Tornado Alley (PROG)

[brooklyn13]

NYC is a city of neighborhoods. As I mentioned before, there's a large Russian immigrant population here in one neighborhood, Orthodox Jews in another, Koreans somewhere else, Chinese have theirs (2), West Indians over there, Germans used to have one but it's been thinned out, Puerto Ricans, Ukrainian area, Irish, Indian neighborhood, Central American, Greeks, and on and on - there's a reason they just had the world cricket championship here.

And of course, the 1%ers who are buying up all the real estate and jacking up rents, they're everywhere. I"d venture a guess that the middle class has almost entirely been driven out of Manhattan by this time. You get used to stuff, when we were in London a couple of years ago, I couldn't believe how crowded it seemed, and that's through my NYC lens.

Anyway, to each their own, some love it here, some don't. I grew up in a small town and after college decided to come here as an adventure. No job, just a couple of college friends around. Met my wife here, raised kids here, started and ran my business here and the next thing I knew it was 50 years later

We started out in Manhattan, E. and W. Village, and for the last 35 years have lived in Brooklyn.