Comments about manhattan

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Peter: the northwestern side of {manhattan}. the {gwb} runs across the {hudson} river, from about 168th street in {manhattan} west to {new jersey}... [[http://www.satellite-sightseer.com/id/1350]]...

in response to: Jeffrey\'s Hook Lighthouse by Mike L.

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

Tomes: Dondi came from Manhattan NY.He sprayed a lot with an artist called LEE. ...

in response to: In Memory of DONDI by Metro 1

jack: your correct, i was waiting for shots of the falls, i figured it was gonna be peter since he was the closest. so you took a boat ride around manhattan on the circle line,......

in response to: Water Falls on the City by CartLegger

u shud give more details: where is this in manhattan...

in response to: Scrap Yard nyc GRAFFITI STORE by art views

Joe F: Hi Laura ! RE: "my" 3rd Ave EL PHOTO ! I enjoyed reading your Yorkville memories as an ex 1940's-60's Yorkville-ite myself. It would have been appropriate and nice for me to also have been given ME......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

christine: again interaction in the air. the fact that i sat on the roof of my 6 story apartment in the LES and watched a good 30 trips (not sure how many actual planes there was, i......

in response to: Midnight over Manhattan by Peter

jack: now this area i know well since i grew up in bensonhurst and gravesend and the last picture looks like the sea beach express which is in gravesend and kinda skirts bensonhurst, better know as......

in response to: Bensonhurst Views by David G.

Allison: Not to bog you down with stats, but just by comparison here is the info for the same year in Manhattan: County New York County Community/county police department County Total Year 2006 Total number of reported crimes (violent and property) 56,255 Number of violent......

in response to: Dangerous to Walk Around Brooklyn? by Jayne

Allison: Well, I was born in Flatbush and even though I've been out for 20 years the place still gives me the willies whenever I return. I live in Manhattan now and am constantly amazed at......

in response to: Dangerous to Walk Around Brooklyn? by Jayne

CuriousGeorge: Anyone know what the neighborhood is like on Moffat St. b/n Central and Evergeen? Just off the L-Wilson stop. Looking for a new home in a safe area with modest conveniences -- grocery, dry cleaners,......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Mike L.: Jack, thanks for taking the time to look at these photos. I served 1971-75, but in Turkey, not a combat zone. My son returned from his 2nd Iraq tour (as a combat medic)......

in response to: Bryant Park, Vietnam War Protest, 1970 by Mike L.

kellymac: thanks for the links peter, my skepticism at the "factual" information in the book started with her claiming there are natural caves under Manhattan, much less ones accessible from subway passages. she clearly had......

in response to: The Freedom Tunnel by Peter

ante croatia: oooooh my god every bridge in new york has it's own charisma.i am 13 and i love all bridges especially suspension ones and cable stayed bridges but new york bridges-paradise for me.i especially love the......

in response to: The Bridges of New York City by Peter

Mike L.: Peter, I used to run around Manhattan with an old Yashica Electro-35 (which I still have - and use) - and before that, an Argus C3....

in response to: East 23rd Street, NY by Mike L.

Peter: if you take the wtc path to exchange place and walk towards the hudson river bank, you cant miss it. it faces east, towards lower manhattan, right across the river....

in response to: World\'s Largest Clock? by Peter

Arnold Magraner: In the mid to late 50's even into the early sixties, I used to go to Brighton Beach Bay3, during the summer with many of my friends from the Borough of Manhattan. We had formed a......

in response to: Luna Park: Coney Island by Peter

jack: the earliest i remember is Staten Island in 1948, it was country then, i was 6, but there is a story i personally know is true, because i made it up so there, and it......

in response to: Staten: Once Upon a Line by CartLegger

abiona thompson: dude you should get picks of the shit curtis and ster did when walking over the williamsburg bridge from brooklyn to manhattan if you walk on the right side when getting on the bridge and......

in response to: Ster by Peter

Peter: looks like its set to return to {manhattan}'s west side this fall (~september 2008)......

in response to: Intrepid in Repairs by jack

Ken Maki: Love the pic of the 1950 or '51 Chevrolet fastback sedan used by the radio station at this event. I own a 1953 Kaiser Manhattan myself....

in response to: Under Pressure 2004 by EvilGentleman

Sammy Perez: antblack, you mentioned skelly, stickball, tops and coco carts. Those are some serious memories there. Here a few more for you: punchball, cocolerio 1,2,3, off the wall and chinese handball along with riding......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Peter: i think youre referring to {manhattan}, as it has areas referred to as "upper east side" and "upper west side", whereas {brooklyn} generally doesnt. to me, the "upper east side/east side" is where folks move......

in response to: Dangerous to Walk Around Brooklyn? by Jayne

Ed Swenson: I was born in Bushwick Hospital in 1937. My parents moved a few years later to Ozone Park and when I was 5 they moved us to New Hyde Park, but whenever we needed......

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

ValleyCruiser: 1952 Nash, interesting looking car., tough cars in their day. I have a 1953 Kaiser Manhattan & a 1950 Studebaker Champion Starlite Coupe I'd love to get my hand on a '50s Nash or Willys. The independents of......

in response to: Classic Cars 4 - 1952 Nash by EvilGentleman

ValleyCruiser: Nice Rides! I myself am a proud orner of a 1953 Kaiser Manhattan.,If I'm passing through in it I'll be sure to drop by., you don't see alot of these cars anymore. I often road......

in response to: Classic Cars 2 - 1966 Sting Ray by EvilGentleman

NervaVels: I lived on the block of Green/Evergreen/Harman for almost 20 years; prior to that, I lived on Jefferson St between Knickerbocker and Irving (still remember getting picked up by the bus to go to a......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

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

singingnettle: I used to love the way you could look up and down the waterline from one of the edges of the land and see the way Manhattan was strung with bridges and you perceived that......

in response to: Under the Bridges by Peter

Peter: admittedly, this was in front of the {urban outfitters} at {14th} street and {6th} ave in {manhattan}. it figures... this is typical of the sort of crap they sell there....

in response to: Grow Your Own Marijuana by Peter

janet: Hi Stan--You're probably close to my vintage. I'm trying without luck to call up a memory of Famous on Schenectady--I lived just around the corner and went to 167--so there it was during the......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

janet: I moved from St. Johns Place between Schenectady & Troy to St. Johns & Albany in early 50's and boarded IRT to Manhattan at Kingston. Wish I could remember Famous Restaurant on Schenectady,......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

EvilGentleman: Probably the guy in the Honda stopped to count his change, and the guy in the Nissan impatiently tried to pass, pissing off the Honda guy, who raced to keep his spot in line, and......

in response to: Tight Squeeze by jack

noslen snow: On 12/29/07, I had a dreamed of a windowless building imploding and exploding from within, it was located within lower Manhattan. I saw a lot of people severely injured on the ground and debris......

in response to: 33 Thomas: Robot Building by CartLegger

jack: thank you little ukraine, i never knew about that ceremony, i thought new yorkers forgot about that fire, seems when i read the book about it many years ago i became emotionaly tied to the......

in response to: Walking Through Washington Square Park On My Way to Dinner by jack

Mushi: Jane, I've lived by myself in Bushwick off of the Jefferson Street stop. My theory with being a single woman living in any part of NYC: take the subway until a certain part of the night......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

jack: that's a new craze dance step from roseland on 43rd street in manhattan, it's called the penquin walk and you can't use your arms only your hands and tiptoe around, really good shot....

in response to: Oct 26 2007 New York by hool

jack: barry you took these i'm guessing from 30 rock, and they are beautiful shots, this is manhattan in fall, autumn in new york, why does it seem so inviting, autumn in new york, it......

in response to: Rockefeller by barry

catherine: my best friend and i are looking for an apt in brooklyn. neither of us are stupid, but we are young (20). naturally, my mother is worried that i won't be safe if......

in response to: Dangerous to Walk Around Brooklyn? by Jayne

jack: peter you bring tears to my eyes, the old brooklyn-manhattan transit, the sea beach express, the f train and others, i rode them almost everyday, i would walk to school and pass under the el......

in response to: Coney Island, Stillwell Avenue Station by Peter

BathBeach: In December of 2006, I moved from Salt Lake City to Manhattan. I lived there around 66th street for half a year. [rent: $2,500 a month]. After I had been here a while, I realised......

in response to: Dangerous to Walk Around Brooklyn? by Jayne

Yeah I live in Hutch, so what.: Quoted earlier: I challenge any Hutch resident to name me TEN particular, redeeming, specific traits about the town that make it "special". I can't name ten traits about ANY town that make it special, but to......

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

John in the heights: Been trying to get an exact figure on this...how many bridges are connected to Manhattan?...

in response to: The Bridges of New York City by Peter

Mila: That is the Worst road in the World when you want to come in from New Jersey.Half an Hour at the tolls then you get the huge traffic jams Ahhhh!!!!!! i hate it....lol.they Need way......

in response to: Cross Bronx Expy by barry

D-Mizz: OJ tags OJAE also, in the A train tunnels with JA. If you look in the old trains in the frint window, you'll see em..he is also in the 3 train tunnels in manhattan....

in response to: All Type of Signs by Peter

D-Mizz: What? Oh is a girl? She's in the tunnels too..that girl is crazy at hell..cown heigths, manhattan 1 train tunnels, everywhere!...

in response to: Oh! by Peter

jack: oh my goodness, a john lennon fan, i think the first pic was his apartment, the beatles, the dakota, manhattan in fall, soon i will take my family to connelly's for our annual Christmas in......

in response to: 5 Ave 58st by barry

little ukraine: oops hit post too soon- just a few more words - the area i described has been well under... er, 'development' for over a decade, and it's hitting the point where shitloads of condos are......

in response to: Help This Newbie by lou

little ukraine: i see nobody has given this a stab yet so... here goes... first of all, congratulations for having the initiative to save up a lot of money, because it is first and foremost what you will......

in response to: Help This Newbie by lou

unsure: Actually, as I look back on what I wrote, and after reading every single comment on this page (whew!), I realize that I do need to spend more time in Bushwick and see how I......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

jack: mrs. waxman, she is in advertising, i was a union linotype operator and journeyman compositor at an old printing company in manhattan on cedar street and washington street....

in response to: Long Island City: Summers End by CartLegger

Ducks: where is this in Manhattan?...

in response to: Scrap Yard nyc GRAFFITI STORE by art views

Bass Girl: LOL @ all of the comments made since I last stopped by. I can't help but shake my head when I see people hanging on to the "but we have the Cosmosphere, the free......

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

Chris Rodriguez: Im not (just a 12 year old) im an honor student at bishop laughlin memmorial high school. Peter if you feel safe good for you... how old are you things are different for a......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Wyoming Native: I live in WY, recently visited NYC, stayed in Manhattan for a week. Rode the J train to Brooklyn for a bagel, then walked back to Manhattan over the Brooklyn bridge. My area of interest......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Peter: a {tanuki} i recently spotted on {st. marks} in {manhattan}: [[img:22812]]...

in response to: Don\'t Drink the Sake by serlingrod

Hutch=LOW INCOME: I question people like you who list these many cities they have lived in. You must travel alot, because if you lived in that vast number of cities you must stay for less than a......

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

serlingrod: Do people even bike alot in NYC? I've taken my bike on the Chinatown Bus from Philly to NY many a times, and every visit I'm always amazed at how few fellow bikers I see.......

in response to: Frankford Avenue ArtRacks by serlingrod

Luis Acevedo: In my opinion what makes this neighborhood so hot is that people are moving to what they consider to be cheaper rents than in soho or midtown. The L train gets you to manhattan in......

in response to: Bushwick: the Next Hot Neighborhood? by upfromflames

CartLegger: here's some more historical background, compliment's of PBS POV program--the Spambot won't let me attach a link, so read below: Barren Island, which appears on few modern maps, holds a special place in the city's garbage......

in response to: Barren Island by CartLegger

Brad: Oh man, I love Brooklyn. Each time I visit New York City, I like Brooklyn more and more. Not sure why, it might be a combination of the reputation, the culture and just so many......

in response to: Sunset Park by little ukraine

little ukraine: the cantilevered section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway: [[img:22071]] [[img:22072]] and for good measure, the Brooklyn Heights Promenade above it, and the view of Lower Manhattan offered there: [[img:22073]] [[img:22074]] ...

in response to: Robert Moses Photo Collective by CartLegger

nopw: i was tight wen they raised the price for a slice..now its the same price its is in manhattan..i lovee thee pizza tho...

in response to: Gino\'s Pizza by Peter

Rick: I have been to Belleville and have relatives still living there. I've read these posts and both sides have a point. To the people that are from there that really haven't been anywhere......

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

KB: Lived in Bushwick on Eldert Street, btw Knickerbocker & Irving, from when I was born, until we moved away in 1967, when I was 16. Things had gotten rough in 1966, when there was......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

confused: The City of Hutchinson is boring for several reasons, 1. NO ECONOMY, NO GOOD attractions. There is plenty of Night Life in Hutchinson, but most of that involves drinking. It has been made very clear......

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

Dan: Hi, I went to university in manhattan (NYU), and during that time was privileged to live in some good areas. I hung around the Lower East Side a lot and it has obviously gotten......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Kat: Is it true that the new residents of Bushwick are calling it 'Shiwck'? For serious, I will die if this is true. I've lived on Bushwick all my life, and the idea of some yuppies......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

jaybay: My friend and I just got an apartment in the western part of Bushwick, where Suydam Street and Bushwick Ave. intersect. WE are two white girls in our 20's. We walked around the......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Bazz: Thanks Peter, that sounds brilliant. We wanted American culture and it looks like we're gonna get it! The commute will be no problem, I don't think we'll be going into Manhattan much other than work......

in response to: Dangerous to Walk Around Brooklyn? by Jayne

Honey: To RoB.. Just because your life didn't come out the way you like it, please don't sterotype any other race. Stop assuming shit and get your facts straight. Ignorant ass!! I'm hispanic and still living......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Peter: yo bazz, i used to live right in that neighborhood... 45th and 4th ave, actually. that area is great. be sure to walk up to 5th avenue for the good shopping, diners and amazing produce.......

in response to: Dangerous to Walk Around Brooklyn? by Jayne

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

Mushi: There are mean people everywhere in this city, whether it's Bushwick, Sunnyside, Park Slope, the Upper Eastside, Soho...it doesn't matter. People with attitudes like some mentioned above really upset me. Yeah, I'd love to live......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

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......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Cay: For a short term stay I'd suggest lower Manhattan. You'd be centrally located to everything and not have to hassle with BK unknowns. ...

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Armstrong: unrecognizable in a good way of course! here are the views from my new apartment of Maria Hernandez park and Manhattan skyline (taken from the roof looking back towards Troutman St.)...

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

jack: i remember masim's on chambers street, as a matter of fact from cedar street at washington to church street to chambers was litterally an electronics street fair, every store had radio components laid out on......

in response to: Maxim Radio, et Al by GGP

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),......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Brad: The "threat level" is the only excuse I can think of for not allowing pictures to be taken. If I'm not mistaken, pictures of/in the city's tunnels are also forbidden, or to quote the cop......

in response to: Robert Moses Photo Collective by CartLegger

Mushi: Uponflames and Jimmy QV -- also, when choosing a place to live, no real estate agent did an upsell to me. I didn't go through a broker to find my place, just an add online.......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Mushi: I've now lived in Bushwick for 10 months. Other than the fact that where I live feels like a dorm sometimes (loud music, loud people), I do feel safe there. Yes, as I have said,......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

CartLegger: [[img:19104]] Glad I don't live in Manhattan. Imagine if this was your view!...

in response to: Post a Picture of Directly Outside Your Window by CE

jack: by the way for the people who don't know, that's the brooklyn bridge at bottom right, then you see the ends of the manhattan bridge behind the lights of the woolworth building, (which was the......

in response to: 7WTC by little ukraine

j.walthers@timesnewsweekly.com: In response to upfromflames regarding Bushwick Corners: This response requires both historical perspective and adjustment of mind set to the Colonial New World. The 17th Century was a fundamentally agrarian society dedicated and tied to land......

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

Jimmy Legs: you know the drill, get into the cab first, THEN tell them where you're going. no one can say how much it'll cost since we don't know where you'd be in manhattan or where you're......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

jack: a drippy heart on a wall, an empty gas tank, an owl to keep mice away, and the red duster or the blue duster or union jack,,,i, jack, prefer union jack and we should meet......

in response to: Out and About with Elaine by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

jack: my two favorite girls, prancing about in london, the next thing you know citynoise will have a convention in manhattan, oh my, oh my, i don't want you to see me and lose the illusion......

in response to: Out and About with Elaine by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

j.walthers@timesnewsweekly.com: Part IB - Birth - Billyburg's First Hipsters Came From.....Bushwick: Bushwick was mainly pastoral in pre- and post-Revolutionary War Kings County; salt meadows offered excellent grazing. Farming was central to the local economy. However, by the......

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

miguel p. from nyc: check this out - i just saw this guy on w. 137th street in manhattan at about 5:30am at a deli shop and he himself gave me this web address. ha-ha. isnt that crazy??? ...

in response to: Ninjas Killed My Family - Need Money for Kung-Fu Lessons by Jayson

anon (localhost): a lot of it was highly socio~economic if you wanna get into the really deep meaning of it. If you wanna get to the nutz and bolts of it, Id suggest a call to the......

in response to: Why Did Bushwick Burn? by upfromflames

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: [[img:18623]] Outside my office, mid-town Manhattan. I don't have a window, sigh. ...

in response to: Post a Picture of Directly Outside Your Window by CE

Jeff: These bridges are beautiful my favorits are the brooklyn,manhattan,george washington or (the G.W.)and the verazino narrows or simply put the narrows bridge. New York City is my faverit place to be and i plan on......

in response to: The Bridges of New York City by Peter

.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

Anthony: I live near Denver International Airport and have been there many, many times and have seeked out and found everything mentioned here and then some. I first heard about the DIA conspiracies a few......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: It's all about the angles. I walk around Manhattan snapping mental pictures. And when I can't take it any more, out comes the camera and I start taking real ones. New York is just so......

in response to: Snow on Third Ave by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

jack: i had to see this again and comment on the angles and corners of the buildings, the different colors, the look of the majesty of manhattan. almost looks like a lego setup. i......

in response to: Snow on Third Ave by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

jack: tim, i remember seeing manhattan the way you saw it and remember it. but you and i, (probably the two old farts here) we'll drop the farts, the two older gentlemen, ahem, grew up......

in response to: Hippie Days by Tim Coakley

NERC: "He can never compare to graffiti artist that have nothing and risk every thing including their lives to lose,all for their art, people with no other outlets, and if it wern't for graffiti they'ed probaly......

in response to: JA: A True NYC King by Peter

compatriot: I can't remember, might even be in Manhattan....

in response to: Subway Love by stillsken