Nino’s on East 58th and…
Original author: JOSIE (josie) [e-mail]
Nino’s on East 58th and Avenue N…and played handball right outside…oh those cherry cokes!
Category Archives: Locales
Hi all…I’m new to posting…
Original author: JOSIE FYFE (josie) [e-mail]
Hi all…I’m new to posting to this site, however I have looked at it many times already…I absolutely love it! It’s as if I stepped back into the past..which is a good thing… I loved my childhood and growing up in Brooklyn and wouldn’t trade it for the world…Oh the endless hours of playing skully..the tedious task of melting those crayons and getting a wonderful blend of colors in those bottle caps! To be a kid again!
I used to play a game called…
Original author: Pennsylmaniac
I used to play a game called “American Eagle” in astoria projects as a kid. One person would be “it” and would stand in the middle of the field with all the other kids on one side of the field. Whoever was it, yelled American Eagle and everyone would try to charge to the other side of the field. The guy that was it would have to tackle someone and say “American Eagle 1,2,3, three times fast while he held his captive down. Then there was two people in the middle, would yell American Eagle again, and they would both try and tackle and capture the other kids running back across the field, until they were down to the last person. We would play until the Housing Authority Police chased us off the grass.
We used to fish the lost…
Original author: Pennsylmaniac
We used to fish the lost spauldeens out of the sewers in astoria projects where I grew up by fashioning a metal coat hanger with a little loop at the bottom enough to lift the ball out of the muck. Someone called “chips” on the ball, 15 cents was couple days of bottle hunting…Yuk…here’s your ball kid.
we played lots of playground…
Original author: shane
we played lots of playground games like: elastics, no laughing no talking no redlights, marbles,hopscotch, skipping in lots of forms,and there seemed to be lots of rhymes to decide who was ‘it’. Abbin a babbin, tima toma tuma toma tusa, and a counting one that I have forgotten the details of and of course eenie meenie.
I play handball with a 8.5…
Hi Neil also a relocated…
Original author: LennyM [e-mail]
Hi Neil also a relocated brooklynite to staten island move from east new york, to mariners harbor SI I live in conneticut now, for the last 20 years. I recently have found this site and it brought back some fond memories
Grew up in East New York…
Original author: LennyM [e-mail]
Grew up in East New York In the 70″s Broadway,Eastern Pkway,Bushwick Many good times,Some not so good, miss the girls Smiley, Baby, Haydee, Maggie, Toothpick Hope you are all well
I think that was the name…
Original author: LennyM [e-mail]
I think that was the name of the concrete park we used to hang out in early 70’s It was around Eastern Parkway and broadway We played handball there,and There was a softball Field there. Pretty rough place Sometimes I remember going with a friend to see our girls play softball against another team and as we were entering the park a gang of ruff’s aproached us to jump us I think, after a brief encounter the girls team came running over with there bats in hand and squashed the problem Those brooklyn girls are alright
Sneaking on the train Did…
Original author: LennyM [e-mail]
Sneaking on the train Did anyone ever sneak on the train growing up in east new york brooklyn we would sneak on the train jumping the turnstyle climbing up the outside of the elevated lines. dangerous” crossing the tracks to get to the other side one day my brother fell through and just grabbed on before he fell to the street below, crazy