View of the Manhattan Bridge from Washington Street.
DUMBO
DUMBO is a neighborhood that got its name because it is an acronym for "Down Under the Manhattan Bridge".
However they added the O at the end.
Funny and interesting tidbit of history about the neighborhood.
Back in the 80s, when struggling artists really liked the neighborhood and did not want speculators to invest in the neighborhood.
So they gave it a bad name like "DUMBO".
Because after all nobody would live in a neighborhood with the word "dumb" in it, right?
This, unfortunately, did not work for these artists and the neighborhood is now one of the hottest real estate markets in the city.
This is the iconic Washington and Water Street intersection, which has been featured in many films and TV shows.
Here's another pic.
A lovely couple with the Brooklyn Bridge in the background.
Brooklyn Ferry
Some pics of Prospect Heights, a gentrified area
Nobody wants Stephen Colbert in Brooklyn?
Talk about getting rid of the soul of the neighborhood.
WIlliamsburg
Description here!
Williamsburg is an eclectic neighborhood--Jews, hipsters, artists, Dominicans, and Puerto Ricans all live in this northern Brooklyn neighborhood.
Look at some pics of the housing in the wonderful and historic neighborhood.
To the left, is an interesting apartment building.
To the right is a Puerto Rican flag struggling to flutter from a pole in front of a building.
Maybe there was bad wind that day?
Bushwick this neighborhood is thoroughly Puerto Rican. But it is diverse.
A group of Orthodox and Hasidic Jews
Posters celebrating mariachi events.
Greenpoint
Manhattan Avenue= the main strip.
Stauder- Polish who live here are mostly fresh off the plane, recent arrivals
lot of unattractive Polish older women.
I don’t think there are many new waves of Polish immigrants here.
Polish delis
Polish chocolates
Canned goods
Polish bookstore
Polish groceries
Incovenient with the trains
I saw more blacks here than in Bensonhurst
More Mexicans there.
I saw More recent Polish arrivals in Chicago
Also, Polish people more spread out in Chicago.
Greenpoint is dirty.
Despite changes in population as the neighborhood turns “hip,” Polish is still spoken here.
Bakeries that sell poppy seed rolls.
Despite changes in population as the neighborhood turns “hip,” Polish is still spoken here.
A married black couple went to one of these nicest Polish restaurants
I remember when I was twelve, I read a book on Polish Americans and they had this same pharmacy so I went and took a photo of it.
Kielbasa Sandwich.
Blueberry Danish: $3.50.
Cafe riviera
Strawberry Danish $3
$1 Foamy and strong Coffee!
CBS Fm music type
It’s Lite FM tho.
I remember there was a Polish guy selling Polish newspapers there.
Female friends walking along Nassau Street
Waitress who agreed for me to take a photo of her in Karczma great restaurant in Greenpoint. Great food and friendly staff there. She was nice lovely lady. Bless her heart.
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Park Slope
Bedford Stuyvesant
The corner of Fulton and Nostrand Streets. I call this "the Four Corners" because this is the busiest commercial intersection in Bedford Stuyvesant.
Bed Stuy
I bought 3 notebooks for less than $4. 2008. But still cheap even then.
Bed Stuy’s a good place to shop
A mosque in Bed Stuy. There is a sizable Muslim community, as here.
Much of the housing stock consists of brownstones in Bed Stuy. Below are some nice photos!
I don't know what building this is but this seemed liked the architectural style.
A walk along Fulton Street.
Golden Krust
Golden Krust is a famous chain Jamaican bakery in the NYC area. I tried a candy made out of coconuts, I forget the name, it was really delicious.
Murals
Crown Heights
Crown Heights is home to one of the largest Afro Caribbean communities in the country. Taking a walk along Nostrand Avenue, you can see Jamaican, Trinidian, Guayanese, and other West Indian stores, bakeries, and restaurants, catering to a diverse community.
There are also some signs of settlement from upper middle class, as well.
A few photos of the Eastern Parkway.
Yeah I'm a photo nerd, here you go.
West Indian Day Parade
One of the things that Crown Heights is best known for is the West Indian Day Parade.
The West Indian Day Parade is one of the most popular events in New York City. It runs every Labor Day Monday and thousands come to Eastern Parkway for this festive event where you will Haitian flags, listen to reggae music, and get a taste of Caribbean food on this special day.
The event draws West Indians, some draped in the flags of their country, Hispanics, and white hipsters alike.
Brownsville/ENY
When I was on the 3 Train on the subway and as I was coming from East New York I took some videos of East New York and Brownsville, including the Tilden Houses.
East NY
Sunset Park
Boro Park, probably the most Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in the country, in terms of population and feeling.
25 percent of all Brooklynites are of Jewish descent, although not all of them are Orthodox.
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The bakeries are good, though.
Bensonhurst is kind of the suburbs, quasi- suburban? because it’s in Southern Brooklyn, near Staten Island.
Bensonhurst was the suburb of Manhattans little Italy,
And
Staten Island is the suburb of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
I saw a group of young Italian men driving a car, one with spikey, gelled hair and a jersey on with no shirt underneath, peering out the window.
Bensonhurst
Bensonhurst
I would almost feel like I’m n an Italian village
Still people speaking in Italian
Moreso in the 2000s
Young people families
They brought their “old world” culture with them
Sassy Italian women
Target fabco telco
Racist reputation but largely unearned
Working class,
Italian American culture.
Treated me with respect
Didn’t feel racist
Villabate Bakery
I have a 100 hundred bill didn’t even to see if it was real
Chinese guidos
Young CHInese women in sweatpants.
Sorrento - Bensonhurst
$3 coffee
Bensonhurst Catholic paraphernalia
Guatemalan Pentecostal churches
All these Guatemalan delis here.
Smells like Italian cooking/ food
Capuccino $5 Pelegrino $3 each
J Mart in Bensonhurst awesome and clean
Bensonhurst more working class than Dyker Heights, where you have bigger houses, especially in the southern part.
Southern Brooklyn Italians with Italians Chinese with Chinese Hispanics with Hispanics
Z100
Pop culture reference
Chinese on 86th Avenue?
Around the 1950’s a lot of Italians from Manhattan’s Little Italy took the D train and moved to Bensonhurst, Brooklyn for a more suburban setting. Recent Italian immigrants would also move to Bensonhurst, joining them.
Why aren’t there many Italians in Bensonhurst? Many opted for a bigger house in the suburbs for less money. They mostly went to Staten Island but some went to Lomg Island, other parts of New York State, as well as New Jersey.
People Uzbeks Georgians too former USSR?
H Mart
In the 1980's, Bensonhurst was 80% Itaalin.
I like the blue collar feel
It’s a working class Italian neighborhood.
Maybe a section on how blue collar it is?
Years ago, Bensonhurst would make an Italian immigrants feel right at home.
Insular, old world enclave of theirs.
Now it’s a mix of Little Italy/ Chinatown/ and Little Guatemala.
I saw Mexican/ Guatemalan looking kids speaking to each other in Spanish and one of them stop dressed and act in NYC gangsta culture.
I saw a group of a lot of Dominican guys there too.
Bensonhurst a multi ethnic neighborhood
More diverse, but still an old school Italian neighborhood
White Italian with blonde hair woman feeling comfortable in a Mexican owned pizzeria where they speak Spanish that plays mariachi music in the background
Every Brooklyn Italian bakery I’ve been to has gelato
Bensonhurst is an immigrant neighborhood
Italian immigrants, Chinese immigrants, Latin American immigrants
I like how a nice Italian guy warned me I was making a mess as my gelato was dropping as my coffee spilled and I tried to fix that lol
Tomaso Italian restaurant in Bensonhurst
Some fish markets, I don’t know if they are Italian, Chinese
Bensonhurst
32% Chinese
11% Italian American
6% Russian
3% Ukrainian
7% Mexican/ Guatemalan
I see Chinese restaurants but they don’t have duck, not the restaurants I’ve seen. I see Chinese bakeries but they don’t serve those black bean pastries I love so much.
So Bensonhurst’s Chinatown is not much of a draw. It’s more of a Chinatown for the locals. You’re better off going to Manhattan’s Chinatown.
The pork legs at J Mart were awesome though.
On the
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I love this store! Telco is an inexpensive store found in the Tri State Area.
I bought great gloves and a hat for less than ten dollars here! It is really hard to find such a deal where I'm from in Central Jersey.
An Italian flag in front of the Security Italian pride remains strong in Bensonhurst
Bensonhurst is a traditionally Italian neighborhood.
On 18th Avenue, you could find salumerias (butchers), caffes, bakeries, and social clubs that cater to an Italian American population that has been for generations.
Nice, well taken care of houses
From my car a long time ago.
T.Z. Bros 6808 13th Avenue
Petros Reality- 8634 18th Avenue
Reliable Bakery 8118 18th Avenue
Italian Records
Frank and Sal's Prime Meats
I tried the butterflied chicken thighs seasoned at home. It was delicious.
The meat here tastes better than what you would find in most places.
There was this pretty chubby sassy Italian worker there. Working with an attitude.
I love the Italian pride demonstrated in this neighborhood!
An Italain flag right in front o their store.
This is a great Italian butcher shop. I got a chicken pattie here and it was great.
The chicken patties here aren't like the ones that you get in the supermarket that are stale and hard as a rock with ice, at times.
The chicken pattie before and after it was made.
They are soft and spongy and have a great taste! When I was finished cooking it, this sandwich tasted better than any sandwich I have ever tried at any Italian deli around here.
As I bit into this sandwich, I realized I was eating the best sandwich I have eaten.
Better than Italian deli I have been to. I'll tell you that much!
Tribuzio Meat Market 7714 18th Avenue
Never been heree but google reviews puts it almost 5 stars so it is worth visiting. Cleanest butcher in Broioklyn, one commenter
wrote.
A big Italian guy speaking Italian there.
Neighborhood clubs
clubs
talai clubs would help Itaali immigrants get on their town two feet intshi coutnry giving them jobs.
Sorrento cafe 7716 18th Avenue
New name but still Italian coffee shop.
Now it’s Caffe Bella since 2024.
Caffe Italia 6917 18th Avenue
Patisscerra Villabatte
Villabate is a godsend
I guess this sign shows you there are still many Italian speakers in Bensonhurst area
This is an excellent bakery.
Their ricotta is imported from Palermo, Sicily.
Gelato
Green pastries casetina Sicilian?
Almond cookies/ biscotti?
Casata
Casetina
Africano cake rolls Biscotti cookie with cream
St Joseph sfingi cake
St Joseph
Look like cannolis but not.
Villabate Alba
All these Italian bakeries have gelati
Savarese and Villabate have casetinas
Savarese bakery had good coffee
Idk about reliable, if they have casetinas, gelato, etc.
Almond paste green and pink paste low sugar
Villabate alba hot coffee good I liked the large coffee with 3 sugars
Iced coffee meh
Older Italian guys keeping with that real Italian culture- talking about Frank Valli from Newark a
Cake 10/ 10
It felt spongy
There are Italians who go to Villabate Alba
Vanilla sponge with chocolate butter cream
All 3025
22 just cake
Gelatos are creamy
The pistachio cake is better than the chocolate cake
Tony Pepperoni Pizzeria- 7502 18th Avenue
Chicken and Margharita pizza?
Il Colosseo Ristorante 7704 18th Avenue
An announcement for Valentine's Day where Italian American musicians would perform.
This kind of reminds me of Latino neighborhoods, where restaurants would have announcements of Latine performers.
I tried a Chicken Paillard with potatoes and a salad as well as a cappuccino and it came to a total of less than twenty dollars.
The staff was friendly
Villa Fiorita 7720 18th Avnnue
The prototypical working class Italian American neighborhood.
this brings me back to the days when Italian Americans were mostly in working class neighborhoods like this before they ended up buying mansions in Northern Jersey and Long Island. Bensonhurst was once eighty percent Italian.
a lot of em left but italian presence will always be in NYC.
tri state area is God speaking this to me?
Italian Pride
SICILIA!!!
Chinese
Chinese Americans like Ying Tan running for political office.
There’s this Chinese diet sodas at Hong Kay Market on 18th Avenue
86th Street
Many Italians have left Bensonhurst, and many Chinese families are now calling this neighborhood home.
In public parks you might see older Italian men bocce as well as the Chinese playing chess.
H Mart is awesome and clean .
St. Dominick's Roman Catholic Church
the roof looks like it says "wow" near where the reef is.
I have never been to an Italian mass in Bensonhurst so I figured YOLO.
I arrived late to the English mass.
I saw that the Italians there looked a lot like Puerto ricans.
i saw a family dark hair sicilian?
i saw an older Italian woman and a Latina middle aged mother warmly embracing each other
the priest was from Colombia and spoke Italian almost like Spanish
he made a good homily
dont be like some Protestant sects who worry about the end times coming and are depressed
don't be sad
Gioia
be happy joia rejoice in the Lord.
be honest your spiritual life starts with being honest
like spanish mass where priest talks he says
ask gabriela this
the priest in Italy I think is highly regarded
a father figure in Latin America
I saw an Italian American family
A guy was coming to his family after serving as an altar server. His older brother saluted him even hugged him after coming back from being an altar server. He looked mentally deficient the younger brother.
I just like the family unity in Italia
There was a guy next to me he looked like a Puerto Rican papi.
Old Italian couples like Latino old couples
priest makes a joke and parishioners smirk and laugh similar to Spanish mass. even a mass full of strangers feels like family in this heavily Italian neighborhood.
At jrf I saw a Latino couple maybe they were Italian sweet obedient guilt in Anglo eyes respectful
restaurant il colosio
guy with spikey hair great inexpensive italian food
You will see Italian Americans in Chinese fish markets just like you will see Chinese entering shops that almost exclusively sell Italian goods. That’s Just commerce not much intermingling!
bocce
I tried a Chicken Paillard with potatoes and a salad as well as a cappuccino and it came to a total of less than twenty dollars.
The staff was friendly
Telco Department store like Bargain Man
Sunday
Italian Records video
THree are Chinese restaurants and groceirs on 18th Aenue.
The Mafia is here.
It’s dirty here But here are some nice houses.
Dominick the Donkey z100
I tried the Sicilian pizza at Tony Pepperoni! Amazing!
The Feast of Santa Rosalia
Bensonhurst when Italy won the World Cu
Bensonhurst attracts diversity
The La Bella Marketplace in Staten Island is bigger
And feels more Italian
Dyker heights feels like Staten Island
more middle class
Feels like it was an Italian neighborhood north of la Bella but you see all these nice houses south of 80th street where the population is over half Italian.
Christmas decorations
Big fancy houses not like Bensonhurst
Dyker Heights
The La Bella Marketplace in Staten Island is bigger
And feels more Italian
Guatemalan Pentecostal churches
Smells like Italian cooking/ food
Capuccino $5 Pelegrino $3 each
J Mart in Bensonhurst awesome and clean
Bensonhurst more working class than dyker heights
Dyker heights like Staten Island, more middle class
Feels like it was an Italian neighborhood north of la Bella but you see all these nice houses south of 80th street where the population is over half Italian.
Christmas decorations
Big fancy houses not like Bensonhurst
Southern Brooklyn Italians with Italians Chinese with Chinese Hispanics with Hispanics
Friend groups more mixed in midtown Manhattan and Astoria, Queens like middle class suburbs
Bensonhurst “Lirtle Italy/ Chinatown/ Little Guatemala”
There are plenty of I think Orthodox Jews in the area too.
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