Month: June 2020

NATHAN’S FAMOUS celebrates its’ 100th year (2016). Make no mistake about it, Nathan’s Famous is definitely famous. Movies stars like Jimmy Durante, Cary Grant, and the gangster Al Capone were all regular customers in the early days. President Franklin Roosevelt served Nathan’s hot dogs to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Ex-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani called Nathan’s the “Best hot dog in the world.” Bruce Miller, Director of Operations, grew up in Brooklyn and has worked for the iconic Brooklyn Brand for 36 years: “I remember my grandmother making French fires just like Nathan’s French fries. I remember that because when I ate Nathan’s French fries as a kid I would think, oh yea, this is just like Grandma’s French fries.” … Read More >Interview: Bruce Miller

Brooklyn native, co-inventor of DSL, distinguished engineer Richard Gitlin currently teaches at University of South Florida in Tampa. As the oldest child in a family of four living in a one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, Gitlin would watch NBC’s “Mr. Wizard” and create scientific experiments in the only laboratory he had — his mind. Today, at 73, Gitlin currently teaches engineering at the University of South Florida in Tampa. In 2005 he was elected into the prestigious National Academy of Engineers (other living members include Bill Gates and the founders of Google). … Read More >Interview: Richard Gitlin

“Where I grew up back in the 60s was considered the end of Brooklyn. It wasn’t trendy then, and still isn’t today. We were out there near the end of the last stop on the D Train. We were called the BMT people.”What I most admire about Brooklyn is that its always remaking itself. There are a lot of Brooklyn Eagle readers out there today who I’m sure will understand when I say how profoundly amazed I was to learn there is now a ‘Whole Foods’ market on Gowanus Canal.” … Read More >Interview: Joe Brancatelli

Brooklyn natives Vincent and Josephine Farengo are a brother and sister team operating a successful saw blade manufaturing company in Naples, Florida. Their father started the family business in the basement of their home in Flatbush over 50 years ago. … Read More >Interview: Vincent and Josephine Farengo

“School was my whole life when I was young. My father worked all the time while my mother ran the house: And my job?” Libby laughed, “My job was to earn A’s in school. I remember my friends and I would walk up and down Kings Highway, from Ocean Avenue to Coney Island Avenue, where all the retail stores were. No one had a driver’s license or a car back then, so we walked everywhere.” … Read More >Interview: Wendy Libby

“Late at night I would listen to the great sportscasters like Mel Allen and Red Barber announcing the Yankee and Dodger games instead of going to sleep…I can remember every night during baseball season my mother would come to the bedroom door and say:
‘Alright, turn that radio off and go to bed!” … Read More >Interview: Eli Gold