Comments on: Midweek Photo: Screw Your Maxima

By: Lisanne!

Lisanne! — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:28:21 +0000

I have maps!!!!

By: Ned Berke

Ned Berke — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:54:48 +0000

Know it all.

By: Lisanne!

Lisanne! — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:53:53 +0000

At Ocean Parkway and Avenue T was the Gravesend Racetrack.

And then there was the Brighton Beach racetrack south of Neptune and west of Coney Island Avenues.

By: Ray Johnson

Ray Johnson — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:26:26 +0000

And some people say we don’t need a museum around here!

By: Ned Berke

Ned Berke — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:16:17 +0000

There was a racetrack of some sort around Ocean and T, wasn’t there? I know I’ve read that, and I know a bunch of the houses over there were part of the field.

By: Lisanne!

Lisanne! — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:10:26 +0000

Actually, it was located just south of Neck Road, and east of Ocean Avenue. Going south it ran down towards Avenue Z, but angled so that Jerome Avenue was it’s south point east of East 23rd Street. (Jerome ran much further at that time) The eastern point was what is now Haring Street.

By: Ned Berke

Ned Berke — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:06:14 +0000

Why Maxima? No GOOD reason. My bad reason is that when I was in HS all the kids with licenses wanted Maximas. Or rather, they wanted a Lexus, but settled for Maxima.

The Speedway was on the site of the Coney Island Jockey Club, which was in the area of Ocean Avenue and Avenue T (I believe). I’m sure Lisanne will correct me if I’m wrong.

By: kjbkjbkb

kjbkjbkb — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:22:16 +0000

why maxima?

and where was the speedway located in sb back then?

By: Lisanne!

Lisanne! — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:04:13 +0000

Those were cars. Back then driving a Packard would definitely turn heads.

Nowadays driving THIS Packard would just blow all the other cars into non-existence.