...
Less than you think, I was not alone (with Brisavoine and Metropolitan) and I was inside a car.
I was stuck in a traffic jams due at the tramway work (The T5 Saint Denis - Garges Sarcelles will run here), so I took some pictures.

This district is far more than an housing complex, it include office buildings many independant shops and a shopping centers.
The streets were busy, clean and well maintained (if we exclude the tram work) it doesn't look as dangerous as we often heard.

I will surely take other picture in Sarcelles in the next weeks.


I was actually wondering if you were inside a car, for once. You looked way to close to the traffic jam to be by foot yet I wondered how your perspective could be higher than the rest of the cars. Is Brisavoine or Metropolitan a truck/lory driver? :lol:

In places like Berlin or Madrid or Eastern Europe where big, huge commie-block complexes exist, one does not think something necessarily bad about a big place like Garges-Sarcelles. But in Paris, where many people live in single-family and semi-detached houses in the suburbs, one thinks negatively of a place like Garges-Sarcelles, and yet, they are many clusters like that throughout Greater Paris. Perhaps there is way worse than Garges-Sarcelles. By what you say, it does not seem as bad as the size suggests. Sometimes it's the smaller housing projects that are worse, anyway.

I lived in Garges for a short while, nothing bad ever happened to me. It's more of a boring place than a dangerous one in my opinion. The only interesting thing I found to do in the area was to cross the RER tracks to Sarcelles as they have quite a large and varied market there.

Rue Gustave Courbet (Bagneux)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4118/4771689081_30749c5263_b.jpg


Wow, this looks like your average street in Belgium, which is weird since Bagneux is south of Paris, and less likely to have northern France/Belgian influence.

By the way Minato, are there any areas you haven't been too yet?
He doesn't know the outer suburbs that well.

Nice updates, and even some pics of the outer suburbs ! :banana:

Wow, this looks like your average street in Belgium, which is weird since Bagneux is south of Paris, and less likely to have northern France/Belgian influence.
Northern suburbs don't have more northern France/belgian influence than their southern counterparts. The boundary is between 50/100 km north of Paris. Towns like Creil, still in Paris commuter belt, feel more or less "northern". The first fully northern city architecture-wise would be Amiens, virtually a sea of brick rowhouses.

^^ And Lille, especially suburbs of Lille, can look a lot like Belgium cities, including the Flemish ones. But than again, Lille-Metropole touches the Belgium border, and was once part of French Flanders.

Yes, I agree...Amiens is perhaps the first fully "northern" city architecture-wise, well before reaching Lille and other cities of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region.

In the Paris suburbs with single-family houses, I get the impression there is a lot of Breton-style houses, or an attempt at that style. Next to the Meulière-stone houses of Greater Paris, breton-look-alikes are quite common. Luckily, Mediterranean/Southern France-style houses are not common in Greater Paris. That would look so out-of-place if that was the case.

Avenue de Madrid (Neuilly sur Seine)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4011/5079448148_9d20fe5bca_b.jpg

Rue du Faubourg Montmartre (9th arrondissement)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4146/5078838391_f26e49fa0e_b.jpg

It is true that the affluent western Paris has more immigrants than people believe.

I agree...But, but, but :
Infact there is an higher ratio of immigrants in the 16th arrondissement than in the 13th arrondissement (know for hosting the largest chinatown in Europe) or Argenteuil (very famous in the news but not for positive reason).

Data (housemaids excluded :D) please...!??! :dunno:

More seriously, It depends on who you call "immigrant", because you also have to keep in mind, for example, the 130+ diplomatic representations located in the XVIe Arr. !

Anyway........Tout ceci (entre autres), peut aussi expliquer cela !! :yes:

Nice shots!

Rue Simon le Franc (4th arrondissement)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4110/5082183238_9cc2109e90_b.jpg

Rue Cardinet (17th arrondissement)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4055/5081600929_ec36b959b3_b.jpg

One thing you gotta love about Paris: so much density! This is honestly the definition of a city.

Rue Paul Vaillant-Couturier (Levallois-Perret)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4085/5084499786_f043b664a4_b.jpg

Centre Commercial Évry 2 (Évry)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4109/5083915525_ff13146ebd_b.jpg

Cours des Petites Ecuries (Lognes)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4128/5090165669_9def7dd563_b.jpg

Rue de la Nativité (12th arrondissement)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4145/5090660698_d32003dd66_b.jpg

Nice shots there! Love the last one. :)

Avenue Marceau (Drancy)
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1119/5104382541_5ddb6edb78_b.jpg

Avenue de la Source (Nogent-sur-Marne)
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1133/5104968504_9751a01aa9_b.jpg

Impasse du Paroy (Gentilly)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/5154432898_ddb0323b70_b.jpg

Boulevard Raspail (7th arrondissement)
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1173/5154443430_7b32d302de_b.jpg

^^ Boulevard Raspail...I really like that Left-Bank boulevard. It has some great buildings on or near it.

Your previous post, #765, Drancy vs. Nogent-sur-Marne, is a good example of a low-income and a high-income locality of Greater Paris.

Place Henri Regnault (Courbevoie)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4054/5159068855_1a46e308a9_b.jpg

Rue Etienne Marcel (2nd/1st arrondissements)
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1177/5159699332_33849f95b5_b.jpg

Rue Robert Schuman (Enghein-les-Bains)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4089/5175827155_ec7513bba0_b.jpg

Avenue de Flandre (19th arrondissement)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4144/5176391946_bcdf4de624_b.jpg

Rue Guersant (17th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5202/5196202974_52ac99b522_b.jpg

Rue Paul Vaillant Couturier (Rueil-Malmaison)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5241/5196225908_4704fa39bb_b.jpg

Avenue de la République (Montrouge)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/5198638203_965e377e0c_b.jpg

Boulevard du Général Leclerc (Clichy)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4128/5198612685_87590a92a9_b.jpg

^^ Great and very nice photos from those areas of Paris :)

Avenue Outrebon (Villemomble)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5126/5209908776_14f856911e_b.jpg

Rue Paul Vaillant-Couturier (Clamart)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5045/5209294719_e2d6723dec_b.jpg

Avenue du Maine (15th arrondissement)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4090/5214720853_9be35087a4_b.jpg

Rue de Ménilmontant (20th arrondissement)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4086/5214731957_41c52ddafe_b.jpg

i wanna live in Paris

Boulevard de la Madeleine (1st/8th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5201/5209809055_94a2108aa1_b.jpg

Rue Colbert (Montigny-le-Bretonneux)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4146/5017480393_fda30fb5a8_b.jpg

Fantastic! Just scrolled around in your thread. Very diverse, very dense and of course, very beautiful.
Great pictures, keep them coming! :)

Boulevard Haussmann (9th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5043/5257673013_290c6473cf_b.jpg

Avenue Joseph Froment (La Garenne-Colombes)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5007/5318019548_5eb4bd4480_b.jpg

Rue de Verdun (Bagneux)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5083/5330200283_60b5375e8c_b.jpg

Rue Jussieu (5th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5088/5330219203_249c4bee7e_b.jpg

Thanks for the photos, Minato!
Oh, and it's now official: I'm going to Paris again in the Spring! Can't wait!!!:nuts:

Tnx Minato...you really represent Paris on the best way....i m going tomorow in Paris..can t wait :DDDD

Avenue Joffre (Saint Mandé)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5123/5333942484_28e30c5072_b.jpg

Cour du Marché Saint-Antoine (12th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5250/5333956332_6d39df85b9_b.jpg

Bonne année, Minato ku ! J'espère qu'elle le sera aussi pour ce fil.

Merci et bonne année.
Thank you and happy new year.

Rue Paul Marais (Juvisy sur Orge)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5244/5340488306_de34e0f952_b.jpg

Rue Jouffroy d'Abbans (17th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5089/5339835101_bf9715d28b_b.jpg

Boulevard de Stalingrad (Choisy le Roi/Thiais)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5169/5352552538_5becb5e6d5_b.jpg

Rue Armant Carrel (Montreuil)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5281/5351929037_aa8683ebcd_b.jpg

Pas très gai, l'ambiance.

treessss belleee

Bonne année Minato, and very nice new photos from the city of Paris :cheers:

Firstly, Paris is Paris, not Montreuil, Nanterre, Boulogne, Maison Alfort or La défense. The latter are suburbs.

Besides, people in this forum must not be mistaken. Paris is beautiful and enthousiastic, even with the current rainy wheather.

IMO, I don't think posting the picture "Boulevard de Stalingrad (Choisy le Roi/Thiais)" taken after a rain in the beginnig of the evening has a interest. Over gloomy and pointless...almost makes me cry! :ohno:

There are tastes for everyone.
I'm bored of the sun (364 days a year), then I love the photos of rainy or cloudy days

Martounet, there are plenty of images of Paris in this forum of picture-perfect Parisian corners, iconic sites, and the Paris that tourists want to see. This is one of the few threads of the Paris that works, the Paris you see on any given day. This is the real Paris, not the Paris you search for that makes a perfect picture. Also, Minatu ku shows the Paris where most people in Paris on any given day live, which is just outside the City of Paris, in a developed area 8x or more the area of the City of Paris that simply makes up Greater Paris.

I respect the philosophy of the thread, but i just wanted to precise some points. Of course i love rainy days too, but i don't see the interest of posting pictures like "Boulevard de Stalingrad (Choisy le Roi/Thiais)"... even under the sun it's pointless (IMO).

"Paris, my city" is false. Greater Paris doesn't exist. "Paris and its suburbs" would be more precise.

In the thread "unknown Paris", I post exclusively pictures of Paris... I think it's more honest for foreign forumers...

No it is the oposite, the lie is to convince the people that Paris stops at the Peripherique.
The reality is not always what is official.

Pointless area are also a part of the city.
Note that this pointless area is useful for tens of thousand people everyday. ;)

I respect the philosophy of the thread, but i just wanted to precise some points. Of course i love rainy days too, but i don't see the interest of posting pictures like "Boulevard de Stalingrad (Choisy le Roi/Thiais)"... even under the sun it's pointless (IMO).

"Paris, my city" is false. Greater Paris doesn't exist. "Paris and its suburbs" would be more precise.

In the thread "unknown Paris", I post exclusively pictures of Paris... I think it's more honest for foreign forumers...

Well, I very much love your thread. When I want to see less known or less-photographed spots of Paris, I go to your thread. You capture very well the concept of less-known together with a detail to a facade or a dimension or a style.

However, this thread achieves something different. It is unpretentious, un-artsy Paris. The Paris of immigrants, the working-class, the Boulevard de Stalingrad in Choisy-le-Roi/Thias that brings me back memories when I would take the RER C to spend a weekend with a friend in Choisy-le-Roi because I was young and had no money to spend in Paris and prefered to drive around with my friend in the suburbs who had a car. And, we would go to McDonalds drive-thru because it was cheap, like on that picture you talk about that is without purpose. So this thread shows that beyond the City of Paris there is an extension of Paris that looks a lot more like most places in America, one that says [Greater]Paris has both of Old Europe and New World development styles and trends.

Greater Paris does exist. In (American) English, the tern Greater [city] is used to refer to an urban area that includes surrounding cities, like Greater Houston or Greater Los Angeles. In French, one says in every-day talk Region Parisienne or RP when written, much more than Paris + Banlieue, which would only be seen written, never spoken. J'habite en Region Parisienne. Immobilier: Paris + banlieue but also simply RP or Region Parisienne Meanwhile, in English, one would never say Houston Region or LA Region, but again, one would say Greater Houston or Houston Metro. So Greater Paris is correct in English, at least American English, not sure about British English, because Greater London means something else--it's a well defined area with boundaries, and maybe that is how you understand it to be, which I respect.

But I agree that an intro to this thread would have helped in clarify what the author intended, as to not confuse.

Well, I very much love your thread. When I want to see less known or less-photographed spots of Paris, I go to your thread. You capture very well the concept of less-known together with a detail to a facade or a dimension or a style.

However, this thread achieves something different. It is unpretentious, un-artsy Paris. The Paris of immigrants, the working-class, the Boulevard de Stalingrad in Choisy-le-Roi/Thias that brings me back memories when I would take the RER C to spend a weekend with a friend in Choisy-le-Roi because I was young and had no money to spend in Paris and prefered to drive around with my friend in the suburbs who had a car. And, we would go to McDonalds drive-thru because it was cheap, like on that picture you talk about that is without purpose. So this thread shows that beyond the City of Paris there is an extension of Paris that looks a lot more like most places in America, one that says [Greater]Paris has both of Old Europe and New World development styles and trends.

Greater Paris does exist. In (American) English, the tern Greater [city] is used to refer to an urban area that includes surrounding cities, like Greater Houston or Greater Los Angeles. In French, one says in every-day talk Region Parisienne or RP when written, much more than Paris + Banlieue, which would only be seen written, never spoken. J'habite en Region Parisienne. Immobilier: Paris + banlieue but also simply RP or Region Parisienne Meanwhile, in English, one would never say Houston Region or LA Region, but again, one would say Greater Houston or Houston Metro. So Greater Paris is correct in English, at least American English, not sure about British English, because Greater London means something else--it's a well defined area with boundaries, and maybe that is how you understand it to be, which I respect.

But I agree that an intro to this thread would have helped in clarify what the author intended, as to not confuse.

Or Los Angeles area... Region for Los Angeles is less common.

well well, I guess I'm a bourgeois and I don't want to see those parts of Paris showed in this thread... but show me "Boulevard de Stalingrad (Choisy le Roi/Thiais)" in Houston or in Tokyo, I just want to cry too... http://smileys.sur-la-toile.com/repository/Triste/0055.gif http://smileys.sur-la-toile.com/repository/Rires/0003.gif

I used to live in Nanterre and Boulogne and I would never post any picture of it... I guess it's a question of what we think is beautiful or not... the question is: does everything need to be showed? IMO, that is not because thousands of people live outside Paris (I mean in suburbs) that their boroughs must be showed in so far as the latter are ugly or pointless... everything can't be beautiful.

but what I find pointless is important for other guys like Edubejar or Minato, so I respect that, even if I can hardly understand. http://smileys.sur-la-toile.com/repository/Cligne/j_gaba.gif

Avenue de la Porte de Vanves (14th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5050/5381827940_f464bd27e9_b.jpg

Espace du Général de Gaulle (Fresnes)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5140/5418061963_38dbdfafa8_b.jpg

Rue La Fontaine (16th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5099/5425815202_6bacea1be7_b.jpg

Rue Louis-Charles Boileau (Bagneux)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5013/5425796000_d2b32372e2_b.jpg

In Brazil we say: uaaaaauuuuu!!!!!

Paris is absolutely gorgeous.

im enjoying this thread... I'm just tired of all those "perfect London / Paris / New York" threads!

great seeing the real actual sides of such a big city

Rue d'Arcueil (Gentilly)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5178/5431972398_47d14a291a_b.jpg

Rue Augustine Variot (Malakoff)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5246/5381331869_2c70828f46_b.jpg

Avenue de Saint Ouen (17th/18th arrondissement)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4081/5433719873_208df4a796_b.jpg

Rue de la Convention (15th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5057/5433749199_bfe3b32d55_b.jpg

Have worked more then one year in Paris and really miss that city when I watch ur pictures! Merci mon frère! :cheers:

Great street photos. Thanks for sharing. I could look at these for hours.

Thanks very much to show the unknown places of Paris. :cheers:

Avenue de Verdun 1916 (La Garenne-Colombes)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5217/5436669501_f74de9d66e_b.jpg

Avenue de la Résistance (Le Raincy)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/5437321692_02e99c2ac8_b.jpg

Rue Edmond Vitry (Nogent-sur-Marne)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5253/5436730709_e35dbb860b_b.jpg

Rue Mornay (4th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5171/5439020507_829428134b_b.jpg

Place des Vins de France (12th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5178/5458636151_655c9e91f5_b.jpg

Rue Sacrot (Saint-Mandé)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5211/5458669675_2ddeca0c04_b.jpg

im enjoying this thread... I'm just tired of all those "perfect London / Paris / New York" threads!

great seeing the real actual sides of such a big city

+1 People only show the upper-middle class and superficial touristy places in most threads. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's nice to see the 'normal' neighborhoods that people live in...

Rue Louis Rolland (Montrouge)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5059/5461290351_cf33f7ca08_b.jpg

Rue Suzanne Masson (La Courneuve)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5096/5461918564_7a002358ec_b.jpg

+1 People only show the upper-middle class and superficial touristy places in most threads. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's nice to see the 'normal' neighborhoods that people live in...

I completely agree!


Here's to keeping it real...:)

Chaussée de la Muette (16th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5020/5466330126_47f87ec98f_b.jpg

Cité Delaunay (11th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5135/5465708157_f895f8cee2_b.jpg

Chaussée de la Muette

Sweet memories from my adolescence ! Thanks !! :cheers:

I always loving seeing those photos from Paris; thanks again Minato :)

Place Pablo Picasso (6th/14th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5137/5471510987_a68a9ff46c_b.jpg

Avenue Aristide Briand (Les Pavillons-sous-Bois)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5175/5471500217_2bc7d6ba2b_b.jpg

Thank you Minato for a great thread!

This is one of the few threads I keep coming back to, simply because of the interesting places and the interesting way to capture them.
I have to agree with the other commentators. Picture perfect postcard places was my main focal point when I first started browsing the SSC forums, but as time went, my taste grew and evolved, to the point that I now often find the tourist photos boring.
Minato however, brings the real deal. The Paris I want to re-visit.

Keep it up!

Does anyone know where this picture made? A link wikimapia or a street / neighborhood would be great. Thanks :cheers:

http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/6871/24142934524464641d77o.jpg (http://img189.imageshack.us/i/24142934524464641d77o.jpg/)

Rue George Bernard Shaw in the 15th arrondissement near the Eiffel tower.
http://maps.google.fr/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=fr&geocode=&q=6+Rue+George+Bernard+Shaw,+Paris&aq=&sll=48.852023,2.294222&sspn=0.003022,0.008256&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=6+Rue+George+Bernard+Shaw,+75015+Paris,+Ile-de-France&ll=48.852531,2.292345&spn=0.012086,0.041199&t=h&z=16

Avenue Paul Doumer (Rueil-Malmaison)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5060/5485957651_30872b4c63_b.jpg

Maisons-Alfort - Alfortville RER (Maisons-Alfort/Alfortville)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5176/5486000431_6d10fc9e6d_b.jpg

Rue George Bernard Shaw in the 15th arrondissement near the Eiffel tower.
http://maps.google.fr/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=fr&geocode=&q=6+Rue+George+Bernard+Shaw,+Paris&aq=&sll=48.852023,2.294222&sspn=0.003022,0.008256&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=6+Rue+George+Bernard+Shaw,+75015+Paris,+Ile-de-France&ll=48.852531,2.292345&spn=0.012086,0.041199&t=h&z=16


Thank you very much :cheers:

Quai de la Charente (19th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5016/5489029293_31e7f8212d_b.jpg

Avenue du Général de Gaulle (Créteil)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5294/5489068065_98e3547099_b.jpg

Rue Joséphine (Le Perreux-sur-Marne)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5172/5492651810_d4835f7112_b.jpg

Place Maurice Gunsbourg (Clamart)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5180/5492081683_c52770bdd3_b.jpg

Avenue des Champs Elysées (8th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5291/5495083796_5752e2d98b_b.jpg

Rue Charles Michels (Saint Denis)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5133/5495055652_7d940e18da_b.jpg

Place Lewisham (Antony)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5098/5497102199_0dc5ea5bb1_b.jpg

Rond Point du Mirabeau (15th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5134/5497111979_cc151d5908_b.jpg

Is there a link between Place Lewisham in Antony and the Lewisham borough in London?

This is a great thread. I love the honesty and diversity of the places and photos that are showcased here. When you cover every aspect of a city it really gives you a realistic feel for the place and from what I've seen so far I love it all! Thankyou :)

Is there a link between Place Lewisham in Antony and the Lewisham borough in London?

Antony is twinned with the borough of Lewicham.

Rue du Renard (4th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5212/5503601070_bba8946312_b.jpg

Rue Hispano Suiza (Bois-Colombes)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5133/5442217762_4a3a143bab_b.jpg

Des images merveilleuses, comme toujours, Minato!

Just 4 more weeks and I'll be à Paris!!!! :banana:

It's amazing all the different parts of the Paris metro-area that the author of this thread gets to in order to show us these pics. Then you combine that with the technology that is the internet and Google Maps with Street View and I can see where the place in the post above i.e. Rue Hispano Suiza (Bois-Colombes) is located. The site is part of a redevelopment cluster of new low-rise buildings.

Autoroute A86 (Nanterre)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5218/5512945490_de868c192e_b.jpg

Boulevard des Coquibus (Evry)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5251/5512321151_7497bbf01a_b.jpg

Rue Michel Le Comte (3rd arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5051/5523704074_f127714a1a_b.jpg

Rue Mouffetard (5th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5253/5523136789_9347729cf9_b.jpg

^^ Mouffetard, you mean? :)

Place de Moro-Giafferi (14th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5017/5534440729_fa27c9e703_b.jpg

Rue Henri Barbusse (Noisy-le-Sec)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5254/5534424589_4db7592cb5_b.jpg

Rue Jules Vanzuppe (Ivry-sur-Seine)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5229/5553294731_61114e82a7_b.jpg

Rue de la Banque (2nd arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5268/5553899978_792894b8d7_b.jpg

Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré (8th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5252/5562103910_394311ec4b_b.jpg

Rue Louis Lejeune (Montrouge)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5018/5562085458_ff4aa7fc1e_b.jpg

A6a (Arcueil)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5308/5571803496_3175a4b642_b.jpg

Rue des Clos Saint Marcel (Sceaux)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5059/5571723344_6e4f31a097_b.jpg

Place Saint-Sulpice (6th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5022/5579702555_7788ed0246_b.jpg

Rue du Général Gallieni (Rosny-sous-Bois)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5136/5580274988_4362699cec_b.jpg

Rue Surcouf (7th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5179/5582999364_00cff5c69e_b.jpg

Rue Basfroi (11th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5140/5583017040_60be10ec74_b.jpg

Wonderful images, as always, Minato!
Just two more weeks, and I'm back in beau Paris!! :banana::banana:

Avenue Daumesnil (12th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5307/5600710663_90776cb9e1_b.jpg

Rue Proudhon (Saint-Denis)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5101/5601273148_bb1b83d538_b.jpg

i can't see the pics. :ohno:

i can't see the pics. :ohno:

http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157626466563506/

Avenue du Général Leclerc (Bourg-la-Reine)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5186/5619251765_daf42b24b3_b.jpg

Rue de Javel (15th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5107/5619827518_2bd2763380_b.jpg

Avenue du Pavé Neuf (Noisy-le-Grand)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5030/5622554262_c4c023a3c5_b.jpg

Avenue du Pont Royal (Cachan)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5186/5623783115_f64aaf82fa_b.jpg

Avenue de Villiers (17th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5185/5627010039_da8464836a_b.jpg

Rue de Montreuil (Vincennes)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5104/5627045101_68e8a7c6be_b.jpg

Indeed wonderful, very nice photos from Paris, Minato :)

Rue Jeanne d'Arc (13th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5186/5630771761_765555de61_b.jpg

Rue Ferragus (Aubervilliers)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5104/5630743927_f38ffbc272_b.jpg

Rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (5th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5187/5635687060_dfbda0d18d_b.jpg

Rue Ordener (18th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5261/5635077853_90592b46ec_b.jpg

Tres bien! More great photos of more unknown areas in Paris. :)

Thank you !

Avenue de Verdun (Villeneuve-la-Garenne)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5108/5638273325_a255243eb3_b.jpg

Boulevard du Maréchal Foch (Rueil-Malmaison)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5149/5638255877_3afbb70db4_b.jpg

Rue du Maréchal Leclerc (Saint-Maurice)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5066/5644131480_6b6768a46d_b.jpg

Rue de Rochechouart (9th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5024/5644143188_e34f62db22_b.jpg

Grande Rue Charles de Gaulle (Asniere-sur-Seine)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5141/5647244648_034bd3efce_b.jpg

Rue Antonin Georges Belin (Argenteuil)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5022/5646653187_1d22962b44_b.jpg

Rue des Colonnes (2nd arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5069/5649928141_4aed5f3c8e_b.jpg

Rue de Paris (Charenton-le-Pont)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5229/5650511974_2faa659a87_b.jpg

Avenue Louis Pasteur (Noisiel)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5067/5670405896_fed3b7fe4c_b.jpg

Rue de Meaux (19th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5188/5669823751_5c066f8ba0_b.jpg

Rue Saint-Stenay (Drancy)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2008/5696864202_270139d6ea_b.jpg

Rue Houdan (Sceaux)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5067/5696327127_f8b8079576_b.jpg

Rue Sainte-Blaise (20th arrondissement)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2043/5708117530_179d95dc74_b.jpg

Rue Cassini (14th arrondissement)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2794/5708176692_ede9e6c217_b.jpg

Rue de Sèvres (7th/6th arrondissements)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3350/5710937540_7292aa6c97_b.jpg

Rue Paul Bert (Colombes)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3086/5710333117_3f4aa86332_b.jpg

Rue Saint-Gilles (3rd arrondissement)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3393/5718909290_f2510bce43_b.jpg

Rue Laborde (8th arrondissement)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2512/5718331569_0e0d9f2838_b.jpg

^^ Subway sandwich shop? I had never seen one in Paris before (last time I was in Paris was early 2010). Is that very recent? Paris only or throughout France?

^^Weird there were already plenty of Subway in Paris in early 2010. :? I think that you didn't notice these.
These are almost as numerous as McDonald's in Central Paris (maybe even more numerous today) and unlike Starbucks, it is all over France.

:D

Rue de la Convention (La Courneuve)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3166/5731090893_85c996d940_b.jpg

Rue de Bercy (12th arrondissement)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2687/5731622556_aff2db3aef_b.jpg

^^ Why building was that in the corner in post 861 in La Courneuve? It has a French and Spanish flag side-by-side. Why the Spanish flag? And does La Courneuve still have the very bad reputation as a dangerous or high-crime locality?

It is an hotel.
Hotels often have flag of several countries, anyway I don't know why it does have the Spanish flag (many spanish tourists maybe :dunno:).
La Courneuve still has a bad reputation.

Parc de Saint Cloud bus (Saint Cloud)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2739/5740935370_d3b4ca46c1_b.jpg

Rue Fénelon (Montrouge)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2660/5740413723_f18b6438b0_b.jpg

Rue Paul Verlaine (Saint-Maurice)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2662/5782764186_e7eb1fe726_b.jpg

Rue Quincampoix (4th arrondissement)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3414/5782694338_ae73320529_b.jpg

Rue Roger Salengro (Bondy)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2068/5787297251_42fc266ac0_b.jpg

Rue des Bourguignons (Bois-Colombes)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5065/5787892130_6cdea4eaf4_b.jpg

Avenue des Nations (Villepinte)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2003/5812260841_c6f54f582c_b.jpg

Rue des Frères Chausson (Asnières-sur-Seine)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2787/5815721359_5fa9090589_b.jpg

Thanks Minato ku for showcasing neighbourhoods that most tourists and casual visitors to Paris likely never visit. :)

Authentic portraits of a city as experienced by its residents are much more interesting to me than endless "postcard" photos of the tourist circuit and well known areas and landmarks.

Rue de Belgique (Meudon)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2718/5849121159_2f69382ec2_b.jpg

Rue des Blés d'Or (Marolles-en-Brie)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2438/5849167295_a12a8c0408_b.jpg

Allée des Frères Lumière (Bussy-Saint-Georges)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5076/5854062800_3649f822f7_b.jpg

Rue Viala (15th arrondissement)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3253/5854014776_86d1a9e3ef_b.jpg

Rue de Metz (Rosny-sous-Bois)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2764/5856950259_05a228b3e1_b.jpg

Rue Olivier Messiaen (13th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5022/5857486794_fe5fbac4c2_b.jpg

Wow Minatu ku, are you feeling OK? You actually have now shown us single-family streets. That is something you have not shown us a lot in this thread.

^^ Really interesting shots from Paris :)

Wow Minatu ku, are you feeling OK? You actually have now shown us single-family streets. That is something you have not shown us a lot in this thread.

Yeah but there's a KFC when possible :D

Don't worry I am fine, I just did some trips in outer suburbs.

Rue Edouard Naud (Issy-les-Moulineaux)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3233/5863817277_c2e1ac72ff_b.jpg

Rue Jean d'Estienne d'Orves (Le Perreux-sur-Marne)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5302/5864414704_4a754a8edd_b.jpg

^^ and you are also going to more affluent places, too, like Issy-les-Moulineaux, Le Perreux-sur-Marne, Meudon, Saint-Maurice, Saint-Cloud. You must have been bored to tears with all those bourgeois or yuppies.

Rue Pierre Charron (8th arrondissement)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3129/5869807427_18cd40044d_b.jpg

Rue de la Gare (Aubervilliers)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6042/5869834119_b9766054e0_b.jpg

Rue Georges Clemenceau (Versailles)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6004/5901808549_750602db2d_b.jpg

Avenue Henri Ravera (Bagneux)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6036/5901836235_9201fe483b_b.jpg

Rue du Gril (5th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5150/5680844050_1aaa4bc086_b.jpg

Rue Rene Thibert (Villejuif)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6009/5905368705_c0b9607f93_b.jpg

Boulevard Beaumarchais (3rd/11th arrondissements)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5027/5832107789_5e8c5ee491_b.jpg

Boulevard Chilperic (Chelles)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5231/5913518192_f1a45de8d9_b.jpg

Rue du Gril (5th arrondissement)
Rue Rene Thibert (Villejuif)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6009/5905368705_c0b9607f93_b.jpg


Beautiful neighborhood....:cheers:

Rue Pasteur (Mandres-les-Roses)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5275/5916523502_163e9e168e_b.jpg

Rue du Docteur Léonce Basset (Saint-Ouen)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6124/5915984865_fbf1d5e768_b.jpg

Rue Louis Blanc (Courbevoie)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6018/5923000234_03d25e280b_b.jpg

Rue d'Uzès (2nd arrondissement)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6029/5922401877_80bca66259_b.jpg

Avenue Victor Hugo (Champs-sur-Marne)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6001/5937764405_4a14969191_b.jpg

Rue Robert Surcouf (Bussy-Saint-Georges)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6133/5940901922_98d1692a50_b.jpg

This is one of the best photo threads Ive seen in years.

BRAVO!

Rue Henri Martin (Puteaux)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6081/6109013389_6de1d61eec_b.jpg

Place de la Nation (12th arrondissement)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6088/6109027817_b264c818c3_b.jpg

Very nice!

Thanks for the fresh updates....:cheers:

Rue Jules Guesde (Bondy)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6063/6120781525_b7e6353c6c_b.jpg

Rue Lecourbe (15th arrondissement)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5036/5880910306_b6e4d882bb_b.jpg

A86 (Rueil-Malmaison)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6086/6124795924_1d4b9f80d4_b.jpg

Rue Raspail (Ivry-sur-Seine)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6062/6124238599_8b3d6e6fce_b.jpg

Avenue Jean Jaurès (Gentilly)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6201/6155462041_5f3a6e6d8a_b.jpg

Avenue d'Iéna (16th arrondissement)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6185/6155476243_8609d5e575_b.jpg

Rue Saint Louis (Poissy)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6211/6220831389_ca1628c013_b.jpg

Rue des Maraîchers (20th arrondissement)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6036/6220843541_26225ff45a_b.jpg

Great pics...:cheers:

Avenue Bernard Halpern (Créteil)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6229/6231578911_7dce25c9a7_b.jpg

Rue de Courcelles (17th arrondissement)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6115/6232063372_99d74fd6f8_b.jpg

Could you tell me something about the place Porte Saint Martin?..between Republique and la gare de l'est. It's a safe place?
it takes long time to reach walking the centre?
mercy beaucoup!

^^ Porte Saint Martin is quite safe and it is inside Central Paris.

Rue de la Glacière (13th arrondissement)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6178/6238419860_8a4c3c80ff_b.jpg

Rue des Louviers (Saint-Germains-en-Laye)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6099/6238479870_d7fae22fd2_b.jpg

^^ Porte Saint Martin is quite safe and it is inside Central Paris.



Thanks!

Avenue Albert Petit (Bagneux)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6093/6238452332_b49a517705_b.jpg

Rue René Boulanger (10th arrondissement)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6108/6244388748_d289946d2e_b.jpg

Great updates! I hadn't checked this thread in a while!:cheers:

Rue Bonaparte (6th arrondissement)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6226/6261022823_2f024e4a44_b.jpg

Rue Cadet (9th arrondissement)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6171/6260997457_bdb31fbb55_b.jpg

Rue de l’Ancienne Mairie (Fontenay-sous-Bois)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6094/6264976080_fd8c0b536d_b.jpg

Rue Corneille (Antony)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6235/6264465755_957c126723_b.jpg

...wonderful Paris :applause: Thanks for sharing :)

Rue Maurice Thonez (Nanterre)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6053/6267334551_019416f353_b.jpg

Avenue du Centre (Montigny-le-Bretonneux)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6215/6267356519_c0be783401_b.jpg

Place du Palais Bourbon (7th arrondissement)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6217/6269740809_b4f9ef35a7_b.jpg

Rue Dejean (18th arrondissement)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6233/6269764207_775b505894_b.jpg

Minatu ku, you could not have shown two more different Paris, demographically, than in the post above, 7th vs 18th arrondissements, although 16th vs 18th may have been just as different, too.

Rue du Berry (Drancy)
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6096/6365358763_c453cb98c8_b.jpg

Rue de Levis (17th arrondissement)
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6227/6365340919_ffd47b3820_b.jpg

Note that the Berry is an historic province of Central France, my native region. :cheers:

:banana:

Beautiful Paris.....thanks for the updates.:cheers2:

Rue Mouffetard (5th arrondissement)
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7174/6433163727_e16f6dc04c_b.jpg

Rue Etienne Dolet (Suresnes)
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7021/6433136379_861fa92d12_b.jpg

Amazing pictures minato ku. Thank you for showing everyone so many different neighborhoods of Paris, it gets boring seeing the same few streets and buildings in most other threads about Paris

Promenade Jean Rostand (Bobigny)
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7031/6507812747_fbdf2210a0_b.jpg

Rue Georges Dimitrov (Champigny-sur-Marne)
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7147/6507825919_bb03b67657_b.jpg