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The Crap-O-Sphere ("Crappy")
Artwork by Jerry Rotondi
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Blog Archive
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- Gennaro turns MIH protest into political rally
- Bay Terrace multi-house blaze
- But the City has money for this?
- Developer blight becoming more common
- More on the budget
- Iron Triangle businesses ready for battle
- "New Shea" Stadium?
- Bloomberg explains how screwed we are
- Fresh Meadows is full of crap
- Worker Injured in Scaffold Collapse
- Caritas deals nixed; hospitals to file for bankruptcy
- Schleicher Mansion scheduled for hearing
- Parting with Poletti
- Hiram spends a mint to rehab his image
- FDNY Saviors
- O'Neill's manager badmouths Maspeth
- Settling for pedestals for now
- Gun buyback program coming to Queens
- The lowdown on Laurelton crap
- Caritas update: meeting at Borough Hall today
- Tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard
- Bell Park Gardens asbestos uncovered
- Hospitals may close by the end of February
- Shea-ing goodbye
- Urban planning at its finest, part 9
- Amazing what a little $$$ can do!
- Brooklyn park ridiculously expensive
- Examining North Flushing crap
- City allows 18th century landmark to decay
- Parks nixes Fort Totten fueling station
- Yankee stadium park costs skyrocket
- Still counting in 11th Senate District race
- Doorman not so smart about Smart Meters
- Marty's $64M plastic potato chip
- Smith's Infirmary Hospital - then and now
- Atlantic Yards now just a shadow of itself
- Double dose of Kew Gardens Crap
- Queens hospital rally at City Hall
- Weiner sneaking up on Bloomberg in polls
- The 1980s are back!
- Let's take a look at the Willets Point finalists, ...
- Landlords not being held accountable
- CB14 members fighting the Cross Bay toll
- Cheyenne slowly makes its way to Alabama
- Parking perk still part of the job for pols
- 1939 World's Fair in Color! (part 2)
- If the snout fits, wear it
- KEEP THEM OPEN!!
- Bad economy may lead to more illegal conversions
- Big brother is watching at Rockrose
- HDC Coffee Talk - Community Blogging!
- Sky View Parc gets Mussed up
- Gillibrand vs. the illegals
- 1939 World's Fair in Color! (part 1)
- Photos of St. John's Queens Hospital rally
- First time in a classroom - at age 16
- Here's what will replace Cangro in LIC
- "Coordination" not a word in City's vocabulary
- GOP says, "Hit the road, Mike!"
- NYPD nabs Astoria muggers
- Architects want in on community boards
- Dirty town names in Great Britain
- A walk through New Briarwood
- Thurston Cecil in 2012!
- Panera giving away free coffee
- JFK to get bird detection radar
- Home sales down 45% in Queens
- Two-Ton Tony keeping busy
- Cross Bay users come out in force
- A walk through Old Briarwood
- Bruno indicted on fraud charges
- Rally to Save St. John's Queens Hospital tomorrow
- Tale of the racist Village baker
- And we have a winner!
- Smith lending out campaign cash to pals
- In debt up to our eyeballs
- Latin Kings in Queens
- St. John's, Mary Immaculate on path toward closure
- Mall developer fined for endangering wetland
- Flushing Chinese food deliverers getting mugged
- Kiss up to Quinn or kiss your bills goodbye
- Ratner trying to renege on deal
- Minnesota MacIntosh coming to Queens
- Caroline kisses senate seat goodbye
- Are crime stats just a bunch of crap?
- National Wholesale Liquidators closing
- Columbia victim sues to block eminent domain
- Oakland Lake may get a boardwalk
- A long overdue demolition
- Atlas Park to be under new management
- Daily News questions Ricatto's "hiatus"
- City's gonna mess up Coney Island
- How not to publish a newspaper, part 20 (website e...
- Begging for infrastructure improvements
- City sends out bogus letters about bogus parking t...
- City treats war veteran like crap
- State's new majority comprised of City tweeders
- What's going on here?
- MTA hearing tonight in Flushing
- Will the Walentas get their way?
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2 comments:
My Grandfather worked in the Navy Yard as an electrician during WWII.
Many ships that were damaged in battle were brought to the yard for repair. When he would tell stories of his time at the Navy yard to me as a child, I always felt that he was proud to be a part of that time in American history. Even to this day, long after he has passed, I feel connected to it.
My Grandfather (mother father) was a fireman (Hook & Ladder 104) down there and one of the first responders to the USS Constellations (CV64) fire.
The builders ran all the oxygen and acetylene lines through the hatches. When a barrel of diesel generator fuel got tipped into a welding area this fire started like lightning.
Hatches and bulkheads couldn’t be closed due to all the high pressure lines running through the hatches. All the oxygen and acetylene lines, tanks melted an burst turning ½ the ship into 5000 degree smelter
It burned so hot it boiled the east river water and buckled the 4 inch steel flight deck.
My grandfather got this phenomena from smoke and jumping into the East river that almost killed him.
He always told stories about finding groups of skeletons huddled together. He could no longer work after that fire (damaged his lungs) All the guys on that fire got screwed over just like the WTC responders that got sick.
I think it may be the Worst fire in Brooklyn’s history, we have his hat from that fire and to this day have no clue how he survived looking at it.
Anyone know if the 104 firehouse is still there ? It had this cool hole in the floor & barber pole you could slide down from upstairs.
Upstairs had beds and radios
-Joe
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