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Tried looking up "the point" and couldn't pull it up. Any problems? I'd hate to think that the best part of the borough was being kept from the viewers!
I still think Brooklyn in general, Greenpoint in particular, was the best place in the world to grow up. It was my world and thinking about growing up in Brooklyn still makes me feel good. I still have some friends who feel we should have blown up all the bridges . . . except the Brooklyn . . . and kept all the people from the city out of our town! What a great idea!
Keep up the nice job.
28 March 1997
The Greenpoint page will be back on line soon. You're quite right: no Brooklyn site can be complete without it, any more than Brooklyn itself could be complete without "the point." DNM
My Brooklyn was Montgomery St. and Utica Ave. where Singer's Deli was run by my family.
We played ball at Canarsie Pier and rode the B17 bus on Remsen Ave. The Kitchen Sink at Jahn's Ice Cream Parlor on Flatbush Ave. was a Friday night favorite.
My Bar Mitzvah was at the President's Chateau on President St. many years ago, but fondly remembered.
And let's not forget Lincoln Park, a great place for football. We learned the art of stickball in the backyards and slapball in the street while we dodged cars.
It was a time I will not soon forget.
If anyone reads this and remembers P.S. 211 or Winthrop J.H.S., please drop me a line.
29 March 1997
Great idea. . . . I'm in Kentucky and have lived many places since my time in Brooklyn. People I talk to just can't understand the bond that I feel for my original hometown. Brooklyn was Erasmus Hall, a basketball power. Billy Cunningham playing against Connie Hawkins and Roger Brown. Flatbush Avenue where the pizza was 15 cents and the Hamburgers Host (at Albemarle Road) had the world's best onion rings. Ice cream at Jahn's and Fulton's. The Friday night canteen at the Caton School. I was there the night after Richie Valens, Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper were killed. Making out at the parade grounds when the only danger was the "hickey" you couldn't hide. I could go on and on . . . Nathan's, Big Daddy's, Chinese handball, stoop ball, singing harmony, basketball stars at Manhattan Beach, Lundy's. I've kept in touch with some folks from those days but there are some names that come to mind that were part of my circles then: Susan Weisbrot, Dennis Columbe, Corky Saperstein, David Billings, Leslie Charney, Henry Haynes, so many others. If this brings a memory back . . . get in touch.
20 March 1997
My Brooklyn is the Brooklyn of the 1860s. I live in Texas and I'm from Michigan, but I'm a Civil War reenactor and the unit we belong to is the 173rd New York State Volunteer Infantry. This unit was formed in Brooklyn and was mainly policeman and fireman. The roster we have shows they were older men - many in their 30s and 40s. I've got letters from a young officer, Nathaniel Augustus Conklin (Gus to his sister) telling about his adventures in the Port Hudson and Red River campaigns in Louisiana and Arkansas. From the roster and the regimental history and the letters I've started to get a picture of a vanished world, of men who joined up for whatever reasons (and regretted it in some cases—there were a flock of desertions from Ryker's Island just before the unit shipped out for New Orleans) and went a long way from home. Some of these men spent time in prison camp in Texas (and I've seen the place of Camp Ford in Tyler).
A goodly number never came home—lost to battle or disease. I've seen the places they fought and I know something about a soldier's life (even if I'm a lady and not a soldier). I'm trying to build a better picture of the world from which they came and to which they returned and I've been reading these web pages with interest. If anyone else is interested in 19th century Brooklyn, I would hope they would contact me.
1 April 1997
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