My Brooklyn

Readers Report


Walter Halpern

I was born in Manhattan but at the tender age of four we moved to 1616 President St. (near Schenectady Ave.). When the depression took my father's restaurant we had to move to St. John's Place where I lived until I got married in 1953. P.S. 167 on Eastern Pkwy and then J.H.S. 210 and Brooklyn Tech.

These are all sweet memories: Nathan's, Ebbets Field, the Children's Museum off of Kingston Ave. The friends gathering at "our bench" on Eastern Pkwy at Schenectady. Summer at Bay 4, our bunch made our own flag and we would look for it when we got to the Boardwalk. Moved to Rockaway in 1964 and now reside in California. I MISS THE OLD BROOKLYN.

P.S. My wife went to Lincoln..

16 October 2000

Fred Katz

I grew up in an apartment house on Rockaway Parkway and Rutland Road. Up the street was the Sutter Avenue IRT station. At the foot of the station was a custard stand, Berger's Cafeteria, Dave's Blue Room, a deli, a luncheonette called the Snackery that fried fresh donuts. Further west on Rutland Road was Fried's candy store which sold mello rolls, a pickle store, Salerno's Pizza and Irving's Toy store. On the corner where I lived was Kalkstein's Drug Store, Slotnick's Appetizing Store, Teitelbaum Jewelers, Sol's Drygoods and Murray's Fruit Store and on 96th Street was a grocery called Rettig and Lehrers.

I used to buy knishes from a knish man pushing a small cart on Rutland Road. There were rides, mounted on trucks. The one I remember was called the "Hiya" because it was a large caged rocker with seating, manually swung by the operator, and all the kids would shout for it to be swung higher. There was Bungalow Bar and Good Humor Ice Cream trucks.
Sometimes I would hang out at the school yard at P.S. 189, and other times I would go to Lincoln Terrace Park with my friends. We used to go to the library on Schenectady and Eastern Parkway. The Brooklyn Ice Palace and the roller ring on Eastern Parkway were two other places that we liked.

If anyone came from that area, between the 40s and early 50s, please drop me a note.

16 October 2000

Nick Mele

My Brooklyn begins with Farragut Pool for summer fun, and P.S. 198 school yard for stick ball, then to Ben's candy store at Ave. D and Albany Avenue for cokes and pretzels after every adventure, the Avenue D Movie across from Little Flower Church a great place to see a movie for only 10 cents "if one had 10 cents" also Von Dolan's ice cream parlor also the neighborhood notables . . . the Rizzo brothers . . . Bill Fagan . . . Jimmy Briscoe . . . Joe Oriano . . . and of course "our" Brooklyn Dodgers.

17 October 2000

Readers' reports continue . . .

[ Jump to My Brooklyn, page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368]


subway tokenReturn to Brooklyn Home Page.

Copyright © 1995-2010 David Neal Miller. All rights reserved. For clarification and limited exceptions, see the Brooklyn Net copyright page. Last updated: December 26, 2010