DaTrain

I don't know if this thread was done already, but anyways:

Source: http://personals.aol.com/articles/2009/08/24/top-10-cities-for-black-singles/

(I knew this was originally on Black People Meet's webpage but the link has since been taken down)

Top 10 Cities for Black Singles

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Filed under: African-American, Black People Meet

Posted Aug 24th 2009 6:00PM

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by Staff, for BlackPeopleMeet

Tired of looking for love in all the wrong places? If you're single and Black, you're not alone. A whopping 42 percent of black men and 41 percent of black women are unmarried, according to the African American Healthy Marriage Initiative, a campaign of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The good news according to these figures is that there are still plenty of eligible singles out there, you just need to know where to find them. So may we suggest you review BlackPeopleMeet.com's Top 10 Cities List. Regardless of what you're looking for in a mate – hotness, smartness or sugar, spice and niceness – we'll point out the best places where you can get lucky in love.

2. Houston

If you're young and searching for "the one," Houston may be the perfect place to settle down. This multi-cultural city boasts one of the youngest populations in the country where Black people represent more than 25 percent of the total. Young or old, you won't break the bank or wait too long before things heat up in this in this Southern city. A low cost of living makes dating on a dime possible, and there's nothing like hot, sticky weather to get your thirst up and those juices flowing.

The other nine cities on the list are: (1) Chicago, (3) Atlanta, (4) New York, (5) Philadelphia, (6) Los Angeles, (7) Detroit, (8) Dallas, (9) Washington DC and (10) Jacksonville. Times like this, I'm proud to be black and single in Houston for sure.

AYE !

But, it should be called, "PLastec's PistS". I wanted to put Plastic on ignore, but he is such a train wreck that I just have to look !

Cosign. Am I the only one that finds PlaStiC's posts funny as hell? Everytime I read a word spelled the Plastic way, I crack up. :lol: :lol:

The interchange with I-45 is just fine. It's I-45 itself that needs help, as well as the downtown section of US59. The interchange backs up because I-45 backs up; four lanes of NB capacity is more than enough, if only they don't merge down to two in the end.

288 inside the Loop is adequate; they need to modernize the South Loop interchange, as well as widen it all the way out to Pearland.

What's wrong with the South Freeway/Loop interchange?

I hope the modernization U R speaking of does not include replacing the guardrails because I'm sick and tired of seeing those sh**ty-ass looking concrete jersey rails that we're stuck with on 92% of the freeways forever.

The plan is to preserve the right of way used by the railroad tracks along Almeda Road for future use as commuter rail. The median will accomodate additional general purpose lanes and bidirectional HOT. That's what 288 was initially designed for, and that's how it will be used...but they're going to need to redesign the interchange with I-45.

NOOOOOOOOO!! **mutters to self: We don't never get to have original interchanges in Houston no mo**

288 doesn't get backed up does it.

I see someone here is hard of hearing and can't hear traffic updates either.

I like the South Freeway as is because TxDot is not your friend.

Northwest Freeway and Hempstead Highway doesn't follow the address grid lineup either because of the NW/SE diagonal, and I am looking at a streeet map rite now. Example: Hollister is the cross street; Little York and Tidwell cross it at the 7700 block mark, while NW Freeway and Hempstead cross it at the 13400 block, more or less.

What if they were to make Westheimer a double decker street?

One part would be halfway underground, and another would be halfway above ground....

Was there a rumor that they were spose to widen Westheimer to a ten-lane street? Back on topic: at some y'all saying Galleria ain't that classy in a NY or SF kinda way. I like it that way; the Galleria has that Fifth Avenue or Union Square kinda feeling to it. I wush the Galleria/Uptown district traded spots with DT any day.

A few times I used Elysian Street between Houston DT and Hardy some time ago. But here's what puzzles me: everytime I went down the Viaduct, there are hardly any cars (I like see an average of four cars in that stretch either direction), and I don't think a wider Eastex is the only reason it has to do with it just cause the street is a shortcut to the Hardy Toll Road thanks to the nauseating North Freeway. It's gotta be something else that makes the mile-long bridge so abandoned-looking, like a ghost ramp to nowhere cuz it makes no sense. No trucks, and it being 50 years old is another story since I hear it'll get torn down for the Hardy Extension in who knows when. What's up with this? And it's the only other way into downtown from the north by street; Main Street is the other; why doesn't it get that superfreeway streetlike treatment the way Memorial and Allen Parkway does?

i really don't think that the katy area needs buses...........because then it will look like houston.........only minorities riding them............that would make the katy areallllllllooooooooooook abad

if ya wanted to live in a suburb use yar kar........or else move into a townhome near houston downtown

What the f*** is so embarrasing about having buses in Katy? Buses can run in Katy too -- look at the 12 suburbs of Dallas that have DART, ain't nobody complaining. Tell U what, I would like Katy to have its OWN local bus sytem and call it KATrans. And to balance out the burb environment, it wouldn't run all hours of the day and night like METRO does, but at least run it from 6 am to 9 pm Monday-Friday and 7 am to 7 pm Weekends on 30 minute intervals M-F and 60 minute intervals S-S for each route. There can be transfer points at Katy Mills, Cinco Ranch and the Kingsland P&R. White ppl in Katy can ride buses too, they do it all the time in for ex.: Cobb County, Georgia, Oakland, Lauderdale/Broward County, Fl, etc.

My suggestions:

*Houstanta Park - after the southern King and Queen Dominance of King Houston and Queen Atlanta. :lol

*Bayouland Park

*Spaceland Park

*joins up with namin it Comfort Park. When dt workers are pissed off after a long day, they can take a walk and be comfortable in the park, then go home after a long chokehole commute.

I 4get the name of car brand but I saw a car commercial where an SUV was driven by a stuntman thru the streets of Downtown Houston, and I bet U saw it too. It was going over Smith Street under reconstruction, and I knew this cuz I saw the ped ring linking Fourteen Hundred Smith and Fifteen Hundred Louisiana. Does anybody remember the car name brand in the commercial?

Even though Wiliams Tower is not apart of DT, it is still, to me, one of the most popular skyscrapers Houston ever has. Stunning art-deco architecture and glass facade.

The only thing I hate is the name change -- it is just corny to me.

Williams Tower - formerly known as Transco Tower

Height: 901 feet

64 stories

Circa: 1983

Architects: Johnson Burgee and Morris Aubry

Facts

- Then Transco Tower became Williams Tower when Transco Energy was bought out by Williams Energy Corp. in 1999

- Tallest building outside of any CBD

- Rotating beacon at night on roof every 15 seconds

- Williams Tower functions as two 32-floor towers stacked on top of each other, complete with separate lobbies, elevators, and garages.

- South of the building is a 3-acre park with a large fountain called the "Waterwall" (aka Transco Fountain), designed by the building's architects with Richard Fitzgerald & Partners. The fountain is a stunning work of hydraulic engineering.

- The top of the building features a beacon that sweeps the night sky over the Galleria area.

- Construction took only 16 months, a remarkably short time for a tower of such height.

2 Pics by Patrick Benders

Next four Pics by Mancuso

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The Dome is probably the number 1 piece of architecture that people around the world associate with Houston. We need to keep maintaining it until some private party can do something with it. Its at that dangerous age for buildings, 40-50, where they are not quite old enough to be appreciated as historic but old enough to need lots of work. The area surrounding it is currently kind of a dead-zone but that seems to be changing for the better.

I think generations of future Houstonians will be cursing (crusing?) us if we bring it down.

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It is pretty nasty for taxes to be high for maintaining the Astrodome years after falling into disuse. IMO the Astrodome should not be torn down, but it is time the Dome goes back into use as something else other than just being fenced off, being owned by Reliant Energy [Park] and just being a tourist attraction. What would Houston be without it? It would be nothing; the Dome should at least become a historic landmark for these reasons: (1) It is the very first air-conditioned sports stadium; (2) Eighth wonder of the world. All the other domed stadiums after it got torn down, like the Kingdome for example; the Dome should not meet the same fate as all the other torn down stadiums of the past. You can say it's just a stadium, but this Dome is deserves special treatment.

That's all of them.

Much credit to 254Texas for having an extensive photo library of Downtown Houston. So far, the most pictures of DT here at HAIF.

Is this where Jefferson Davis Hospital used to be?

Conclusion of Downtown Houston on an extensive collection of phoots.

All pics originally taken by 254Texas of SSP (254 of SSC).

Continued on Part 2

City Hall(?)

(University of Houston, Downtown Next 2 Pics)

First installment of an extensive library of pics all around Downtown Houston. Pictures originally taken by 254 of SSC.

(Mexican Consulate)