Brooklyn Childhood Memories :)

[@mchapman132]

I was born in Redhook in 1948, Walcott Street and Van Brunt. Ten years later we moved to Mill Basin. We had a great childhood. I miss the simpler life.

[@lucyromano-cw9fv]

I was born raised in greenpoint Brooklyn, huron street and Manhattan Ave

[@johnlennon1049]

Born and raised in Brooklyn. Lived there from 1950 until 1995…boy how I miss Brooklyn the way it was during that time. Now? I would never go back there or anywhere else in NYC…Glad I moved out when I did…

[@gloryBE-o1w]

amen . although these days are not anything compared to the good old Brooklyn days, I miss the old days,

[@geraldattanasio5428]

Brooklyn in the 50s.Nothing like it.Special time.Thanks

[@gloryBE-o1w]

That was when holidays were really celebrated and 4 th of July was a blast and Christmas was merry

[@billgeorgesr1457]

Great memories l was was born in Cumberland hospital in Brooklyn in 1947 the same hospital my father was born in Iam the last Brooklynite left in my.family My Mom and dad my sister. My Aunts and Uncles they are all gone now I live in Florida now with my Kids.Grandkids and Greatgrand children l will always remember growing up in Red Hook Brooklyn A time gone by

[@heru-deshet359]

Those carnival ride trucks would park on the street in front of my house when I was a kid in summer. Rode for a dime. Climbed up and down fire escapes with friends and no one ever fell of or got hurt. It was always a treat to get on the old subway trains on Broadway in Williamsburg. The smell of the train was clean with the air rushing in from open windows especially when we went to Coney. My Brooklyn that I will never see again except in history books.

[@jimmyolsen5897]

I always had a dime for the half moon

[@gloryBE-o1w]

we use climb all over the good humor truck , then the driver would drive off on us , then stop until we all jumped down

[@mickeygreenberg9594]

I need a tissue.. what wonderful days. I lived on Rutland Road and went to ps 219, winthrop and Tilden. Road trains all hours. Loved Coney Island.

[@nl8819]

Born and raised on 3rd street between 4th and 5th avenue in the 1950s , directly across the street from the playground. Oh what fun. Best time of my life!!!

[@rcarrosq]

Wonderful job with this video. It made me cry. Oh how I wish those days were still here

[@oneafter9095]

I lived on 23rd street just off 5th avenue and right across from a small park where all types of characters hung out, like the South Brooklyn Boys...we used to walk to Sunset park pool or sometimes hang on the back of the 5th avenue buses.

[@johnlennon1049]

My old neighborhood

[@johndonohue2168]

Love these photos. Good memories. Miss the easier days.

[@jomarin1000]

Living in Butler Street between Court and Smith Streets I had two friends Jimmy and Eddie Quinn who showed some of the ropes in stick ball playing and delivering movie notices for the Lido Theatre. They were really good guys and many years after in downtown Brooklyn I met Jimmy and exchanged pleasantries about ourselves and he was surprised that I was teaching classes at New York City Community College. So going from one end of the spectrum to the other was to me a veritable Brooklyn tour de force.

[@johnrobinsoniii4028]

I was born in Greenpoint Hospital, grew up in the Projects and attended grammar school on Throop Avenue, and junior high school on South 3rd Street. And I also remember the electric buses.

[@lucyromano-cw9fv]

I was born in greenpoint hospital in 1964 I am now 59 ,I left at 17 and half joined the guard for 6 years I live elsewhere I still visit 5 to 6 times a year my family still there and throughout the boroughs

[@GinaBrooklyn1-ux3px]

I was born in greenpoint hospital to ,if youbare still here grenpoint in brooklyn has changed ,you must visit friend it's so beautiful now ! Established 1964 me ,hello how are you?

[@williamlevi5051]

Beautiful video.. I was born in Brooklyn.. Great memories.. LOVE BROOKLYN LOVE MY CITY NYC..

[@thomasjamison2050]

My wife was from Greenpoint. When she was a kid back in the 1940's, she and her sister would sleep out on the sidewalk in front of Ebbets field so that they could be sure to get tickets to important games. I was born in Philly, but my great grandfather was a civil engineer for the BMT.

[@oasis3578]

I quickly recognized Sunset Park. Loved going there as a child. I was born and raised in the neighborhood.

[@PlatinumStrikes]

Watching this gives me a better idea of the life my parents had in Brooklyn. Which i was always so fascinated by growing up because I moved out of Brooklyn as a baby. Hearing their childhood memories playing in the street with the neighborhood kids to going over to friends houses after school and messing with the A Track

[@g86jn1]

At 2:56 , the King Kong would park in front of grandpas , Douglass n 4th , was a dime , was painted Black and Red w King Kong’s face on the back , scary for a 4 tear old , I always took the middle seat . ,,,,,,.,,,honestly , I’d love to ride it one more time before I die .

[@albertbrooklyn]

Born on Avenue R in 1954......@Toofast4fleas also loved knishes. My wife learned the recipe so I still get to partake. Though, have to say these pictures tug ever so gently on the heart strings. Pings of nostalgia.

[@shsechas]

Born 1954 Rutledge St. and Marcy Ave. Williamsburg Bklyn. Remember this all

[@albertomancini2899]

thanks for the upload I wish those days would come back

[@mikesosa1146]

Ditto!

[@anthonym8586]

I had to get a box of tissue's , thank you this was wonderful

[@59cadcoupe]

I'm a Brooklyn boy....

[@if6was929]

With the exception of the Bayer products, I remember all of them. Born in Bay Ridge 1950, went to St. Agatha's grammar school. If I'd have lived across the street I would have gone to Our Lady of Perpetual Help, where Chuck Connors (The Rifleman) went to school. The roof of our apartment building was a perfect vantage point to view the 4th of July fireworks and on the 5th, kids would scour the streets looking for duds to collect and light up afterwards. Three TV channels, no video games, couldn't wait to get home from school, put on the PF Flyers, go outside and play with friends. Saturday matinee movies, a bag of chips and a coke: $ .20. There seemed to be no class structure among kids, there certainly was no religious or political bias to divide us. An entire summer to play! No air conditioning but there was the Sunset Park pool, and for a $ .10 entry fee the day didn't seem as hot. Pretzel sticks with mustard slaked the hunger until you got a Knish and an $ .08 bottle of coke that was sold by vendors outside the park. Lime Rickies, chocolate egg creams, 16 ounce soda for $ .10/bottle ("gimmie a 16 ounce"). Gathering up empty soda bottles worth $ .02 each. Pizza shops owned and run by first and second generation Italians making the best pizza for $ .10 a slice! Unbelievably good meatball or sausage subs for $ .50. Adventures exploring other neighborhoods, life's soundtrack coming from transistor radios heard through open windows and shop doors. The big kids singing Doo-Wop in the hallways. Street games, girls playing hop scotch or jump rope, boys playing stick ball. Roller skates with skate keys. Cuban heels with horse shoe taps. leather jackets, 5th avenue shopping, Ebinger's chocolate cake and jelly roll. Clip on ties, 9 o'clock Sunday mass, the bakery after mass, hard rolls and jelly donuts, Sunday dinner at grandma's. The Blue laws. Winter storms with plowed high snow mountains to play on and carve tunnels through. Alleyways to run through, hide and seek, pitching pennies. Tops, yo-yo's, Spalding and Pensy Pinkie rubber balls. Factories producing tools which were stamped, "Made In Brooklyn". A childhood to remember!

[@bigbrooklyn]

Nice post...we huddled around the transistor radio listening to the world series mid 60s.

[@jimmyolsen5897]

@@bigbrooklyn And the Yankees were in every one of them

[@jimmyolsen5897]

I remember everything you mentioned

[@bigbrooklyn]

@@jimmyolsen5897 Hey...dont forget the Mets in 69...lol

[@jimmyolsen5897]

@@bigbrooklyn I’ll neveri forget 1969 the Mets and the music growing up in Brooklyn

[@NY_Patriot_Lady]

Brooklyn raised...E.N.Y. 1st Fortunoff Store on the corner of Livonia Avenue, Jimmy Smitt grew up on New Jersey Ave...as a tomboy, got to play stickball with the boys in the street. Man, such fun! Kids cried when moms called their names to come up for supper. Kids played in the streets! Today, I see no kids playing outside.😒😣 Times have surely changed. I will 4ever be a Brooklynite!

[@gregkamer3754]

Born and lived on Wilson Ave, a few blocks from the Wilson Ave subway station. Then moved to Moffatt St, and Bushwick Avc. Open Johnny Pumps in the summer, Coney Island, Canarsie pier before it got all yuppied up, horseshoe crabs on the beach, 5¢ Staten Island Ferry, so, so many good memories. I'd give 10 years off my life if I could go back.

[@edwinmaldonado1701]

Wow Wow Wow Saint Michaels Church on fourth ave and 42nd street where l made my first communion as a matter of fact l lived down the block from the church between 2nd and 3rd.ave.Went to P.S 169 Sunset Park and then went on to Dewey Junior High. The Sunset Park swimming pool where we cooled off the hot summer days was a must, The 5 cents rides. MR Softee.Thanks for the memories.Had a beautiful and happy childhood. Today l'm seventy years old.It has rained alot since then.The fifth Ave pizzas were the best in town.

[@barrydiamond5193]

I grew up in East New York in the 50’s and 60’s. I was with the New Lots Boys. Lot of fun.

[@steventhorson4487]

Brooklyn rules!! nothing like it. Shoutout to the BENSON BOYS,Lafayette H.S. 1975

[@catkiki7779]

Fantastic thank you OMG! what a great place and time

[@normanbrown9225]

I CAME TO BROOKLYN IN 1959 ITS BEEN A PART OF MY CULTURE EVER SINCE. 💘

[@ronpetrenella9231]

Simple better fun times. Id trade the WI FI, computers, smart phones etc just to be back in those days. I was happier in the 70s with rabbit ears and tin foil on it to get a less snowy TV picture. Then in 1978 we got WHT (Wometco Home Theatre) LOL Better times , more fun. Ring a leave E O in the summer till way after 2am, Good Humor ice cream, sneaking in the pools in the neighborhood at night, stickball , hit the penny, stoop ball, Disco Roller Rink, moped rentals, Italian Ices (Especially creamalota LOL), walking to Coney Island on the boardwalk on summer nights, Nathans, Damm -- all without smart phones and WI FI. LOL.

[@jusliving7977]

Grew up in North Brooklyn in the 70's. It was quaint, home town feel. My family immigrated there in the 40's after there the war. I had family all over the area. W/No cell phones & stuff kids played outside formed bonds & had a blast. It was a good time. Too bad ...been by the ole neighborhood....it is gone now. The new wave of folks who run the place ain't the blue collar, working class bunch that use to make inhabit the area. Oh well, that's life.....

[@mountainfolk2511]

Thanks for commenting. I loved reading your memories.

[@nyangel515]

I used to live in a building called Sheppard Arms un East New York. Always hope to meet anyone who lived there once.😊

[@oldsmobile6]

← born 1955. Bazooka 1¢ bubble gum. Buster Brown shoes. 5¢ postage stamps. " Spaul-deeens". Wow, what memories ! Thanks !!!

[@johnrobinsoniii4028]

How about “Skelley” and those chewy “Squirrel Nut Zippers”

[@kevinmarsh5101]

I grew up across the street from zaza, Pizza when we first moved in to my house zazas was between 46&47th street on 5th Ave then they moved next to polands women's clothes at the corner of 47th and 5

[@roberttorres5146]

I used be shoe shiner kid on Broadway Williamsburg 🤣

[@user-mz3ii1os1b]

Beautiful .

[@blackdesertcat]

I grew up in a VERY similar neighborhood around DC. You missed one thing as I'm sure you'll admit: the ER!

[@lolag1078]

My heart......

[@isaaccruz4691]

I remember zaza pizza and Woolworths in sunset park

[@mariod9290]

I remember mister softee ice cream truck theme song... year 1976, I WAS 13 Years old, I wish I could go back and stay there.

[@FOTZEL]

WHEW!...TIME MACHINE...ANYONE?

[@richardbartolo2890]

I hated coming home with a cut knee or arm, And then my mom would insist I clean it and put mercurochrome on it. Talk about stinging. I knew things were changing when they stopped delivering milk. Supermarkets would get late night deliveries of bread about 3 or 4 in the morning. they would leave the bread up against the door. Such a different time.

[@johnrobinsoniii4028]

I differ with you: It was the Iodine that stings, mercurochrome didn’t sting.

[@mountainfolk2511]

41street between 4th and 5th down from Sunset Park

[@donaldahern9930]

My father would tell us stories of 5th avenue and Lincoln place growing up 😅

[@jerrytaliercio9087]

That was my childhood days all right! 🤙

[@ztahs]

Ah, Juniors cheesecake...pure heaven

[@joericcio961]

10th street between 7th and 8th Avenue never forget

[@TheDesertkat]

10th between 5th and 6th, Thomas Aquinas and Bishop Ford HS, family moved to Marine park in the 70's the memories are delicious I can still taste the pizza.

[@jimmyolsen5897]

Born and raised 55 to 77 in Flatbush

[@isaiahwinbrone]

I used to lived on 601 park place between franklin avenue and classon avenue

[@isaiahwinbrone]

That's my childhood memories of brooklyn

[@gracecheri997]

How about Willoughby and Classon Avenue near Kent Avenue ,St Patrick's School. Porchia Salo or Madeline and Camille. Amelia and Therisa Burto?

[@gracecheri997]

I will miss that until the end

[@IggynEnzo]

@@gracecheri997 my dad lived on classon and went to st Patrick's. My g grandmother her kids my grandmother her kids her sister and her kids all lived there... they were the Leavey's and Burkes with a Doyle thrown in.

[@kevindavis8500]

I lived 515 Park Place bet. Grand and Classon. Across the street from P.S. 316

[@vincentpadovano7855]

I remember melting the crayons in the bottle caps...thank you for this..

[@hilaryapril7043]

Wasn't that game called scully ? I was born on Ocean Ave in 1949.. a long time ago. Rode my bicycles without any fear of child predators.

[@vincentpadovano7855]

@@hilaryapril7043 yes it was called scully...in some parks you can still see the outline of the game in the cement...

[@lisagee3318]

Woolworths department store had the best waffles and ice cream ever yeah yeah

[@mikesosa1146]

Thank for your this post.

[@roberttorres5146]

Used go to Kent Ave by the east river and see the old freight trains

[@shsechas]

Bklyn Boy...1954 to 1967. Williamsburg Rutledge and Marcy ave. Transfiguration School.

[@jackieguccione94]

TIMES we can never get back fk SAD

[@jamesdavis6036]

Some photos were great but half of them showed products or things you would see any where in the U.S.

[@mountainfolk2511]

Me too

[@sfca3674]

54th & 4th

[@MICHALMALACHOVSKY]

wow WOW wow

[@bkallday2998]

They left out a picture of the mta token.

[@autumnfragrance6326]

Brooklyn is so much nicer now with all the Diversity and Multiculturalism.

[@iuliannicola5715]

No îs not

[@patwelch8187]

A filthy dirty, roach and rat playground... I was so glad to leave !!!! Never looked back at that scum place ,..

[@tonycampanelli4938]

that's when Brooklyn was at it Best . if you go down there now it looks like sh*****t

[@GinaBrooklyn1-ux3px]

We are brooklyn !