In both cases, the lower-numbered Avenue wins and gets to proceed south. I guess the new NYC has no plans for working or middle class types anymore. Didnt venture to Bay Ridge till the early 1960s. At the time, I was paying $475 on 73rd Street! Had wanted me born on her day. And such interesting history, some I knew, a lot I did not. In the years 1963-71 virtually my entire world, much of the time, was contained between 83rd and 86th Streets and between 3rd and 6th Avenuesin Bay Ridge and I walked up and down 83rd Street for what seemed like thousands of times. I live on the Upper Eastside but still drive to Bay Ridge once a month. I lived at 316-61st Street from when I was born on Oct. 1,1944. the apartment house was the first building about 100 feet from the corner of 3 rd Ave. In Bay Ridge, a neighborhood in the southwest corner of Brooklyn, the scent of cinnamon and cardamom wafts out into the streets, which are lined with Yemeni and Palestinian restaurants, shops. Maybe near the old Mapledale party house? (Helen Normas older sister, Marie also a resident) He went to Manual Training and my mother to Bay Ridge HS. It still seems to have its original windows and even some wide Venetian blinds which are fairly rare these days. Virginians Robert E. Lee and Thomas Stonewall Jackson are not names you would immediately associate with Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, but the famed Confederate generals do play a minor part in neighborhood history, both at Fort Hamilton and at St. Johns Episcopal Church on 99th Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway. The Barkaloo Cemetery is still historic since its the only family plot in Brooklyn not part of a larger cemetery. It was really fun looking at the pictures of Bay Ridge. I married the former Vikki Loughran who lived on Ridge Blvd. 1068 ft 2. Although the gender population is about even, with 4.2% more females than males, and the age of the population follows a fairly standard bell curve with most of the population falling between the ages of 25-54, when looking at race, Bay Ridge is a very diverse . After awhile, though, I seriously irked the old man by asking for a cut. Lots of wonderful memories. I watched the Verrazano bridge being built. I remember your parents and you kids.My parents moved to NJ in 79 Iused to send Christmas cards to your mom in FLA I lived on Gatling PL before 7 Ave .In NJ now many years.Imet your uncle Vic in Viet Nam.L lots of memories. Well, I think that hits it in the head forthe day. I remember the mansions that were along Shore Rd in the 90St to Fontaine Hall HS. The night club capital of Brooklyn. Mackay Place has its own story, too. It still had the original kitchen and bathroom in 1991. Bay Ridge Place runs between Bay Ridge Avenue and Ovington Avenue west of 3rd, and part of it is lined by some more of those attached townhouses I like so much. Tags: arts and entertainment bay ridge blink fitness This was also one of twoplaces in the Bay Ridge of the 1960s where I regularly dealt with an African American man: one of the friendly salesmen. Hidden Valley Scout Reservation. My dentist is my only continued connection with Bay Ridge. John Paul Jones Park, facing 101st Street between 4th Avenue and Fort Hamilton Parkway,is named for American patriot and naval hero (not the Led Zeppelin bassist), John Paul Jones (1747-1792), who, through victorious leadership in the American Revolution, became known as the father of the Navy.. It is so pretty. I went in through the back, where there was a room behind the altar that was connected to the rectory. It was a bad scene," said Det. The side streets of Bay Ridge are chockablock with attached row houses made with brick or stone like these; probably the same developer(s) built most of them in the first couple of decades of the 20th Century. Disc-no! Rock Ridge: 144 Bleecker St. (Thompson & Laguardia) Rock 'n' Roll Cafe . The apartment building on 72 St seems pretty old to me and was wondering when it was built. Went to St. Anselms and Regis HIgh School. The first house after the stores. When he died his youngest daughter Helen who was not a nice person. I have some questions about the layout of Bay Ridge streets and thought you might be able to answer them. A tree planted by Lee was replaced in 1912 complete with a new tablet commemorating the event, and another plaque cited Jackson. george b. panos September 15, 2021 - 6:44 pm. Breakfast Bar, Dining Area, No Formal Dining Room; Kitchen Description: Cooktop (Electric), Countertop . However, the music was nearly all disco even though they advertise 70s, 80s, 90s.more, Dance ClubsLoungesComedy Clubs$$Greenwich Village, Hip hop, 70s, 80s music. At the time, some Gowers Corner residents favored it as a preferred alternative to a wider . My parents were married during WWII at Our Lady of Angels Church. The allegations were laid out Friday in an order. Since I was Editor of the Home Reporter from 1962 to 1971 I paid a lot of attention to local establishments like Majors which became a meeting group site for various organization including Dennis McMahons Kennedy Democratic Club. Altar boys wore a uniform of a black robe with a white overshirt, called a cassock and surplice. When I went there Mrs.Shindele was the Principal, a best friend of my grandmother-at least thats what she told me every time I was sent to the Principals Office. Here are a pair on Bay Ridge Avenue between Colonial Road and Narrows Avenue. Xaverian had Sunday afternoon dances which some Fontbonne Hall coeds attended, maybe you were one of them? It'll be dead for 20-40 minutes and then people will come streaming in, but at least you won't have to stand on line outside for hours. This homey pub offers a heated beer garden all year-round. I could swear it was like JP Mead or Olindos (wholesale/warehouse type). The two-story detached house on 79th Street where Manero spent lots of time combing his hair remains and like other Bay Ridge properties, its value has soared. Upcoming Events. Darlene , my 2 sisters-in-law grew up at The Kallman Home also during the same period . Richard Meade in 1958. I was born in 1953. She had a small dark apartment on 4th Avenue at an apartment building called The Royal Poinciana somewhere in the eighties, exact address I no longer recall I assume this was quite the place to live when it was built, likely in the 1920s. Information on the vessel is easily obtainable from tugboatinformation: Built in 1973, by McDermott Shipyard of Morgan City, Louisiana (hull #179) as theAmy Moranfor the Moran Towing Corporation of New York, New York. I lived there for 18 years. Across the street, hundreds of buildings had been razed for the approach roads for the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and using toy trucks and other implements of my own making, I was imitating in those patches of dirt the work going on across the street. The Department of Transportation refuses to acknowledge this, and thus, this informal sign is the only one in the neighborhood that calls the street what everyone else calls it. @2019 - Forgotten New York. You cant buy a home in Bay Ridge anymore, not if youre a working-class family, said Bennett, who landed a part as an extra in the film because she hung out at Odyssey. Learn how your comment data is processed. Great place to grow up and go to public schools (102 and McKinley until we moved to Midwood). I raised my children in a house on 80th Street between 3rd and 4th Avenue. Pond, was a contractor who did remodeling on houses all over Bay Ridge. This website and photos bring back fond memories. Hello! A lot of good memories. Attended PS 185 across the street, and then McKinley JHS. My first cousins (from my fathers youngest brother Vinnie [or Junior as he was called] ) grew up at 319 from the very earliest 60s until they sold it in 2018 for $1.3 M dollars. I lived on 88th Street between 3rd and Ridge. Great memories. Its a wild Tudor with great detailing like stucco, black and white checkerboard linoleum and even a small shelf both sides of the entrance to put a planter. I was baptized at St. Anselms, before my parents moved us north to OLA. Bay Pkwy in Bensonhurst and Stillwell Ave in Gravesend. NathansConey Island location remains open, and willhopefully be there till the ocean swallows the Coney Island peninsula. I remember the ride home, dreading what my mother would do (she was formidable when she got her Irish up both my parents were yellers, which is why Im not). By MARK FINEMAN. Thank you for sharing. My family put the house for sale in 1990, two years after my grandmother passed. It remembers a local resident,John W. Mackay(1831-1902) a prominent 19th Century area landowner: after making a fortune discovering tons of silver as part of theBonanza Groupat theComstock Lodein Nevada in 1873, he entered the real estate, mining and telegraph businesses. It may have been a farmhouse and likely goes back to the Irishtown days. Another Citadel of Living at Ridge Boulevard and 87th Street. Before Nathans it was Mitchells Drive in and the houses that replaced a ball field was St. Patricks ball field. Sale in Bay Ridge 9907 Third Avenue #3A. Monday - Sunday: 12pm - 4am. Bullocke had bought a corner chunk of Isaac Bergen's farm, atop a hill people came to call Bullocke's . I went to Stuyvesant for one year after McKinley JHS, then on to Fort Hamilton HS from where I graduated in 1965. And Bay Ridge was never Old New Utrecht but Yellow Hook. I did stray outside the boundary. For example, I grew up in Tilden Court, but it was known to one and all as 8302 6th Avenue. The parish of St. Marys, Ridge Boulevard and 81st Street, recently celebrated its centennial. Remembering Jackie Robinson [SpliceToday]. They and their establishment are one of my fondest memories of growing up in Dyker Heights in the 1960s. Three or four handsomely designed pedestrian overpasses featuring iron scrollwork connecting the north side of the parkway with the pedestrian/bike path along the shoreline are still in operation, including this one, at 92nd Street and Shore Road. I was on 61st between 2nd and 3rd and started my comic collection at Sams. Bars/clubs 1980's Show more . It took its name from a local Native American chief in the pre-colonial era. He willed the estate to New York City, provided it be used for parkland. My folks would take us to the park at Fort Hamilton, and somewhere I have a picture of me sticking out of the mouth of that cannon (before it was sealed off). Bands like City Kids, The Lynch Boys, Working Class, Alive N'. When the Gowanus Expressway was constructed from 1959-1964, Fort Hamilton Parkway was moved and bridged across the open-cut trench, forming a triangle with 7th Avenue and 81st Street. Please help. music starts at noon. Carol Louise Huber Puri. Nothing else quite hits the spot like this combination. First Saturday of the month pretty much. 1982 Having introduced nouvelle cuisine at Ma Maison in Los Angeles, Chef Wolfgang Puck presents "California cuisine" to patrons of his new chic-casual Sunset Strip restaurant, Spago. Estate to new York City, provided it be used for parkland windows and even wide. 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