Over on noisefootprint: “Has anyone been to the roller rink in Crown Heights, Brooklyn? It’s called Empire — Empire Roller Rink, Empire Roller Disco, and Empire Rollerdrome are all names I’ve seen it listed by. It’s said to be Brooklyn’s last large-scale roller rink.”
According to Place Matters, “The 30,000 square feet of rink, one of the last of its kind in Brooklyn, was opened in the 1930s by Henry and Hector Abrami, two brothers from Crown Heights. During the 1950s, the rink also offered miniature golf and bowling. But it was the disco ’70s and Bill Butler, ‘godfather of roller disco,’ that made Empire famous across the nation. Butler fashioned a skating technique called the ‘Brooklyn Bounce’ that became the roller-skating rage. Still operating after all these decades, the Empire Roller Disco remains popular today by rolling with the times.”
DISCUSS: Roller Skating in Crown Heights?