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My girlfriend worked at Aiello's Deli just around the corner from there. She went to St. Ephram's, then Bishop Kearney, then B'klyn College.

Her brother went to Xaverian, then also B'klyn Colloege.

Her parents still live in Bay Ridge, and her aunts live in Dyker Heights, and it's so sad, the neighborhoods that speak English are closing down to just a few blocks, everywhere else it's Muslims and Chinese.

See ya',

Ed

I wouldn't say its "sad" just natural. As the older people who lived in the nabe die off, who the hell is going to spend $500,000 on a little row home aside from the Chinese? Besides, 18th Avenue in Bensonhurst was filled with people speaking ITALIAN in the 1960s and 70s.

The white Catholics who lived in SW Brooklyn thought that their nabes would last "forevah", but the fact of the matter is people have been leaving those nabes for the past 25 years. They should have done more to attract yuppies like Park Slope and Carroll Gardens did rather than hoping that their kids would settle nearby.