VIDEO: On the set of ‘Back In The Day,’ starring Alec Baldwin
Movie shows off Brooklyn old and new
William DeMeo fondly recalls the days when growing up in Brooklyn meant playing stickball in the streets, sitting out on the stoop until late at night and entire neighborhoods coming together for block parties in the summer.
He prefers those days to the current ones, where Facebook has become the new stoop and mothers are more likely to call their kids in via text message than poking their heads out the front door.
Brooklyn has undergone significant changes since the days when DeMeo grew up on the streets of Bensonhurst, and it is those cultural changes that he’s trying highlight in his upcoming movie “Back in the Day.”