Click on my profile, I live in Bay Ridge, former home of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Tony Manero and countless Irish, Greek and (now) Arab and Russian Americans.
Being that Peggy is a writer, I would guess Park Slope or Brooklyn Heights.
Bay Ridge? Is that where the Goodfellas guys lived? I'm sort of picturing you like that guy in Goodfellas who walked into that restaurant from the rear only instead of a restaurant, in your case it is the rear of a giant bakery/restaurant. You walk in and the chefs all know you. You walk down an aisle and the chefs and bus boys all know you. Then you walk out onto the main dining area and all the Wise Guys know you. One of them is pissed off at you because you just laughed at one of his stories. IS HE THERE JUST TO MAKE YOU AMUSED!!!???