Hello everyone-
A lot of us on ActiveRain have wirtten posts about where we live now, this one is about where I'm from - and will probably go back to!
This was sent to me today by some old friends from NY. Now, I'm from Far Rockaway, so I do take a bit of offense to number 56, but hey, fuggedabboudit!
Do these ring a bell withanyone out there?
If you ain't from Brooklyn , just forget this; you wouldn't understand.
You're truly from Brooklyn if you can relate to any of the following:
1. Alternate side of the street parking.
2. Ate at Kishke King (10 inch hot dogs).
3. Ate dinner every Sunday night at Lee's Chinese Restaurant (or a reasonable facsimile).
4. Ate Italian food at (fill in your choice).
5. Bought bobka at the original Ebinger's.
6. Bought Ebinger's Black-Out Cake (and didn't count the calories).
7. Bought knishes from Mrs. Stahl's in Brighton or Mom's knishes.
8. Bought knishes on the beach and didn't mind the sand.
9. Bought pickles out of a barrel.
10. Can name all the Brooklyn High Schools.
11. Don't speak with an accent - everybody else does.
12. Drove over the Marine Park Bridge for a 10-cent toll and through the Battery Tunnel for 25 cents.
13. Everybody knows somebody from the neighborhood even if it's your mother's cousin's son-in-law's sister's boyfriend.
14. Got a "Kitchen Sink" at Jahn's.
15. Got a J.D. card and feeling like Al Capone.
16. Had a prom date at the Club Elegante.
17. Had roller skates with keys.
18. Hand ball in the schoolyard.
19. Hit two sewers in punch ball.
20. It's not the "shore", it's the "beach," idiot.
21. Kings Plaza .... how come we get the crappy mall?
22. Knew who the neighborhood wise guy was, but you'd never tell the cops.
23. Knew Rosie's Candy Store, headquarters for Murder, Inc!!
24. Know what E.J. Korvettes stands for (Eight Jewish Korean Veterans).
25. Know what the F.W.I.L. on the Lundy's Restaurant in "The Bay"
stands for (It's the brothers, Frederick, William, Irving and Louis).
26. Know, or at least your hips do, what a Charlotte Russe is.
27. Owned a pair of shoes from Thom Mcann.
28. Played at Faber's Fascination and Skeeball - saved tickets for junk.
29. Played Ring-A-Levio? At dusk.
30. Played Hit The Penny; Stoop Ball; Skelly; and Potsy.
31. Rode the Cyclone.
32. Saw the Dodgers at Ebbet's Field.
33. Remember Bohack's, Packer's and Associated.
34. Remember Coney Island fireworks every Tuesday night in the summer. Watching from your roof.
35. Remember submarine race watching at Plum Beach. Heck, if you even know where Plum Beach is.
36. Sheepshead Bay is for fishing and seafood.
37. Shopped at Pitkin Ave before the mall and all the dreck.
38. Swear that George and Sid Deli had the l-e-a-n-e-s-t pastrami.
39. Went to Steeplechase and rode the horses.
40. There is a bagel bakery a few blocks away.
41. There is at least one pizzeria within 1 block of your house and a candy store on the corner.
42. Thought "Buddy's Fairyland Kiddie Park" on Utica Ave. was a major amusement park.
43. Thought going "away to college" means NYU, Pace, or Pratt.
44. Waited for Bungalow Bar or Mr Softee guy to come around your block.
45. Walked along the Coney Island Boardwalk with a Shatzkin's knish.
46. Washed it down with a Sunny Boy orange drink.
47. Went to a Bar Mitzvah at the Paradise Caterers on Pitkin, sometimes two on a weekend.
48. Rode the Trolleys.
49. Went to the "real" Fortunoff's on Livonia Avenue .
50. Went to Alan Freed rock & roll concerts at the Brooklyn Fox or the Brooklyn Paramount. Went the night before for good seats.
51. Went to Saturday matinees at the Ambassador or Loew's Pitkin.
52. You ate at the Horn and Hardart Automat or the Famous Cafeteria.
53. You can correctly pronounce places like Long Island, but aren't exactly sure where it begins.
54. You curse a lot. Or can at least out curse anyone from anywhere else.
55. You don't go to Manhattan - you go to "The City."
56. You have no reason to go to Queens .
57. You know and go to the REAL Nathan's - Coney Island .
58. You know someone with mob ties.
59. You know the difference between going with, seeing, fooling around with and going out with someone.
60. You know what a "Johnny pump" is.
61. You knew when someone got carpeting, their "oil cloth" was in a roll by the garbage.
62. You made a scooter from orange crates and an old skate.
63. You made carpet guns that shot old linoleum projectiles.
64. You never realize you have an accent until you leave.
65. You waited for the rides on a truck to come to your neighborhood for 10 cents a ride.
66. You walk down "The Avenue" and see at least a handful of the people you knew growing up.
67. Your friends came over to hang out on the stoop.
68. You've had a pigeon crap on your car and/or your head.
69. Rode the elevated (EL) lines or the BMT cut out to The Beach.
70. And the most important reason that you're a Brooklynite or at
least have the soul of one, is the attitude that you have and NEVER want to lose!!!!
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