Sunshine Connections: Brooklyn native Bonnie Crosby: Father and daughter’s inseparable link to Brooklyn and the Brooklyn Dodgers
Bonnie Crosby, a Brooklyn native, was born January 17, 1940, and lived at 3108 Brighton 5th Street until she was in the 3rd grade. She currently lives in Naples, Florida, and this week celebrates her 73rd birthday.
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle recently conducted a phone interview with Bonnie to find out more about her life, past and present, as well as her memories of a special time in Brooklyn during the 1950s when the borough’s home town team was none other than the mythical Dodgers.
Bonnie is also the proud daughter of a famous Brooklynite, the legendary award-winning New York photojournalist Barney Stein. For two decades, from 1937-1957, her father was the official photographer of the Dodgers. During his photojournalism career Stein worked for the New York Post and photographed the Pope, U.S. Presidents, gangsters, glamorous Hollywood stars like Marilyn Monroe and Jane Wyatt, yet, nothing gave him more pleasure or notoriety than his role as the official photographer for the Dodgers, affectionately known as “Dem Bums.”