Borough Hall Station, 2/3 train, March 9, 2014
I was escorting seven ten-year olds so I did not expect a poem. My neighbor on the bench chimed in about the Super Fund for the Gowanus Canal so I took the opportunity to ask. She was a fresh wind and a granddaughter of Brooklyn.
On my way from Brooklyn,
New York – my hometown
to Manhattan which we
used to call Going to
the City.
My grandmother was born
In 1879 in Bklyn. She
was a wonderful woman, who
lived on Putnam Avenue in
Bedford-Stuyvesant.
I was born on a Sunday in
1938 in my parents’ house on
the same block.
I took the Nostrand Bus
on the corner to Brooklyn
College.
I now live in Boerum
Hill about 3 blocks from
where my grandparent
rented an apartment in the 1900’s.
It’s wonderful to be a
Brooklynite.
My grandmother’s view
was Brooklyn should never
have joined the other
boroughs to become New
York City.
This is my mother in law. She was born and raised in New York. She is very proud of being a New Yorker. She could tell you just about anything and everything here is to know about Brooklyn.
I LOVE your mother in law!!! She is the real deal. Fresh Brooklyn wind!
Now you have to get her on the Internet!!!