Carleen: wonderful book, couldnt put it down! Didnt know there was a movie also. Its sad to read about how other people live in our country and makes me look around at what I......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

Mark: Thanks for posting the photos of Barton power station; they have assisted me enormously with my research. I'm a legal academic in the field of environmental law and am putting the final touches to a......

in response to: Barton Power Station by Dave

Bass Girl: I love those old photos above! It's good to see Hutch had a good start. I wonder what happened? I had an interesting visit with a neighbor who has been trying to......

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

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

observer: leaving Hutchinson, Kansas about 20 years ago was a decision i've never regretted.The mindset of the business community is that you OWE them for a minimum wage existence.GOOD jobs are hard to find and unless......

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

one more comment: ok, i got to this site by accident but it caught my attention so I continued to read. I should have gotten out the dictionary to make sure I spell everything right so you dont......

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

Western Kansan: If you think Hutch is bad, you should come to western Kansas. Take your pick of Garden City, Liberal, or Dodge City; they are all being taken over by the Mexicans, many of whom are......

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

little ukraine: "Many of them cross the burning desert illegally to enter the [oil] rich country in search of a better livelihood." it really is amazing how this statement (particularly if you remove the word 'oil')could apply to......

in response to: Sometimes a Picture Has Nothing to Do with the Story by Sohail Moughal

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......

in response to: Θεσσαλονίκη by zagg

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

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

david: I love Kensington so much. It is truly a joy. Granted, there are prostitutes and drugs around but for the most part, you will be OK if you know now to mind your......

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

PEMA: my husband grw up in bushwick while i myself grew up in tx. so some times its like we are from diff planets. anyway its interesting to see how you all talk about......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

joey: why, cary grant, of course!...

in response to: Who\'s Burried in Grant\'s Tomb? by Cartus

Armstrong: All this talk of crime is interesting yet Bushwick is changing everyday. It is inevitable. I think it will change for the better, remaining a mixed neighborhood demographically and economically. It is closer to Manhattan......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Josh: Both A-Gjengen and B-Gjengen are run by criminal elements within Oslo's immigrant Pakistani community. Both immigrants and ethnic Norwegians are their victims. The Norwegian police have been criticized for not having taken stronger......

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

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

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......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

John: Well the reason from the sudden Crime wave and violence is because of the Muslim immigrant groups who migrated to Norway such as the pakistani gangs the Albanian gangs and the Moroccans who are all......

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

jack: iman you sound like a smart kid, in the 50's in brooklyn there were little street gangs on every other corner. a gang then were just a group, a clan, kids from down the......

in response to: But There Is No Other Door for the over 50 Year Old Gang by jack

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......

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

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

upfromflames: Info From HPD: The Bushwick Initiative Year One: Results • 51% of the buildings assessed in poor condition were improved and were rated fair by the end of the first year. • With the cooperation of residential building owners in......

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

anon (localhost): Poor old fred maybe the council can give him one of those new houses which are going to cost us £3,000,000 no wonder the bloody council tax is going up. I suppose fred will have......

in response to: Dancing Fred by clarky

upfromflames: ** The Urban Ecology of Arson** The power of the Wallace's interpretation is its integrated systems approach. just as flames cannot burn in a vacuum, the flames of July 13th did not arise out of nowhere.......

in response to: Why Did Bushwick Burn? by upfromflames

upfromflames: Cuban Refugees? I never heard that angle before! I always thought it was Puerto Ricans spilling over and displaced form Williamsburg...interesting. I guess they moved on from the area. Nowadays, by the way, Bushwick is......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

me: First off, let me start by saying: not everyone who (as pissed off tax paying citizen said) "tags", is a "homie". That is a poor stereotype. The artists that offer up their beautiful artwork for......

in response to: Albuquerque Graffiti Flood by Relapsed

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......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

susannah: Granted I have a very poor memory but I seem to recall there was a Hell's Angels hang out on E13th as well. (But I haven't been to the lower east side in over 15......

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

jack: joey, guy get used to it, remember,,,'things change' its hard to see life change the little things we take for granted....

in response to: Wires in the Sky by joey

Dan Hoyt: Granted the chap is a little screwy, but I think a lot worse could be taking place. I caught a couple having sex in a park one day, Should I have taken pics and posted......

in response to: Beware: Perv Alert! by friendly_chic407

Bean: I see Drunken fights in Bergen (Norways second largest city) every Friday and Saturday/Sunday, But the situation is different here, Oslo got these immigrant gangs that chase eachother all the time making trouble. About the......

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

Ringo: Susannah, if you have the gift of logic, please try and apply it, if there you had muder to join a bike club do you think they would not of been shut down by now,......

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

just a thought: just a quick comment ~ i agree that there is a major problem with employers taking advantage of immigrants, especially illegals. Is it ironic that it's Mexicans that are doing construction in 90 degree......

in response to: We Are Not Criminals!!!! by Rabblerouser

jeeff: the cab must have been doing something funny because it got dragged into the streetcar-only right of way there on spadina. but to be fair, i've seen both good and bad cab drivers, and......

in response to: Crunch by jeeff

Børge: I don't think the fact that oslo is an expensive city has anything to do with the high crime number. It's also a fact that oslo is unique in norwegian matter. I live in the......

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

aer: when i first moved here i disliked the space needle. then i realized it was a good navigational tool and after i started telling tourists that george jetson lived in the space needle i began......

in response to: Road Trip, Part II by procyon

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

Grant: I am sitting in an apartment in 1230 Burling (one of the buildings in Cabrini Green) as I type this. I have lived here since 2000 (and before that I lived in a house......

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

Susannah: When I lived in NY as a kid I remember shootings, stabbings, razor bladings, and all out smack downs in our schools, one kid was actually blinded with battery acid by some guy - of......

in response to: Dawson CGEP Shooting by CE

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

lighten: 1st of all if you did not live in cabrini you should not speak about it and our way of living. cabrini was a place where people had alot of unity, loyality,love respect for each......

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

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

EvilGentleman: Sounds like the typical Canadian and/or Quebec films of the 80's come back to life. "Profits? What are profits? We were thinking grants and tax deductions, eh?" Canadian films are generally indy films that absorb government......

in response to: Bon Cop, Bad Cop by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: Canadian-Canadian, why do you say: ##"Half of NDG is immigrants on welfare already."## That seems like a pretty narrow-minded view. Do you have something against immigrants? And I seriously doubt your numbers, since most people......

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

Chris Erb: From the information I've been given concerning apartment rental in Montreal, the city only has a 2% vacancy rate for low income apartments (prices that low income families, students, or new immigrants can afford). ......

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

Canadian-Canadian: Wow. There are TONS of vacant apartments in Montreal at low-low rents. Half of NDG is immigrants on welfare already. There was no need to spend taxpayer dollars on this. And i'm sure in......

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

Genaro: Susannah, I have to give you, half-a-ditto on this one! You have to understand that their were many Whites who and are still really racsists, especially the ones of the establishment, along with most of......

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

Genaro: During the late 1940's and 50's, many of The Manhattan Elite thought it proper in calling the less popular working or the poor social White under class, WHITE TRASH! This would also include Whites who......

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

grant p: it's either a paste-up or a mock of a paste up... it's very similar in style to a peculiar campaign around town involving pictures of Burton Cummings of the Guess Who with the text "Stand Tall"......

in response to: Discount Everything by rgalston

aer suzuki: jeeff: i think alot of public murals look like they were painted by high school kids. maybe that's just me. hell, i paint like a high school kid. anyway, yeah, i was skeptical too, doesn't......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

jack: andrew you got it right. things change! the things we grew up with are disappearing right before our eyes. soon, all of us will join the things that disappeared. people i loved......

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

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

elaine: ITUC, i was in liverpool from about 1979 to 1985, i went to art school there, which as you know is not far from chinatown. this was before all day drinking and there was a......

in response to: Not-Chinatown / Fish-heads On Ice by aer suzuki

elaine: nice post. in london our chinatown is still chinatown, but then i think it really is actually chinese. it is very central, and i think the chinese residents have enough of a time trying to......

in response to: Not-Chinatown / Fish-heads On Ice by aer suzuki

Pat: I'm doing research on the White Star Lines - the RMS Baltic, in particular. My mom was an immigrant to this country in 1928, and I'm trying to put a history of her journey together......

in response to: Cunard White Star Lines by Peter

C.: But from the "Pedestrian Gridlock" thing, I can understand the problem. Same with the allergies. I live in Calgary, and it's far smaller that Montreal. I've never had a problem with moving away from the......

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

A Poet in Philadelphia: Having lived in Belfast several times, I can agree wholeheartedly with the above comment that the change begins with the person in the mirror. And having lived in the US for most of my......

in response to: snapshots on a refrigerator by manda

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

Blog-less and this is why: All this nonsense over what may or may not be a penis? Did anyone think that this might have actually been an accident? Gym short+Loose boxer briefs = loss of testicle control. Now granted there......

in response to: 7 Train Pervert by CC

jack: true. but many immigrants came to this country and they all worked and pooled their money into the family by buying property and other needs. every family had a savings bank. granted......

in response to: We Are Not Criminals!!!! by Rabblerouser

EvilGentleman: ATTENTION INS: It has been brought to the attention of the Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee) Department of Immigration and Hospitality that you have been residing in our nation illegally. As our Constitution has no provision automatically granting......

in response to: Speak Out by M. Rojas

grant Harding: haha. there's a jungle gym type of thing on top of a building on 2nd ave at 79th st, I think....

in response to: Rooftop Playground by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Elicar: Okay, what I can't understand is, how the rich make the regular folks lose their homes. Call me dense, but if they bought it awhile back, their mortgage will stay the same, or even paid......

in response to: The 40th Beaches Lion’s Easter Parade by Elicar

jeeff: elicar - how about the reservations up north where people continue to be stuck without clean drinking water and reliable infrastructure? how about the saskatoon police (to name only one notorious department)? the amount......

in response to: Cheap Sex $60 by Elicar

anon (p54907093.dip.t-dialin.net): Hi I'm half German. I live in England and have done for 3 years. I like a lot of the people there, as you do in every country you meet good people and bad people.......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

Peter: geez. considering that i just finished reading __fahrenheit 451__ this morning, im totally ripe for some good alienating, dystopian news fodder... thanks sine. so... is [[wiki:Durham Tees Valley Airport]] in some redneck/back-woods part of the uk......

in response to: Stupidity Is a Virus by sine

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Strewth! What the feck is happening? How ignorant do you have to be to condemn someone for their choice of very mainstream music? These days, London Calling or The Immigrant song is hardly revolutionary (and......

in response to: Stupidity Is a Virus by sine

Tyfoid Kid: That taxi driver must have really good ears. Most of Immigrant Song is pretty hard to understand unless you know the words. He probably didn't like his tip so he thought "I'll show......

in response to: Stupidity Is a Virus by sine

elaine: i see your pompeii, and raise you cave painting, granted, not lettering, but still... [[http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/]]...

in response to: Olde Graf? by kc

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......

in response to: Speak Out by M. Rojas

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......

in response to: Speak Out by M. Rojas

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......

in response to: Speak Out by M. Rojas

EvilGentleman: jack, if there is any subject that people need educating on, this is it. Keep up the good work. And thank you for your service to America. While I am not personally an American, My......

in response to: Burning the Flag by jack

jack: ok calm down. people who hate are a very small minority. ordinary people tend to keep silent on many subjects. this country is free for all peoples. but the laws must......

in response to: Speak Out by M. Rojas

jack: thanks for your comments, its appreciated. joe and i were sister's favorites. i did not know that at the time, i found out at our 47th reunion. she knew we were from......

in response to: The Meatball Caper by jack

Peter: i see cops like that all the time here in nyc. granted, theyre not always storming some building, but in our post-9/11 police state, there has been a profound overproliferation in swat-clad cops, and to......

in response to: Knock, Knock by torontofreelance