Brooklyn street proves yes, we all can get along

by urbano411 | August 16, 2007 at 07:26 pm

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NEW YORK — What is it about Coney Island Avenue?

That's what Brooklyn College sociologist Jerry Krase wonders as he rides the B68 bus along this 5-mile commercial strip, which is populated at various stops by pockets of West Indians, Latinos, Pakistanis, Indians, Orthodox Jews, Chinese, Russians, Israelis and Ukrainians.

How do so many different kinds of people live so closely yet so peacefully?