Brooklyn Is Beautiful
We have had many guests over the years for many different meals. But there was one guest, who came last Shavuos, who will probably never be forgotten by my wife or me.
She is from Brooklyn, and was in town visiting her sister-in-law and brother-in-law, friends of ours who we frequently have yom tov meals with. So she and her husband and her baby came with her brother- and sister-in-law to our house for lunch.
Anyway, we are talking, and since she is from Brooklyn, we get into some Brooklyn bashing. Nothing too serious. Just questioning how someone who lives in a country with freedom of choice to live wherever they want can end up in that slum. Willingly.
And she said something that I had never heard or imagined was possible to say.
"Brookyln is Beautiful."
Brooklyn is a lot of things, but beauty is the last adjective I would ever apply to slab of concrete.
But maybe I am being too harsh. I found beauty in Brooklyn one day, though she wasn't from Brooklyn. Her name was Aviva, and she was hanging out with my friends in Brooklyn one Saturday night. It turned out that we had a lot of friends in common, and after hanging out, in Brooklyn, for a few hours, first bowling, then shooting pool, she gave me her number.
Two days later I called her, and that night we went to the circus on our first date. A little over a year later, we got married.
When you look for it, beauty can be found anywhere. Even in Brooklyn. A place that might be beautiful in hell.
She is from Brooklyn, and was in town visiting her sister-in-law and brother-in-law, friends of ours who we frequently have yom tov meals with. So she and her husband and her baby came with her brother- and sister-in-law to our house for lunch.
Anyway, we are talking, and since she is from Brooklyn, we get into some Brooklyn bashing. Nothing too serious. Just questioning how someone who lives in a country with freedom of choice to live wherever they want can end up in that slum. Willingly.
And she said something that I had never heard or imagined was possible to say.
"Brookyln is Beautiful."
Brooklyn is a lot of things, but beauty is the last adjective I would ever apply to slab of concrete.
But maybe I am being too harsh. I found beauty in Brooklyn one day, though she wasn't from Brooklyn. Her name was Aviva, and she was hanging out with my friends in Brooklyn one Saturday night. It turned out that we had a lot of friends in common, and after hanging out, in Brooklyn, for a few hours, first bowling, then shooting pool, she gave me her number.
Two days later I called her, and that night we went to the circus on our first date. A little over a year later, we got married.
When you look for it, beauty can be found anywhere. Even in Brooklyn. A place that might be beautiful in hell.
posted by Air Time at 4:38 PM
14 Comments:
Well there are some great thing about Brooklyn. More kosher restaraunts per square inch then anywhere in the USA.
Also if you are looking for great scholars.. some of the biggest and most knowledgable live in Brooklyn.
1) there are beautiful parts of brookly that tend to look much more beautiful when you live there and much less so after you move.
2) growing up in brooklyn, I recall a time when much of brooklyn was truly beautiful, back before the frum community kidnapped and murdered the local zoning boards, resulting in a borough of overbuilt, unimaginative, and inconsiderate home and condos.
SW: So you could always move somewhere else. Like a place on the South Shore of Long Island that is truly beautiful - uh, I mean until the frum community paid lawyers exorbitant sums to kidnap the local zoning boards, resulting in 5 Towns of overbuilt, unimaginative and inconsiderate homes and condos.
JB - There may be some great things about brooklyn. But I would rather live in a kosher restaurant desert than subject myself and my family to brooklyn.
SW - Sounds like you are one of the converted.
Look, beauty is subjective. If someone can pee on a wall and claim to see the virgin mary than I imagine someone can look at brooklyn and see beauty.
Hooney, You're so sweet!
Leez, you're just jealous!
Top 10 great things about Brooklyn
1. Backyards are at least 100 square inches
2. Some people even have their own driveways
3. There is an Eruv that noone uses
Sorry, I got stuck after 3, but Brooklyn is still home.
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I like Brooklyn. And Williamsburg is the new hip place to be, so say the kids on the street.
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