Well, the bottom line is that when I planned my trip I paid little-to-no attention to minor details like public holidays, which resulted in me arriving in NY the day before Memorial Day, in the middle of big-sales, long-weekend. So Brooklyn was all I could really find. Plus I figured that if it was good enough for Heath Ledger, it has to be good enough for me (I have learned since that Heath has actually moved out of Brooklyn, which I can kinda understand). Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong wrong I tell ya!
To make things even worse,I was staying pretty deep in Brooklyn, so instead of being able to cross the bridge straight into Manhattan i had to use the subway, which was somewhat annoying. Plus the place I was staying at, while nice and very Jewish, was not really in Ahuva's and Bob's league.
Brooklyn is enormous. It's the biggest borough in NY... As a matter of fact, if you considered it an independent city (which it used to be) – it would still be the fourth most populous in the US. The thing is, well, I'm not saying it doesn't have a vibe- it does, but that Brooklyn music just didn't bring out the dancer in me.
NY is a bit like a huge bag of mixed m&ms sometimes. Within the same bock you would see almost any imaginable ethnic group plus several unique New Yorkers (that's the politically correct term for people who just do not care). Brooklyn to me felt a bit like someone with a severe obsessive compulsive disorder actually sorted all those m&ms by colour into big piles (yes, Luc, I am talking to you). And since I was living in the middle of the Jewish m&ms pile, well, after a while, it kinda did my head in. And I can say that coz I'm a Jew!
It was, therefore, with genuine relief that I booked a car on Thursday morning to take me to my new Chelsea home, across the river – where the lights are bright and everything is just swell. Car pulls up, I put my stuff in the boot, get in, shut the door, utter a sigh and say in the coolest voice I could master “West 28 Street”. Driver looks back, gives me the once-over, and like a bad joke out of a bad sitcom says “so... you're Jewish?” in a heavy Yiddish accent.
Brooklyn, I tell ya.
1 comment:
gosh it seems like you have been gone a lifetime but it's not even a month!!!!!!!
hope your having fun, you don't even say if your having fun!!!
Andrew
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