Readers Report
My Brooklyn is an area between Sheepshead Bay and Bensonhurst
walking the streets with my friend
going to school at Madison H.S.
playing basketball at St. A's on Parkway
going to the 18th Ave. feast every summer
going to the beach
walking the streets and turning the corner onto Ave. U and seeing people I know on every corner
going to Puppy City on Ocean Ave. and Ave. U
going to the beach
walking to the D train and going to the City
going to the parks
going here there and everywhere
just siting around on the corners with my friendsThis is my Brooklyn
This is a Brooklyn from the eyes on a seventeen-year-old Italian boyThis is the only life I would ever want to live .
Born South Ninth Street, Williamsburg, 1927. P.S. 16, J.H.S. 50, Boys High, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn Poly.
Memorable achievements: Member, The Knothole Gang. DIED when Mickey Owen dropped the third strike.
Favorite haunt: The Brooklyn Museum, before they chopped off the magnificent stairway.
Last time there: October 1999, took my wife (Kentucky born and bred) to Prospect Park and the Gardens. Pizza on Park West. Delightful. Some agency is reseeding and restoring the meadows.
I guess this makes me BROOKLYN! So what am I doing in Indianapolis?
My earliest memories are of 31st Street, between 4th and 5th Avenues, in the late '30s. My brother Frank and his friends belonged to a "club" and teenagers attended—though my brother did not allow my sister or me to go. Brothers are so protective! However, memories of the families and boys and girls linger in my thoughts. I often wonder where they are, if they are, and how they are.
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