Where to live on Long Island when working in Brooklyn (Redhook).

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by checkmatechamp13

If he wants a more suburban area that's closer to his job, maybe he can try Dyker Heights or Bay Ridge (by Shore Road). Both areas are a relatively short commute (he could do it on local streets like 3rd/4th Avenue rather than having to take the BQE), and public transportation is much easier.

Dyker Heights and Bay Ridge are neighborhoods in the southwest part of Brooklyn.

Red Hook is in South Brooklyn, because way back when in the early part of the 19th Century, Red Hook was the in the south part of the original town, and then city, of Brooklyn.

For more about the geographic history of, to many of us, the Motherland, please see https://www.city-data.com/forum/new-y...gs-county.html.

[eastsiders]

Sorry about the acronym overload. OCS is Officer Candidate School and IOBC is the Infantry Officer Basic Course. It's funny but at least I had enough sense not to add IMPOC (Infantry Mortar Platoon Officers Course). I caught myself on that one. But you are right. I say "squared away" and "the whole nine yards" along with my kids who also give out 5 point contingency plans when they go somewhere. It's all a little odd but it's our life..

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by eastsiders

OCS is Officer Candidate School and IOBC is the Infantry Officer Basic Course.

Back in the day, when I was working in the Office of Instruction at the U.S. Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, GA, I performed quality control on the exams given to OCS, IOBC, as well as NCOCS*, students.

* NCOCS = Non-commissioned Office Candidate School.