Yeah, pretty much. By the mid '70s, most of the kids I grew up with had "moved on up" to Westchester with their families. My own parents ended up moving to the Scarsdale-Eastchester area after I got married. My Mom is gone now, but my Dad still lives there.

By the mid '80s, the neighborhood was at least half Albanian. But they never bothered anyone. Except for one isolated incident (and it was a big one, a heavyweight wiseguy's son was killed by one of them), I don't remember one single problem with the Alabanians in the area. For all the talk of them being crazy, I never really bought into it. But like I said, even the Albanians have moved to the suburbs now. You can tell by the Church. Mount Carmel has more Spanish masses now than English AND Italian.

I'm still in the area quite a bit, though. My family owns a rental property there. Hoffman Street to be exact.