Brooklynites In Rome: Lauren Caramico is a 33-year old Brooklyn native and former New York advertising executive who not long ago gave up everything and moved to Rome. Her life changing move was not so much a specific disenchantment with Brooklyn as it was a search for a simpler life that reached back to her Italian heritage and Brooklyn childhood. At this time she felt such a life could be better realized in Italy’s Eternal City.
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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.” …
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). …
“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.” …
“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.” …
“Everyday I would sit on my dad’s lap and he would read the Brooklyn Eagle to me. It was a mainstay of our house…and my mother saved the daily papers because she would use them to cover her newly waxed floors so they wouldn’t get scuffed before they thoroughly dried.” A child victim of the polio epidemic that swept through New York and Brooklyn in the 1940s, Pinkney fought against all the odds and became one of Chicago’s most beloved restaurateurs. …
Asi Cymbal’s visionary development project along the Downtown Fort Lauderdale waterfront called “Marina Lofts” was inspired by the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn. Cymbal had this to say about his love for Williamsburg; “Williamsburg was inspirational because of its vibrant culture and talent…it has the coolest retail shops and restaurants.” Cymbal knows Brooklyn well. His family immigrated to Brooklyn from Israel when he was just three-and-half years old, and until his teens, he lived in Trump Village, the affordable housing project built by President Trump’s father on Ocean Parkway in Coney Island. …
