My Brooklyn

Readers Report


Jason Paulotsky

I would like to find out if the Yeshiva of Kings Bay is still on Ave. Z and 26th Street. I would also like to know if Kings Plaza has been renovated.

11 February 2000


Steve Platt

Honorary Brooklyn Story 222*

I want to be Brooklyn story 222! I was born in Brooklyn and first house was 222 East 39th St.—a four-unit building inhabited by my grandparents in one apt., my father and his family in the second, my aunt and her family in the third, and my uncle and his family in the fourth. I thought everyone grew up in an apartment house full of relatives. We had a narrow alley between our building and the one to the right where I played punchball with my brother. So please put me in! Thanks.

12 February 2000


Richie

My Brooklyn was Bensonhurst, W .5th St. and Ave. O. It was Doc's Pharmacy for egg creams and pretzels. It was Seth Low Park for softball. Boody schoolyard for fast pitch stick ball, triangle on the block, box ball on the corner. Friday night church dances at St. Simon and Jude Auditorium. Sabatino's Bakery on Sunday for the best seeded Italian bread around. Sunday morning stealing the meatballs from the dish as mom was frying them, Friday nights potato and eggs or spaghetti with butter—never meat on Friday. Hanging out on the stoop on a warm summer night. Sleeping with the doors and windows open. Jahn's ice cream parlor, Joe's of Avenue U on Saturdays for some Sicilian specialties—Vastedda was my favorite. The holidays there had to have been fifty or more of us together singing, laughing, talking about our world. Where have all the families gone? Our world was a small section of Brooklyn—the only world I knew. Where has it gone? It is in my heart and soul forever. Nobody can take my Brooklyn from me.

14 February 2000


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