Bensonhurst Views

jack: 18th Jun 2008 - 18:39 GMT

now this area i know well since i grew up in bensonhurst and gravesend and the last picture looks like the sea beach express which is in gravesend and kinda skirts bensonhurst, better know as the R train it comes in from manhattan and ends at coney island. and in the 40's and 50's we bought cake at ebingers, the coffee crumb cake in those days was all about the huge crumbs

Peter: 18th Jun 2008 - 19:56 GMT

im really glad that my bedroom window doesnt overlook a busy train line, like in the last photo...

Peter: 18th Jun 2008 - 20:54 GMT

theres no cheap rent in nyc, so well just call it "less expensive", hehehe...

Steven: 27th Jun 2008 - 17:55 GMT

Back in the early 80's I lived in a great old dump of a building on Kings Hwy directly overlooking the N Train line as depicted in the last image. My fire escape hung right out over the line from the 4th floor and my kitchen window looked out directly on to the tracks. When the (Sea Beach) express train barreled by, the entire building literally shook and any conversation had to be suspended until after the train passed. It was that thunderously loud INSIDE my apartment! I spent countless hours watching the trains go by during the heyday of NYC graffiti and I took quite a bunch of great photos from this vantage point. Maybe I will check out what I have an post some of them.

That great vintage Ebingers sign is on a building on 18th Ave which was most recently an old Greek donut shop that unfortunately closed about ten years ago. Thanks for the great shots! Peace, Steven

anon (c-66-229-236-128.hsd1.fl.comcast.net): 9th Sep 2008 - 09:16 GMT

any body live on 61st street near Bay Parkway in Bensonherst
back in early 1970s say hello larry2.0@comcast.net

Hello, Brooklyn: 24th Sep 2008 - 03:32 GMT

Hey Larry...I live there now - what was it like in the 70s?