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jack: hi joey, its been almost two years since you asked for a story about the beat generation in the village. well its better late than never, so here is a short one. my......

in response to: Blue Note Lounge by jack

Teri: Hi again everyone. I was remiss in not checking this board for a week or so. I was born in late 1947 and lived at 1074 until I was 18 1/2 years old......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Alan Kupperberg: I’m terribly gratified that some of you enjoyed my reminisces. Richie Rubin is correct in that I sure don’t have Alzheimer’s. I live in Greenwich Village and I haven’t been back to that......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Alan Kupperberg: Eastern Parkway Memories By Alan Kupperberg Searching the Internet for information on Dubrow’s Cafeteria and the Famous restaurant on Eastern Parkway at Utica Avenue, I discovered this wonderful site. It brought back many wonderful memories for......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Joey TPA Street Level Nine: Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn was a trip...catch the LIRR there to the sticks....

in response to: Shine on You Crazy Diamond by Peter

Janet: Well, the adage 'the more things change the more they stay the same' does not apply to the old neighborhoods or the old movie houses where those of our generation got a colorful taste so......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Ron A. (aka Ronnie): I lived at 486 Brooklyn Avenue and played on Sterling St. with my friends. I went to PS91 between 1958 - 1964. Next to Lefferts JHS. We left Brooklyn in 8th grade for Westchester. I......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

jack: shizen, could it be the sadist, 'lockinglear decrebided' he was in southern france and would take pictures of people and reproduced them onto models and used them for, (you know what) they were life size......

in response to: While You Are Reading This.... by David G.

jack: nice shot, johnnie pumps were all the rage back in the 40's and 50's, the city would attach a hose and hang it on the fence at the schoolyard at boody jr. high on avenue......

in response to: Heat Wave by Peter

anon (nat2.northshorelij.com): Hi I grew up in Bushwick, along with most of my cousins. I went to Fourteen Holy Martyrs School- graduated in 1964. I have wonderful memories of my growing up years in a culturaly......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

David L. Drogin: My mother had an aunt and two uncles living on the corner of Eastern Parkway and Kingston Avenue (next to the Lubavicher Synagogue), and my paternal grandmother lived across Eastern parkway. We visited all the......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Anne Priestley (nee Rigby): Hi Julian My grandparents who owned Platts of Irlam retired to Flixton, Brooklyn Avenue, we visited often as children. I love the film Stand By Me it has such a summery and nostalgic feel -......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

janet: Hi Stan—and all you 167 alums out there—The beautiful public library in classical style on Schenectady & Eastern Parkway was a place to visit, to use, but for me not to hang out in and......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Michael Worsley: In Bushwick Brooklyn In The Early 1970's When I Was Growing Up All I Heard Was Music Marvin Gaye,Stevie Wonder,Earth,Wind & Fire,Herbie Hancock,Grover Washington,Jr.Antonio Carlos Jobim,Astrud Gilberto,George Benson,I Use To Go To A Thrift Shop......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

jimmy: Hi, I was born in Bushwick, 1950 and lived there till 1963. I lived on the corner of Grove Street and Evergreen Avenue. I remeber the Halsey Bops, The Ellery Bops, The Flaming Saints. Cypress Park, Hyland......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Jan: Recently I took my grandson to the children's room in the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. It had not changed from the way I remember it in the 40's, except for the inclusion......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

jack: peter you bring tears to my eyes, the old brooklyn-manhattan transit, the sea beach express, the f train and others, i rode them almost everyday, i would walk to school and pass under the el......

in response to: Coney Island, Stillwell Avenue Station by Peter

Dav: Hi, I'm french and I want to visit New York. I'll live for twelve days near fourth avenue in Brooklyn, is it sure? Some friends of mine said the security is bad but when I read this......

in response to: Dangerous to Walk Around Brooklyn? by Jayne

jack: good grief, i have no idea of the name of these streets are but it looks like down by atlantic avenue, somewhere near the old navy terminals? can't guess, it looks really great, not......

in response to: Anyplace, Brooklyn by CartLegger

steve : Cartlegger; I'll try to be brief with some details. Please don't hold me to the exact dates because I am going back from memory and not researching. Barren Island as we knew it......

in response to: Barren Island by CartLegger

Peter: i live right offa {central} avenue, though the one in {bushwick} {brooklyn}... nc doesnt hold a candle to the graf on my block alone....

in response to: M.s.g. Found in Charlotte,N.C. by Jimmy J.

Bonnie: I too lived on Wilson Ave., between Cooper and Moffit Streets -- in the 1950's. We lived on the 3rd floor of one of the cold water railroad flats, right down the street from......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Anne M. Berger: I grew up in Brooklyn in the forties and fifties. It was truly the melting pot. I went to St. Joseph's on Sydam St. My Irish friends went to St. Lenords on Toutman?......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Don Canham, Lt. NYFD Ret.: That fire was no "all hands" fire. It was a Boro Call. A boro call is when you run out of enough companies to handle the fire and resort to using companies from other boros,......

in response to: Bushwick \'77: The All Hands Fire by upfromflames

zilep: Bought a house in the heart of Bushwick- on Central avenue and Cornelia streets (one of those cookie cutter homes with all the meters showing- you know the ones the BROWNSTONER people love to hate).......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Eviva: I just bought a condo off the Dekalb Avenue L stop. I really like the area and while it's true that Bushwick isn't quite Williamsburg, I see ample potential. Also, real estate in Bushwick is......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

jack: iman you sound like a smart kid, in the 50's in brooklyn there were little street gangs on every other corner. a gang then were just a group, a clan, kids from down the......

in response to: But There Is No Other Door for the over 50 Year Old Gang by jack

kathryn: I grew up near Eastern Parkway....I have not been in Brooklyn in over 30 years but I do remember the area known as Prospect Heights...I remember Ebbets Field on Sullivasn Place and Bedford Ave......I remember......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

K Bernstein: I lived in an apartment building at Eastern Parkway and Troy Avenue in the 1950s. Eastern Parkway was a beautiful street, with its two pedestrian malls with benches and trees. The street was lined with......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

j.walthers@timesnewsweekly.com: In response to upfromflames regarding Bushwick Corners: This response requires both historical perspective and adjustment of mind set to the Colonial New World. The 17th Century was a fundamentally agrarian society dedicated and tied to land......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

C B: I lived near Eastern Parkway in the 50s..Even then, it was magnificent..I have since moved to another state but,will never forget how lovely it was on a summer's day to walk up Washington Avenue and......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

anon (bas3-toronto12-1168024953.dsl.bell.ca): tke a pic at 83 irving avenue, brooklyn, n.y. ta...

in response to: Brooklyn Broadcast & Audio by Peter

TheTruth: "I see it more as a class war than a race war." "...But that doesn't explain why, poor or not, the residents of Bushwick didn't have enough self-respect to take care of their neighborhood." Dave, did you......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

Dave (a Bushwick native): I see it more as a class war than a race war. I'm from the last generation (born mid-1960s) of German-Americans from the Ridgewood/Bushwick area before the Great Exodus of the 1970s. If I claimed......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

Rein Negroni: How disgusting is he? Can you believe what is happening to innocent passengers on a #7 train? He is crazy!!! Oh, I remember what happend to the pervert at the Brooklyn Bridge subway staton &......

in response to: 7 Train Pervert by CC

hikerman: great shot! any chance of getting an updated shot of the 4th avenue station! my grandma used to live right near it just off 8th street and I haven't been to brooklyn in years....

in response to: Franklin Avenue Station by Peter

jack: ok calm down. people who hate are a very small minority. ordinary people tend to keep silent on many subjects. this country is free for all peoples. but the laws must......

in response to: Speak Out by M. Rojas

jack: in brooklyn around cropsey avenue there is a tall tale of the ghostly garbage man who still comes around at 6am to collect the garbage. ...

in response to: Garbage Truck Eyes by Peter

jack: peter lets start a bike gang and lets have elaine as the gang leader. by the way this has nothing to do with it but i was on 3rd avenue and 33 street in......

in response to: Swarm of Bikes by Guy McLaren

jack: the village, little italy. my family lived on mulberry and also broome streets in the early 1900's. i remember many summer days sitting on a stoop on broome street looking at the asphalt......

in response to: A Few More Bits & Pieces by Lawrence

jack: there used to be trolleys on mcdonald avenue and 86th street in brooklyn. and yes we used to hang on them for a free ride to coney island....

in response to: Urban Decay by Chris Fuerth

jack: wow that was great, but have you seen 17th avenue in brooklyn, the non-neon lights. how about court street's dazzeling display of red, yellow and green stop lights on almost every street! now......

in response to: Tokyo Neon by Chris Jongkind

Peter: so, i found it again! its at 8th avenue and 14th street in {brooklyn}: [[img:7316]] [[img:7317]] btw... more info on the old white cadillac ambulance parked out front is [[2612:here]]......

in response to: Wash Dry by sine

jack: okay here are the facts: 1=the strike started jan. 1, 1965. mayor john lindsay was arrogant and wanted to break the powerful union boss then. but both were arrogant and wanted to be......

in response to: Transit Strike! by Peter

NET ONE 156 KRT: Words of the Prophets Take to the Rooftops by Cathy Hong SUBJECT — The Extreme Graffiti Hall of Murals LOCATION — Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens Les had no equipment but a backpack full of spray cans. (He......

in response to: Wherefore ART Thou, Ellis? by GGP

Peter: heres a good example of one that has a new-style pullbox on top of the antique base, as in the firwst one. I spotted it on {washington} avenue at {dean} street in {prospect heights}, {brooklyn}: [[img:6672]] ...

in response to: I Double-Dare You to Pull It by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Editor: More of {Ellis G}'s handywork can be found in the article **[[1104:Brooklyn Street Art Initiative]]** from **[[author:Peter]]** [[img:1440]] Also, in **[[1734:Fifth Avenue]]** from **[[author:GGP]]** [[img:3899]]...

in response to: Wherefore ART Thou, Ellis? by GGP

jack: are the baldies still around? i sat on the curb of my street in 1958 in brooklyn with a baseball bat because i wanted to help the coney island gang in the big fight.......

in response to: GANGS ON NYC by StripesA4

Ken: Not all of them were scrapped and dumped; you can see a couple of Redbirds at First Avenue and 44th Street in Brooklyn. a pic: [[http://pics.livejournal.com/steelbrassnwood/pic/00055qc3]]...

in response to: The Redbirds by Peter

Carm: I use to live on Irving Avenue in the 60s. I am now living in Toronto Canada and have great memories of Brooklyn. I am planning to visit with my children, any suggestions,......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Peter: yeah, totally. there are *tons* of murals like that going up in {brooklyn} around {park slope} and {prospect heights} lately for some reason. i guess teh tail end of summer weather is conducive to painting......

in response to: Park Slope Glass & Windows by sine

jack: so. thats the way we park in brooklyn. we want to keep an end up on things. peter, go to macdonald avenue up to avenue x and just as you turn to......

in response to: Nice Parking Job by Peter