*In the Heights, on HBO now.

[elleng]

[TDale313]

1. It's so good. Highly recommend.

[mountain grammy]

2. Saw it this summer.. very good!

[electric_blue68]

3. Going to watch it during the week...

the area closer to GW bridge north & south western side mostly was my old neighborhood. 👍

[elleng]

4. Dad grew up in the Heights.

[electric_blue68]

5. Ah 👍 I lived in the...

near south end, the lower middle, and the upper end.
All along Ft Washington Ave.

Where did he live?

[elleng]

6. Amsterdam Ave.

I don't know exactly where, my brother (and cousin) actually FOUND the building, some years ago.

Grandpa ran a deli, the family lived above it and the 'kids' worked in it (occasionally.)

They attended George Washington High School.

[electric_blue68]

7. Ah...

I would have gone to GW if I hadn't gone to then
Music and Art HS. I think my dad also wanted me to try for Bronx Science (I loved some science, too) but I leaned more to Art. In HS I barely made it through (blarg 😄 Algebra, Trig, did well Geometry.

We used to go over to St Nicohlas Ave (maaaybe Amsterdam, too) on, near 181st. There was a Greek Deli where we got our Greek foods. Stuff not well known in general yet.

Your parents/you moved away from NYC?

[elleng]

8. We lived in NYC until '54, when moved to L.I.

after my mother had died, and Dad remarried; my first home was Brooklyn, up to 5th grade.

I moved 'away' for college, in midwest, then to Chicago (and later DC,) and Dad and adopted mother left L.I. for Westchester after brother and I were out of college, then they moved to Florida. Adopted mother passed in FL, and Dad passed after he'd moved to IOWA!!! to be near brother, who was (and is established there.)

[electric_blue68]

12. Sorry, got real busy...

Wow quite young leaving for LI. Sorry you lost your mom so young, too.

I loved living in Brooklyn (about a half mile or m Downtown Brooklyn) for about 8+ yrs.

Interesting - Midwest, Chicago, DC.

For your dad - FLA to Iowa(!): quote a change! 😄

[elleng]

13. QUITE a change, for Dad Iowa,

thanks to my good, devoted brother (who got 'our' Baby Grand piano; still in his living room.)

Sorry didn't really appreciate Brooklyn (Clinton Hill/Fort Greene) as so young, BUT got a GOOD public school education through 4th grade.

[electric_blue68]

14. A blessing to have good family...

I've been very lucky that way!

Well, at least you got some good basics! 👍

I lived in Brooklyn between ?47 - 56 yrs old.

[FakeNoose]

9. Lin-Manuel Miranda has a cameo role in the movie

Of course he was the original star, and he wrote the stage play and some of the music. I guess for the movie version they needed a younger man for the lead and Miranda is already in his 40's now. It's a nice little story, and the music and dancing are very good.

[AngryOldDem]

10. Christopher Jackson is in it, too.

He was also in the Broadway production, and was George Washington in “Hamilton.”

[AngryOldDem]

11. I loved this.

I am such a huge fan of Lin-Manuel Miranda.