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In Alfred Kazin's memoir, A Walker in the City , the subway ride from Brownsville to Manhattan "quantified the vast physical and social distance that existed between the Jews of Brooklyn and the 'real' New York."
No wonder Kazin was drawn to the bridge in A Walker in the City . Brownsville, the neighborhood in Brooklyn where he came from, had one foot in eastern Europe and one in the New World.
Thousands of residents along the southeastern coast of Texas fled in advance of the hurricane, which lost strength Sunday afternoon and made landfall in a sparsely populated area south of Corpus Christi and north of Brownsville.
He attended Brownsville Junior College in the early 1930s, earning an A.A. degree in 1936.
Though I'd had a very different childhood from Kazin and approached Manhattan from a direction completely different from Kazin's Brownsville, I remembered vividly the sense of possibility the drive suggested.
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