Which Italian Neighborhood For A Student Commuting to Manhattan?
Hey everyone, I’m moving to nyc next fall from upstate and want to live in a strong italian neighborhood that has a reasonable/short commute to manhattan. I know there are pockets in all the boroughs, but give me your opinions. My family grew up in bushwick brooklyn in its italian hey day. Grazie.
(Sono Siciliano btw)
Goddamn man, way to freak out.
First off, is it so wrong of me to want to live in a neighborhood that is of a people/culture that I love? Excuse me for not wanting to move to Harlem or Brownsville where I would be treated like a piece of shit. I have been to the city many times so please don’t act like i’m dreaming here. My cousin teaches in the bronx and gets shit on nearly every day walking to school asshole, be it slurs or things thrown at him.
So once again, I am sorry I want to live in a neighborhood that has pride and is safe rather than one filled with drugs, violence and crime.
Obviously I have no problem living in the majority of Manhattan as I UNDERSTAND it is a huge melting pot which is awesome! But if I go to a burrow it isn’t the same. The neighborhood means a lot more.
I am leaving this open to hopefully get a POSITIVE response.
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Comments on Which Italian Neighborhood For A Student Commuting to Manhattan?
your gonna have to move out of NYC, lol. This isn’t 1950.
There are no “strong” Italian neighborhoods anymore, perhaps you have been watching too many movies.
The neighborhoods have been settled by Asians. Russians, Mexicans and other beautiful people off all cultures.
It’s disappointing that someone would want to come to the big “melting pot” and have a specific race or even nationality of people that they want to be around.
Your grandparents ‘Bushwick, went through an economic decline, since then became predominantly African-American and is now experiencing a “gentrification”, either way it was always full of beutiful people, whetherItalian, Puerto Rican or African descent.
Are you coming to NYC to help us make a great city? Are you going to try to build roots instead of trying to fullfill a childhood unrealistuc dream?
Or are you just blinded by Hollywood movies written and directed by people who do not live here, confused with glorious yet exxeagerrated tales of NYC in it’s “heyday” ( im sure the people of every age group have a different time period that they call “heyday”, it usually has racist undertones).
You will find the Italians have been replaced by others, and this cycle continues throughout generations… and that is what makes NYC great.
( Just come here with a realistic mind and help us continue making this a great city, full of beutiful people, and get rid of your DVD collection) By the way what the hell does Sono Siciliano mean?
That your Sicilian? …wow, so what. Do you speak any Italian other than food and curses? And what makes you so proud? Be proud of something you have achieved in life ,IF your going to be proud at all. Dont be proud of something you have had no choice or control in.
Jeez, you know, I think you should jump on the next bus here, there are many lessons for you to learn here about life, I promise you will learn a few before you return to your secluded little village upstate, defeated, yet a bit wiser.