My mom, on the other hand, was from Brooklyn.
Flatbush, to be precise.
She was born in 1913 and told me that when she was a kid, Brooklyn was still country.
She also told me that everyone was totally relieved when the automobile was introduced in New York because, as she put it, the streets were so full of shit from the horses you could hardly drive your carriage anywhere anymore.
Little did they know....
