#Brooklynites remember borough native Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“#Brooklynites remember borough native Ruth Bader Ginsburg”
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Her family called her “Kiki” — she was a “kicky” baby — and that boundless energy endured througout her life.
It propelled her across garage roofs just like the boys, fueled her focus as she twirled a baton in front of packed crowds at Madison High School football games, and fed her formidable mind as she poured over books at the public library on her way to becoming a pioneering feminist and consummate legal mind.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who succumbed to the spread of pancreatic cancer at age 87 on Friday, will always be a daughter of Brooklyn, where she spent her childhood in the 1930s and 40s, and where her spirit was felt Saturday in the neighborhood that shaped her.
“Nothing stopped her — she was 5 feet tall and a powerhouse,” said the current resident of Ginsburg’s childhood home’s current resident, Diana Brenneisen, 77, a retired legal secretary who also grew up in that same back bedroom, but who is sad to have never met the legendary jurist.
“The bedroom is the same,” said Brenneisen, who shares the home with her husband, William, 81, a retired bank worker.
“Just a paint job, and that’s it. It’s about 9 by 11, and I believe it was white, the room, but it’s presently yellow,” Brenneisen said of the room.
“It’s a nice honor,” she said of having slept in the same room as the young Ginsburg.
Ginsburg, William said, is the quintessential Big Apple success story.
“She was a good example,” he said as a steady stream of mourners left flowers and written tributes at the elderly couple’s tiny front yard.
“If you work hard, you can make something [of yourself] in life.”
Ginsburg, whose father came to the US from Russia when he was 13, and whose mother was the first of her family to be born in the US, was born in 1933 and grew up in the shadow of the Second World War and the Holocaust.
The family ran small retail shops to get by, and as a Jew, Ginsburg was shaped by the experience of growing up an outsider.
“It makes you more empathetic to other people who are not insiders, who are outsiders,” she told The Forward in 2018.
Her empathy resonated Saturday.
Leroy McCarthy, who last year pushed for a street renamed for Brooklyn-born rapper Biggie Smalls, said “The Notorious RBG” — a nickname given during Ginsburg’s late in life popularity — also deserves one.
“I’m very proud of her, being a Brooklynite myself,” said McCarthy, 63, who visited Ginsburg’s old home as a sign of respect. “She was ahead of her time in terms of law and rights and I definitely appreciate the work that she had done for women and mankind.”
For her part, Ginsburg knew that all Brooklynites share something special.
Discussing her “Notorious” nickname and newfound popularity with The Forward two years ago she said:
“The Notorious B.I.G. People didn’t know that we had that very important thing in common. And it’s just taken off from there. I mean it’s amazing to me. In March I will be 85, and everyone wants to take my picture,” she said.
Outside the 2,600 square foot home, Hannah Smart’s thank you note and single white rose joined a growing pile of tokens of respect, admiration and love.
“Justice Ginsburg did a lot for feminist rights and just for human rights in general,” said Smart, 23.
She continued: “She was somebody who generally had the best interest of the people in mind and know that she fought very hard for what she believed in.”
Additional reporting by Isabel Vincent
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