What happened to the canarsie movie theater represents what happened to the whole neighborhood in general. Ave L looks like a bomb hit it. I grew up in Canarsie in the early 70’s and Ave L was very clean and bustling then, now it looks like skid row. Why is it when the neighborhood went from white to black it turned into a slum? I went to the theater every Saturday for the whole day, where they would show cartoons and shorts first before the film, where you would walk out and cover your eyes cause you where sitting in the dark all day. Tina and Heather were the ticket women selling the tickets and Sol was the old man usher and Gerard was the manager. The theater was always kept clean and everyone was nice. There was a candy store on the corner right next to the theater as well. Why when time passes does everything have to be destroyed and become worse. I used to love walking down Ave L and now you wouldn’t catch me dead walking down there without fearing for my life. Canarsie is a slum now and that is only because of the people that made it a slum and unsafe.
My Mom lived in Canarsie for 35 years and was robbed twice only within the last 4 years and we had to move her out of there for fear of her life. Not the Canarsie I remember, it is a disgrace now and the people living there should be ashamed of themselves for what they have done to a once beautiful neighborhood, you turned my neighborhood into a slum.
What happened to the canarsie movie theater represents what happened to the whole neighborhood in general. Ave L looks like a bomb hit it. I grew up in Canarsie in the early 70’s and Ave L was very clean and bustling then, now it looks like skid row. Why is it when the neighborhood went from white to black it turned into a slum? I went to the theater every Saturday for the whole day, where they would show cartoons and shorts first before the film, where you would walk out and cover your eyes cause you where sitting in the dark all day. Tina and Heather were the ticket women selling the tickets and Sol was the old man usher and Gerard was the manager. The theater was always kept clean and everyone was nice. There was a candy store on the corner right next to the theater as well. Why when time passes does everything have to be destroyed and become worse. I used to love walking down Ave L and now you wouldn’t catch me dead walking down there without fearing for my life. Canarsie is a slum now and that is only because of the people that made it a slum and unsafe.
My Mom lived in Canarsie for 35 years and was robbed twice only within the last 4 years and we had to move her out of there for fear of her life. Not the Canarsie I remember, it is a disgrace now and the people living there should be ashamed of themselves for what they have done to a once beautiful neighborhood, you turned my neighborhood into a slum.