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I’m back again. I can’t…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on July 24, 2003 by Streetplay DiscussionsMay 9, 2019
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I’m back again. I can’t seem to stay away from this site. The one place that comes to mind when I think of the Lower East Side is Mott Street. Little Italy to most of you. We had a large group of kids that hung around together. At most we were around 15 boys and girls who ‘stayed together’. In the summer months we could be found at the corner of Mott and Broome Streets. Just hanging out on the front stoop.That’s what we called it. Just hanging around. We sat around and talked and there was always singing and dancing to someone’s radio. This was way before hand held recorders for tapes. CD’s weren’t even invented yet. (Gee, how old am I?) On Sunday we attended church and then later on took in a movie. Always a group of us went. Maybe a local movie house (Delancy or Canal Theaters) or if there was something good happening uptown – either at Radio City Music Hall or any of the other big theaters. Does anyone remember ‘The Dumps’. Also known as the Universal Theater. It was a little movie house at the corner of the Bowery and Hester Street. In the later years, it always smelled like the inside of a liquor bottle. That’s where the homeless (to be politically correct) hung out and kept warm. But I remember it when we could spend an entire Saturday there for 15 cents. We would get 20 cartoons and two full length features. Plus the Newsreel. My father would drop me off in the morning with a friend or two and then pick us up in the late afternoon. Can you imagine we were entertained for several hours for 15 cents! Try and get this now. Well, I think I’ve rambled on and on for long enough. It would be soo nice to see some replies on my posting. If you remember some of these places, maybe you were one of those kids. Take care…Jeanne from Forsythe Street

Posted in Hanging Out, Locales, Manhattan | Tagged Does anyone remember..., Lower East Side, Summer

Wow, it’s been so long since…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 3, 2003 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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Wow, it’s been so long since I’ve been back to this site. I remember all of the above. The games, the streets, and the theaters. We lived across the street from the Forsythe Street Park. Does anyone remember the bike store on Forsythe Street just pass Delancy? You could rent a bike for 25 cents an hour. Of course in those days 1950’s that was considered a lot of money. I ran many a bike into the brick wall in the park. Got lots of scars to show for it. Do you remember that Pickle store on Hester Street? I went to P.S.42 and on our walk home we would stop and buy a pickle. You had to point to the one you wanted and the man would fish it out. The smell of a pickle, even now, brings those days right back to me. And the knishes. One of my favorite foods. What I would do now for a knish. Haven’t had one in years. I live in a state that doesn’t even know what a ‘knish’ is. Only those of us born and raised in New York know what these are. How about the Academy of Music on 14th Street, Manhattan? When Rock n Roll started, we could not wait to see all the new rocking stars. We saw them before they became a household name.

Posted in Locales, Manhattan | Tagged Does anyone remember..., Lower East Side

I was thinking of this game…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on September 21, 2002 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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I was thinking of this game the other day and tried to look for a web site and found this one. It is great to know that this place is here. I was trying to explain it to my 13 year old. I grew up in The lower east side of Manhatten and we used to play skulsies as we called it and man did we have fun trying to make the best and fastest cap on the block, We tried big ones and small ones we filled them with anything we could get our hands on, My favorite was a regular bottle cap with pennies and wax. I had a collection of different caps, Some had two pennies and wax and some had one. Man oh man those were the days.

Posted in Locales, Manhattan, Skully | Tagged I grew up..., Lower East Side

I grew up in the Alfred…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on July 18, 2002 by Streetplay DiscussionsFebruary 16, 2019
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I grew up in the Alfred E. Smith Projects (Catherine and Madison Street intersection) across from P.S. 1. Lived there from 1953-1967 when my family moved to Brooklyn. I remember the Essex Street Markets as well as the “pickle man” on Essex Street. If none of you have not seen it, I highly recommend you watching “Crossing Delancey” starring Amy Irving. It was filmed on location! Shows the handball courts on Essex Street and centers around Amy’s character and the pickle man! Used to go with my mom to the Fulton Fish Market (still remember seeing the dead fish staring at me on the ice there! Later on, we bought fish at a market on Monroe Street. The only supermarket in the area was an A&P that was on Market Street and almost directly under the Manhattan Bridge. I played little league ball at Coleman’s Oval near the Manhattan Bridge (off Cherry Street). Played a lot of stickball at Cherry Street Park, across the street from the then Journal American building on one side and Knickerbocker Village on the other. The Journal American building is now the home to the NY Post. Remember the original hand warmers in the winter time? Right. A 15 cent knish off the knish cart! There was so much to do back there: San Gennaro festival on Mulberry Street, Chinese New Year on Mott Street, the Jewish Deli’s (Katz’s and Issac Gellis were my faves). I went to St. James School on St. James Place. That is the same school that Alfred E. Smith went to. It is also the parish that lays claim to the first American order of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Played lots of chinese handball on St. James Place, on the outside wall of Vanella Funeral Home of all places! Played stickball, slap ball, punchball, stoop ball, all with the Spaldeen. Much prefered that over the Pensie Pinky. I can still hear the echoes of “chips on the ball, 25 cents” before playing a game of ball. Anyone here remember making the chalk socks? You take about 5 big sidewalk chalks put them inside a sock, smash them a bit, tie the sock up and then sneak up on someone and bop them with the sock! It didn’t really hurt but was kind of funny to see the shocked face and the chalk smoke linger a moment in the air over the unsuspecting victim! In my neighborhood we called them Mama Lucci’s. Maybe it was called that because I lived so close to Little Italy. Anyone here remember “salugee”? This was a spontaneous devilish game where you would take a personal item from someone and then keep it from them as you threw it to your friends (keep away). After a while some wise guy would start daring you to “roof it” and you would throw the object towards the roof of the many cold water flats of the area. What rotten kids! I have been contemplating writing a book about growing up in NYC in that time period, illustrating the various street games, rituals, etc. that made that little part of NY so special. If anyone would like to contact me. Bill

Posted in Ace King Queen, Brooklyn, Locales, Manhattan, Punchball, Stickball, Stoopball, Street Lifestyle | Tagged "The Projects", Chinese handball, chips on the ball, I grew up..., Lower East Side, Pennsy Pinkie, salugi, spaldeen types

Hi.I was born and raised…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on May 14, 2002 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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Hi.I was born and raised in N. Y. C. lower east side. My father and grandfather played BOCCE on Houston st. 2nd Ave. I am now the President of the Italian/American Bocce Assoc. in Punta Gorda Florida. We play Bocce all year long. We will be having our 4th. Southwest Florida Open Bocce Tournament March of 2003. Anyone interested please contact me. Tele# 941-575-0482 Fax # 941-575-6231 E-Mail wam [at] isni [dot] net BIG MONEY PRIZES. Thank you George

Posted in Bocce etc., Locales, Manhattan | Tagged Lower East Side

I remember that if you looked…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on February 6, 2002 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
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I remember that if you looked at the Essex Street Retail Market sign at just the right angle it would read” Sex Street Tail Market” When I pointed it out to my mother she wacked in the back of the head for having a dirty mind.

Posted in Locales, Manhattan | Tagged Lower East Side

There was a new girl in…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on September 18, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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There was a new girl in town (Lower East Side) that I’d welcomed into my fold of homegirls. When I returned from a short trip to Europe, my recent boyfriend informed me that one of my friends showed up on his fire escape at 3 a.m, the very night I left for the airport. He didn’t know her name but the description was enough. Her name was Helena, we used to call her “hell raisin’Helena”. After being hurt and then totally pissed, I went to the “watering Hole” that we young adults played pool at nightly. I told all of my friends of Helena’s indescretion and I informed her that I was as good-looking if not more so than she. She had a little boyfriend and I approached him. I asked him, that knowing now what kind of person Helena was, climbing a guy’s fire escape in the dead of night like some desperate “alley cat”, wouldn’t he rather be with someone more chaste like me? I told her in front of everyone that I can take any man she had because unlike her, my hair my nails, my eyes and everything about me was real. And I wasn’t so needy of attention. I never had a problem out of her after that, she left the neighborhood. What a verbal cat fight we had. The guys were lovin’ every moment.

Posted in Locales, Manhattan, Young romance | Tagged Lower East Side, Stealing boyfriends

My grandmother and I used…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on May 23, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
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My grandmother and I used to frequent the essex market and she could makethe poorest cuts of meat and poultry taste better than any 5 star restaurant. My grandfather took us to the deli’s down there at least twice a month, and I finally learned how to share a pastrami on rye and fries with my sister when my grandfather forced me to eat an entire huge sandwich at the table alone for being greedy. My first apartment was on Rivington Street.I was an eighteen year old bike messenger, One of the few females who were. My neighbor above me was a counselor from Covenant house (she told me about the available apt.). Her boyfriend (he was my age, she was not) lived directly below me. Needless to say when they had a lover’s quarrel, they usually had it on my portion of neutral fire- escape. Drama Galore! When I moved into that apartment there was a huge demonic circle (as my neighbor called it)dead in the center of the studio apartment. I didn’t place a carpet over it nor try to erase it. My counselor/neighbor suggested we try to see if it was a portal to some parallel-dimension. She bought by phenol barbitol to aide in the transport. She was a rich girl from conneticut into recreational drug use, but me and her boyfriend grew up watching people like her invade our slums for this purpose. We knew that drugs for sport always ended up as another junkie statistic. Anyway I ended up with a boyfriend of my own (minus the drama) and the apartment worked out fine until I let some jealous friends watch it for me while I visited relatives in the poconos for a week. They tried to torch place and I got thrown out. My favorite chinese restaurant was located on Catherine Street between Henry and East Broadway. Every Wednesday this tiny place was filled with only New Yorkers. My favorite dish was chinese vegetables with rice noodles.

Posted in Locales, Manhattan | Tagged Lower East Side

I’m looking for information…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on January 7, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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I’m looking for information anyone may have on Greenfield’s Pickles on the Lower East Side of NY in the 1920’s – 1940’s. Any and all remembrances, pictures, etc. are welcome. I’m trying to put together a retrospective for the owner’s son’s 70th birthday. I appreciate any help. I can also be reached by e-mail at maria_0121 [at] yahoo [dot] com. Thanks.

Posted in Food & Drink, Locales, Manhattan, Reader Stories | Tagged Lower East Side

It’s great to find a site…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on November 1, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsMay 9, 2019
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It’s great to find a site where our childhood experiences resonate. I grew up on Ave. B (bet. 3rd and 4th,) in a cold flat. (I stopped telling co-workers where I grew up when I heard “We bought drugs there when I was in college” once too often.) Guys with beards sold hot knishes from little metal carts on Ave. B in winter, and shave ice in the summer. Ave. C and D and the surrounding streets were like Orchard Street now – a bazaar with wooden boxes on stands on the sidewalk, full of comic books and baseball cards. The Loew’s movie theater on B between 4 and 5 – or wasit 5 and 6? – with those gorgeous yellow plaster lions rampant, clutching blue shields with a wide red sash. Riding the subway at the 2nd Avenue stop with my big brother, wistfully looking at the pea green candy machines in the station, even though mom said the candy was wormy. (And the grease used by the French Fry Guy at B and 4th was rancid.) She couldn’t come up with a story to prevent me from asking about the dolls for sale at the supermarket at B and Second street, though. Anyone else with any memories of the lower east side are welcome to drop me an email anytime.

Posted in Locales, Manhattan | Tagged I grew up..., Lower East Side, Summer

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