Reply To: Is Brooklyn becoming a retirement town?

Many newcomers to Brooklyn don’t realize how far frum communities have already expanded. In the early 1950’s my in laws were living in a basement apartment in Borough Park and expecting a second child. Not finding anything in BP, they moved to the wilds of Midwood, Avenue M and East 13 street. There was only ONE Kosher restaurant. When I bought my first Brooklyn house in the late 1970’s I couldn’t afford to buy where my in-laws lived and so we bought on the frontier, East 21 and Avenue N. We were the second frum family on the block.