All Roads Lead Back to Brooklyn: Travel writer Joe Brancatelli never forgets his roots
Brooklyn native and Business Travel writer Joe Brancatelli was born on East 18th Street in Brooklyn, where he lived until he was five years old. Then his family moved to East 23rd Street between avenues T and U where, as he put it, “my whole world was a five-block radius.”
In a recent interview with the Brooklyn Eagle, Brancatelli continued; “Where I grew up back in the 60s was considered the end of Brooklyn. It wasn’t trendy then, and still isn’t today. We were out there near the end of the last stop on the D Train. We were called the BMT people.” Then laughing he said; “The letters for the avenue names were even approaching the end of the alphabet. Where I lived, Brooklyn was just not cool, and Brooklyn Heights was not even on our radar.”