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My Brooklyn is one of awe, coming from Michigan leaving with $43 in my pocket and crossing 5 states to reach my girlfriend in East New York, having never been to Brooklyn or NYC for that matter. I remember driving through Manhattan looking street after street for a way into Brooklyn, Finally I went over the Manhatten Bridge and entered a land I will never forget. Rows and rows of tight and close multicolored houses, apartments, projects and the culture blew me away, hearing car alarms go off every 5 minutes, seeing graffiti, I was in heaven's playground. I will never forget my 2-week stay in Brooklyn, New York during March of '98.
1 March 1999
As a Brooklyn-born girl, I know that all roads eventually lead to Brooklyn. My brother and his family currently live in California. Last year, during Thanksgiving dinner, we realized that everyone invited had a connection to Brooklyn and was proud of it. Glad to have found your site.
1 March 1999
My Brooklyn is East Flatbush in the late 50s and early 60s. E. 45th St in a small area called "Dodgertown" by some (I have no idea of who named it but I never saw any Dodgers and was a Yankees fan). P.S. 268 when it opened (I think I was in 3rd grade), Winthrop J.H.S. through 1961.
Spent much time later at Park Circle Lanes near the Parade Grounds. I remember watching some great sandlot baseball games at Field 1.
Winthrop's school yard was a main hangout for the neighborhood. Softball, punchball, stickball (I once had a 26-inning game with Phil Golub that took 2 or 3 days and wound up 2-1 or something like that). There was no problem bicycling all over—to the Pitch and Putt course on Flatlands and Avenue I or J, to the Little League Field on Ditmas and Avenue D. In college I worked at the hospital on Winthrop and Schenectady one year and played softball on the hospital team at Lincoln Terrace Park (I was the token white guy). Had such a good time I played with them the next year even though I didn't work there anymore and even played on an all-Black baseball team on a trip to Rikers Island to play the inmates (we lost, fortunately).
I went to Stuyvesant H.S. so lost touch with most of my friends who went to Wingate. Would love to hear from any of them.
1 March 1999
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