Bushwick

I can't type through the tears - I too went to PS 106 - Halsey JHS and Bushwick - Miss Anne, Miss Wilson - Halsey Bops I love it. I lived on Madison Street between Wilson and Central on the best stick ball block - we had 200 feet of no car parking because of the FDNY truck 112..looking for old buds and remembering great days.

Bushwick

My parents owned the Wilson Hero Shop on Wilson between Woodbine Palmetto if my memory serves me correctly. Good Italian  food – my Father was deaf and still worked the counter before going to his regular job.  We lived in back of the restaurant for awhile and then we moved again to Wilson and Cornelia above the Corso Funeral Home. And then to Jefferson Ave. above the Italian cheese store.  Looking for an old girlfriend Pat Smart anybody know her. We all went to PS 106 late fifties, Halsey and then Bushwick. 

Engine Co 112

Does anyone remember what street the firehouse 112 was on?? I lived across the street from it for about 2 years 1965-67. Was it Madison? We were the first Latins on that block. A car hit me on that block as I was running across the street and not looking(9 or 10 years old)Our Italian neighbor's  really came to my aid and conforted my mother who was hysterical and did'nt speak English. I went to St. Martin also and got along pretty well with everybody. I remember a coner candy store by the school taht had a sign advertising Mountain Dew, you know with the picture of the Hillbilly's hat being blown off by the cork of his jug. We left to Williamsburg of all places, which is where we had come from. I could'nt figure my dad out, so it was back to the hard streets of Ellery and Thompkins and Public School. Lucky to have made it!!

wilson betw menahan & grove

hi  this was so much fun reading about my old neighborhood  i went to ps 75 and then to enrico fermi and i do remember the school song and sing it often!! sad huh? does anyone remember joes candy store on wilson the same block as larosa?  also on wilson was fricano's between grove and the next block over i cant remember.  they both had great personal pizzas!! fricanos original owner moved to elmont and we went for pizza there until she passed away.  she still cut the pizza with a scissor!! anyone remember that?  we used to hang out on menahan playing stickball and remember the columbus day races on menahan sponsored by st barbaras!  i still have some medals from the races  those were great great times  i live on long island now and raised 3 boys and always tell them there's no place better to grow up than "old brooklyn"  tell me more!!!

Hey GumbaBeater...

Grow the f**k up.  And if you hate Bushwick so much why are you even posting your drivel here. Learn to spell while you're at it.

BUSHWICK 40TH REUNION

JOSEPHINE,  MY HUSBAND ERIC SERPENTI GRADUATED IN 1968 AS WELL AS MY COUNSIN LINDA SMITH.  I REMEMBER A NUMBER OF PEOPLE ON YOUR LIST AS I GRADUATED IN 1970 AND THEY WERE MY HUSBAND'S FRIENDS BUT I DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY ARE.  PLEASE KEEP US POSTED ABOUT THE REUNION...WHERE AND WHEN.  WE LIVE IN WEST PALM BEACH NOW.  DO YOU REMEMBER ERIC AND CAROL.  WE HAVE BEEN A COUPLE SINCE I WAS 14.  LINDA WENT TO THE 25 REUNION.

still alive

I attended Bushwich High from 1965 to 1968. I lived on the border (Bleecker and Cypress),therefore most of all my friends attended Grover Cleveland High. Although I live in Tampa I hve recently retired and hope to make the next reunion. Anyone know where Maria Lapresiosa can be located? 

Jefferson Street between Knickerbocker and Irving.. Saint Leonards and PS 162 - Looking for my first great friends - Joe Saladino - Tommy LiPani - Joe Liotta - Carmine Gangoni - Vincent Falco - Pete the bird - Rose Giannone -

Singing in the Subway, Knickerbocker Park, Maxie's candy store, Robi and "dings" .. days gone by but the memories remain. I was 14 years old when I left Brooklyn in 1962! Amazing how you never forget those days...

Bob Conti 2010

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Hi Joe, I think you are on line right now.. I remember Dilberts.. and the Knickerbocker Park. My uncles played pool at the jefferson st / knickerbocker pool room .. right on the corner! Know where that is? or should I say "was".. Some things do change.. Saint Leonards up the Jefferson street hill looks like a bomb hit it!

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Hi.  I was doing research for a project my daughter has to do in school.  I saw some of you mention Schottler's deli and Richie Schottler.  He is my dad.  I grew up hearing about the deli and, of course, hearing about how good my grandmother's rice pudding and potato salad were.  I do have her recipe and have tried to recreate it, but I'm not sure it will ever match.  I'm glad to hear that people have fond memories of it.  Although they sold it before I was born, it remained a cornerstone of our family.

Hi guys and gals. If any of you are on bushwickbuddies.com and come across a woman named PAT, originally from 392 Woodbine Street tell her cityboy says hello, and I hope she and her family are doing well. I communicated with her on this thread in the first pages. She will remember.