Posted on 11/21/2004 5:19:43 PM PST by dukeman
"Take the inter-boro to the south end, take a right onto Atlantic then a left onto Sheffield and voila!"
I wouldn't. And you won't be greeted with "voila!"
My mom may know where it is. I wont' ask though. She'll start whining about how Brooklyn used to be a paradise *LOL*
You mean it's not paradise?
Too bad, I know a bunch of good folks there.
My best friend was still in Africa when one her relatives got her an apartment in Brownsville. When she got there, she told the cabdriver to turn around and go back to JFK airport *LOL* I guess it's not since she's working two jobs to pay a $2500 mortgage on LI.
I do,too. I've met amazing people in East New York. But you never hear about those on the news.
Nothing positive seems to make the news. Those stories aren't ratings generators.
Ocean Hill - Brownsville is like another planet, even these days. The devastation of the 70s never got rebuilt to the extent it did in ENY, Bed-Stuy and even parts of Bushwick. Want to see what nuch of NYC looked and felt like @ 1975 take a drive there...or just head down south to cities like New Orleans, the similarities are stunning.
I still have my secret take out place I go to on Pitkin...it's a long cab ride, but worth it.
My mom and her sisters and cousins sold the old homestead they had all inherited on Pleasant Place just off Atlantic Ave a few years ago.
From what mom tells me, it was a lovely area when she was growing up.
My mom goes there to buy cheap material to make curtains.
A new Evangelical church and school took over an old furniture store near where I used to live in Bay Ridge. I had to explain to the largely Catholic old timers what an Evangelical was.
Don't know but I do remember when my mom went house hunting somewhere in Queens, she was told 'these houses aren't for you people' *LOL* Wonder what that person meant! ;-)
Yeah, I can see that. It was one of the last industrial areas in NYC. If I were a bazillionaire I'd buy some of those old factories and crank them up again...make something.
Hey we're on the same wavelength. Had I won the $149 bazillion dollar lottery, I'd buy up all that property, rename it Renee Town 'no libs allowed'
hey, Jamaica was a good family place in the fifties/sixties.
Whenever I'm up there I see those old factories and think, "What a waste." You have entire, really well built buildings next to a population that needs jobs. You'd think someone would notice that and build something.
can you say unions?
The worst ghetto I have ever been to, btw, is Liberty City in Miami. What makes it all the more unnerving is the somewhat suburban nature of the place.
A black co-worker of mine told me that there are actually white folk slowly trickling into Bed Stuy, just as Spike Lee predicted. Artsy Euros mostly.
Now that rents in Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst are about level with Bed Stuy (and less than Fort Greene), it will be interesting to see what happens to SW Brooklyn. There are a ton of elderly people in those first two neighborhoods, although many Arabs, Latinos and Asians were moving in when I was there. The latter two groups are responsible for much of the growth in Evangelical and Pentecostal Christians in the city.
Hard to believe, but its getting to the point where the "people of color" in NYC are more socially conservative than the white folk.
In the 60's and 70's I used to go to Jamaica to shop. Gimbels, Gertz, Mays, Macys, Woolworths with their lunch counters and another place I can't remember the name that had the best hot dogs on toasted buns.
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