Welcome back to “Meet Your Neighbors,†a weekly feature on the Bed Stuy blog that serves to make the introductions between you, our readers, and other people who live or work in Bedford Stuyvesant.
This week’s holiday episode serves to provide both your humble beat reporter and all of you a needed break from some of the more controversial and thought-provoking topics that seem to plague most residents here in Bed Stuy. I, for one, enjoyed my day off and attended a Memorial Day BBQ in the ‘hood, and was reminded how simple, domestic pleasures – like consuming a juicy cheeseburger on a butter-slathered bun – can wipe out weeks worth of long days and adult responsibility. But watching kids playing on the now crowded Bed Stuy sidewalks, with the Mister Softee truck blaring “Pop Goes the Weasel” over and over and over again, can also serve to take one back to simpler times (if not, on different days, to drive you insane).
Remember when all you had to worry about was finding your friends on the block and having enough dough on hand to buy a Bombpop? In celebration of the first official day of summer – the time of year when we all like to sentimentalize our childhood – I would like to introduce you to Victoria, the daughter of Gisele C., who was featured in Episode 2. Ready to meet a new neighbor?
Name: Victoria
Age: 6
Born: Bklyn, NY
Cultural or ethnic heritage/background: Haitian American
How long have you lived in Bed Stuy?: All my life
What school do you go to?: P.S. 262
Whom do you live with?: My mom!
What are some of your favorite hobbies or interests?: Singing, Dancing, and I just started traveling with my mom…I have my own passport and already been to neat places!
What is your most dreaded household chore, and why?: I don’t have any, but I really love to help out!
What is your favorite household chore, and why? I love to help my mom out with everything, especially when she is under the weather!
What are your favorite books or movies?: West Side Story and Please Baby Please Baby Please written by Spike Lee and sister!
What do you like best about living in Brooklyn and/or Bed Stuy?: I’m close to all of my family!
What do you like least about living in Brooklyn and/or Bed Stuy?: I’m not close to Disney World!
How often do you go to Manhattan?: With my mom all the time!
What’s your favorite thing to see or do in Manhattan?: I love Central Park, the museum of Natural History is really neat…my mom took me to a really nice butterfly show and we were able to touch them!
If you could be a different person for a day, who would that person be, and why would
you want to be that person?: I would love to be a princess…because my mom calls me princess Victoria and she treats me like one all the time!
Photography by Bed Stuy resident and photographer Rosie McCobb. To see more of Rosie’s work, click here:www.pbase.com/mccobb1969
What an absolute beauty…….way to go Mom
ok. both mom and daughter rule!
seriously, what a beautiful bright young lady.
She is too cute and smart. What a great mom!
THE CUTE!!! she’s adorable. Love how you’re doing all the age groups.
Go Victoria!! You are my coolest neighbor.