CIRCO'S

FOR ANYONE WHO IS INTERESTED IN INDULGING THEMSELF WITH CIRCO'S PASTRIES, YOU CAN!  THEY HAVE AN ONLINE WEB PAGE & CAN ORDER THE SAME OLD PASTRIES WE GREW UP WITH, BY OVERNIGHT EXPRESS.  CANOLI FILLING & THIN CAKE SHELLS, THAT ARRIVE IN SEPARATE WRAPPINGS & YOU FILL YOUR SELF. I WAS THERE AS RECENTLY AS MAY 15, 2006.
  THE OWNER WHO IS THE NEXT GENERATION FROM THE OWNERS OR YESTERYEAR. THEY ARE STILL THERE & GOING STRONG. IF YOU CAN'T FIND THE ADDRESS BY A SEARCH ENGINE I WILL SEND IT ALONG AT A LATER DATE. I JUST DON'T HAVE IT READILY AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW.
  I AM NOT RELATED TO OR AFFILIATED WITH THEM, IN ANY WAY. I JUST SEE SO MUCH WRITTEN ABOUT THE PLACE I THOUGHT I'D SHARE THE GOOD FORTUNE & MEMORIES TOO.
   LOVE TO YOU ALL, BUSHWICKIANS !!!!
FORMERLY FROM TROUTMAN STREET BETWEEN KNICKERBOCKER & WILSON AVENUE'S

HI VIC

HI VIC...I HAD MRS.WILSON ALSO...BUT IN 1957...NINA..PREVIOUS POST AND I HAVE BEEN CORRESPONDING...I LIVED ON WOODBINE BETWEEN IRVING AND RIDGEWOOD PLACE...CITYBOY..HELP US ALOT...BUSHWICH BUDDIES IS A GREAT WEBSITE..FOR SHARING, LAUGHING, SOME TEARS..BUT IT IS NICE TO GO BACK....HOPE YOU JOIN US
PAT

Menahan Street Bushwick

I went to St. Barbara's Elementary School until 1964.  Then, I went to Bushwick H.S.  I certainly remember the RIVOLI theater in Bushwick!  That is where my grandmother took me to see FORBIDDENT PLANET.  My first evening "movie date" was at the MADISON theater...that gorgeous movie palace on Myrtle Avenue!  Such an incredible staircase surrounded by beautiful mirrors and gold-gilded banisters.  Perry's Candy Store was a hangout on Menahan & Wilson Avenues.  Nicky's deli & Mr. Neumann's deli were the local grocery stores on Wilson Avenue.  Also, LaRosa's Bakery drew big crowds on Fridays with their personal pan pizzas!  Those were the days...

All U ginnys...

Typing nonsense about "the good ol' days" and how nobody had to walk around in fear and such, your all liars!!! Bushwick was a slum back then and it's a slum now!!! The only difference back then was, you had all you ginny wop hoods robbing everybody, now you got all these mexicans and duminicans infesting the area. Soon they'll be in lovely ridgewood, fighting with the grimy slavic pigs to live on top of each other like animals.

Make no mistake, Bushwick sucked back then and it sucks now, all you dreamers and people trapped in some time bubble need to be smacked into reality.

wrong

It wasnt miss annie. the german people? Was her husband mr sony? whatever

Bushwick/Ridgewood

  In response to this person who calls himself Gumba Hater, it seems obvious that some Italian person either beat him up or took his girlfriend away.
  I should't have responded to this B.S.but I did. I hope no one else responds to this BIGOT.

vinny's fruit store on knickerbocker

Yes, I remember Vinny on Knickerbocker who has the fruit store.  He was my father, the greatest man I've ever known.  One summer he was visiting his family in Italy and they burned the store down.  He never went back.  We all moved to Queens.  I miss that neighborhood.  Mrs. Annie and her husband in the soda shop on Knickerbocker.  How come no one remember's Schotler's Deli?  Remember the really delicious rice pudding he would sell?  Of course, who could forget going to Myrtle to shop, back in the days when people always walked everywhere.  For me, my fondest memory is the library next to Bushwick High.  I went there to spend hours pouring through books.  Usually I came home with about 10 books.  It was beautiful in the Autumn watching the leaves fall and scatter along the street as I walked home from the library.  God, I miss all the simplicity of that old way of life!  Keep Remembering!!!!!

Halsey Bops /Quinny

To All from this special time in our lives. I was Halsey Bop and Tot and as most of you may rememeber was requested to leave Brooklyn under court order. Does anyone remember the Saints - Rockaway and Fulton and the others. We did keep our blocks safe for us and our familys. Does anyone rememeber Mousey Martinize -  The Cross brothers etc. When I look back it was made us survive poor rich whatever and become who we are. Does anyone remember the one arm  Deli on the corner of the High School. Putnam park parkers and the sprinklier pool. Ciro's also had a pizza parlor up on Cypress and the Ridgewood Grove pool. Bleekers St . Went to St. Bridgets then to Bushwick. Gumba would of had his @@@@ kicked and sent him home with a note.   

Wilson Ave

I lived on Wilson Ave (320?) between Palmetto and Woodbine.  I lived in a "railroad" apartment above a grocery store.  There was drug store at the corner of Wilson and Woodbine that had a model of a 3 masted ship in a display case that I used to bug my father about wanting it.  A couple a doors from the drug store there was a candy store on Wilson Ave.  I remember my father trying to teach me to not take candy from strangers.  He set me up one day outside the store.  I man went to hand me a piece of candy.  I balked for a second and then took it.  My father, "What do you say to the man?"  I said..."You got some more?"  I failed the test.  Wilson Ave used to flood a lot during heavey rains and the sewer covers would sometimes blow open and shoot up in the air.  I Went to PS 106 for Kindergarden in 1959 and First grade 1960.  I think I also had Mrs. Wilson for kindergarden.  I remember in first grade walking to school each day.  I would leave the apartment and follow the rest of the kids right to school.  I cut out of school a couple of times with some older kids.  We walked to a bowling alley that was a few blocks from the school.  I would take my shoes and socks off and wade in the wishing well that was in the foyer at the entrance to collect the pennies.  I remember playing marbles, stickball, collecting/trading/flipping baseball cards, monster movie cards and playing the bottle cap game in the street called skellsey <sp> on Woodbine Street.  Family moved to the Island during the summer of 1961.  Nice to read some wonderful stories.

Lee Price

This might be what you are looking for:
bushwickbuddies.com
Just follow the directions.

Roberto - PS 106

Regarding the "little side rooms were used for that are located on the side walls of the auditorium. Any ideas?"
I would ask the Custodian and/or the custodial staff member who has been there the longest, which is the way to go, (depending on who you get along with better), and any tradesman passing through who needs access to those rooms. If it was designed for anything more than just storage, one of the above should know. Take a good look yourself, is there conduit coming up through the floor or down from the ceiling? Storage and utilities combined in the same rooms?

BUshwick

I live in bushwick right now on Knickerbocker and jefferson. It's cool to read the stories of its past, makes me appreciate the neighborhood more. I love bushwick.

Ms. Wilson

I lived on Weirfield Street and went to PS106 and Halsey, then Bushwick.  I graduated Bushwick in '59. God, Miss Steinline.  I remember so well. Leave your erasers at the blackboard. sneeze:"Excuse me Miss Steinline"  standing when you said it ...