SAD SIGN – ONLY IN BROOKLYN

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As you drive out of Brooklyn on the Williamsburg Bridge you’ll see a traffic sign above you reading “Leaving Brooklyn. Oy Vey!” No, the sign isn’t the work of a prankster. It’s a real sign, placed there last week by the Department of Transportation at the request of Marty Markowitz, Borough President of Brooklyn. Says Markowitz: -“Oy vey is an original Jewish ‘expression of dismay or hurt.’ -The beauty is, every ethnic group knows it, and motorists seeing it know it means: ‘Dear me, I’m so sad you’re leaving.'”