My Brooklyn

Readers Report


Fred Krughoff

Each morning I can look out over the East River, into Brooklyn, I watch the traffic going over the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges and marvel at the constant flow. There are those mornings I wastefully don't look out the window. I have heard the drone of helicopters searching the deep waters under the bridges, and seen the beauty of the sailboats passing under them. Sometimes when I am lonely I look at the restaurants so far across the water and imagine the times I have made the trip and
eaten in them. I have looked out this window now for more than fifteen years and the time on the Watchtower clock is now too far away for me to read, I can only hope that the bridges and Brooklyn are always in my view.

12 January 1996


Michael Leone

I live in Bay Ridge now, but was born in Bed Sty. I've lived in Brooklyn all my life.

14 January 1996


Jan Penovich

My Brooklyn was growing up in the Sheepshead/Nostrand projects, going to P.S. 194, Marine Park J.H.S. 278, and Sheepshead Bay H.S.

It was going to Coney Island to hang out with my best friend Bobby Kutikoff (she died way too young at 17), collecting coke bottles on the beach, turning them in for the deposit, and using the money to go on the rides.

It was Steeplechase (The Funny Place), Nathan's, the Cyclone, my grandmother, Manhattan Beach in the summer, hanging out at Martin's on the corner of Nostrand and Avenue W, going to the stables in Mill Basin, fresh bagels, Saturday matinees at the Graham movie theater, Spaldeens, skellie, punchball, roller skate keys, potsie, Mr. Glass' English class at J.H.S. 278, listening to Sgt. Pepper during the summer of '67 at Sandy Rosen's apartment, Sing, the "Big Library," the Brooklyn Museum, the Botanical Gardens, and phone exchanges like Twining, Sheepshead, Nightingale, and Esplanade (my number was TW1-6846).

Brooklyn was Bruce, David, Terry, Chris, Bonnie, Alan, et al. who are still friends even though we are now living all around the country.

I left Brooklyn over 20 years ago, but it's still part of me.

18 January 1996


Joe Reilly

I live in LA now, but I am from Bay Ridge. I recently saw on CNN that they have a new magazine called Brooklyn Bridge. Do you have any information about it? Also, I was an Urban Park Ranger in Prospect Park. Do they still have that program?

We'll be back to visit at the end of June. Is there anything you can recommend that will give my kids a real taste of Brooklyn besides the Pizza!

Thanks,
Joe Reilly

P.S. My dad is a practicing pediatrician who is 83 years old.

18 January 1996


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