> From: Joe Szokoli <joe.szokoli@gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Joe Szokoli <joe.szokoli@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:25:59 -0400
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: Re: [CR]Oldest Bike Shop NYC
>
>> ............I suspect you
>> would have to go outside of Manhattan and look in Queens or
>> Brooklyn. My guess would be Bellitte's in Jamaica, Queens.
>
> I have seen some shops in Queens that look like they have not sold a
> bike in 30 years.
>
>> I don't know what the place is like these days but, in my
>> youth, this was one of the places to go for everything from
>> balloon tire bikes to track bikes to race on the flat oval at
>> Flushing Meadow.
>
> Its not flat it's banked.
> See:
> http://www.bikecult.com/
You are thinking of the "new" track that was built in about 1960. He was referring to the old track that was on the site that is now occupied by Shea Stadium.
Jamie Swan - Northport, N.Y.
http://centerportcycles.com/
>
> And speaking of shops, how I miss Al Toefield's shop on the LIE up
> from the track.
> http://www.usbhof.com/
>
> --
> Joe Szokoli
> New York City