Hello Carolyn.
Reading your posted message, I sense how you feel. I guess it's true; "you can never go back." At times, I search Google Earth for the neighborhoods I lived in while attending Our Lady of Loreto and am not shocked that two of the three tenement buildings we lived in no longer exist. Oh well! they were run down when we lived there in the '30s and '40s. They were due to be cleared out when we lived there. In fact most of the homes on Liberty Avenue (between Christopher and Sackman) have been torn down. I keep hearing about the gentrification that some sections of Brooklyn are going through. It would be nice if someone went in there and started a rehabilitation. I'm afraid, from what I've seen of low cost housing projects, that kind of thing won't do it. The Church has been saved; if only the neighborhood may also be saved.

The people made our neighborhood, the church, the school, the merchants................broke my heart to see where carlucci's restaurant was all the buildings were boarded up..................this was on april 5th when I went to the rally.............let us keep our memories close to our hearts and continue them through this great website.............we can still stroll down memory lane, if only electronically........