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Brooklyn was the most wonderful place to grow up in. I just recently took my husband back to the old neighborhoods. I lived on 40th and 7th Ave. till I was 5. After my Mom passed away, we moved to 42nd Street, and lived there till I was 13. From there I moved to 84th St. and 14th Ave., and from there I moved to 49th St. and 7th Ave. I attended Bay Ridge High School, graduated in 1963. I remember 86th Street, and of course Junior's. I loved Coney Island and Sheepshead Bay. I lived at Sunset Park, went swimming there every summer. I attended P.S. 169 and from there, went to Pershing Jr. High. I grew up with the Italians, Jews, Irish, Norwegian, Finns, Puerto Rican , and we all got along. I still keep in touch with my childhood friends today. I miss Brooklyn's pizza, New York's Chinese, and Nathan's french fries. Im proud to be from Brooklyn—it was a great childhood, Please e-mail me.
16 October 1998
My address growing up was 3220 Farragut Rd. I attended St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic School then Nazareth and Midwood High Schools. My "stomping" grounds were the Junction area by Brooklyn College, 'cause that's where EVERYTHING was! Fast food, movies, toy stores, etc. And you never really had to cross the WIDE expanse of Flatbush Ave. All you had to do was run down the subway stairs and come up the other side! All my friends lived within walking distance. . . . Man I could just go on forever. . . . ANYWAY I lived in Brooklyn from 1963 until 1991 then I moved to FL. I am now in WA state in the military.
18 October 1998
My Brooklyn was Park Slope in the 40s and 50s. Ninth Avenue (Prospect Park West to some) was swanky and each avenue down less so. My parents were proud of living above Sixth Avenue. Below Fifth was lower class to them. Neighborhoods were distinct by nationality, too, but everyone got along. We rode bikes as much as my country-living grandkids do now, and walked more. We played in the streets. It sounds bad, but it wasn't. I remember the statue of Lafayette at the entrance to Prospect Park on Ninth Street, across from Lewne's Restaurant that had the best ice cream cones. Does anyone remember in 1960 when the plane crashed around Seventh Avenue and Carroll Street? A boy survived quite a while at Methodist Hospital and they built a chapel started with the pennies that were in his pocket. I always wanted to live in a small town and now I do, but I think back with nostalgia of the days in Brooklyn, across the river from "The City."
19 October 1998
MY BROOKLYN is living in Bensonhurst and going to Our Lady of Czestochowa School in South Brooklyn and then taking the subway to St. Francis Xavier Academy in Park Slope. MY BROOKLYN is working at CYO Day Camp on Surf Avenue in Coney Island summers through high school and college. MY BROOKLYN is moving to Bay Ridge my second year in college and later finding an apartment there after I married. MY BROOKLYN is where my first child was born. MY BROOKLYN is Williamsburgh where I taught for 10 years at P.S. 17. MY BROOKLYN is Prospect Hall when it was the Polish Home. MY BROOKLYN is eating pizza at Vesuvio's on Third Avenue in Bay Ridge and knishes on the Boardwalk in Coney Island. MY BROOKLYN was hanging out at Jack's and Maguire's in Bay Ridge. MY BROOKLYN IS . . .
20 October 1998
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