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What do you say when somebody's in trouble?

A note on my comment: Although everybody says it's true that different neighborhoods in NYC don't *really* speak that differently from each other, it's absolutely been my observation that When I Lived in Bensonhurst quite a few of the people around me (not my family, but neighbors and whatnot) said "youse", and since I've lived on Staten Island I haven't heard it once. I don't know if people in Bensonhurst *still* say youse, but it only took me, like, a day to move. One day I'm hearing it from my dance teachers and neighbors and all, the next I'm not.

On a semi-related note (well, not really), last week or the week before Castle really bugged me. Quite aside from the made up UNY (given that there is CUNY, SUNY, and NYU, two of which are in the top three largest university systems in the nation and the last of which is quite famous and prestigious in its own right, it might have behooved them to be a little more creative than "UNY" when making up a college), there were repeated comments that "nobody gets out of this neighborhood" and whatnot.

I actually screamed at the TV at one point. People get out of Bensonhurst all the time. Mostly, I think they come to Staten Island. Half the time you meet somebody with an Italian name around here, and you get to talking, and five minutes into the conversation they tell you they come from Bensonhurst originally. The other half of the time they came from Bay Ridge. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them end up in Jersey either, once they move.