by Danielle Berg
The other night, my boyfriend Matt, my friends Becky and Josh, and I went to a Brooklyn Cyclones game. Since I work two stops from Coney Island, I got there before them, and spent some time walking through the park. I’d been to the boardwalk, and to Surf Ave., but never in between.
Joe Sitt, the developer who bought up most of the central amusement area of Coney Island, belongs to the Syrian-Jewish community of New York (and New Jersey). Which means, in Syrian-Jewish tradition, he likely has handfuls of cousins with the same name, as first children are named for their paternal grandparents, second children are named for their maternal grandparents (unless they’re a different sex, in which case they’ll be named for the other paternal grandparent), and after that - I don’t know…
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July 29, 2009 at 12:13pm
