Readers Report
I have had a chance encounter with your website and it's wonderful. I would also like to know more about your vision for it, and how it might be expanded.
I was fortunate to meet Don Newcombe last week by chance in a New Orleans restaurant. Even more excited was my companion who grew up on Crown Street and later on Ocean Parkway before moving to Laurelton.
Don is still with the Dodger organization, and says there is little to no chance of their return to Bklyn. Oh well . . .
Because I work at the Garden, I would love to see the s dropped from your information on BBG. Nevertheless, it is really gratifying to meet people such as you for whom the Garden means so much.
22 February 1997
You have a really beautiful webpage. . . .
You capture Brooklyn in your pictures so beautifully, as beautifully as I remembered it. . . .
22 February 1997
My Brooklyn began in Bensonhurst, 81st & 18 Ave. across from the milestone and the Van Pelt Mansion. But most of my time was in my beloved Canarsie, Bayview in 1955 when it was new. Nothing compares with life in a project, so much to explore, no cars, big empty lot on 102 St. I was at P.S. 272 the first day it opened, shining gym floor. Handball and stickball in the school yard, and slap ball on the terraces.
Hanging out at the luncheonette on Rockaway Parkway. On to Wilson, J.H.S. 211, going to Wash DC with the class and rooming with Alvin Glicksberg et al. Then to the wild of East NY to Thomas Jefferson High School. Pioneer bus every day, champion football and basketball teams, honor school, and the teachers, Mrs. Tabb my favorite. Paula my love, and prom date. Anyone out there remember the knish man?
27 February 1997
My Brooklyn was between 1945 and 1954: 1045 Union Street, apt 2F.
I remember the Brooklyn Dodgers of Reese, Gilliam, Snider, Hodges, Furillo, Campy, Robinson, Cox and of corse Ersk. . . .
I remember P.S. 241 on President Street. . . .
I remember Ben and Sol's restaurant on the corner of Franklin and President and Rae's luncheonette with the egg creams and the malteds in the metal containers. I remember sitting on the stoops and playing stick ball and ringolvio.
And most of all I remember a simpler life of friendship and fun and of course the family always close by. . . .
The Franklin manor, the Savoy movie theater, the fruit stores, and Eastern Parkway. . . .
2 March 1997
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