Readers Report
Started out at Swedish Hospital four days before the blizzard of '47. Lived on at 932 Utica Ave. for seven and a half years. Then my parents bought a candy store at 872 Schenectady Ave. corner of Church. We lived there from 1955 to 1963 then moved to 835 Brooklyn Ave. until I got married. Went to 135 ('59), Winthrop ('62) and Erasmus ('65). We also had a candy store on Schenectady and Lincoln Place in the 60's. Loved the Rugby, Little Venice shopping on both Utica and Flatbush Aves., bowling at all the lanes. What was the one on Rockaway Ave. and Linden Blvd.? My mom used to take me to the market near there. My family moved to Ave. N and E. 58th and then to Florida. My brother Jerry graduated in 1952 from Tilden. Was on the border so have really been finding people.
Born in South Brooklyn (573 3rd Avenue)—one of twelve! Moved "uptown" to Bay Ridge (actually Dyker Heights) at the age of thirteen when the family came into money after Dad was involved in an industrial (i.e., tugboat) accident. From Brooklyn Tech to Brooklyn College to CCNY—a great FREE education.
Dad opened a bar on 3rd Avenue at 72nd Street (Bay Ridge, but on the edge of snooty Shore Road). Me and my brothers took turns tending bar—millions of stories.
There's much, much more. It'll come forth in time. . . .
My Brooklyn was shared with all of my friends from old Mill Basin. I remember hanging out in Nino's & Max's candy store on Ave. N. Just around three o'clock Mary Queen of Heaven on 56th St. would dismiss us; we would race to either Nino's or Max's to make sure we the first on the pinball machines because we would soon be joined by pals from Roy H. Mann and it got real crowded in a hurry. After thirty minutes or so it was time to run home and change from our uniforms to our "play clothes." I lived on East 55th Street between Aves. L & M and we played roller hockey, wiffle ball, stick ball, two-hand touch football or skelly. Whatever game you were playing when five o'clock came and someone's mom would holler that it was dinnertime the game was over. I replay those unfinished games in my mind and wonder had I had my missed at bat in stickball back today could I hit the ball three sewers?
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