Readers Report
My grandmother was born in Brooklyn in 1898, so was I and everyone else in my family. I grew up on Quincy Street, between Marcy and Tompkins Avenues. Brooklyn for me is Coney Island, Prospect Park and all of the many neighborhood theaters that no longer exist. Brooklyn for me is Sid's grocery store and Doc's Medicine Cabinet, the drug store.
I am now living in Florida but I go home to visit all of the other relatives who refuse to move from Brooklyn, including my mother. I traveled with my husband for thirty years while he was in the military. I have lived in a lot of countries and states, but I always came home to Brooklyn. There was no place else like it.
I lived at 1483 St. Johns Place in 1946. My grandfather was the super there and the adjoining apartments next door. If anyone has any recent photographs of that area, or knows how to get some, I and my father would be thrilled to see them.
We haven't been in Brooklyn in forty years, but I still remember the hot summer nights when everyone would sit outside and talk. I still can hear those electric buses. It was great!
I lived at 196 Rockaway Parkway. I grew up in Brooklyn between 1947 to 1960. As a teenager I would walk up to Lincoln Terrace Park and play chess with the old men. They were mostly Jews from Eastern Europe and the kibbitzing and cursing in Yiddish was infectious. I would come home with many new expressions which shocked and amused my parents. In the summer the old folks nearby would sing of their distant homelands. The park was alive with the atmosphere of the European ghettos and shtetls they left behind. Now my Brooklyn shtetl is gone too. We left in the 1960s and that world died forever.
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