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To: miss marmelstein
Ozone Park, for one, Middle Village, for another

Ozone Park? I don't know when you were there last, but you'd be lucky if you see a single Italian walking around there today. I lived for about 35 years in nearby Richmond Hill, but in the 70s and 80s hung out in Oz Pk.

It's nearly entirely Middle Easterners and Guyanese Indians there today, actually since about the 90s. Middle Village still has some Italians, as does Maspeth. Maspeth is still a beautiful, very patriotic area, as are (mostly Irish) Broad Channel and Belle Harbor.

On 69th St near the Long Island Expressway in Maspeth there is a Maspeth Federal Savings Bank that sponsors annual live oldies concerts in their parking lot. The late great John Maestro performed there around 10 years ago. I've seen a few really good groups there within the past 5 or 6 years, including the Duprees and the Tokens. Veterans groups hold yearly fund-raising hot rod and classics car shows for sick children in the same parking lot (Toys 4 Tots). Amazing things in this day and age for New York. That area is really like a scene from the 50s or 60s. Too bad the rest of the city has collapsed like it has.

39 posted on 11/21/2015 11:49:10 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: ETL

Well, I’m not going to bandy words or immigrant groups with you. Not worth it, sorry.


41 posted on 11/21/2015 11:57:56 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
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