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From: steve railey
Date: 03/18/2007

Anyone remember any  locations,names?

I wish I could remember the names, but at least here are two
locations in Crown 
Heights: a deli on the corner of Schenectady and St. John's
Place (with the 
window of grilling frankfurters facing Schenectady); also I
think there was 
another on St. Johns and Rochester, a block away from the
Congress Theatre. 
Walking to P.S. 167 in the morning, I would sometimes see a
metal covered tray 
of knishes parked at the entrance by the delivery man.

Wanted east new york but ow well.


 Janet do you remember temple petach tikvah on rochester
corner of lincoln pl, its still standing.

Also anshe chesed on park pl between howard and ralph also
standing.


Also there where a couple of shuls on buffalo ave.

Steve--I wasn't sure if by East New York you also meant
Crown Heights--where 
these delis were located.  I find that some people
interchange these 
neighborhoods. I don't remember those temples because we
always worshipped 
at the Young Israel on Eastern Parkway.  There was a yeshiva
on the corner of st. 
John's Place and Utica, just by the corner newspaper candy
store. . Rochester 
and especially Buffalo were where Unity Hospital, Congress
Theatres were.  I 
went to John Marsall Jr. High School (210). I often visited
Lincoln Terrace--quite 
safe then even in the early evening. Occasionally when a
young child I ice-skated 
there too.  Did St. John's Place end at Ralph Avenue, before
Pitkin? Or am I out of 
your neighborhood now?

east new york was a neighborhood west of van sinderen ave,
it was just as jewish as was crown heights and brownsville.

I heard that albany projects had a big jewish pop in the
50's through the early and mid 60's and then turned
predominantly black? U probably had a few friends outta
there?

I'm fairly certain there was a deli on the corner of Sutter
and Pennsylvania Aves.Sorry can't put a name on it. There
was definitely one on the corner of Pennsylvania and Livonia
Ave. and my favorite was on New Lots and New Jersey
Avenues...and that one was Gorelicks.Hope that helps.

Deli at Rochester and St. John's Place was originally
Bartnofsky's and then 
became Victor's around 1957.  The one a block away at St.
John's and Buffalo 
Avenue was known as the Congress Deli--after the movie
theater no doubt.  My, 
it's been a long, long time.

Deli at Rochester and St. John's Place was originally
Bartnofsky's and then 
became Victor's around 1957.  The one a block away at St.
John's and Buffalo 
Avenue was known as the Congress Deli--after the movie
theater no doubt.  My, 
it's been a long, long time.

Bartnofsky's was a great deli at the corner of St. John's
and Rochester.  I lived down the street from it during the
40s and can tell you the food was phenomenal.  There was
another mouth-watering deli across from the Loew's Pitkin
that my brother and I would frequent, usually after the
Saturday matinees.

For some reason I must have been thinking about the neighborhood I grew up in. 
I lived on Prospect Place between Rochester and Utica Avenues and the name
Bartnofsky's came to mind...My mother and dad used to take me there as a child
and I distinctly remember eating skirt steak with mustard and the waiter whom I
can still picture with a mustache and white linen napkin draped on his arm...I
decided to enter Bartnofsky's on the computer and came up with this site...Very
interesting!!