[foreshadowed at waco]

This is really hilarious...I live on Vanderbilt between Park and Myrtle...just 3 blocks from Pratt...also I lived on 12th Street 2 buildings in from Prospect Park West in the Slope until 1981 when I bought my building in Fort Greene...I'm probably old enough to be your mother (my daughter is 25) but we seem to have similar housing instincts. I have been to the Alibi as well as Cino's on DeKalb. We now have 2 very upscale Middle Eastern restaurants, 3 coffee shops (not Starbucks), 3 French restaurants that attract people from Manhattan as well as 2 Thai restaurants. All these changes in just the last 5-6 years. We will soon be enjoying an Indian restaurant just several doors down from Cino's as well.

Having owned a property here for 22 years, it's good to see some attractive businesses opening to replace the endless stream of Chinese fast food take out and bodegas. You can walk along Myrtle Avenue at 9 o'clock at night and not feel too edgy.

[Clemenza]

Having owned a property here for 22 years, it's good to see some attractive businesses opening to replace the endless stream of Chinese fast food take out and bodegas.

Consider yourself lucky. My neighborhood still has many fine restaurants, but everyday a 99 Cent Store seems to open around here.

[Clemenza]

My father is still amazed at the fact that the small frame houses in his neighborhood in Newark (!) are now going for 300K (that's nothing to New Yorkers, but this is NEWARK we're talking about!).

During the next boom, there is a good chance that the Ironbound/Downneck section of Newark will become the next Willamsburgh. The artists have already arrived and we know what that means...

[ffusco]

I can't tell you how many times I staggered home from the Alibi at 2:30 AM and walked right past your house. I walked down Vanderbuilt (following the B69 route) all the way to Park Slope. Went to Pratt from 87 to 91.

[ffusco]

see 45!