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Jackie and Me: A Brooklyn Thing | Philip A. Farruggio
Philip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust
Nov. 21, 2015
We have memories, like flashes of lightning from afar -- now we see them, now we don't.
Yet, one can almost call upon them at will, these bits and pieces of our lives, once so vivid, once so real, filed forever as nostalgia. So it is for me, 50 years after the fact. Brooklyn, circa 1955, was truly a special place.
Those who did not live or come from Brooklyn told us that we were only a part of New York City -- admittedly a large part, but a part. What did they know!? After all, to Brooklynites, who in the hell would brag about being from Manhattan or Queens or Da Bronx? No, they were all wrong. Brooklyn was a city, a world onto itself... and everyone knew it!
I was born in Bensonhurst; actually I was born in Bay Ridge Hospital, located in the (duh!) Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, as different from Bensonhurst as Toledo is from Cleveland. Bay Ridge was home to countless Scandinavians; with more blondes per square block than perhaps all the other neighborhoods combined… did I say neighborhood! Now that's worth exploring.
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