This video is letting me see my past. At 19:06 the driver makes a left turn onto E15th street, and you see a yellow brick apartment building on the left side. This building is 1610 Avenue "P", and was my first home (I was born at the local hospital several blocks away). The people I knew are gone, the stores are all different, but the buildings are still there. My stretch of Kings Highway was basically from Nostrand Avenue to McDonald Avenue at the West side just past the elevated subway tracks. Great days.
thanks for letting us follow your ride through B'klyn. Nice streets. As to the traffic, you guys face the same issues behind the wheel here in Brazil. I guess it's the same all over.
Judging by the video the feel of the neighborhood hasn't changed since I lived there during the 50s and 60s, though the specific stores occupying the mostly unchanged buildings have turned over, the most visible exception being the Rainbow Shop on the corner of E. 16th and Kings Highway which has been a fixture next to the subway station for as long as I can remember. JFK campaigned in 1960 from in front of what was then the Kings Highway Savings Bank across E. 16th St. from the Rainbow Shop. At one time "the Highway", as we called it. was a local mecca for fashionable clothes shopping. Brooklyn is forever!
Seth that video is from 2012, now in 2018 Brooklyn is undergoing a massive rebuild. On Ocean Ave in Midwood there are blocks that have 3-4 condos going up all at once. Bensonhurst has not changed as much, but Midwood is unrecognizable even from 5 years ago.
Hey another Brooklyn dash cam channel... cool. Don't you hate that at 6:55 when ppl double park, then open their door? And averaging 5 mph too, lol. Sub'd, good to see Midwood area.
