Bensonhurst History

1743 86th St. at Bay 17th St. Brooklyn, NY 11214

86th Street just south of the 18th Avenue station on the West End el line, was one of the first roads laid out through the old town of New Utrecht. It has been subtitled for Christopher Columbus since the 1980s. 86th Street began appears on... Read more

Opened on October 13, 1927 with Ronald Colman in “Beau Geste” and vaudeville on the stage. The Loew’s Oriental Theatre was known for its lavish Oriental style decor. It was equipped with a Robert Morton 3 manual, 13 rank organ. It was... Read more

Van Pelt Manor was the name given to an area of Brooklyn, New York that today is part of the section of Bensonhurst. Van Pelt Manor was an area in New Utrecht one of the Dutch towns in Brooklyn. Eight generations of the Van Pelt fami... Read more

at 1969 86th, is indelibly imprinted as the pizzeria where John Travolta’s Tony Manero buys two slices and eats them while strutting down 86th Street at the opening scene of 1977’s Saturday Night Fever. https://forgotten-ny.com/2011... Read more