[wtc911]

Livonia Ave. in 1976 was the flat out scariest street I've ever been on for any reason. Now, after Rudy there are garden apartments in the area.

[durasell]

Those are probably the Nehemiah houses you're talking about. They are church based with federal money.

[cyborg]

Is Livonia like Brownsville? I just remember my mom driving through there one night telling my sister and I scrouch down in the backseat.

[Clemenza]

Weren't there race riots on New Lots Avenue when the blacks started moving in during the mid-60s? I remember reading about that in Jonathan Rieder's (highly recommended) book Canarsie.

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.