Before Smith Street Was Fancy
On Monday, blogger 423 Smith posted this photo showing what Smith Street looked like in its pre-Restaurant Row splendor. Back in 1930, when this photo was taken, there was a grocery/soda fountain spot on the ground floor of Number 423; meanwhile, the blog points out, the elevated subway was in the process of being built….
On Monday, blogger 423 Smith posted this photo showing what Smith Street looked like in its pre-Restaurant Row splendor. Back in 1930, when this photo was taken, there was a grocery/soda fountain spot on the ground floor of Number 423; meanwhile, the blog points out, the elevated subway was in the process of being built. Does anyone know what year it was completed?
423 Smith Circa 1930 [423 Smith]
I use to live around there and worked for J. Michael’s. My daughter attended a daycare in the projects (at that time it was a good one). I have not been there for a while, but I miss it.
i like quite a few of the smith street restaurants, but everyone’s entitled to their own opinion.
for those of you who think the food in carroll gardens is sub par, what would you recommend instead?
Dear GG Rider,
I don’t know if there is a moral.
It is a true story.
Maybe someone will suck the marrow out of the story and have a univeral aha, but I don’t think so. I have seen some very nasty moves in the last five, ten years. Every now and then, things work
out just as they should. The most important thing to these kids is there
net worth. Well, the times they are a changing.
Barney,The Old Realtor
So the moral is?
Are you the gentleman who paid too much
for his house and for your dinner. Wasn’t me, but whoever wrote about Smith Street is right. I’m sorry if we all hurt your feelings, but it’s true, you are crass. Just learn from your mistakes. Be Better, think more about doing good than about how much your real estate is worth this week.
I’ll tell ya a story. There was this guy,not a bad guy,but not too bright, lived in the same damn house for fifty
years. Same job for forty years, never made any money, raised two very nice kids, nice kids. A year before he dies
he sells his place in CG for over a million dollars, he paid ten grand.
All his relatives from the old country,
he moved back, thought he was a genius.
In reality, he was a nice guy who lived
in his house for fifty years and wasn’t
too smart. He lived happily ever after,
except he died soon after.
Have a wonderful evening
Barney, the old realtor
LOL — That’s too-Brooklyn!
Whatever. Hopefully the chain restaurants will die!
Hopefully, he died. Sounds an awful lot lot a poster who called himself “Old Realtor”.
Really awful, nonsensical posts. All of them.
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Don’t you have anything better to do?
Did you faint or something?
So we came upon the problem. You think
the restaurants are great because …
better than the Olive Garden. New Yorkers, I repeat New Yorkers do not go to
the Olive Garden. Are you kidding me. I have never met anyone who has gone into an Olive G. The food sucks on Smith Street. Are you people real.
This is too sad. I was talking about a dining experience. No i haven’t gone to a