A very funny journalist that has a blog called http://tiffanyastone.com/ Breaksat At Tiffany's, wrote
other day in her famous blog that she was a starving artist living in a closet. Starving I suppose because her very small apartment doesn't even have a stove. But yet her rent is very high. Yet she's happy. Happy, because she's living close to Stars that she writes about. I could relate to her plight. I to once lived in a very high rent neighborhood. After a hitch in Navy, I just couldn't imagine myself living in Brooklyn anymore. It was where I grew up and there will always be a place in my heart for Brooklyn, but I just can't deal with living there any longer.
After spending so many years out on West Coast and learning to speak proper English, it scared hell out of me to think that I might settle back down in Brooklyn and revert to speaking a Brooklyn dilect again. I had no idea that I was speaking a very foreign language until I left Brooklyn. All I had to say were either words coffee or water and everyone realized I was from Brooklyn.
When I first left Navy I had a golden tan from all those years in Pacific and when I talked to someone that didn't know me, they always asked me where I was from. At first I just thought they wondered why I had such a deep tan in middle of winter. But, they all said you don't sound Brooklyn. And they were right. I was speaking a foreign language in my native Brooklyn.
So, there was only one thing to do. It was time to move to Manhattan. I found an apartment that I could afford in one of plushest places in Manhattan. But I had to sacrifice. I could only swing rent for a studio apartment. But my new neighbors weren't like ones I were acustomed to in Brooklyn.
Walter Cronkite lived across street from me. Gloria Vanderbilt was around corner and Maureen Ohara was down street. Everywhere I went people smiled and called me The Boss. I just thought it was some kind of Manhattan thing or something. But one day when I took a date to a very exclusive place and asked if I could get a table without a reservation, I was told, Yes, we always have a table for The Boss.
