They’d be the suppiest clensers ever…

Ignorance is so very beautiful.

There are certain ethnic groups juxtaposed alongside other ethnic groups in various neighborhoods in Brooklyn. As an example, I’m sure you are familiar with the Dinkins’ *feh* Administration-era “Crown Height Riots.” The neighborhood, which I drove through a couple of weeks ago [to be fair, I was riding shotgun], has equal parts Black, and Orthodox Jewish.

For the most part, with the exception of the riots, which, as you could well imagine, had a polarizing impact on the neighborhood, Blacks and Jews in Crown Heights tend to get along…not famously, but not knifing one another in the back on a nightly basis.

Same thing with Flatbush…Blacks and Jews, with some Hispanic thrown in. I would walk through Flatbush at night, even the predominantly Black parts, and I think we could all agree, hearkening back to my first sentence, that walking through neighborhoods mostly comprised of Blacks, who are the number one purveyors of urban violence [to put it euphemistically], is not the safest, nor is it the wisest, thing to do.

However, there are certain neighborhoods, such as Brownsville, which borders Crown Heights, and is all Black [and was formerly all Jewish, more than 50 years ago], and East New York, whose bullet hole-riddled housing projects are interspersed with shooting galleries, that you could not pay me enough money to walk through, accompanied by any armored division of the U.S. Armed Forces, in the daytime.

Public urination is not the norm for Flatbush, especially not the area known as Victorian Flatbush, some of whose houses are more than 100 years old, and just…grand. Definitely not the norm.

As for meeting/hanging out, I’d sooner take my chances with East New York and Brownsville than have to schlep all the way to New Freaking Jersey. There’s a great bar on East 7th Street in the Village, so we could knock back a few, if you’re ever over this way. And Jimbo’s always cool about picking up the tab, ain’t you buddy?

Violance can occur anywhere , we do have some around Western Pa but it is not a community activity of considerable civic pride. If we are ever to meet or hang out together it will be at least on neutral ground…….perhaps somewhere in Jersey though not Newark!

Watch that Brooklyn bashing youse guys.

Elizabeth leads you past the Turnpike over the Goethals, and onto 278, which then takes you through the heart of the North Shore of Staten Island. You then — I assume, unless you swam across — went over the Verrazano Bridge, which leads directly into the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, which is one of Brooklyn’s most exclusive neighborhoods, with houses priced in the gazillion millions. Seriously, there are parts of it that look only slightly less high end than Beverly Hills.

From Newark to Brooklyn is one thing. Discounting Elizabeth, it’s not a bad drive, and is actually rather pleasant. Probably less than 40 minutes.

OTOH, from JFK to Brooklyn…now that’s some sketchy scenery. If you took the roads, you probably went through East New York, which in many cases is like walking unarmed through Downtown Baghdad, or Camden. My dad used to work in a drugstore owned by my uncle there on the weekends [dating back to when it used to be an all-Jooish neighborhood -- it has since "changed."], and had been held up at gunpoint at least three times.

Anyhow, Brooklyn ain’t that bad. You just gotta know where to hang. If you stick with me, you’d be alright. I wouldn’t let any of those punks hurt you.

Proud to live in Cali…BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA. I’m dyin’ here. Stop it, you’re killin’ me.