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Monday, March 23. 2020

Took a drive

Took a drive yesterday from Yankeeland way, way down to Brooklyn - Bedford-Stuyvestant specifically. Yeah, it was "essential". If you know this spot (coming north off the Whitestone Bridge), how's that traffic? My gal drove 75 mph the whole way down and back and the cops ignored. 


Bed-Stuy used to scare me. Now, at least in my daughter's area, it's a wedge of gentrification. Remarkable to me. 


Speaking of Brooklyn, here's what Peter Luger is doing. 


Posted by Bird Dog at 06:26 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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I worked in a yards good store in BedStuy on Broadway between Ralph and Green for four years during college in the 1960s, and through two riots. As in most poor neighborhoods, about 5% are the bad ones who sink to the bottom. 95% are decent, hard working, polite people, getting by with some dignity. Now, the latest yuppies -- most from elsewhere in the country with no compassion or loyalties to New Yorkers -- are moving in and pricing these good people out.
#1 Bruce Kesler on 2020-03-23 13:06 (Reply)
Drove over to Portsmouth for an early dinner last night. Nary a statie on the road and the light traffic was flowing about 80 mph on both NH101 and I95.
#2 Ken in NH on 2020-03-23 17:00 (Reply)
Billy Joel sang "I walked through Bedford-Stuy alone" as evidence that you may be right, he may be crazy. I must've been a pretty scary place.
#3 Boone on 2020-03-23 20:36 (Reply)

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