My Brooklyn

Readers Report


Ken Bennett

I grew up on Empire Boulevard. My parents owned an accordion school there I attended P.S. 221 from 1951-1958, Winthrop Junior High 1958-1961 I knew many people from the hood including Mark Friedman, Mel Berger, Marilyn Simon, Susan Peck, David Kruse and Marilyn Wulf. Also hung out on E. 95th St. with Stan Seidner and Liz Cohen. I remember bowling at Freddie Fitzsimmons on Bendford and Empire as well as the Empire Rollerdrome and Saturdays at the Carrol Theatre. Also Ebbets Field, Harvey's Toyland and Brandolph's Pharmacy and Sol's Deli on Albany Ave., the playground on E.N.Y. Ave. Stoop Ball, hit the penny. I often think of the old neighborhood and wonder where are all the people I Knew. Maybe someone reading this will remember me and write to me.

30 August 2000

Mike Shapiro

I would like to get in touch with anyone that knew us when we lived in Brooklyn. We moved to California in 1950—David Shapiro, Sunny Shapiro, Susan Shapiro and me. I was three at the time and the dodgers had not made the traitor move yet. We lived on Grafton Street and there was a school across the street. If you knew our family, get in touch.

30 August 2000

John White

I was born in Brooklyn in 1937 and raised in the Ft. Hamilton/Bay Ridge sections until I went in the USN in 1955. I remember the great times we had and the freedom of movement only big city kids can know, Go where ever you want by subway, bus, or back then, even hitchhiking. .

Great times at the Sunset Park and Staten Island city pools. Could take the trolley/bus from 98th street to Sunset Park for 3¢ each way and 9¢ for the pool. If we didn't feel like traveling we would just go to our waterin' hole, where the Verrazano Bridge is now, or out to Bay 8th Street to what we called B.A. Beach (sans bathing suits).

Have been trying to remember what clam bar type restaurant was on the corner of 101st Street and 4th Ave. before the Hamilton House opened there in the mid-late 1950s? Anyone know?

31 August 2000

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