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Creative insults
Im mostly Italian with a bit of Spainard. Ill try the Y' oll phonetically (Y yol). I believe its Italian but so many things in Brooklyn are a hodge podge that its hard to find the correct provenance of slang terms. It is however a term of friendship pehaps a direct antonym of Slappy.
Your mom is essentially right however there is still a rather large Irish contingent and a large Hispanic community. My neighborhood is still the original Brooklyn "mixed" neighborhood Irish, Italian, and Jewish.
The Heights is still a rather exclusive area and the Promenade is the still the best view of Manhattan your ever likely to see. My wife and I schlep there a coulple of time a summer.
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