Comments about office building

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serlingrod: Here’s a list of contact numbers for city services….. ##NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES## City Hall Operator 215.686.1776 Abandoned Car (Automated Service) 215.683.2278 Abandoned Car Supervisor 215.685.9500 Barking Dogs, PAACA 215.685.9040 Citizen Crime Commission 215.546.TIPS Illegal Dumping (Neighborhood Services) 215.685.3097 Nuisance Bar, Underage Drinking 215.726.6200 Public......

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

T J O'BRIEN, ANNANDALE, VA: The article below it will mention the Luna Park. During the WW II I worked part-time for the New York Daily News as a copy boy. One afternoon I came in early at......

in response to: Luna Park: Coney Island by Peter

James cashan: hello Jim W. RE Margarine Works I remember peter hamburger (gruff voice)"oh yis oh yis", but who was the phantom! daily cries of "whose out now? am i out now?" waiting for......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

John Dereszewski: Puffy, Linden between Central and Evergreen is a block that has undergone a considerable transformation over the last decade or so, clearly for the good. I knew this block very vividly during the bad days of......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Rob Tynan: Hi Cyril, The Lombardian closed quite a few years ago. John Booth moved more into transporting goods. The shop is know the offices for a building contractor. I've heard about the ghost stories, but I'm......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

kerwin: wow i never knew this was a fire station for the 12th year living in lachine. i thought it was some random building that was an office...

in response to: Old Lachine Fire Station on 45th by EvilGentleman

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Rob On the last of your photos, you can just about see at the edge on the left, a little opening cut under the railway that led into LSC (British Steel). I never worked at......

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

Elicar: The glass building is indeed the Ontario Power Generation Building although they occupy, I think, only two floors now. Most of the floors are rented out. Employees have been moved to either the Pickering offices......

in response to: Snow Day! by Michelle

Evinrude: Alfred. Again you stated over again what has been brought up before. If you have looked through the site you will see that old bastards like yourself enjoy the same things, the comsmosphere, NJCAA,......

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

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

Director Dale: The Adam Clayton Powell Junior State Office Building in Harlem [[img:23880]] ...

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

Elicar: I might as well acquaint readers the exact place where this was taken. We were travelling along Ortigas Avenue, coming from Pasig City (Manila, as I refer to is the Greater Manila Area). The background......

in response to: Wrong Way, Buddy! by Elicar

Angela Watkins~ Harris: I was born in Hutchinson, Kansas back in 1960 and I lived there for a while I did 1/2 of 9th grade at Sherman Junior High School and then attended 10th & 11th at Hutch......

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

John Dereszewski: The recent "pretzel post" brought back some very dear - albeit fattening - Bushwick memories. When I served as District Manager of Community Board 4 in the late 1970's, I would walk to our......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Alec: I did an engineering internship there 21 years ago when I was 19. I went there this morning and viewed basically the same thing as the photos show (my first time back there). ......

in response to: Abandoned General Motors Plant by Peter

CE: It's just on a small one story building way out in the east end. Just a non descript office building amongst some empty lots that are being turned into condos. It'll likely be......

in response to: Quite Possibly the Weirdest Mural Ever Made! by CE

upfromflames: Clarifications: I’ve found out a lot more about the Bushwick Initiative this week, after talking to Annie Marie Mirez, who helped to develop the program and currently helps to oversee it for HPD. The first thing......

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

EvilGentleman: joey - sometimes, a picture can show a thousand times more than words can, and other times, a picture cannot even begin to describe the horror of reality. This is one of those cases. I......

in response to: Lost by EvilGentleman

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

John Dereszewski: It is hard to imagine how anyone can misinterpret the last 30 years of Bushwick's history more than BDweller did in his comment. To believe him, Bushwick endured decades of neglectful Planned Shrinkage followed by......

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

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

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

upfromflames: I want to thank you all for your links, especially the fire statistics from Brad. And Pierre, you know well that you are not alone in your experience, in Bushwick, or in NYC. And......

in response to: Why Did Bushwick Burn? by upfromflames

Oscar Grouch: Looking at this monstrosity through an Engineers eye, I was quick to note the sub-par concrete pours and immature choices of building materials in critical locations. Apparently he allows the public onto the property,......

in response to: Don Justo\'s Self Built Cathedral by Hasslehoff

little ukraine: I'd be interested to hear the opinions of the NYers on this site (or of anyone who is familiar with it, for that matter) of the Bobst Library, seen here on the left. I......

in response to: A View Down the Avenue by jack

Schrodinger's Cat: Actually the construction of this building started in late 1989 . It was supposed to be a 58 storey high office tower called the Bay Adelaide Tower. It was......

in response to: White Elephant Down by Tom Miller

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

Michelle: He's been at it a long time. Everyday all summer he sat outside my office building 8 am - 5 pm....

in response to: Stranded Santa by Cameo

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: I'm with Elaine on how much I love the Chrysler building and was fortunate enough to have a 16th floor [[2191:office]] opposite it. ...

in response to: The Chrysler Building by Pakko

EvilGentleman: I have to translate this. It's just too much to resist. 가장 큰exsqisite, 나는 말해야 한다! 여기 모든에EvilGentleman포획은 이것 이다: 1 - 감시는 시간외에 하고 있다. 2 - 그의 할아버지 새로운 틀이를 얻기 위하여 농부는 도시로 가고 있다. 3......

in response to: Busan, Part Three by chiamattt

EvilGentleman: Most exsqisite, I must say! Here is the EvilGentleman take on all this: 1 - The guard is doing overtime. 2 - The farmer is going into town to get his grandfather's new dentures. 3 - The child......

in response to: Busan, Part Three by chiamattt

EvilGentleman: Nice one. Reminds me of my trying to catch a landing jet in the reflections on my wife's office building....

in response to: SCI Sunset by groovehouse

saxman: "Do you work in the brick building behind the Chestnut Complex saxman or is it somewhere else?" I'm in the one story office building next to the Sobey's parking lot. Jeez if you think I......

in response to: Yuppy Scum by CE

saxman: I guess I'm not as hip as you guys and gals but I'm curious as to what you would prefer to see on this site? As Chris pointed out this is being built in......

in response to: Yuppy Scum by CE

EvilGentleman: Maybe there is some product that was being sold in the store that is not compatible with owning a Canada Post franchise, or perhaps there was some structural, security or square footage issue with the......

in response to: Home Pt. 2: Bills Corner Grocery by CE

EvilGentleman: Sorry to disagree, Chris, but post offices are still allowed in stores. Most Arctic communities have their {Canada Post} franchises located within general stores. When I first moved to {Coral Harbour}, Nunavut in 1992, the......

in response to: Home Pt. 2: Bills Corner Grocery by CE

aer suzuki: "you dont want it turning up online/getting photographed/discussed, then dont do it in public ;) thats why people dont fuck in public, carry out personal melodramas in public (often) or walk around nude in public." but......

in response to: Mullets Galore! by Peter

GUS BRENNAN: [[img:12897]] THE POST OFFICE BUILDINGS, ...

in response to: Barnoldswick by Gus Brennan

EvilGentleman: On May 3, 1999, the National Weather Service (NWS) office in Norman recorded data from the world's fastest tornado, which passed a few miles NW of here. [[http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/storms/19990503/]] Guess it's not **always** boring in these......

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

Chris Erb: I have pictures of the protest prior to the arrest which I will post when I get home. If you were there, you would know that the protest was completly civil and low key.......

in response to: I Was Arrested Today by CE

Maia: I'm writing a book in which the main character lives in Wicker Park. I was wondering if any Wicker Park native could tell me what street(s) the old buildings which have large studio/loft spaces are......

in response to: wicker park by corsakti

Jon: Minneapolis approves plan for Ivy Tower site Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal - October 8, 2004 by Scott D. Smith Staff reporter The Minneapolis City Council approved a revised plan for a hotel and housing at the Ivy Tower......

in response to: Ivy Tower by Tyfoid Kid

Tyfoid Kid: I did a little digging (thank you U of M libraries) and found some more stuff on The Ivy (actually probably more then you'd want to know:) ******************************************************************************************************************** From an article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune Dec......

in response to: Ivy Tower by Tyfoid Kid

Chris Erb: I googled Angus Yards to see if anything came up. I got this story: http://www.canadianarchitect.com/issues/ISarticle.asp?id=145885&story_id=209461105538&issue=01012004&PC=&RType=&btac=no Apparently the building used to be a CP rail repair shop. The mystery third of the building has apparently......

in response to: New Use for Urban Ruins? by CE

EvilGentleman: Actually, you **did** get the new fine arts, or EVA (I have no idea what the acronym stands for) building. It is the one with the "hat" and the obtuse-angled facade on it's upper stories,......

in response to: Tall Buildings of Montreal by CE

groovehouse: Jamie... I agree about historic buildings. My office-mate went on a trip to Italy last year and couldn't get over how much graffiti was scribbled on the historic buildings he visited....

in response to: Bamboo Graffiti: Akaka Falls State Park by barry

Tyfoid Kid: That big building is the main downtown Post office. I was standing in front of it when I took the other pictures. This turgid pile is where I work [[http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/WBOB/WBOB-photo.html]] ...

in response to: Sunday Morning on the Way to Work by Tyfoid Kid

EvilGentleman: Actually, I think the blackness of the snow depends on the quality of the pavement it was scraped off of, among other factors. This is the parking lot of the office building complex where my......

in response to: Black Snow by EvilGentleman

RonO: I worked at this plant from 1980-1984 when we were working 3 shifts and building 300,000 cars a year. At that time GM was manufacturing the X body car which was highly in demand because......

in response to: Abandoned General Motors Plant by Peter

jeeff: all hail the information age. [[http://sageauthoring.com/fdny/construction/vacant.pdf]] Fire Department, City of New York __FIREFIGHTING PROCEDURES__ __VOLUME 1 BOOK 3__ **MARKING OF VACANT BUILDING** **1.3.1** As vacant buildings shall be identified and marked to indicate the degree of hazard involved. In marking vacant......

in response to: Slated for Demolition by Peter

GGP: sparrows have really been on my mind lately. they're in highly active breeding and nest-building mode. they're working on a nest above my office window as we speak! also, i've been listening to a lot......

in response to: Tucked in by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Peter: nice! ugly, "modern" cement buildings... this one looks frighteningly similar to the building my office is in....

in response to: Bauhaus My Ass by FlamingRRose

tyrany: "Wow... i'd like to have an penthouse apartment on top of this building.. ;) My country is expensive to buy apartment like that.. wondering how much it will cost me in LA.. ha ha.." its not......

in response to: Downtown Los Angeles by Pincheputa

jed: This 18 footer is conveniently located on a quiet tree lined block in Central Harlem, clean façade and partily renovated all it needs to complete is boiler, floors and rear windows. Qwner will complete or......

in response to: Brownstones in Harlem by joe urb

jack: im amazed at how the japanese are able to copy the worlds great structures and recreate it in their city. shinjuku could be new york city. sunset on tokyo tower could be paris......

in response to: Tokyo Architecture by Chris Jongkind

jack: actually its the office people from the office building in the background and they are let out every afternoon and made to walk clockwise in order to help the flow of the underground water system......

in response to: clockwork by hool

elaine: there is a nice building which no longer belongs to the post office, it is in the city, unsurprisingly. here is a postbox for you to be getting along with [[img:6376]] ...

in response to: Motorway Haiku: UK (Part One) by Jamie

vz: the express in the photo is in the mall level of an office tower built in the 80s, liberty place. though the architects' deferential nod to the building across the street -- copying of its......

in response to: art deco echo by vz