AOC: I took the Throggs Neck. Heard there was a pileup of chumps on the Whitestone

[George II]

7. When I was 9 we moved from Brooklyn to Flushing, almost equi-distant from the two bridges....

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....a mile away from either. At the time the Throgs Neck Bridge hadn't been built yet, though. It opened about four or five years later. Both cross Long Island Sound and end up in the South Bronx - the TNB obviously in the Throgs Neck section of the Bronx.

I did my Naval Reserve duty at the Whitestone Naval Reserve Training Center, which I guess is long gone now. I don't recall Whitestone being all that conservative - it was mostly Jewish, as was my neighborhood in Flushing. As you say, it's mostly Asian now, as is Flushing - at first Chinese, now becoming more Korean. Latinos settled further west, in neighborhoods like Corona, Jackson Heights, Woodside, and of course the South Bronx.

Had I not gone to high school in Manhattan (same HS as Jerry Nadler and Grace Meng, two NYC members of the House) I would have gone to Bayside High School, almost in the shadow of the TNB.

The conservative neighborhoods in Queens back then were Astoria and to a lesser extent College Point. But THE absolutely most conservative neighborhood, indeed entire borough, was and is Staten Island. Going there almost seemed like I WAS in the midwest!

I thought it was great when Max Rose won two years ago, that was a huge surprise!