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Stoops, stick ball, egg creams mixed ONLY with Fox's Ubet Syrup. The flat morning light as stores are slowly waking up for another day. Light filled with laughter, and sadness, hope and resignation. It floods through windows and doorways and through the very core of our being. To live in Brooklyn is to know this light. This light is only found in Brooklyn.
24 September 1997
I am from 18th Avenue and Ocean Parkway. Attended P.S. 217. I have been looking for friends of mine for years: Eddie Moore, James Armenti, Jeanne Hanley, Timmy Eckert, Timmy Glenn, Doreen Pesche, She-She. If you know any of these people, please drop me a note of where they are and how I can reach them. Thanks!
29 September 1997
Hmmm! I can still smell the pastry at Serro's Pastry Shoppe on Wilson Ave. and Dekalb Ave. across the way from the 83rd Precinct Police Station and Passalaqua's Drug Store. As I served lemon ice from the stand in the pastry shoppe, I see the faces of all my neighborhood friends: Richie Frick, Charlie LaCapria, Mikey LaCapria, Bobby M., Anthony Fasulo. You couldn't find better stores than on Knickerbocker Ave., where we also played softball and handball in the park. I miss those Saturday punchball games on Dekalb Ave. We had the best Italian restaurants in the city. Marconi's on Gates Ave., Cypress Gardens on Cypress Ave., Ventimiglia's.
Numerous movie houses: Rivoli, Willoughby, Starr, Parthenon, RKO Madison, Ridgewood. I'll never see or live in such a neighborhood again. I wonder what happened to cause this to happen? What happened to our Paradise?
We had beautiful feasts at St. Joseph on Suydam and Wilson Ave. the zeppoles, sfinge, sausage heros, clams on the half shell, Italian singers and bands. What a place Bushwick was. I'll never forget it.
29 September 1997
My Brooklyn began in 1953, in the Sheepshead Bay Area. I grew up in the Sheepshead Bay Housing Projects, where it was like one happy family. Everyone cared for everyone else's children, and it was like we were all relatives. P.S. 206 on East 23rd Street and Ave. V was the first stop for education. Following P.S. 206 was Marine Park Jr. High, and then good old Sheepshead Bay H.S. Always going to the Kings Plaza Mall, or just hanging out on Nostrand Avenue with friends was a fond memory for me. There is nothing like good old Brooklyn. There was always a good time to remember. Met a wonderful man from Brighton Beach, and we are now married for 26 years. BROOKLYN, THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES!
29 September 1997
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