My Brooklyn

Readers Report


Stephanie

My beloved Brooklyn is East Flatbush. Ave. D, Colonial Room, Mahoney's, etc. Little Flower, Mcauley. All such fond memories of growing up there. I visit there once in awhile for old time's sake. My Brooklyn now is Marine Park. I will never leave Brooklyn and my Brooklyn is where my kids were raised. My Brooklyn has been the best place in the world to grow up and still live.

3 August 2001


Madeline Tobin Donohue

I remember going to Coney Island for the day at least three times a week. We would sit under the boardwalk to avoid a sunburn. Our parents were smart in those days. Once every two weeks when my father got paid we would go to Steeplechase for the day. These memories are fond and lasting.

4 August 2001


Mark

I was born in Brooklyn in 1953. I lived at the corner of Ocean Ave. and Cortelyou Rd. I remember what a beautiful neighborhood it was. Flatbush Ave. was huge majestic street with its storefronts and movie theater marquees. I have been away from Brooklyn since 1966, but I will always be a Brooklynite. The street smarts and games we learned will always be with me—games like ringaleveo, stoopball, stickball are all great memories I will never forget. The corner candystores and real delis can never be replaced. Brooklyn, what a great place to grow up.

I have lived on the West Coast since 1968. I have been back to Brooklyn a few times since, as recently as 1998, took the Flatbush Ave. and Church Ave. buses to the heart of the borough I grew up in. Yes, it was different: the people and the storefronts were not the same, the streets, just a little smaller. But I still felt completely safe as I traveled through the old neighborhoods. I feel the need to make a pilgrimage back every few years. People think I am nuts.

I love Brooklyn, NY.

8 August 2001


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