What a beautiful description - "Losers."
"Marginal areas attract marginal element. "
" Michael Dayzend, Chrestomathy Brooklyn
Losers
My life began, where the city ends. I was born in 1943 in the southern outskirts of the capital of all losers of the world - in Brighton Beach in Brooklyn. One is the name makes some Americans surprised look or a smile. District of losers, where heroes were baseball players "Dodgers."
As always be the case with the inhabitants of Brooklyn, the Dodgers had never won a world championship since 1903 (when he was held for the first time) until 1955. During this time they lost seven times. When in 1955 they finally won a "Yankees", then two years later moved to Los Angeles. Ebbets Field, the former residence of the Dodgers (Originally the place was a garbage dump), was demolished for housing. As always be the case with Niederhoffer, in 1951 I made a bet to win the Dodgers, when they are ahead of rivals in 13 games. Bobby Thompson's Shot in the final match eased my pocket.
Brooklyn "Dodgers" - "shifty" - His name shall the world's largest tram system. Inhabitant of Brooklyn had to learn to dodge the trams or perish. Brooklyn boy, who preferred not to pay the fare and went, trailers back to the tram, were also able to jump off on the run when tram was approaching the police station, where they waited stick. Brooklyn those days was a cemetery area, breweries, crowding, bustle, unhappy and unsuccessful. While none of film about the war not been without great guys from Benzonhersta who chewed gum, cigarette and shoot somebody speaking Brooklyn dialect. Similarly, no one play with a scene of departure from Manhattan do not get along without complaint in an exclamation: "I have to go back to Brooklyn!" Nothing surprising that the Society for the Suppression of insulting remarks about Brooklyn in 1946, numbered in its ranks forty thousand and three thousand members of the offensive statements.
marginal areas attract a marginal element. In Brighton everywhere flocked to the lost and dropped people: beggars, vagrants, gamblers, thieves, people with disabilities, street vendors and musicians. But Brighton beckoned and others: to exit from the tram unloaded simple hard workers with families that are here, on the outskirts of civilization, among the noisy and cheap entertainment to spend the day under the scorching sun - and by spending a few cents on a tram ticket, to return into their world of heavy and endless labor. "
Universities stock speculator Victor Niederhoffer
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