My mother still talks about the time Joe Gallo gave her change for a payphone as a kid.
There are, but they're going fast. Bensonhurst & Dyker Hgts while still having a sizable Italian population are fast turning Chinese, Russian & Mexican. Plus, hard to believe I know, even the old South Brooklyn still has plenty of Italians left. But we're like dinosaurs & won't be around long.
Old Italian Bensonhurst still exists. It just got relocated to Staten Island. And it's like the same families even. Whenever I want to visit people I knew as a kid in Bensonhurst, I just go to Staten island. Sooner or later I'll run into one. Some people call it "Brooklyn 2"
