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    • Save Maple Lanes Petition Hits The Net, 327 Sign So Far


    by on Sep 17th, 2012

    Source: Moberg via Wikimedia Commons

    It’s clear that our readers and local residents are not happy with the announcement that Maple Lanes is set to close and in its place, condos and a synagogue will open.

    An online petition has been started by Christina Squitieri, a young activist and lover of the written word, to save the iconic and last remaining bowling alley in our area.

    Among other things, the petition states:

    The bowling alley is key for local school teams and leagues in the area. It’s a fun, educational, empowering, and safe place for kids to be. In this economy especially, we need more places like Maple Lanes. Keeping Maple Lanes will keep kids off the street, allow families to still afford to spend a day together, build self-esteem, and channel anxiety or anger into something productive and fun. Please, please keep it around. It is so important in so many ways.

    The 327 community members that have signed seem to agree. An especially impassioned plea comes from #279, Efrain Rodriguez, who says:

    Maple Lanes means so much to so many people. For myself this place has special meaning to me. I proposed to my wife on lanes 35-36 in front of many friends and family. I have been bowling here for over 3 years with my wife and we just love this place. There aren’t places like this where the staff treats everyone like family and where people can come to bowl and not feel like they spent an arm and a leg. Maple Lanes is a Brooklyn staple and should not be torn down.

    The fate of the bowling alley is unresolved. Developers, local politicians and the members of Community Board 12 have been considering this project for years now. Not to mention, the owners of the bowling alley are ready to sell.

    As for the community, broken hearts can be heard all around, just read the comments on the petition site and below our previous article about the alley’s closing.

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    • nauticalstar

      I hate to say it, but a petition to save this place isn’t gonna help. The Jewish folk have powers to take over all of Brooklyn if they want. If a synagogue is gonna go there, then we all know that that’s gonna happen. Money rules all.

      • guest

        Are you meshugana? You would prefer a mosque?

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    • http://www.facebook.com/bobby.tags Bobby Tags

      I and my family have been bowling at Maple for over 20 years. It’s easily accessible by train or bus and if you drive there’s plenty of parking. We would all hate to see it tore down and have a Synagogue and apartment building put in it’s place to satisfy the Jewish community in the surrounding area. If it’s all about the money John should put it on the market and take the best offer and maybe we could save another landmark.

    • burntoutteacher

      I can’t believe the horrible anti-semitism in the two prior comments. Nor can I believe that you would publish such offensive tripe.

      • nauticalstar

        Only stating the truth. How many synagogue’s does a neighborhood need??? People need recreational activities, not a constant barrage of condos and synagogues. You never see a new church going up anywhere, do you? I know I don’t.

        • burntoutteacher

          “The Jewish folk have powers to take over all of Brooklyn if they want.” How is this the truth? How is this not anti-semitic? What rock did you crawl out of? (Oh, and the plural of synagogue is synagogues, without the apostrophe, you illiterate low-life.) If the owners of Maple Lanes want to sell, how is the builder of a synagogue or an apartment building to blame for the alley’s loss? You want something else in its place, then buy the building and build a center for narrow-minded anti-semites like yourself for all I care.

          • nauticalstar

            I love people who resort to name calling in order to get a point across. Makes me laugh. Bye bye.

            • whyamibotheringtofeedthetrolls

              Please see my post it’s partially directed at you nautical star

      • Hank

        You can’t believe it because your one of the brainwashed religious zombies who wants a temple on every corner. Let the evils of religion stay in the middle east where it belongs.

    • whyamibotheringtofeedthetrolls

      I love that you feel the need to blame a religious group or groups on the fact that a business that has lasted years, that I once frequented myself can’t keep up with the times. In this day and age people don’t go bowling, but yes please blame that on the JEWS. Oh no they’re so scary. “They can buy all of Brooklyn and run it…” The fact that you don’t see that you are resorting to name calling first by making these neanderthal-esque remarks is actually quite pathetic and ignorant. So I guess if burntoutteacher is name calling, hey the atleast their shoe fits so keep it going. It really upsetting how advanced we are and yet these point of views are so twisted and warped. Dear nauticalstar, whatever religion or nationality you are I blame you for any wrong doing, cause if you can justify someone selling property by shiting on their religion then I do the same to you. Or let me atleast complain about the duck face you’re making in your photo, or is it your race/religion that makes you make that face?