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Haha! Rufus, you are so thick-headed that you don't even get that everyone loved the photos of the NYC architecture and of the city itself! You love to talk about architecture, but the more you open your mouth the more you show that you know absolutely nothing about architecture or what makes a city appealing.

You really should just close your mouth, turn off your dad's computer and go back to your job at Applebee's in Hammond. You are so misguided that you don't realize how off-track you are.

waverly, I guess you find worn down buildings and grafitti attractive.

Rufus, your posts are like a lunatic given a laptop. Run down buildings and graffiti offend you? And you like Chicago? Have you ever been there? Recently visited friends in Wicker Park. Cool area in many ways. Surrounded by wasteland, too. And great old crooked house on pretty street they lived in? Nice, but neighbors told them when they moved in not to dare scrub the graffiti from the house's cement foundation wall abutting my friend's lawn: it was a gang tag marking territory--to remove it would invite unspecified danger. Nice, huh?

kylewest, wicker park is Chicago's version of lower east side. Of course, you failed to mention neighborhoods like gold coast, river north, streeterville, lakeshore east, or lincoln park. I have never seen grafitti in those areas, and most of the buildings are extremely nice.

Uhhhh...pretty much everything you say is wrong and how you internalize things is warped and ineffective. Have fun with that, though.

I actually thought those were some really nice photos...

Rufus, you are a hypocrite of the worst order. It is perfectly appropriate for me to cite Wicker Park if you are going to put down Broadway in the 20's or grittier sections of NYC. Why don't you focus on 5th Ave and 10th St, 5th Ave from 59th-90th Streets, Commerce St and Barrow, Pre-war CPW? You selectively focus on NYC areas that are decidedly grittier than others and constantly compare them to the best of Chicago while you ignore the enormous swaths of Chicago that are dilapidated, crime-ridden, struggling.

What do you think you add to these discussions by just being so negative and offering such a twisted view of things? Even if you think NY isn't "as good", what is your point? Seriously, what do you seek to convey or share of substance here?

For everyone else, I'm sorry to engage the man like this, but "crazy" fascinates me and this guy seems completely unhinged.

WOW, those are great pictures !!!! i love NYC

Great pictures!

WOW - loved those pics! Makes me realize how much I LOVE living in NYC and never want to live anywhere else. The only reason I'd move is if I couldn't afford it any longer. But you can relate to that, can't you rufus? Toolbag.

Cool pics. Thanks for the link.

Rufus, you once again have proved that you get all your info about NYC from Wired and Curbed. Just like how everytime you criticize something you say you "hear a lot of complaints"...as in you read them in threads? It never ends with you. Perhaps your New Years resolution can be to get some sort of productive life?