Right now I'm watching Radio Days. One of my favorite movies based around a Jewish family living in New York. A Few others are Brighton Beach Memoirs and Lost In Yonkers. I hold these types of movies close to my heart. Being a Jew from NY myself the potato latkes and blunt humor are things I can't imagine growing up without.
I lived in Brighton Beach from the ages of 3 to 7 and I remember everything about it. How packed the beach got in the summer, the boardwalk, coney island, the ponchiks that my mom bought for me out of some hole in the wall, my playground, and all the old jewish ladies that sat outside my building on lawn chairs and talked to everyone who passed by.
I've been craving a ponchik for almost 17 years. Listen to Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Sleep.
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