Vitagraph Company smokestack. Avenue M at East 17th St showing Elm Ave., Midwood, Brooklyn, NY, 1932
Have you lived in Midwood for 40 years? Or 50 years? Or maybe longer? If so, you likely remember the film and television studios that loomed on Avenue M, and saw evidence of film industry in the movies stars who arrived by limousine or possibly the crowds that gathered near 15th street when a special television show was in production.
Some of you may even remember when NBC or Vitagraph or Vitaphone was active in the neighborhood, or when Warner Brothers bought out the studio space that later became the Shulamith School for Girls in recent decades.
If so, Nellie Perera would love to talk to you, and hear about your memories. “No matter how trivial they may be for you, they are a treasure to me,” says Perera, a theater artist, a professor at nearby Brooklyn College, and an amateur historian who would love to hear your stories of growing up/living in the Midwood and Flatbush of years past.
Please email Perera or call 646-321-9422 and leave your name and best contact information. Perera will arrange to conduct the interviews in the neighborhood at the Midwood Development Corporation offices on Avenue M.