Long Island Leprechaun Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 One of my buddies lives in Bay Ridge. 100% old school Brooklyn Italian. He wears a Jets hat because he got it for free but he roots for the Giants. That, my friends, is Bay Ridge in a nutshell. Believe it or not, it used to be a Norwegian enclave. When gaslighting was not a political term. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philc1 Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 41 minutes ago, Long Island Leprechaun said: One of my buddies lives in Bay Ridge. 100% old school Brooklyn Italian. He wears a Jets hat because he got it for free but he roots for the Giants. That, my friends, is Bay Ridge in a nutshell. Believe it or not, it used to be a Norwegian enclave. When gaslighting was not a political term. Brooklyn used to have a large Norwegian population Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munchmemory Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 9 hours ago, Snook said: It was a joke. My bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gastineau Lives Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 24 minutes ago, Philc1 said: Brooklyn used to have a large Norwegian population Yeah, Sunset Park, especially, all along 8th ave. My cousin's best friend was a Viking chick named Sonja, in the 70s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philc1 Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 26 minutes ago, Gastineau Lives said: Yeah, Sunset Park, especially, all along 8th ave. My cousin's best friend was a Viking chick named Sonja, in the 70s. My father’s side of the family is from Red Hook and they are Norwegian. A bunch of blonde haired blue eyed people born and raised in Brooklyn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinc855 Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 2020 bay ridge is mostly immigrants and hipsters.....neither who care about the NFL. The old Italians still around are a decent mix. Go across the bridge to SI and depends on the neighborhood. South Shore has more Jet fans, Giants on the North Shore 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugg Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 12 hours ago, PS17 said: Now say it in Arabic. So, you have been to "Beirut". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celtasnake Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 Aaah, on my first visit to New York i stayed in Bay Ridge, 5th Avenue with 76th Street. Good memories. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philc1 Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 2 hours ago, kevinc855 said: 2020 bay ridge is mostly immigrants and hipsters.....neither who care about the NFL. The old Italians still around are a decent mix. Go across the bridge to SI and depends on the neighborhood. South Shore has more Jet fans, Giants on the North Shore Brooklyn is all gentrified now. Just try living somewhere nice for less than $2500 a month Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gastineau Lives Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 2 hours ago, Philc1 said: My father’s side of the family is from Red Hook and they are Norwegian. A bunch of blonde haired blue eyed people born and raised in Brooklyn I wrote a play about a guy from Red Hook. Had a few productions. Tony Danza did a reading of it, once. It's about gentrification. He called it "an interesting way to complain" LOL 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EM31 Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 That is a real head scratcher to be sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EM31 Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 Many many years ago back in England when I was buying my first suit and being measured for same, the tailor asked me "Which side do you dress?". Now I confess that at the time I was pretty young and I had no idea what he was actually asking me but it turns out he was asking which side my dick would normally be situated (to the left of to the right). I guess the tailor would leave additional room on the side or something. In any event, in addition to not understanding the original question that was asked, once I did understand it and gave it some thought, I realized that I did not know the answer myself. Did I hang/tuck to the left or did I hang/tuck to the right? And not until this day all these many year later have i been similarly floored by a question as the one that was posed in the OP here in this thread. Before someone asks yes, this is actually a true story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vader Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 12 hours ago, Gastineau Lives said: Depends where in Bay Ridge. The closer you get to the bridge, the less Asian it is. that's true Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TuscanyTile2 Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 9 hours ago, Gastineau Lives said: I wrote a play about a guy from Red Hook. Had a few productions. Tony Danza did a reading of it, once. It's about gentrification. He called it "an interesting way to complain" LOL Tony Danza did a reading of a play you wrote? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gastineau Lives Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 8 hours ago, TuscanyTile2 said: Tony Danza did a reading of a play you wrote? Yeah. We were friends for a period of time. I helped him get ready for Don Jon before he went out to LA to shoot, I played Joseph Gordon-Levitt's part (Don Jon). It was an informal reading with just a few of us, the work on my play. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
32EBoozer Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 On 6/11/2020 at 10:00 PM, PS17 said: Not in my section of the neighborhood. Bay Ridge Avenue & Fort Hamilton Parkway, you’ll hear Mandarin. 91st & Fort Hamilton Parkway (my old stomping grounds) is most definitely Mandarin and some Korean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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