What goes on. 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!" My brother graduated in 1961. The other was our building super for a few years, who was from the Caribbean. Id love to visit just one more time and go shopping in Century. 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. My Grandmother lived on 77th St. between 3rd and 4th. Information on the vessel is easily obtainable from tugboatinformation: Built in 1973, by McDermott Shipyard of Morgan City, Louisiana (hull #179) as theAmy Moranfor the Moran Towing Corporation of New York, New York. The former nightlife capital of Brooklyn now battling clubs. In spite of many materials being shipped from Ireland when the Monk moved from 5th to 3rd Ave, any type of an Irish atmosphere in here is lost on me. Powered by two, twelve cylinder, EMD 12-645-E2 diesel engines. Blue Ridge LCC-19, I made my first Westpac in late 1974. 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 $$ CLOSED NOW From Business: Cebu Bar & Bistro has been serving up new American fare into the late hours since 2001. Recently I saw Realtor.com had an estimated selling price for our former house in Flushing. Although it didn't hold up against Chili's, TGI Fridays, and Applebee's, there was a time when it was fairly ubiquitous throughout the states. Flagg Court, 7200 Ridge Boulevard in Bay Ridge. About 7,000 people worldwide have expressed interest in buying the dance floor. This homey pub offers a heated beer garden all year-round. Lock Yard, 9221 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA, +1 718 333 5282 The Kettle Black Bar, American, $$$ Share View Add to Plan The Kettle Black, Brooklyn | Ricky Kharawala/Stocksnap Views of Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty, and the bridge are all available from the pier. Why did 8 Ave & 9 Ave disappear? The site of Fort Hamilton, named for the newly hip Founding Father, saw action in the American Revolution, as well as the War of 1812 and the Civil War. Owls Head Park is Bay Ridges largest public park,stretching between the Belt Parkway, Colonial Road and 68thStreet, and its high hill provides a prime viewing spot during Brooklyns occasional tall ship parades. However, the music was nearly all disco even though they advertise 70s, 80s, 90s.more, Dance ClubsLoungesComedy Clubs$$Greenwich Village, Hip hop, 70s, 80s music. Hoppy1952 4 yr. ago Some of Saturday Night Fever was filmed in Bay Ridge, the dance club was 2001 Odyssey. Both places close to where you grew up. Richard & Helen Norma now live in Texas & wen they fly up to see family we tour the old neighborhood & found the Kallman Home is now a NYC Public School! Marie Simonsen lives in Texas also. This is real Bay Ridge, a good place to go to get some local flavor and a well made drink. 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. Anna Rupprecht. Anyone remember the name of the ice cream parlor (not Hinschs) on 5th between 68th and 69th street??? Not much of a park, really, but there was playground space for kids, and it became a default playground for me in the late 60s. Had wanted me born on her day. I miss the good old days. I was baptized at St. Anselms, before my parents moved us north to OLA. 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. A tree planted by Lee was replaced in 1912 complete with a new tablet commemorating the event, and another plaque cited Jackson. Besides the altar boys, I was involved in Scouting; I was never athletic, so never got on any of the sports teams. My Aunt, never married, was the last one to pass away of those who stayed in Bay Ridge, year 1991. fond memories wish I had a photo of house. NYCs Christmas Streets [SpliceToday] Originally part of the Pillsbury Corp., the restaurant was founded in 1976. Enjoy their craft beer and their artisanal sausages. At that time the neighborhood was transitioning from countryside and farms into a more urban existence. Upcoming Events. Just like that, a torrent of emotion came alive for an era that cast a working-class section of Brooklyn on the silver screen and several of its residents into shining, if brief, Hollywood glory. I was friends with their daughter, Gail, Does anyone remember the name of a beauty parlor that was on 5th Avenue and 68th or 69th Streets? Manero struts through Bay Ridge with that certain swagger, past Kellys Tavern (still there) and on the ramparts of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. Reply. Most of the time, though, I didnt enter through the front door. Of course, I also noticed that 83rd and a couple of parallel streets featured double-masted street lights that were usually used on wider boulevards. In Bay Ridge, a neighborhood in the southwest corner of Brooklyn, the scent of cinnamon and cardamom wafts out into the streets, which are lined with Yemeni and Palestinian restaurants, shops. While Madonna, REM, and Whitney Houston were topping the charts during the 1980s, Bay Ridge had its own vibrant music scene. 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. I grew up in an 3 story apartment building at 506-72 St, 1951-1962. In 1965 on one of our Clove Lakes trips, I must have gotten bored and decided to wander off on my own. They have updated their menu options, created outdoor dining structures and are selling merchandise online. My grandmother Mary Masci bought 319 in April of 1929 for $9000. Organized in 1860, many of the members were among the richest men in the area a curious thing to us today, but at the time, the rich had a lot to lose if their mansions were to go up in flames. The park, still known by old-timers as Bliss Park, has been in use by local residents since the 1920s; Robert Moses redesigned it in the 1930s. Phone +1 718-951-7924. And such interesting history, some I knew, a lot I did not. A flood of new bars, lounges, and clubs helps make Castleberry Hill . Certainly not hip nightclubs. I lived in Bay Ridge 35 years and never noticed this pair of gems on opposite sides of Ridge Boulevard on each side of 82nd Street by what was likely the same architect. My folks would take us to the park at Fort Hamilton, and somewhere I have a picture of me sticking out of the mouth of that cannon (before it was sealed off). Grew up at 96th and Third. Made her sister sell it for the money. It remembers a local resident,John W. Mackay(1831-1902) a prominent 19th Century area landowner: after making a fortune discovering tons of silver as part of theBonanza Groupat theComstock Lodein Nevada in 1873, he entered the real estate, mining and telegraph businesses. This instilled humility. I remember Nathans when it was Wetsons Burgers. I like to look at maps of Brooklyn and reminisce of my childhood there. Monday - Sunday: 12pm - 4am. When it opened, it cut about an hour each way off my commute to Wagner College. She had 4 boys and a disabled husband, a cobbler who eventually had a Shoe Repair store at 8301-3rd Ave. My father Frank (Francesco) had his drug store 8201-3rd Ave until the very early 80s. By MARK FINEMAN. As the cornerstone indicates, the Union Church of Bay Ridge was built at Ridge Boulevard and 80th Street as the Bay Ridge Dutch Reformed Church in 1896. My first cousins (from my fathers youngest brother Vinnie [or Junior as he was called] ) grew up at 319 from the very earliest 60s until they sold it in 2018 for $1.3 M dollars. I lived on Ridge Court located off 72 St between 3 and 4 Ave. Beautiful dead end street with a red brick roadbed. I moved out in 1982 but then briefly back in, in a one-room apartment, from 1991-1993, and Ive been in Queens since then. The neighborhood's community board claimed a victory last month when the nightclub Ibiza withdrew its request for a liquor license for a recently renovated spot on Third Avenue between 82nd . [Historic Districts Council]. Thank you for sharing. The restaurant across the street,New Corner, is one of Brooklyns morevenerable and admired, though I admit Ive never been in. Do you know where I could research that? It was on the same side of 5th Avenue as Meyers Ice Cream Parlor- now Skinflints. Brooklyns Adelphi Street in turn had been named for LondonsAdelphi Terrace,an early housing development in London, England that lasted from 1774 to 1938. 1942 to 1960. The pattern of exploration had begun and it continues today. The club, a one-story building on a corner lot, was sold and renamed Spectrum in 1987, reincarnated as a gay club. Disc-no! I have some questions about the layout of Bay Ridge streets and thought you might be able to answer them. She is a twin screw tug, rated at 3,000 horsepower. This is a review for dance clubs near Brooklyn, NY: "Best dance party in NYC for years now, and it's in Brooklyn at Southpaw. Mrs. Pohls was a tall, stately woman who didnt mind our little crowd hanging out all night because we were quite well behaved for teens. No one was wearing tight polyester pants at the bar. When we got home, all she said was that I had been punished enough. 40-01 Little Neck Parkway 24A Little Neck, NY 11363. The nearby Roman Catholic parish, St. Patricks, originated the same year. I wish I knew the architectural origins of this grand mansion at 8311 Ridge Boulevard, but its personal story is also engaging. We moved upstate, mostly to have a parking spot ;-). Also attended St. Anselms for kindergarten. It still seems to have its original windows and even some wide Venetian blinds which are fairly rare these days. . Soon after, I moved out and our relationship improved. It was designed by Ernest Flagg and constructed between 1933-1936. The property is for sale, and the non-landmarked church may soon meet the wreckers ball. Only come if you want to have fun -more, Basically if you're not VIP you're a peasant even if you paid $70-$150 to get in at the door.more, My friend and I got two long island's with a shot and it came out to $70 something.more, DJsParty Equipment RentalsSilent DiscoWest Village, 70s ensembles) but certainly not a requirement or done by all. Manero struts through Bay Ridge with that certain swagger, past. Golf in Bay Ridge The Crescent Club had space for its clubhouse and an athletic field that could accommodate several sports. Just saying, the old A St Pats field had been sold by the mnsgr of St Pats and then sat as a sunken mess of an empty lot for years before finally being developed. 8 shares. Here are a pair on Bay Ridge Avenue between Colonial Road and Narrows Avenue. My aunt owned a rooming house in Park Slope in the 1950s.The Slope was an early victim of gentrification. 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. If interested, please send an email to [email protected]. After becoming head of the Bonanno crime family in 1974, Carmine Galante controlled an expansive drug-trafficking empire. Nov. 6, 1987 12 AM PT. However, they had competition where the sporting goods joint is Pohls, which I chiefly remember for being pitch dark within. In Dyker Heights why does it go from 7 Ave to 10 Ave? Lined on both sides by handsome Tudor-style houses, Louise Terrace is another of Bay Ridges set of short streets, this one between Mackay Place and 70th Street near Colonial Road. I spend my early life (late 40s/early 50s) on 95th between 3rd & 4th. They also sold records, I bought my first Beatles record there! 8701 Shore Rd., Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Bar Restaurants in Bensonhurst - Bay Ridge. "It was a brutal scene. Thanks for keeping the memories alive Kevin! I spent many Friday evenings in Pohls with friends sitting in one of the dark booths with the high backs. I would up moving to Flushing in 1993 and remained till 2007, with a final rent of $775. 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. Attended PS 185 across the street, and then McKinley JHS. 228 grad began practicing martial arts, winning competitions, and studying karate . Sale in Bay Ridge 9907 Third Avenue #3A. and 61 street next to Sams Candy Store. Wonderful memories visit almost every year. 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