Readers Report
Bostonian
I am moving to my Brooklyn (St. James Place corner of Atlantic) on Sunday coming. I am excited to be moving to Brooklyn. I hope to find both the tough-guy and nobel laureate in the shadows and sidewalk cracks of the squared block cities of Brooklyn.
11 June 1997
I was born in 1947 at 7th Ave Methodist. I now live in Ft. Thomas Ky and have been away from B'klyn for some 40 yrs, coming back to visit many times over. May I say I have many awesome memories of B'klyn, the Reo trucks hummin down 4th Ave early on hot summer morns, the subways rumblin under 4th street wakin us kids up. Playing house ball with the distinct pink "spaulding" balls and going to Coney. Yes I miss B'klyn. If any remember the Ciani's who lived at 4th Ave & Warren Streets e-mail me at your convenience. I would love to hear from you. Ciao
13 June 1997
My Brooklyn was the waterfront area in the Red Hook section. I remember those hot summer days, when you could carve your name in the gutter with a sharpened popsicle stick. A car, bus or bike ride to Shore Road could bring some instant relief from the heat. The Narrows almost always offered a refreshing breeze. I remember Ralph the Bungalow Bar (ice cream) man, the best pizza in the world, Junior's (downtown), the old downtown with Howard Clothes, E. J. Korvettes, A&S, Woolworths, McCrorys, Mays etc. The Loews Met, the Duffield, The RKO Albee, Strand Bowling Alley and, of course, my alma mater, Brooklyn Tech. Games like ringo leevio, hot peas and butter, stoop ball, punch ball, box ball and stick ball. It was a one-of-kind place then and I'm sure it still is today.
15 June 1997
My Brooklyn was E. 95th St. between East New York Ave. & Rutland Rd. in the 40s and 50s. At the end of WW II we had a block party. The police blocked off our street and there were bands and my parents let me stay up to dance in the street. I also remember parades on Eastern Parkway for every holiday. In Lincoln Terrace Park we ice skated in the winter and ran under the sprinklers in the summer. In the 6th grade (P.S.189), we played touch football on the park fields. (Carol Cotlier, Annette Miller, Sheila Diamond, Murial Gutter, Michael Goldberg, Saul Steinberg—where are all of you?) Mrs. Epstein, our 6th grade teacher, would buy us tickets for shows at the Academy of Music. Saturday afternoons at the Carrol or Sutter movie theater. Sometimes we went roller skating and a special treat was the Loew's Pitkin where the ceiling looked like the night sky with millions of stars.
This was my Brooklyn and though those days are gone, reliving some of it on "1010 President St." with all of our combined memories, reminds me just how special Brooklyn is.
19 June 1997
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