Hi Carl - Born 1954 Williamsburg Bklyn until 1968 moved to Woodside Queens. Married 1976 moved to Flushing. 1985 to current now on Long Island. Brooklyn for me has some good memories.
I was born in Brooklyn - 1952; lived there into 1976. The '50's and '60's were super there - a great place to grow up. It took a nosedive, though, and I was glad to get out. The Brooklyn you're showing us is long gone, but I loved it none-the-less; nice work, Butch, we now need to save America - it's goin' fast.
The Brooklyn i grew up in was nice because kids could go out and play "stickball" or ,"slap", "punchball" or scully" and the people i knew were nice some from different parts of the world. Brooklyn today is an overpriced gentrified mess. And the kids want to play games on a computer not in the street.
@@johnw8984 Yes, skelly, spinning tops. Shooting marbles, stick ball, flipping baseball cards, water pistols, bike riding from Crown Heights to Coney Island, good childhood memories.
Born in ‘48 in Redhook. Then moved to Mill Basin. I miss those days. We kids played outside all day until dad whistled to call us in for dinner. Stick ball, stoop ball, playing in the corner lot, roller skating, going to the movies and watch the film over and over until we had to go at 6pm…... I worked on Court Street after high school, then go shopping in the big department stores, A & S, Mays, Nams, E.J. Korvette, Martins. That area is gone, as I knew it. Flatbush Ave. looks like a foreign country. Moved to Long Island in ‘69. I left NY in ‘91. I have good memories though.
Great photos of days gone by only remembered by people about 60 & over. Everyone dreams but moved away, ran too! I love all the Floridians that talk & talk about Brooklyn!
I have heard of Brooklyn my entire life. I am seventy years old. I live near the Georgia- Florida line. I always thought Brooklyn was perhaps a great place to live. I understand your angst and desire to return to older and more friendly days. Believe me, it is the same here also. Everything I loved and enjoyed is just about gone. It leaves a huge vacuum in your life and soul. I hope God blesses Brooklyn and my town here in Georgia. Everything they call progress isn't necessarily good.
I can assure you that it was not a great place to live, dirty, crowded and rude. I attended school in Brooklyn from kindergarten through college. I'd estimate 98% of my classmates, like myself, moved out of Brooklyn at their earliest opportunity.
Brooklyn was a toilet inhabited by rude, ignorant and barbaric people. Brooklyn was the epitome of cafonery... especially Bensonhurst. Brooklyn has now evolved to a Progressive, Egalitarian Utopian city... based on Diversity, Inclusion and Multiculturalism.
@@autumnfragrance7185 wow! Can't argue with a local. My opinions were based on upbringing in the 1950's. My own hometown here in Georgia has changed. Cleaner, safer and more pleasant in those days. Now? I look around and hardly recognize anything of anyone.
Hey Butch thanks for the memories, You know being born there made you something of a celebrity, Yes your one reader says that brooklyn no longer exists. As we knew it.I say the brooklyn we all knew and loved as children will always live thru us and the stories we told our children.
I was born in 1937 in Brooklyn. I loved it. The food, the kids playing stick ball on the street. I lived in Bed Sty section our apt even had a doorman. What a wonderful place to grow up! Try to view Woody Allens film Radio Days , great tribute to those great 1950 days.
Thanks so very much for the memories , I remember plenty of those places as I grew up in Bay Ridge Brooklyn , I certainly remember cannonball park , coney island, sheepshead bay, and even Bob the grinder , that man went around every neighborhood in Brooklyn with his truck and you could hear his bell on the truck sounding ,,,, DING , DING , DING ,,,,,,, every few seconds , and my grandfather use to take me to cannonball pk to watch them build the bridge in the early 60s , and the 69th street pier from Brooklyn to Staten Island ,,,,,, yeah lots of memories in Brooklyn for sure , I left in 2002 and miss it everyday , my brother still lives there and tells me nothing is the same as we remember it , but I still miss it nonetheless ,,,,,,,,,,, anyway ,,,,,,,, thanks again for sharing this with us all .
I grew up in Bay Ridge also, in the 60's and early part of the 70's. Check out a site called, Urban Archive. You will be able to see your home as it looked in 1939. Those pictures are from tax records.
I left Brooklyn in 2017 the neighborhood went Chinese. Lenny's Pizzeria is in Jackson NJ and so is another pizzeria from Bensonhurst. Its mostly hair salons, nail parlors, Chinese bakeries, and Chinese restaurants in Bensonhurst where I saw a few of the shots.
I'm in another part of Brooklyn now but l remember the first 12 years of my life were the happinest. I lived on 206A Willoughby Avenue in my grandmother's Angela's brownstone. Pratt Institute took the Block of brownstones through Eminent Domain. We left brokenhearted. A lot of wrong was done before 1965. I will always remember wonderful downtown Brooklyn.
Wow...I grew up on adelphi street back in the 60s..went to sacred heart as a kid... neighborhood turned to shit! I was sad 😢. Very scary times. And today? Area is worth millions! The Navy Has blossomed. I'm glad.
Born in Flatbush and lived in Williamsburg houses then moved to the South Side on Havameyer Street not far from the Firehouse. Bought a house in Mystic Connecticut and moved to Staten Island. Lived in the Bronx and upper Manhattan finally moved to Puerto Rico. New York City is not the same as it was in the old days. Good Humor ICE Cream man would be walking through the neighborhood with his pushcart of ICE Cream. Jelly Apples and the Merry Go Round Trucks. Mr. Softy ICE Cream and of course WHITE CASTLE HAMBURGERS on Atlantic Avenue. There was always Nathan's Hotdogs at Coney Island and the Spooky House. The Bronx had FREEDOM LAND AMUSEMENT PARK.
Used to live on adelphi street Navy Yard back in the 60s. .. when there were all italians. Then to dyker heights... Staten island. Go back to the Navy Yard and it's incredible the changes!
I lived on rhe border of Sheepshead Bay and Gravesend. After marriage I moved to Mill Basin then onto long Island. I now live in AZ and miss it all including my son and 2 grand son 's whi live in Long Beach. I would love to go back and miss it all.
Thanks, I'll be watching more of your Brooklyn videos. I was born in 1952 in Red Hook, Brooklyn. I lived at 136 Dikeman St. We moved away in the early 60s , but years later I began having dreams that I cuuld move back to Brooklyn, unfortunately I now realize it would be too expensive for me. I love Red Hook and all of Brooklyn. I came across some Brooklyn sites written by a man named John Burkhart who kew my father Allen Clinton years ago. He wrote back to me, I wish my father was still here and could see your videos, he would love this!
There's some nostalgia to all these photos, but let's face it, most of us couldn't wait to get out of Brooklyn and did so at the first opportunity. Have to admit the pizza and knishes were really good, though.
Thank you fa sayin it in a couple of words kid!!! Cause when I get started I can't contain my anger n bitterness of how everything's been taken over from all da liberal whitebread hippie freaks!!!...SOUTHBROOKLYN born n raised was my beautiful neighborhood it's Manhattan now n has been fa long time...it yousta be like a movie!!! Now it can only be a movie if ya understand what I'm tryin ta say!!!!!...SOUTHBROOKLYNBOY faeva when their was ONE!!!!!!🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🐘🐼🐬🐕🐅🐳🐺
You show the front of a D train. I recall the B (west end) cars had a window in the door that could be opened, next to the motorman's cab. There was a single wicker seat on the other side of the door. I had to stand on the seat to see out the front. Was neat to feel the breeze on your face going to Coney. Think of all the things we could say and do in those days that are now illegal. Are we really better off nowadays???
I lived right down the block on adelphi street when the area was all italians. Then the mid late 60s came it was a nightmare. Incredible violence. The Navy Yard now has seen incredible changes as the area has gotten expensive.. Great times though.
I recently went to the original Nathans on Surf Av in Coney Island and 2 franks and fries cost me almost $17!!! I remember when that would have been 75 cents!!! Now when I'm in the area I go to L&B Spumoni Gardens instead!!!
I remember how great Williamsburg and the rest of Brooklyn was. My family left there in 1969 because of my dad's job relocation. I went back two years later left three after that and visited in 1986. The place was already going to hell and now Williamsburg is horrible. The'vy destroyed my hometown.
Born 1954 Williamsburg. Lived on Rutledge St..corner st Marcy Ave. Went to Transfiguration school K to 8th. Moved to Woodside Queens 1968. I have wonderful memories there. I think you're correct about it going downhill.
View my documentary films here on You Tube about Brooklyn "Williamsburg Brooklyn then and now/My Mother and her friends" that was screened at the 2017 Williamsburg Film Festival. My original 20 min. version as well as the extended 40 min. version. Also my documentary film about Greenpoint Brooklyn "Here Goes The Neighborhood" here on You Tube. Thank you.
Born 1954 Williamsburg Bklyn. Transfiguration school grades K to 8th. Corner of Marcy and Hooper St. I lived on Rutledge St and Marcy ave. At that time PS122 school was at my corner. Don't know what is like now, but no regrets. Had a great time there as a kid. BTW I did watch the video on UA-cam. Enjoyed it!!!
I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN BROOKLYN.....I LIVE ON LONG ISLAND NOW AND GO BACK ONCE IN A WHILE...MOST OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS HAVE CHANGED AND NOT FOR THE BETTER ! :(...THE ONLY ONE I THINK HAS IMPROVED IS CONEY ISLAND ! :)
Same here Alice. Born 1954 Williamsburg. Lived on Rutledge St..corner st Marcy Ave. Went to Transfiguration school K to 8th. Moved to Woodside Queens 1968. Went to Coney Island quite often.. Also now on Long Island - Ronk area. Had some great memories there. I haven't been to Williamsburg since I moved out in 1968, but I bet you're right on it not being better.
Does anyone remember a place where they sold live chickens and they would kill them . As a child I'd go with my mother...it was scary ...it was during the 1950's.
How about Vinny's tackle shop on 86 street next-door to that was Howie's pet shop next to that was the carnival bar across the street Jans ice cream parlor how about the oriental movie theater the 60s great years You're not last but least the clothes horse bay parkway and 86 street those were the days when women look like women man dressed like men men acted like man today you got a flip a coin
I grew up in the 50s and 60s my God what a different world. Hello from Bay Ridge Brooklyn. Thank you for the video
Hi Carl - Born 1954 Williamsburg Bklyn until 1968 moved to Woodside Queens. Married 1976 moved to Flushing. 1985 to current now on Long Island. Brooklyn for me has some good memories.
I was born in Brooklyn - 1952; lived there into 1976. The '50's and '60's were super there - a great place to grow up. It took a nosedive, though, and I was glad to get out. The Brooklyn you're showing us is long gone, but I loved it none-the-less; nice work, Butch, we now need to save America - it's goin' fast.
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The Brooklyn i grew up in was nice because kids could go out and play "stickball" or ,"slap", "punchball" or scully" and the people i knew were nice some from different parts of the world. Brooklyn today is an overpriced gentrified mess. And the kids want to play games on a computer not in the street.
@@johnw8984 Yes, skelly, spinning tops. Shooting marbles, stick ball, flipping baseball cards, water pistols, bike riding from Crown Heights to Coney Island, good childhood memories.
Born in ‘48 in Redhook. Then moved to Mill Basin. I miss those days. We kids played outside all day until dad whistled to call us in for dinner.
Stick ball, stoop ball, playing in the corner lot, roller skating, going to the movies and watch the film over and over until we had to go at 6pm…... I worked on Court Street after high school, then go shopping in the big department stores, A & S, Mays, Nams, E.J. Korvette, Martins. That area is gone, as I knew it. Flatbush Ave. looks like a foreign country.
Moved to Long Island in ‘69.
I left NY in ‘91. I have good memories though.
Great photos of days gone by only remembered by people about 60 & over. Everyone dreams but moved away, ran too! I love all the Floridians that talk & talk about Brooklyn!
My Mom was Brooklyn born and raised. She'd have loved this video.
I have heard of Brooklyn my entire life. I am seventy years old. I live near the Georgia- Florida line. I always thought Brooklyn was perhaps a great place to live. I understand your angst and desire to return to older and more friendly days. Believe me, it is the same here also. Everything I loved and enjoyed is just about gone. It leaves a huge vacuum in your life and soul. I hope God blesses Brooklyn and my town here in Georgia. Everything they call progress isn't necessarily good.
Progress ruined it for us , my friend. All we have left are the memories.
Its heartbreaking when we think of those memories. My mother used to say , "Don't look Back "
Memories hurt sometimes.
Brooklyn❤
I can assure you that it was not a great place to live, dirty, crowded and rude. I attended school in Brooklyn from kindergarten through college. I'd estimate 98% of my classmates, like myself, moved out of Brooklyn at their earliest opportunity.
Brooklyn was a toilet inhabited by rude, ignorant and barbaric people. Brooklyn was the epitome of cafonery... especially Bensonhurst. Brooklyn has now evolved to a Progressive, Egalitarian Utopian city... based on Diversity, Inclusion and Multiculturalism.
@@autumnfragrance7185 wow!
Can't argue with a local.
My opinions were based on upbringing in the 1950's.
My own hometown here in Georgia has changed.
Cleaner, safer and more pleasant in those days.
Now?
I look around and hardly recognize anything of anyone.
Hey Butch thanks for the memories, You know being born there made you something of a celebrity, Yes your one reader says that brooklyn no longer exists. As we knew it.I say the brooklyn we all knew and loved as children will always live thru us and the stories we told our children.
I was born in 1937 in Brooklyn. I loved it. The food, the kids playing stick ball on the street. I lived in Bed Sty section our apt even had a doorman. What a wonderful place to grow up! Try to view Woody Allens film Radio Days , great tribute to those great 1950 days.
Thanks so very much for the memories , I remember plenty of those places as I grew up in Bay Ridge Brooklyn , I certainly remember cannonball park , coney island, sheepshead bay, and even Bob the grinder , that man went around every neighborhood in Brooklyn with his truck and you could hear his bell on the truck sounding ,,,, DING , DING , DING ,,,,,,, every few seconds , and my grandfather use to take me to cannonball pk to watch them build the bridge in the early 60s , and the 69th street pier from Brooklyn to Staten Island ,,,,,, yeah lots of memories in Brooklyn for sure , I left in 2002 and miss it everyday , my brother still lives there and tells me nothing is the same as we remember it , but I still miss it nonetheless ,,,,,,,,,,, anyway ,,,,,,,, thanks again for sharing this with us all .
Its full of chinese now...a real shame
I grew up in Bay Ridge also, in the 60's and early part of the 70's. Check out a site called, Urban Archive. You will be able to see your home as it looked in 1939. Those pictures are from tax records.
Great photos and perfect music.
I've hunted for this song for years. Thanks for the memories!
I left Brooklyn in 2017 the neighborhood went Chinese. Lenny's Pizzeria is in Jackson NJ and so is another pizzeria from Bensonhurst. Its mostly hair salons, nail parlors, Chinese bakeries, and Chinese restaurants in Bensonhurst where I saw a few of the shots.
I'm in another part of Brooklyn now but l remember the first
12 years of my life were the happinest. I lived on 206A Willoughby Avenue in my grandmother's Angela's brownstone. Pratt Institute took the Block of brownstones through Eminent Domain. We left brokenhearted. A lot of wrong was done before 1965. I will always remember wonderful downtown Brooklyn.
Wow...I grew up on adelphi street back in the 60s..went to sacred heart as a kid... neighborhood turned to shit! I was sad 😢. Very scary times. And today? Area is worth millions! The Navy Has blossomed.
I'm glad.
Brooklyn at its best…pre invasion…
Nicely put together Butch, I was born and raised in Brooklyn ~
Born in Flatbush and lived in Williamsburg houses then moved to the South Side on Havameyer Street not far from the Firehouse. Bought a house in Mystic Connecticut and moved to Staten Island. Lived in the Bronx and upper Manhattan finally moved to Puerto Rico.
New York City is not the same as it was in the old days. Good Humor ICE Cream man would be walking through the neighborhood with his pushcart of ICE Cream. Jelly Apples and the Merry Go Round Trucks. Mr. Softy ICE Cream and of course WHITE CASTLE HAMBURGERS on Atlantic Avenue. There was always Nathan's Hotdogs at Coney Island and the Spooky House.
The Bronx had FREEDOM LAND AMUSEMENT PARK.
Used to live on adelphi street Navy Yard back in the 60s. .. when there were all italians.
Then to dyker heights... Staten island.
Go back to the Navy Yard and it's incredible the changes!
This was adorable. I love the music and images. Makes me nostalgic for a Brooklyn that's not my era, but my parents and grandparents.
The man on the left of the photo at 2:03 is John Lindsay. He was the Mayor of New York when I was a kid living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Mayor Lindsay takes it, Rockefeller makes it, why can't we, why can't we? :)
Illegals have taken it all. :)@@annikee5925
Many parts are not the same but there are still many bakeries, pizzerias, architecture and great people. How you doin?
I used to hear this song on WNEW AM 1130.
I remember zaza pizza and the old Woolworths store on 54 street in sunset park Brooklyn
I lived on rhe border of Sheepshead Bay and Gravesend. After marriage I moved to Mill Basin then onto long Island. I now live in AZ and miss it all including my son and 2 grand son 's whi live in Long Beach. I would love to go back and miss it all.
Thanks, I'll be watching more of your Brooklyn videos. I was born in 1952 in Red Hook, Brooklyn. I lived at 136 Dikeman St. We moved away in the early 60s , but years later I began having dreams that I cuuld move back to Brooklyn, unfortunately I now realize it would be too expensive for me. I love Red Hook and all of Brooklyn. I came across some Brooklyn sites written by a man named John Burkhart who kew my father Allen Clinton years ago. He wrote back to me, I wish my father was still here and could see your videos, he would love this!
There's some nostalgia to all these photos, but let's face it, most of us couldn't wait to get out of Brooklyn and did so at the first opportunity. Have to admit the pizza and knishes were really good, though.
86 street is Chinatown now.
Lenny's pizza is still there
18th Ave is the same also...barely any Italian place open...real shame.
neat, Butch! great tune, too ... you should share with various Brooklyn groups! they'd love it ...
Born and raise in carnarsie Brooklyn in the late 50’s 60’s and left in 1973. Never went back but missed those days. The melting pot
The Brooklyn all of you want to go back to no longer exists. Sad.
Sadly not. But it was fun.
You got that right....hasn't for a long time.
pilsudski36 My grandfather was a bat boy for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He has wonderful memories of Brooklyn .
Thank you fa sayin it in a couple of words kid!!! Cause when I get started I can't contain my anger n bitterness of how everything's been taken over from all da liberal whitebread hippie freaks!!!...SOUTHBROOKLYN born n raised was my beautiful neighborhood it's Manhattan now n has been fa long time...it yousta be like a movie!!! Now it can only be a movie if ya understand what I'm tryin ta say!!!!!...SOUTHBROOKLYNBOY faeva when their was ONE!!!!!!🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🐘🐼🐬🐕🐅🐳🐺
Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SOUTHBROOKLYNBOY faeva when their was ONE!!!!!!!🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🐘🐼🐬🐕🐅🐳🐺
Born in bed-stuy, grew up in Bushwick when it was tough, 70's, 80's, 90's, Nothing like Brooklyn. To me, is the capital of NYC.
You show the front of a D train. I recall the B (west end) cars had a window in the door that could be opened, next to the motorman's cab. There was a single wicker seat on the other side of the door. I had to stand on the seat to see out the front. Was neat to feel the breeze on your face going to Coney. Think of all the things we could say and do in those days that are now illegal. Are we really better off nowadays???
My father worked at the Brooklyn NAVY yard during W W 2.
My grandfather worked there in the 1910s.
Linda Watkin So did my uncle.
I lived right down the block on adelphi street when the area was all italians. Then the mid late 60s came it was a nightmare. Incredible violence. The Navy Yard now has seen incredible changes as the area has gotten expensive.. Great times though.
that brooklyn has been gone for a long time
I remember when my mother use to take me to Nathan's for a hot dog on Coney Island in the 50s
What a trip !!! I actually lived in ancient history, wouldnt trade it for anything .
Bluegill Phil Me neither.
I recently went to the original Nathans on Surf Av in Coney Island and 2 franks and fries cost me almost $17!!! I remember when that would have been 75 cents!!! Now when I'm in the area I go to L&B Spumoni Gardens instead!!!
Good vid, thanks. I was born and lived in Brooklyn till I was almost 13. Went to PS 121 and 89
TrekkerPat movement to P.S 121 !!!!!!
You have a new sub. Keep 'em comin'. Have any more of Williamsburg?
miss it
Mildred LA MANTIA yeah
I remember how great Williamsburg and the rest of Brooklyn was. My family left there in 1969 because of my dad's job relocation. I went back two years later left three after that and visited in 1986. The place was already going to hell and now Williamsburg is horrible. The'vy destroyed my hometown.
Born 1954 Williamsburg. Lived on Rutledge St..corner st Marcy Ave. Went to Transfiguration school K to 8th. Moved to Woodside Queens 1968. I have wonderful memories there. I think you're correct about it going downhill.
Who sings the tune ? I love it.
Just in case you haven't found it yet - It's a group called Wizz, the song is called "Brooklyn" and they released this in 1973.
Himsch when I was a good my mom took me there all the time miss them days wish we can go back not like these terrible Brooklyn be missed 4e
Hey Brooklyn Butch, have any photos of Wilkliamsburg from late 40s or early 50s?
Love
View my documentary films here on You Tube about Brooklyn "Williamsburg Brooklyn then and now/My Mother and her friends" that was screened at the 2017 Williamsburg Film Festival. My original 20 min. version as well as the extended 40 min. version. Also my documentary film about Greenpoint Brooklyn "Here Goes The Neighborhood" here on You Tube. Thank you.
Born 1954 Williamsburg Bklyn. Transfiguration school grades K to 8th. Corner of Marcy and Hooper St. I lived on Rutledge St and Marcy ave. At that time PS122 school was at my corner. Don't know what is like now, but no regrets. Had a great time there as a kid. BTW I did watch the video on UA-cam. Enjoyed it!!!
I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN BROOKLYN.....I LIVE ON LONG ISLAND NOW AND GO BACK ONCE IN A WHILE...MOST OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS HAVE CHANGED AND NOT FOR THE BETTER ! :(...THE ONLY ONE I THINK HAS IMPROVED IS CONEY ISLAND ! :)
Same here Alice. Born 1954 Williamsburg. Lived on Rutledge St..corner st Marcy Ave. Went to Transfiguration school K to 8th. Moved to Woodside Queens 1968. Went to Coney Island quite often.. Also now on Long Island - Ronk area. Had some great memories there. I haven't been to Williamsburg since I moved out in 1968, but I bet you're right on it not being better.
I wonder if Bob is related to Mike the tool sharpener, whom l saw last week!
Golds Horseradish had a plant on 18th avenue in Kensington
Great song. Is "Wizz" the name of the group?
hipsters destroyed Brooklyn
The country
Lenny’s Pizza is still there
Does anyone who lived in Brooklyn specifically eny in these times remember the Fulton street el
Chase bank? What year was this?
I love Brooklyn but it is not how it used to be
Does anyone remember a place where they sold live chickens and they would kill them . As a child I'd go with my mother...it was scary ...it was during the 1950's.
86street.....feels like home,1976!!
I still go to Spumoni Gardens on 86th Street!!
That's not my Brooklyn
How about Vinny's tackle shop on 86 street next-door to that was Howie's pet shop next to that was the carnival bar across the street Jans ice cream parlor how about the oriental movie theater the 60s great years You're not last but least the clothes horse bay parkway and 86 street those were the days when women look like women man dressed like men men acted like man today you got a flip a coin
@cliffordb47 Ever hear of punctuation when you write something...like periods and commas...jesus...you ever go to school??.