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BILROCK 161: All the best to you Vinny, sorry for your loss. I remember your MOM when ya'll were livin in Jackson-Heights. May she rest in Peace.
BILROCK 161, RTW-OTB-TFP... Peter: hahaha! ive ridden my bike past that bus 100 times...
when i was moving to my bushwick place form my {prospect heights} place, i drove past him many times, too.
good score! i smiled when i saw...... 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...... Stephen Barnes: I might go back to work there though cause Acorn was better than most schools. We were small but we had alot of heart, especially those days when we used to figh prospect heights and...... Peter: ive counted about 7 in my neighborhood. a new, utterly smashed-up honda appeared in the lot at the corner of central and hart today; ill carry my camera in the morning and get a shot...... Jon Burgess: James Cashan,
It would be great to start a thread dedicated to irlam and cadishead musicians and bands, there have been so many. My mates cousin from New Moss Road was the singer of a band...... Steve Mars: My parents Bernard and Estelle Mars (mom's maiden name is Estelle Roxenberg) grew up in Crown Heights. Their first date was at the Bedford Rest. My dad taught at Tilden High for 30+ years. He...... Post-84 New Jack: See, thats the general difference in our perspectives, "W-Bear". I prefer to look to the future, and push things to new heights than to dwell on the past and the past's faded glories and talk...... Leslie Green: Hello,
Can anyone help me trace the familiy of Roberts Hall he was an RAF airman who was killed December 18th 1944. Roberts ( spelling believed to be correct) came from Irlam O the heights....... Leon: I remember Town Hill but it was called the Bedford Rest before that. I had my first date with my wife there 48 years ago. I grew up in in the 30's and 40's in...... joey: nela park! wow. now that would have been very cool to see that place after all these years.
one of my cleveland heights neighbors worked for GE at nela park. we swam at the pool...... Mitch: I lived at 969 Carroll between Franklin and Bedford just a few blocks off Eastern Pkwy. My dad owned the drug store on the corner of Franklin and Eastern Pkwy (Maiman's Pharmacy). It was still...... Dick: The neighborhood during the early 40's was fabulous. PS 241 on President Street was new. In the schoolyard, softball center & right field were along the fence to the BMT trench. A home run hit...... Peter: heh, i know exactly where some of those shots were taken... i used to work up in {washington heights}, and commuted home to {midtown} by bike every day, and often took the scenic route through...... John in the heights: Been trying to get an exact figure on this...how many bridges are connected to Manhattan?... Peter: im 30. im not rich. i live in bushwick because i can afford it and because its, for the most part, a hard-working, family-rich neighborhood thats free of yuppie condos, starbucks and the like. it...... EvilGentleman: Oh, and if I remember correctly, the width of your photos was never an issue. It was the height. For the last year, I have been trying to keep my pictures' heights under 700 pixels...... CartLegger: and just to think, Moses had to be lobbied and picketed into creating this wonderful vertical highway. If not for the people of Brooklyn Heights, there would no view and a ditch through the neighborhood....... little ukraine: the cantilevered section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway:
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and for good measure, the Brooklyn Heights Promenade above it, and the view of Lower Manhattan offered there:
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... rox2mel: I just went on vacation back to my hometown of Colorado Springs. My son and I went to see the castle and I was amazed!! It really took my breath away after I...... Chris: Monday July 9th, I made a point to stop by today and view the progress. The family spent the weekend up on Greenhorn. The forest service has work ahead of them to reopen the road...... Dee: I grew up in Bushwick as a matter of fact iwas born in Bushwick.Iwas born in Wycoff Heights hospital in 1955.I lived in the same house with my family until I married in 78
my mom...... Bosley Latimore: It appears that young persons who are currently considering relocating to sections of Brooklyn such as Cobble Hill, Borum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Grand Army Plaza, or even Brooklyn Heights, would be well advised to consider...... LL2: If you grew up in Washington Heights in the 80's as a kid and were into the scene, you HAD TO know / see SANE SMITH!!! BIG UP TO DA HEIGHTZ!!!... Peter: im in the middle of moving to {bushwick} from {prospect heights} right now, actually. ill keep you posted. so far, i really like it in bushwick. if i was worried even the slightest bit, i...... zee3: r.ip. sane. big ups to the heights, smith, jaone and all graffers man peace ... Peter: cay: firstly, i think its humorously ironic that you qualify "not scaremongering" by saying "god knows {nyc} is scary enough". thats a dated, inaccurate and stereotypical statement that i dont appreciate much, as a {new...... Paradox: It's interesting to hear what people think of Brooklyn but overall it's not as bad as it used to be. I'm not saying that crime is all gone but the city has changed a lot....... dougieESQ: there is no east williamsburg...it is bushwick.
If you haven't lived in NYC before you will find Coney Island to be sketch unless you are riding the Cyclone. Also, if you are a Brooklyn newbie...... Jimmy Legs: i'd just like to point out that bushwick's crime stats are no worse (and in most cases, significantly better) than that of bed-stuy, east new york or crown heights in the last year. sure it...... Alan D.: Thanks for the photo. Like Joan, I was born in Prospect Heights Hospital, but in 1945; unhappily moved to the Bronx in 1955. BUT, Brooklyn is still in my blood. Andrea Kaufman and Tibby Ludden,...... kathryn: I grew up near Eastern Parkway....I have not been in Brooklyn in over 30 years but I do remember the area known as Prospect Heights...I remember Ebbets Field on Sullivasn Place and Bedford Ave......I remember...... K Bernstein: I lived in an apartment building at Eastern Parkway and Troy Avenue in the 1950s. Eastern Parkway was a beautiful street, with its two pedestrian malls with benches and trees. The street was lined with...... Peter: you must have been in my neck of the woods... the shot of the roses stuck in the signpost is totally {prospect heights}... actually, the brown building in the background is on the corner of...... upfromflames: Crown Heights is partly Chasidic Jewish, partly Caribbean black, two communities who have conflicted for years over the territory. just check out the flags on the houses to see who's who.
Its also got the...... want a job: What type of neighborhood is Crown Heights? I visited today, felt a little uncomfortable in daylight. I am thinking of taking a job off of St.Marks. Can I (young female) walk...... Joan: I was born at Prospect Heights Hospital in l94l and lived on Park Place until l95l. I have not been back for many, many years, and I love this...... dominick: the italian neighborhoods are always the safest such as bensonhurst and dyker heights. Ive never had a problem in either.... colavitos ghost: or crown heights, whichever. aarrgh!... colavitos ghost: i´ve always thought that prospect heights had a timeless feel about it, and i think you´ve captured that in these shots. kudos!... joey: where i grew up in cleveland heights we had the blue knight lounge. very different. the juke box played steppenwolf 'born to be wild'. that's where i learned to drink beer.... little ukraine: i'm a soon to be crown heights resident, and while wandering around the neighborhood recently, i got to washington avenue and turned my head and saw a sign for Gino's Pizza. it may be...... Peter: there are many geno's. this one is in {prospect heights}...... joey: there was a ravine in my old cleveland heights neighborhood. we lived on stoneleigh road then. the ravine went behind the ge nela park dump. so we would sneak in the dump through a hole...... little ukraine: joey, i'd love to see your shots. we'll be seeing some from cleveland heights soon. gosh, i really have to get that last roll developed... ... joey: Cleveland, OH - hooray for the Ed.
i can scan some old pictures i have from my youth. i can post tehm too. i'll do that once the party gets started. i used to party mainly...... whois: yeah brooklyn iz a good place... all east new york, brownsville, bed stuy, east flatbush, flatbush, crown heights, bushwick, east williamsburg and even williamsburg, we all in da house...... colavitos ghost: peter, i've always meant to ask you if you've read "the fortress of solitude" by jonathan lethem. it's a really wonderful book, and is set in prospect heights (it takes the gentrification issue head-on).
anybody...... neene: spotted 10/8, crown heights, brooklyn
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... Peter: nice! it reminds me of [[5052:the churches of crown heights]]... i love those old handpainted signs too.... Sirhcbre: I forgot about these photos. I've been so busy lately that I can't post anything. I just dump photos into iPhoto every couple days and then go on my way. Here are...... EvilGentleman: Very true, about every city being unique. Sorry about that, I did not mean to slight Toronto (Old habit from hockey debates). I was just pointing out to Sirhcbre that due to the flat landscape...... aj schure: what strets are this pic taken??? ive been away from crown heights along trime????thanks... joey: the photo is cropped so that you don't see the damage. the bronze base of the statue was 'torn'. there is a big hole.
i was living in cleveland heights at the time and my...... zagg: Sirhcbre: I didn't know the answer myself, so I researched it (took 2 minutes, go me)
The composers of the song 'such great heights' appear according to allmusic.com to be 'Ben Gibbard, Jimmy Tamborello' --- so...... Sirhcbre: There's a good reason for that though, the reason Europe and North America have so few on this list is because their major cities are all cities that were booming when building heights wern't as...... peacefrog: As an American who has lived in Canada most of his life, visiting the US and especially NYC is a harsh reality check, and a reminder that the ravages of racism are still alive and...... Peter: thats more in {crown heights}, about 15-20 blocks straight east of where this photo was taken (which is {park place} between {underhill} and {washington} avenue)...... az: can anyone tell me which block this is? it's gorgeous. my grandparents and great grand-parents and great aunts and uncles occupied a building at 1522 park place in the 30s,40s, and after. i wonder...... jamie: you have some real tacky shopfronts around prospect heights... TheTruth: Nice try at history, Sylvia, but you've missed some huge factors. My family was part of that 1st wave of nonwhites to integrate Bushwick in the 1950s. They weren't Gentry -- sorry--even though they were...... Peter: random curious fact: in {prospect heights}, the signs for {st marks} just say {st marks}, and do not include the {ave} notation at the end, as they do in {park slope}. same goes for most...... Chris Erb: I don't know where the "Landing" part of the name came from. There are apartments up the hill called Regency Heights which makes sense. Maybe it's because the city is on a river?... Peter: the [[4216:bajaj of brooklyn]], chained up to the [[3911:drinking water sampling station]] in {prospect heights}:
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... franny: I grew up in bushwick on bleecker and irving during the 60's & 70's. It was the happiest time I had in my life. It was a blue collar hard working neighborhood. You could sleep...... Peter: a quick look at the wiki entry for [[wiki:bushwick]] shows that the displaced people youre talking about are far from the first to be displaced, whether from gentrification, changing demographics, modernization, urbanization, etc. i mean,...... Kakumei: I'm a 20 year old white female and I live in Brooklyn (Flatbush) - I go around to Coney Island, Crown Heights, Marine Park, Williamsburg, Sunset Park, etc by myself during the day _and_ night...... Peter: a stella parked in {prospect heights}, {brooklyn}:
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[[http://www.genuinescooters.com/stella.html]]... 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...... Jamie: i like the big sky in your recent photos of {Prospect Heights}... EvilGentleman: Ironically, I have seen taller buildings in Iqaluit, Nunavut.
And the buildings in Montreal were originally not allowed to be higher than Mount Royal (much like Halifax and the Citadel). Nowadays, the heights of the buildings...... Peter: a classic 1971 p-1800 volvo coupe spotted in {prospect heights}, {brooklyn}:
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[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_P1800]]... 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...... jack: is that a crown heights basketball hoop kinda thing.... Peter: hey pat, tis great t osee more stuff from {crown heights} up in here... thanks!... Peter: yay {crown heights}!!!! more!... Peter: franklin is a littel far north, sort of pushing {crown heights}, but id recommend {prospect heights}, for sure. its safe, of course. this isnt hte {brooklyn} of the 1970s anymore, you know ;)... alison: Hi there:
I'm considering moving to Prospect Heights (renting). Could you tell me how the neighborhood is? I saw a listing for a place on the corner of Franklin and Bergen. Is that is safe area?...... Leo Just a 23 Wash HeIGhts Kid: All these years and to this day i can still probaly call out where smith and sane tags are at. My brother use to be down with 5x7 and XTW back in the day and...... GGP: i found a really cool first edition of an old mystery novel--signed by author--in Brooklyn Heights a few weeks ago. You could totally create a fabulous personal library from discards alone! Great post.... Elicar: Thanks Grange, Evil and E!
Elaine, I am SCARED of heights!!!... Elicar: Opps...I missed three comments as I was making mine.
Yes Grange, they had washrooms then...perhaps not as modern as what we have now, but the distillery has been modernized... I did take a picture of one...... Peter: i found some more oldskool ones in {prospect heights}, what with the torch/ice-cream finial atop:
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(the sticker on the closeup reminded me of [[wiki:Robert Indiana]] and elaine's "if you see kay" friend...)
... Peter: jack: ive got a kawasaki! incidentally, its a pain to ride over cobbles. especially the rough, torn up cobbles near the {prospect heights} {post office} on {fulton}.
wheres your camera? are you still taking photos?... brian: The c-town in Washington Heights (Bway & StNick) has a bulletin board of Polaroids of shoplifters.. If you are ever in the area stop by and take a peek at this gem.. Some of the...... Peter: the {robot building}'s cousin apparently lives in {Crown heights}, {brooklyn}:
[[img:8891]]... Laura : Ahhhh. The heights...... jack: kate i live in berkeley heights and i'm still digging out.... Peter: yeah... spamming. like back when you posted the same comment on here like 50 times in many different entries (and i had to fix it) and when you did the same on the [[http://www.dailyheights.com]] forum,...... Peter: yeah, i figured it had to be in {prospect heights} :)... GGP: ooh, boy. not sure i remember. over in prospect heights somewhere, a few months back, actually. perhaps on washington?... Peter: I do that with the shuttle train where it surfaces up near the {brooklyn botanic garden}, and also where it crosses {park place} in {prospect heights} (like in [[1534:this entry]])... i love watching them go...... Peter: mine parked in front of {Soda Bar} in {Prospect Heights}:
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... Peter: more {boner}, spotted in {prospect heights}:
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... Peter: wow! i caught that "bureau of bridges" truck again at a redlight yesterday morning over in {prospect heights}:
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note {leeto} tag...... Peter: i spotted another kronan in {prospect heights}... what a rare sight:
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... Peter: morgan: check out the {prospect heights} blog at [[http://www.dailyheights.com]] and the neighborhood forum at [[http://dailyheights.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=2]] theyre both very useful, especially if youre moving to the neighborhood... so much info and community.... Morgan: I just got an apartment in Prospect Heights on St. Johns Place. Can anyone give me any info about that part of town? ... makr1: then why do you take credit? youre nothing but a skill-less hypocrite. i saw your "art" in prospect heights.... it sucks ass. for all the shit talking and posturing you do, i expected far more.
plus,...... Peter: heres a good example of one that has a new-style pullbox on top of the antique base, as in the firwst one. I spotted it on {washington} avenue at {dean} street in {prospect heights}, {brooklyn}:
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