Flushing Avenue

Flushing Avenue, home of the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the associated receiving station was a long street that did not go to Flushing (Queens). It was a pretty rough neighborhood then and is now, a five mile drive through post-industrial Brooklyn, ending in the Maspeth, Queens area, known as "the tanks".

Here are some glimpses of what remains from the time when Michelson was in Brooklyn:
 
Reliable (and) Frank's, 106 Flushing Avenue. When I no longer could fit into my dress blues this is where I went.




Marine Diner Express, 148 Flushing Avenue. Some of us went here for burgers instead of dining at the RECSTA mess hall. Back then it was called Big Al's Diner or Sloppy Frank's, or something like that. 
Post industrial Flushing Avenue, for sale, for lease and abandoned.
JJ's Navy Yard Lounge, 200 Flushing Avenue. The last of the sailor bars, now closed, but not forgotten. Dirty Dan's and Thompson's are also gone. This area is now becoming gentrified.