Shen wrote in
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Grew up there (Williamsburg!) Love Brooklyn!
My husband's from Park Slope.
Shen
Both those neighborhoods are much changed (it's generally safe to say that
about nearly any neighborhod, as long as the persons have been absent more
than a decade or so.

). I grew up in Midwood myself in the '50s. The
latest area of development is Coney Island -- they're yuppifying fast and
furiously, with the independent amusement sleeze that has delighted so many
children for greater than a century slated to be one with Babylan and Troy
ASAP...
Ozzy