Comments on: Do you remember 1520 Sedgwick Ave.?

By: Abigail

Abigail — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:10:42 +0000

I just found an old 45 that B J Allen sent to me from 1600 Sedgwick ave. Is that in the same block area? Was there a recording studio there?

By: EDWARD HOLLIDAY

EDWARD HOLLIDAY — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:42:01 +0000

I LIVED IN 1520 FOR 19 YEARS. EVERYBODY KNEW THE HOLLIDAY FAMILY. I GREW UP AROUND KOOL HERC. I WAS THERE WHEN WE USED TO HAVE THE PARTIES IN THE COMMUNITY ROOM AND ALL THE LITTLE KIDS USED TO PLAY IN THE BACK OF THE BUILDING. WHEN KOOL HERC VENTURED OFF TO FAME HE HAD TO PASS THE TORCH DOWN TO SOMEONE WHO KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING. THAT PERSON WAS JERRY LEADER. HE TOOK OVER WHEN HERC LEFT. WE USED TO HAVE BATTLES IN 1600′s PARK AND JERRY WOULD ALWAYS WIN. OUR BLOCK PARTIES WOULD BRING PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER. EVRYBODY THAT WAS SOMEBODY ON SEDGWICK AVE WOULD BE THERE. WE WOULD HAVE PEOPLE FROM UNDERCLIFF, RIVER PARK TOWERS, EVEN UNIVERSITY AVE. COMING TO LISTEN TO ALL OF THEIR FAVORITE HITS BE PLAYED LIKE YOU’VE NEVER HEARD. NOW THOSE WERE GOOD TIMES TO REMEMBER.

By: holly

holly — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:55:04 +0000

does anyone have an e-mail address for D.J.Cool Herc?

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By: Ep Sato

Ep Sato — Tue, 22 May 2007 20:05:34 +0000

Was my Towers comment a buzzkill or something? How come no one’s got any more goodies on this? I know some of you fellow readers live in cool places! Maybe a house where a movie was filmed, maybe you went to school where a Hughes movie was filmed.

By: EP Sato

EP Sato — Tue, 22 May 2007 07:00:38 +0000

The excorcist stairs are in Georgetown and no one in this “city” (DC) seems to know where they are. Yet when Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright and Nick Frost came here to promote Shaun of the Dead, it’s the first thing they asked the audience about. By a show of hands my azz was the only one in the crowd to have walked them. But I digress.
I heard Coney’s island was getting turned into condos. Where the Heck are the Warriors going to claim home turf now? Can you dig it?
And some love to NYC. The loss of your twin towers wasn’t just an awful tragedy that cost the lives of friends and loved ones, the loss of the towers was also theft of collective memories from our shared American culture. Snake Plissken’s landing strip, the beginning montage of the Sopranos, and King Kong’s last stand, just to name a few. Those towers inspired dreams and represnted to many the image of NYC. Sorry to reopen an old wound, but we can’t ignore how important those towers were to popular culture.

By: stacydarc

stacydarc — Tue, 22 May 2007 06:51:47 +0000

Cool! I lived at 2725 Sedgewick Avenue (a building I believe has been knocked down)from 1966-1975 and had no idea ’til today what was going on up the street. True, I was 9 when we left. A little early for basement parties. My older brother, whose ignorance of hip-hop is so deep he asked me THIS YEAR “so explain to me what this gangsta wrap stuff is all about”, will be delighted with our new found street cred.

By: Slimjimmy

Slimjimmy — Tue, 22 May 2007 04:49:25 +0000

Sorry, have to point out it was 34 years ago.