It won’t be too long before people refer to Manhattan as the “old neighborhood,” and visit it nostalgically like Italians to Bensonhurst and Jews to the Lower East Side1. Like both those ethnic enclaves, the people, shops, and character of yore are being supplanted. This has been going on all across our city, and cities everywhere, for the last century. Unfortunately when it comes to Manhattan, there’s no real desire to go back for nostalgia tours.
Oh well, for a limited few who were here for it and for those just curious about LIC’s past, [Read more…] about THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD
- yeah, yeah, I know the LES is Manhattan [↩]