note: I unsuccessfully tried to edit the above beyond 5 or so tries. I altered some of it, but have a new final paragraph.
One of my earliest memories, is that of Eleanor Roosevelt coming to the neighborhood to speak (including the Workmen’s Circle organization) in Dewitt Clinton’s facility, as it was big enough to accommodate at least 500 people. Perhaps she was trying to make up for her husband’s anti-Semitism for not allowing Jews into the US during WWII, including children. Perhaps, she was trying to assuage her own guilt. FDR may have been ‘good’ for America; “he was not good for the Jews.”
Can you see the lack of trust between this immigrant Jewish group and the rest of the world?
]]>Not exactly true, Guest, AvJoe and jaxpad. I lived in the Park Reservoir building #3 from 1958 (I was 5) to 1978 (I was 5). My folks lived there till they passed, 1978.
My dad, an attorney, was on the Board of Directors, and its president one year. He literally wrote the corporation’s by-laws. Whether its president or not, he kept them in check.
Was this a Jewish ‘enclave’? (I resent the word ‘ghetto’ – several people came to the US and the Amalgamated from the ‘ghettos’ of Poland.) Sure. Like the establishment of Israel in 1946, those who came from those ‘ghettos’ sought a place of ‘their own,’ established by ‘their own.)
In the late 1960s early 1970s, an African American (to be PC) court clerk asked Dad if he would back his family in getting an apartment. He had applied and was, of course, denied. The first time he applied, with Dad’s backing, they were again turned down. The ‘pit-bull’ in Dad’s personality came out. He wrote a legal document-type letter to the Board, and put the fear of their lives into them; threatening to expose their conduct, and to sue for a good amount of money. They relented, and it opened the door to other minorities.
After that, his ‘friends’ grew to hate him. Neighbors, who needed an attorney, sought him out to represent them.
In the years that followed, he represented my sister, who was bullied by them too, and sued the corporation (threatened to sue them individually; they turned tail).
Nevermind we were Jewish, but these ‘people’ wouldn’t give Jews the time of day if they did not like them, either.
The point is; was this a Jewish neighborhood? Yes, but their were Italians in the buildings (some intermarriages), and Poles, Hungarians, Czechs – MANY with numbers tattooed on their arms. Can you blame them if they wanted to keep this outwardly wonderful place to themselves?
One of my earliest memories, is that of Eleanor Roosevelt coming to the neighborhood to speak (including the Workmens Circle organization) in Dewitt Clinton’s facility, as it was big enough to accommodate at least 500 people. She was trying to make up for her husband’s anti-Semitism for not allowing Jews in during WWII, including children. FDR may have been ‘good’ for America; “he was not good for the Jews.”
]]>Apparently, you’re from the dummy wing of the Nazi party, eh Anon?
]]>Barack and Michelle would not be allowed to apply to live in.
Right it was a Jewish Ghetto with NO crime, NO welfare, NO Food Stamps,
No SSI tenants, No HIGH NY rents, good service, well maintained.
Barack AND Michelle are an embarrassment to the whole world
and HATE the USA and should be sent back to AFRICA where they belong!