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If anyone remembers the White Rice Gardens in City-Line (East New York) across the street from the Earl Theatre, and remembers J.H.S. 214, then you must have the same memories I do. I remember Crescent & Pitkin Ave., where the delicatessen sold the best French fried potatoes in the a brown bag and plenty of Ketchup. Boy was that good. And the egg-cream soda next door in the candy store. Vario's pizzeria across the street from the deli—next door to the Jewish bakery. Good memories. Contact me.
My Brooklyn was being born in Sr. Elizabeth Memorial Hospital (now Lutheran Medical Center) in October of 1969, and being relinquished for adoption. I was placed in Angel Guardian Home on 12th Ave. & 63rd St., and placed in a foster home that same month. I spent nine months in that foster home (under the name "Lisa Moore") before being placed with my adoptive family.
My birth mother, who then had the last name of MOORE, was fifteen years old at the time of my birth, and was a freshman in high school.
If anyone has memories of who this person might be, or about the foster home I was in, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you.
I grew up in Gerritsen Beach ("God's Little Acre") from 1970–1996. Went to P.S. 277 ('81), Marine Park J.H.S. ('83), and St. Edmund H.S. ('87). I now live in Phoenix, AZ. Would love to hear from the old "gang."
I enjoyed the many Brooklyn stories on this site, especially those about St. Johns Place. I was born in 1955 and lived on St. Johns, between Washington and Underhill, at #444 until 1958 and then for most of the next 2 years at #399 with my grandparents, Herb and Ann Hobbs. Members of my family shot many home movies on St. John's from the early 1940s to the mid-'60s. I will be converting most of those films to video. Most of the movies are of my family members, but I think that there are a lot of family friends from the neighborhood in those films. Some of those friends names are, Sullivan, Steinberg, Makris, Mavriganos, Papageorge, Hochberg, Walsh, Marx, Foglietta, Zelter, Squicciarini (and a bunch of others). Also, some of those movies were filmed at the Botanic Gardens, Prospect Park, on the sidewalks, and up on "Tar Beach." If anyone that lived on St. Johns Pl. between Plaza St. and Washington is interested, I will be glad to send you copies of the videos when they are completed.
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