In Reply to: Brooklyn News posted by Lottie on Friday, March 27th 2026:

I keep up with Brooklyn News through a local online paper. Recently, there was an article about a 2-3 alarm fire, at the Northwest corner of Avenue H and Coney Island Avenue. I know that area well, since I used to live only one block East of there. It appeared that there was a very large fire on the roof, of that commercial establishment, which took hours to contain. When I lived there, the ground floor of that building was occupied by Max Zabell, the owner of Zabell's Pharmacy. Immediately to his right was a dry cleaning store. I don't remember the owner's name, but he told me that during World War Two, he was an air raid warden, and used to patrol the streets in Brooklyn, telling people to turn their lights off at night. At that time, there was a real fear that NYC was going to be bombed from the air. Next to that store, was Gus Fishman, who owned a candy store, where delicious egg creams were made. Across the street was a larger candy store, which always had huge stacks of newspapers outside, waiting to be brought in. To that store's right was a bagel and lox place, which was packed to the gills on Saturday evening. There was also a shoe repair store to the right of that store, with a number of machines used to repair shoes. I don't think that such businesses exist anymore? Last, the Kent Theater which I believe is still there, would show two movies, a cartoon, and a newsreel. Across the street, at that intersection, was Mr. P. Lim Hom, who operated a very nice laundry. We had everything we needed in the area, and really didn't need a car. We even had the soda man drag up several crates of seltzer, the egg man, with delicious eggs from New Jersey, and the milk man, who would clang those glass bottles of milk early in the morning. Last, there was a truck which used to sharpen knives, and a horse drawn wagon selling peaches and tomatoes.

Reference ID: BK97313

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• Re: Brooklyn News Elliot Winter 04/15/2026 (0)