DID YOU LIVE ON 12 ST TWEEN 4-5 AVE IN THE 50'S 60'S

Hi Teresa,  Nice to meet you.  Thanks for the tip about the book by Kevin McPartland.  I'll definitely look into it.

Hi Linda, GB49, OG

Thank you so much for sending the virtual wall sites. I truly appreciate it. I remember Peter. I grew up with his older brother Richie Aulette. I also knew Ricky Reilly who lived on 4th avenue and 11th street and his family owned the Reilly Hardware Store on 5th avenue and 11th street. I remember the candy store on the corner of 12th street and 4th avenue across from the gas station. I worked at Romeo's candy store on the corner of 4th avenue and 14th street. So many great memories from the old neighborhood. We also played hard ball at the school yard on 4th avenue and 4th street. All the kids were athletic in those days. I also remember being in class at HF school when the plane flew over our school very low and then crashed just past Methodist Hospital in the late 50's if I remember correctly. Let's keep in touch as I don't have much, if at all, contact with anyone form the old neighborhood. Jim

No, I didn't say I didn't grow up in Brooklyn.  I didn't grow up in Park Slope.  Depending on who you ask, I live in Graavesend, Bensonhurst or Bath Beach.  I don't think the people who live here know what's it's called!  Anyway, I was born in Bay Ridge and grew up in Sunset Park, just a neighborhood away.  
Sometimes I feel the way your wife does.  Sunset Park is nothing like it was when I grew up there.  That old saying is true.  You can't go home anymore.

I remember passing by the Mustard Seed.  I don't know how long you've been out of the neighborhood but my mother used to work at Tiffanys restaurant.  It's gone now.  It's a band.  As if we need yet another bank.  Sounds like you have the best of both worlds there.