Cleveland Street


South of Atlantic Avenue. For north of Atlantic Avenue, see Zone 2.

Southwest corner, Pitkin and Cleveland
Neil supplied both the 1939 tax photos and the update shots.
470 Cleveland Street
Bob lived at 470 Cleveland Street, and the first shot is Bob in front of the house with his dad in the 1940s. On the right, again with his dad, on his first communion circa 1948. The view is north with the Pitkin El in the background.
Another view of Cleveland Street in the 1940s, Bob with brother Wally around 1946.
Ronnie Amerise lived at 478 Cleveland Street before moving to 338 Ashford (he sent us pix of that as well). Pictures here is Ronnie, his sister, and Tony DiNapoli by 478 Clevelnad in 1942.
We jump to 1967, and the view is south from Pitkin Avenue. Bob Reddington notes the building on the corner was a mattress factory (Montrose Mattress?), but was once a theater. Pictured is Jim Neuman and Bobby Schwartz, who lived across at 469 Cleveland. On the right Jimmy is standing near Bob's 1959 Chevy, looking a little worse for the wear (the car, not Jimmy!).
Warren Harris, via the Cinema Treasures website, confirmed to me that the 500 seat Cleveland Theater appeared in the 1927 theater directory. I found a CO issued in 1935 for the mattress factory, so it may never have made the conversion from silents. The picture on the left is from the 1940s so it would have already been a factory at that point. The building is still standing, as seen in the Google street view shot on the right.
Bob told me it was all gone, and he wasn't kidding. The Local Live view shows just one building left on that stretch, the one that sat just north of his house in those early pictures.
> Fulton El removal, 1957
Liz Sanford sent in this picture taken from the top floor apartment on the northeast corner of Pitkin Avenue and Cleveland Street. This portion of the line became obsolete when the IND line out to Euclid (opened 1948) was connected to this elevated line out near the city line in 1956.