Neighborhood Nostalgia Comes to Life in "The Originals"
Briefly

Once upon a time in Brooklyn, kids played stickball in the street until dinnertime, mothers and grandmothers took chairs outside to chat, and all the families knew one another.The neighborhood seemed like the whole world.This is how Matteo Ruggiero-or Matty, as he's known to friends-one of the real-life subjects depicted in the animated short "The Originals," remembers the block where he grew up, on Union Street in Carroll Gardens.
Read at The New Yorker
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