The designation Greek mostly refers to the use of Koine Greek in liturgy. Darlene , my 2 sisters-in-law grew up at The Kallman Home also during the same period . That's what Bennigan's, an Irish-themed bar and grill, offered in the 1980s. Anyone have additional remembrances? McKinley Park was dedicated in 1903 and named for the recentlykilled President William McKinley. Grew up in Flagg Court. Bay Ridge & Fort Hamilton American Griswold's Pub 5.0 rating over 0 reviews 718-745-3340 Neighborhoods: Bay Ridge & Fort Hamilton Cuisine: American, English, Steakhouse SMS Email Print Directions Info Reviews Map Diner Survey Results 7 responses Overall 100% Food 100% Service 100% Ambiance 100% Pros "BEST place to dine in Brooklyn !! Perry are seen on the map. These tract houses were built on Shore Road, wrapping around to 3rd and 4th Avenues, sometime in the mid-to-late 1970s, replacing what I think was an athletic field. The pattern of exploration had begun and it continues today. Between 5th and 6th, 83rd was more dominated by apartment buildings than between 4th and 5th, but there were also some attached houses and a surprise. Art: New Yorks Theme Streets [SpliceToday] My mother who was born at home in 1919 on Ovington Ave was disappointed because her birthday was 7/4/19. Golf in Bay Ridge The Crescent Club had space for its clubhouse and an athletic field that could accommodate several sports. In January 1980, five new episodes of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" were broadcast on BBC Radio, all in one week, bringing the total number to twelve episodes. I lived in the Kallman Home for Children from 1952, to 1962. Connie sorrentino. Growing Up In Bay Ridge Brooklyn: Iconic things of our time-1950s-1980s Paperback - October 12, 2017 by Robert A Henriksen (Author) 3.9 out of 5 stars 11 ratings His collection holds more than 1,000 photos, and for this brief look at his work, we pulled 40 of our favorites that show Dumbo, Brooklyn Heights, and a few other Brooklyn neighborhoods during. The club, a one-story building on a corner lot, was sold and renamed Spectrum in 1987, reincarnated as a gay club. Founder Joseph Perry (that name again) is remembered by Perry Terraceand Perry Arms. Maybe near the old Mapledale party house? It seems so small however. The complex was socially innovative, as well, as it included a tea room, auditorium, swimming pool, bowling alley, tennis and handball courts, and a nursery school to allow the buildings mothers three hours of daily free time. This homey pub offers a heated beer garden all year-round. Bidding begins at $60,000 to $80,000, said Brian Chanes, director of sales at Profiles in History, a Hollywood, Calif.-based auction house. This was also an important building since my grandmother resided here, and Id be shuffled off within when my parents had guests. The first house after the stores. (Bryan Pace/for New York Daily News) Fishman and his wife Diane have owned. Don't come if you're a knucklehead. 83rd Street between 4th and 5th Avenues. FYI Cannon Ball Park had the cannon relocated to the front of the park along with the monument when the Verazzano bridge was built Please note with the correct spelling of Verazzano with 2 zz Al;l signs through the state have incorrect spelling and NYS refuses to have them corrected. [3] 8701 Shore Rd., Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The basketball court figured in a scene in 1978sSaturday Night Fever. Many apartment buildings around the city are named (matching Britains fondness for naming houses; John Lennons childhood home was called Mendips) but few in the States actually use them. Please help. music starts at noon. I dont know of any others around the city like it. Bay Ridge has gone from "Saturday Night Fever" to "Footloose.". Leifs That Are Green [SpliceToday] It was a clam bar, beer bar, etc. I live on the Upper Eastside but still drive to Bay Ridge once a month. It was estimated to be slightly over a million dollars! Powered by two, twelve cylinder, EMD 12-645-E2 diesel engines. I was born in 1953. The ground floor was where my dentist, Dr. Tempkin, had his office. Besides the altar boys, I was involved in Scouting; I was never athletic, so never got on any of the sports teams. Monday - Sunday: 12pm - 4am. This is the relatively new church building, dedicated in 1953. We lived at the building (8520) on the corner of 86th. @2019 - Forgotten New York. Harbor movie theater. One of the best qualities that Bay Ridge has to offer is that it's a cozy community that doesn't exactly scream New York City. Please help contribute to a new Forgotten NY website, Check out the ForgottenBook,take a look at the gift shop, and as always, commentas you see fit., The Belt Parkway Had 5 Names when complete in 1940: Gowanus Parkway (Now Guwanus Expressway (Interstate 278)), Shore Parkway, Southern Parkway, Laurelton Parkway & Cross Island Parkway. In 1969 I went college in upstate NY and never moved back to Brooklyn but have visited numerous times. Hoppy1952 4 yr. ago Some of Saturday Night Fever was filmed in Bay Ridge, the dance club was 2001 Odyssey. I rode the ferries from 69th street pier for a nickel, cars traveled to Staten Island via boat as the Guinea Gangplank wasnt built yet. Let me k. AboutPressCopyrightContact. 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. At the time, some Gowers Corner residents favored it as a preferred alternative to a wider . Don't come if you're a knucklehead. To make a donation, please use the button below. We were in same class at fontbonne. Christ Church of Bay Ridge, Ridge Boulevard between 73rd and 74th Streets, still looks like the same country church it was when the congregation arrived in 1853. As a teenager and into my 20s I helped out by hauling garbage and emptying dumbwaiters most nights of the week before or after spending time with my grandmother. The parish of St. Marys, Ridge Boulevard and 81st Street, recently celebrated its centennial. Bars of the 1980s LGBTQ+ Bars of the 1980's The following timelines show the ebb and flow of the establishment of LGBTQ+ bars through the 1980s. Joe Joyce, left, the owner of JJ Bubbles, a popular neighborhood bar in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, with his family in the 1980s. Weirdly, half of it is Belgian-blocked and half of it is surfaced with asphalt. It was a clam bar, beer bar, etc. Bensonhurst, 1990. I do recall Shore Road Park near 4th ave at 101st. Really enjoyed reading about the history. . The presenceof many gorgeous churches in Bay Ridge serves to alleviate somewhat the sting that the loss of theBay Ridge Methodist (Green) Churchat 4th and Ovington Avenues in 2008 produced. Thanks so much for your article. I remember her husband as a quiet cheerful man who always sat behind the counter. Great memories. All Right Reserved. As a matter of fact I still go to the same office because I continued with Dr. Tempkins successor, Dr. Mark De Bock, whose office is now at 4th Avenue and Bay Ridge Parkway or, as all Bay Ridgers call it, 75th Street. By Ginia Bellafante Published April 18, 2020 Updated April 19, 2020 Will, the organizer, is amazing andmore, It's mostly tunes from the '80s, in my experience, with some '70s disco, Motown hits, andmore, We had a unique mix of 70s/80s music to start, followed by Spanish music to get the party startedmore, DJ Ben played old-school (the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s) reggae that resonated with my Father, Uncles, andmore, We paid 70 for unlimited drinks and one meal. Great site. Learn how your comment data is processed. I wasnt paying attention as a kid, but 4th Avenue and to a lesser degree Fort Hamilton Parkway are lined with grand old Art Deco and Moderne apartment buildings, like Grately Hall across the street from the school. Ever since three Americans were ambushed . I always manage to discoversomething new orat least something I had previously overlooked in this historic neighborhood where I grew up. This smallest cemetery in Brooklyn was founded in 1725 by Dutch immigrant William Harmans Barkaloo and likely served as a family farm graveyard. Sketching Henderson Place [SpliceToday] 40-01 Little Neck Parkway 24A Little Neck, NY 11363. After awhile, though, I seriously irked the old man by asking for a cut. my grandfather had it built in1912. I also bought one of his old refrigerators when I got my own place and I syill have this vision of him, me, and my landlord whacking that thing up 3 flights of stairs. This 422-unit, six-building complex contained architectural features that were avant-garde for its time, including reversible fans below the windows and exterior window shades, both now removed, as well as innovative uses of concrete as finished ceilings and for a vaulted auditorium. Marchak was a dancer in the film, and appears several times wearing sunglasses and doing the Hustle. Reply. Sailors. Panda Garden ($) Chinese Distance: 0.04 miles. I never got into the plant, but the approach road past the gate had some very unusual streetlamps resembling those on the Golden Gate Bridge in California until they were replaced in the 1980s. The AntiochianGreek Christians, also known as Rm, are an Arabic-speaking Christian group from the Middle East. The combo residences and storefronts, in place since the 1920s at least, are still in place on both sides of 5th Avenue only the businesses change. SOLD JUN 13, 2022. While Brooklyn had its own fire department (the BFD, the trigraph seen on a number of old firehouses around the borough) far-flung realms like Bay Ridge were served by a number of volunteer fire departments. The restaurant next door where John Travolta chomped on a burger in the 1977 movie NEW YORK No one was wearing tight polyester pants at the bar. Get the latest in beer, wine, and cocktail culture sent straight to your inbox. Thanks for sharing your memories of old Fort Hamilton & Bay And he's seen music go from rock to disco to punk to New Wave and back again. (: I loved reading this as so many memories of Bay Ridge. Remembering Jackie Robinson [SpliceToday]. Montego Bay - Belmar. Movies at Fort Hamilton for 25 cents. Visit The Film Locations New York Sep 13, 2019 - Restaurants that I ate at as a child..most no longer exist. Reply. In July 2018 I wasin Bay Ridge for one last lunch at its Nathansat 7th Avenue and 86th Street, which has been there since the 1970s; before that, it was another roadside fast food place. 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. The Belt Parkway, officially known as Shore Parkway between the Gowanus Expressway and Laurelton Parkway in Queens, was originally called the Circumferential Parkway and was built on landfill mostly along the shores of Brooklyn and Queens from 1938-1940. Certainly not hip nightclubs. We lived in the house at 8401 Ridge Blvd which was torn down and replaced by the Greek church pictured in this story. Copyright 20042023 Yelp Inc. Yelp, , and related marks are registered trademarks of Yelp. If you know of other bars that have closed their doors, please send a death notice. Then we moved all the way to a semi-attached house at 8420-7 Ave, 1962-1969. Manero struts through Bay Ridge with that certain swagger, past. I lived in Bay Ridge at 73rd and 3rd ave in 1974 after military service. In 1867 he founded the machine shops that became the E. W. Bliss Company and the United States Projectile Company. Bay Ridge Beach is a physical feature (beach) in Anne Arundel County. After that I rode the bus. 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. 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. Though the present structure dates to 1890, there has been a St. Johns Church on this location since 1834, when soldiers garrisoned at Fort Hamilton built the first St. Johns. To get the answer to that you would need to go back to 1890, when this was still part of the town of New Utrecht, long before BayRidge was part of New York City. Bay Ridge Neighborhood Overview Buy: $188K - $6.22M For Sale on Trulia: 148 homes Rent: $1.5K - $4.3K For Rent on Trulia: 51 homes To Downtown New York: 29 minutes 23 Schools: Rated 3/10 - 10/10 Explore the Area Highlights Restaurants Groceries Nightlife Cafes Shopping Arts and Entertainment Fitness Bagel Boy Restaurants Balady Halal Market This mural depicting sea life under the Belt Parkway overpass on 69th Street is relatively new. I haveiced in San Antonio since 1973,where I knew a Mrs.TrudyWalsh.She was a lovely person, a proud Bay Ridge resident.I believe she had a husband named .Jimmy ,NYPD and a son,Johnny or Jimmy Jr. This was great! Bay Ridge is a neighborhood in New York City, New York with a population of 54,136. I married the former Vikki Loughran who lived on Ridge Blvd. It was a bad scene," said Det. My first Subic Bay Libery was on November 26, 1974. I lived there for 18 years. VIDEO TOUR. 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. Before the movie became an international hit, before tourists flooded in and cheap drinks could no longer be had, 2001 Odyssey was the it club for teenagers and twentysomethings. Never mind that 2001 Odyssey, the club on 64th Street and Eighth Avenue where Travolta shimmied to stardom, is long gone. Hi Rosanne, My favorite quote from there, a friend of a friend who was surprised how everyone is just there to dance - "no guys were even hitting on me!" And such interesting history, some I knew, a lot I did not. The park is named Cannonball Park for the longtime presence of a 20 Rodman gun and several cannonballs on the 4th Avenue side, one of two tested at Fort Hamilton but found unsuitable for combat. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Staten Islanders like to have a drink or two. I didnt get a good picture of it, but the large picture stained glass window facing Ridge Boulevard was installed and designed by Tiffany Glass. Night Clubs American Restaurants Bars (101) 7.8 Website View Menu 21 YEARS IN BUSINESS Amenities: (718) 492-5095 8801 3rd Ave Brooklyn, NY 11209 $$ CLOSED NOW From Business: Cebu Bar & Bistro has been serving up new American fare into the late hours since 2001. The White Castle burger joint on 92nd Street and Fifth Avenue where Manero argued with his pals is now the site of a hospital. Its recently been sold and the restaurant will be razed for apartment buildings that overlook the golf course. $798,000 Last Sold Price. And the people moving in to these places dont seem to respect or care for what went before. The former nightlife capital of Brooklyn now battling clubs. 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. I grew up in mid 1950: to mid 60s in an apartment in the Wynshore I just found a reference to Wynshore on the Narrows on 74th street. The peaked building with the rounded edgeat the SW corner of 3rd Avenue and Bay Ridge Avenue has been home to a pharmacy on the ground floor for apparently most of its life, Lowens since 1953; my friend Brian Merlis at brooklynpix has a photo from 1913, when it harbored Wolffs. Do kids play roller hockey in the street anymore? Became a cleaners later so I bought across the street at Charlies near the subway entrance. Wonderful! Night Degree Suite & Lounge Bars Cocktail Lounges Bar & Grills (718) 567-8878 6011 7th Ave Brooklyn, NY 11220 1.1 miles 4. It was really fun looking at the pictures of Bay Ridge. 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