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foosh: I am from Calgary Canada, You said it yourself that New York is the most recognized skyline in the world if it weren't then it wouldn't be so recognized as the most would it! so......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

disillusioned: can someone explain to me how it is possible to make friends or have a boyfriend/girlfriend if you live in new york city, esp. williamsburg..it seems completely impossible since people are unfriendly and full of......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Kevin: I forgot to specify which Kryptonite New York I was inquiring about. I was referring to the Fahgettaboudit Mini U-lock....

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

Kevin: I currently own a couple of decent mountain bikes and haven't owned a lock in 10 years after having had 3 bikes (of all varying quality and price range) stolen. This year I had planned......

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

Stormbash: Im Australian so my top 15 is going to be mostly Auzzie cities. TOP 15 1)Shanghai 2)Gold Coast 3)Seattle 4)Melbourne 5)Hong Kong 6)Sydney 7)Brisbane 8)Toronto 9)Chicago 10)Perth 11)Vancouver 12)Singapore 13)New York 14)Auckland 15)Frankfort...

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

mburgos: omg... i wonder how many of you i know... i grew up all over kensington... and still kinda am ... the steak house wanderer was staliking about was billy's steak house... they robbed and......

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

Peter: hey "movin to wick", wake up! youre working with a conception of {new york} thats about 20+ years outdated... i mean, serously. youd think {brooklyn} was {beirut}. perhaps youve been watching too much ##law and......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

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

NewYorkDave: Bobby I: Thanks! My Dad must've been selling pretzels around the same time because he bought and sold them for the same prices you quoted. His "route" was Onderdonk heading south; he tells me that......

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

Peter: are you crazy, or just seriously uninformed? nothing rebuilt, nothing touched? thats not true at all! i commute through the WTC site/station every day, and theres so much going on there... sure, its a slow......

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

SEL-1 TBS CRU!!: GO SCRAP YARD ITS THE BEST GRAFF STORE IN NEWYORK ...

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

Peter: i never made it to the shore in summer 05. come to think of it, i havent been down the shore since, shit, 2001? wow. thats the [[wiki:jersey shore]]. i mean, ive been to [[wiki:coney......

in response to: Untitled by elaine

Peter: as a new yorker, i find it amusing/disturbing that they list {pigeon} on their sign......

in response to: T & S Live Poultry by Peter

frank: what the hell where Miami at.... my top 4 in usa new york chicago Miami los angeles ...

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

jeeff: you've probably already checked the new york times archives (free access with signup), but if not it has about 70 hits for "federation of american motorcyclists", with lots of articles from that time period....

in response to: Brooklyn Motorcycle History by cycles-past

Edward: The tiles originally appeared in Philadelphia. The tagger is widely thought to live about 22nd and Walnut Streets. In philadelphia there are hundreds of the tags as well as newer ghost like creatures(think strawbery, vanilla,......

in response to: Toynbee Tiles by Cosmo

saul altman: I'm not talking about building projects, thats there idea of a community, what i envision is apartment buildings,2-3 family style homes with lawns trees you know a place were all solid Americans can start families &......

in response to: Coney Island Low by Peter

saul altman: i wonder where the city of New York will build the next death town just like the one they created in Coney? They just don't get it, we need to build a community where all......

in response to: Coney Island Low by Peter

LA & NY ,USA: THE USA LOOKS BETTER....[[img:26865]]THIS IS LOS ANGELES CA..[[img:26866]] AND THE EMPIRE STATE IN NEW YORK..[[img:26867]] [[img:26868]] ...

in response to: tokyo skyline by jeeff

LA & NY ,USA: AND FUCK ALL THE HATERS CUZ Y U KNOW THAT NEW YORK AND LOS ANGELES R THE BEST ...........

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

LA & NY: [[img:26858]] [[img:26859]] [[img:26857]] I CAN'T BELEAVE THAT LOS ANGELES IN NOT THERE ......FUCK CHINA!!!!!!LOS ANGELES SHOULD BE ON THE TOP 3..AND NEW YORK SHOULD BE IN THE 1ST PLACE[[img:26860]] [[img:26861]] [[img:26862]] [[img:26864]] THIS IS HOW NEW YORK IS GOING TO LOOK......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

LA & NY: [[img:26858]] [[img:26859]] [[img:26857]] I CAN'T BELEAVE THAT LOS ANGELES IN NOT THERE ......FUCK CHINA!!!!!!LOS ANGELES SHOULD BE ON THE TOP 3..AND NEW YORK SHOULD BE IN THE 1ST PLACE[[img:26860]] [[img:26861]] [[img:26862]] [[img:26864]] THIS IS HOW NEW YORK IS GOING TO LOOK......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

Peter: tom: i think its ludicrous to simply look at the "thousands of lives lost that day" without trying to dig deeper into the why and how of it. i think it disrespects both those who......

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

Peter: apparently, im tossing in gimmicks to prevent {new york} from falling ##too## far behind {toronto}! lordy, i have a backlog to post, but have been too add lately to sort through them all. gah....

in response to: No Standing Anytime by Peter

erase: hey foo dam u a legend how da fuk do people get famous like obey and sean wat u got 2 do u know sabre dey talk bout dat foo in new york dats gona......

in response to: Bel Graffiti by BelRoC

erase: hey foo dam u a legend how da fuk do people get famous like obey and sean wat u got 2 do u know sabre dey talk bout dat foo in new york dats gona......

in response to: Bel Graffiti by BelRoC

elaine: i stayed in an apartment on tompkins square park when i went to new york for the first time. i got up crazy early because of the time difference and walked around. i saw a......

in response to: A Tree and Resident in Tompkins Square Park by jack

UK JA OK: We heard JA 3000 miles away! I got myself over to New York recently and I saw a couple of JA throw ups in the Underground tunnels there. His shit never gets old! JA is gettin his......

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

Kevin: I would like to recommend a great new Yorkville book out by a Yorkville author,George Brennan,called Bats,Brats and Stats. It is about being among the last era of stickball players in Yorkville through the author's......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

A-TRAIN: los angeles is definately not the most recognized in film, tv, or anything in the world. if someone showed me a picture of it and asked me what city it is, id probably have no......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

da man: wow ive never heard of brisbane before. it looks awesome and the setting is pretty. this just became one of my top 10 skylines. and i agree with ?!$@#, the 2IFC building in HK does......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

?!$@#: my top 15 1. Chicago 2. Sydney 3. Shanghai 4. New York 5. Makati 6. Tokyo 7. Hong Kong 8. San Francisco 9. Kuala Lampur 10. Seattle 11. Toronto 12. Philadelphia 13. Seoul 14. Boston 15. Singapore 7. ...

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

Post-84 New Jack: Thanks for the lolly, W-Bear. I'll be sure to pass it on to my son. He's teething right now and its a bitch. As for you, Bilrock Rolling Thunder Whiter- oops, I mean Writer. You failed......

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

largestjohnson: my top 10 are 1. boston mass. 2. new york ny 3. minneaplois minn 4. victory B.C. 5. st.paul minn 6. dallas TX 7. baltimore Md 8. courps christy tx 9. boise ID 10. edmonton ab...

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

saul altman: i get sick to my stomach when i go home to visit CONEY ISLAND.The city of New York created an area to supply there county jails & state prisons with people who see no way......

in response to: Coney Island Low by Peter

bnh: [[img:26244]] new york graffiti artist cope2 on a box truck on canal street...

in response to: Metro Cope2 by METRO KD OTB DMC

ahh a ghost: heres my list of the top 10! (im from the chicago-land area) First off, all you dallas-houston and toronto-montreal people fighting, shut the hell up. 1.Tokyo, Japan- to me, every picture i see of tokyo looks great.......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

CLEANER NEW YORK: THIS SPRAY PAINT DOES NOT MAKE FOR A CLEANER NEW YORK. PLEASE USE DRAWING PAPER NEXT TIME...

in response to: More Brooklyn Graf by Peter

Naya: I'm looking for some friendly contacts of people interested in graffitis both in Toronto and in New York... Do you know where can I go to meet some ? For now I'm in Europe but I'm hoping......

in response to: graffiti alley / style in progress \'05 by jeeff

the in: wow this is a hot issue with many different sides to it. First I'm white and poor and a hipster. My first choice was to live in Williamburg. But the prices there have gone up......

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

NewYorkDave: Thanks, but... I was already enrolled there for a short time and left because I didn't care for all the right-wing politics. I would still like to know the location of the pretzel factory, but......

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

Michawl Weston: New York City graffiti trains were the 80s. Today these kids paint the stainless steel trains just for a picture!! The trains dont even move out of the spot they were painted because they say......

in response to: NYC Graffiti Train, 1995 by Metro

Diana Manchur-Henke: NewYorkDave If you go to bushwick buddies, register for free, you can get all the info your interested in about the pretzel factory etc....

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

NewYorkDave: Does anyone remember the specific location of the pretzel factory on Starr St.? This is of interest to me because my Pop, when he was a boy, used to sell their pretzels on the street. Apparently,......

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

Peter: i was in {red hook} last weekend for the [[7734:idiotarod]] and overheard tales of up-and-coming places pulling out of {red hook}, due to the expected "influx" of folks not happening as expected/predicted... a shame. classic......

in response to: Ikea\'s Watery Shadow by CartLegger

Mike Tess: I agree that when parrots bite it is usually with warning and a reaction to the bitten person's actions. I just got home and had to google parrot bite in response to what happened today.......

in response to: Parrot Biting by Jamie

anon 2: This is a bit of a late response, but for people who wander across this later.... I grew up in New York City and San Francisco. When I was in Las Vegas, I made a......

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

EvilGentleman: Thanks, little ukraine and Peter. My family was indeed part of the Mohawk ironworking community. I went to the museum in my hometown of Kahnawake with my grandmother one time, and there was a good-sized display......

in response to: Under the Bridges by Peter

joey: green trees in january in new york ? i like the bridge from the row boat shot....

in response to: Under the Bridges by Peter

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

chrissy: these photos are so new york!...

in response to: Idiotarod 2008 by Peter

Andrew: I was in New York City during the blizzard. We probably got 36 inches of now...

in response to: Blizzard of \'06 by GGP

Allen T: I visited New York and found this Pier by accident. What a pity that NYC haven't recognised what a tourist attraction this could be by saving it from just rusting away and turning the entrance......

in response to: Cunard White Star Lines by Peter

[Undisclosed but Ya'll Know Me Anyway]: JA ONE is the undisputed, all-time king of New York city. End of story. Look around you. Who do you see up? Who have y'all always seen up? JA ONE. Haters, keep hating. Get up like......

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

jack: nice shot of homeless person got to get out there and get some of new york's homeless....

in response to: Spring in January? by Elicar

Liam McCann: Reading your article was like going back home. I grew up on 87th ST. off of Lex and remember alot ot the locations you cited. I remember what the Rupert Towers development was......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

Carrie : Ok everyone, I see you points, but let me tell you...corruption and political favors are EVERYWHERE, and in every city in America! Of COURSE, if you're in a position to keep a competitor out......

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

Peter: thats an absurd generalization, george. i live in new york, and i dont live like an animal at all; quite the opposite, actually. where do you live?...

in response to: Garbage Cans: by Peter

George: It is disgusting! people live worse than animals in New York!...

in response to: Garbage Cans: by Peter

moses opolot: i love New York so much so the sign post is good from uganda...

in response to: Brooklyn World Church... by GGP

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

what?: hello, i'm italian, i'm in New York. do you konw other graffiti store in new york? thank you ...

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

T DAWT: Toronto is underepresented in pictures. Did you know the skyline actually isn't along the lake but North/South. It'll probably soon surpass Vancouver in terms of density and has some nice tall buildings in......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

Saul Altman: I grew up on Coney Island and I remember when the city of New York decided to create the slimy drug infested getto Coney became instead of investing in the seaside community, and......

in response to: Coney Island Low by Peter

joey: amazing clarity. god bless astoria, queens, new york...

in response to: Jesus and LED by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Jess: Hey, I used to work at Soho Zat back in 1983. I loved it. They only hired punks. It was the coolest place to work - vintage comic books, porn, various sundries (all legal...), vintage......

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

Angel... Sunset Park Broolkyn: I was real young maybe 13 yrs old,during this black out, when the lights went out me and a some group of friends got together and tagged up the nieghborhood, atleast we weren't looting. I......

in response to: Bushwick \'77: When the Lights Went Out by upfromflames

zuhair: i have been to all the top 5 above cities in the world but for me new york should get abetter rank...

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

jack: good story michelle, i guess i've seen my share of homeless people in new york. some are sad, some funny, some crazy....

in response to: On My Way to Scarborough Yesterday by Michelle

Bob: I have lived in Lawrence, KS as well. I have traveled this great land of ours extensively (Driven through every state east of the rockies and south of New York) I am not saying all......

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

sageo: great article ,thank god for people like joe..the parks dept should be embarresed with themselves.. thank god for the new york daily news report..goe joe go!!god bless my republic called america!!!...

in response to: Floyd Bennett Field: Let All Flags Fly by CartLegger

New York: So what has become of the Rivers family and the two boys? (Lafayette and Pharoah)? Anyone out there know? I heard Kotlowitz speak about 6 or 7 years ago here in Brooklyn and I liked......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

little ukraine: upfromflames - thanks for the info! sadly (for me) it seemed that the only house on the block which had been demolished and rebuilt was 184, so the house my father grew up in......

in response to: Tacos La Hacienda by little ukraine

kevin: the fact that you took the time to photograph people having a good time and all-around lively place of washington square park and then had the nerve to write captions about how nobody stops to......

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

Elicar: Reminded me of this: [[img:24864]] New York, Apr. 26, 2007 City Hall...

in response to: Parc Jean Drapeau --- Osheaga by Unknown

Peter: although im a {new york}er, i agree with mcarthur. ive watched this post for over a year and though its taught me a lot about a place ive never been (and about some of the......

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

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

serlingrod: it really blows my mind to imagine the infinite number of moments and events which have ever occured in a place like new york city. ...

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

Elicar: No offense taken joey. It was really modelled after New York's Times Square and, London's Piccadilly Circus. There were pro's and con's about the "development". I. for one prefer what it is now if I......

in response to: It\'s Christmas Already? by Elicar

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

little ukraine: nice shots! welcome to new york!...

in response to: Oct 26 2007 New York by hool

CE: That's not true, there was a plan drawn up that would have a new building attaching the church to York House. I don't have the plans but know someone who probably does so I'll......

in response to: Soon to Be Demolished: York House by CE

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

Lulu: Thanks for the article. It will be three years this January since I moved to Yorkville (as a grad student as well) and I can't imagine living anywhere else in New York. We......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

FromAmsterdam: Me and 2 friends are going to new york for 3 weeks in januari. me and another one are white and the 3rd one is hispanic looking. whe should be allright by daytime in brooklyn......

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

Genny: Oh dear, all these tales of sadness and I have my own to add. My previous bike was stolen last year from where it was locked in front of the Canadian Tire on Yonge St. and......

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

tania : hi all the way from new zealand i saw the documentry on the sky channel i hope you guyz are still riding the horses as one day i do hope to come over and ride......

in response to: The Federation of Black Cowboys by sine

bklyn: Help us help the street homeless Call 311: to report homeless individuals and families who you see on the Streets of New York City (all Boroughs) Outreach Teams will be sent to offer assistance. Thank you ...

in response to: Homeless Subterranean by Peter

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.

Chuckvideo: I love that old building! I hope they don't mess it up too much. I took a bunch of photos of it as well the last time I was in New York, about three years......

in response to: Child\'s Restaurant, Coney Island by Peter

Poulet in Bondage: Awww, really? I'm kind of fond of them. Anyway, there are uglier buildings in New York--I second the Supreme Court in Brooklyn. It looks like it was designed by Stalin....

in response to: Ugliest Building in New York? by Peter

Franny Wentzel: Not even close! The buildings of the {New York Plaza} are by far the most ass-raping ugliest buildings in The City. Even worse is that they're the first buildings one sees coming up the {Hudson......

in response to: Ugliest Building in New York? by Peter

Peter: dangerduckie: if theyre in {cleveland} or {detroit}, it would be hard for them to qualify for the title of ##ugliest buildings in {new york}##, yeah? sure, {nyc} has more run-down and burned out places- it is,......

in response to: Ugliest Building in New York? by Peter

quarkwiz: The Metro Mall, on Metropolitan Avenue in Middle Village (at the end of the M line), is a horrific, brown-walled, brutally ugly monster of a building. I'd say it should definitely be on a shortlist......

in response to: Ugliest Building in New York? by Peter

anon (cpe-68-175-92-187.nyc.res.rr.com): I always thought the tall black monstrosity on the east side that looms over central park was the ugliest building in new york....

in response to: Ugliest Building in New York? by Peter

bloo_mountain: It's like [[wiki:Albert Speer]] meets Orwell's ##1984##, circa 1997. Does that make it the ugliest building in New York? Probably just in the running....

in response to: Ugliest Building in New York? by Peter

mellisa7: Robert Oppel is not Neck Face. They respect eachother I know but they are two different people. Robert Oppel's a New York actor/Director who faked his own death but actually made two really......

in response to: Is Robert Oppel Neck Face? by Peter

jack: old new yorkish style photo, around the 30's i'd say in a foggish manner, very quiet but active new york, just about to wake up....

in response to: Grey New York by Ilona

CartLegger: Nice sky shots. Can I presume these are thanks to Open House New York?...

in response to: Downtown by barry

Jeff: I am from Boston and even though my home city is very nice and livable like Montreal (my favorite), it doesn't make my top five skyline cities: 1) HONG KONG - Very difficult to......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

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