My Brooklyn

Readers Report


Richard Des Ruisseaux

Fascinating page. I was looking for a Brooklyn link to stuff into my stupid page and found yours.

But I got a question: If someone said, "I change my earl every 3,000 miles" would that person be from Brooklyn or Jersey?

Thanks.

7 March 1996


Dorian

Bay Ridge. Grandma on 83rd Street. Fog Horns off of Shore Road when it was raining. A "slice-and-a-coke" at Gino's on Fifth Avenue and 75th street. I still have to make trips to Brooklyn just to buy REAL Syrian bread (3rd Ave between 78 and 79th Street). Oh—and I watched them shoot Saturday Night Fever when I was in 8th grade, although most of the movie actually takes place in Bensonhurst, not Bay Ridge as the movie would have you believe.

17 March 1996


Dan Vaccarella

I was born in Ridgewood and lived at 185 Grove Street, which was between Central and Wilson Aves. I attended P.S. 75 on Grove and Evergreen from 1955 to 1960. The last names of kids I grew up with were Jarvis, Meyers, Ralsten, Turner, Ward.

I played in Grove Street Park. The gangs present then were the Ellery Bops and the Halsey Bops, Flaming Saints and the Infamous Baldies.

I bought candy from Barbara Ann's, Perry's and pizza from Clemenza's. We had a bar on the corner named Fats and a grocery store named Genero's on Wilson and Grove Streets.

The area movie houses were the RKO Madison and the Parthenon, both on Myrtle Ave.

IS ANYONE OUT THERE FROM THIS WORLD?

17 March 1996


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