he should be from the lower east side

tell me more

like he was… I don't want to say originally but certainly at one point

that's where jack kirby was from and that's a traditional immigrant , multi-cultural narrative

it made sense he came from there from both a doylist and watsonian perspective

after 9/11 in the comics he moved to brooklyn (like… as an adult, like a hipster) and people got confused and though he always lived there, as the cultural memory of the pre-war LES sort of slipped away

similar to how Daredevil being from "Hell's Kitchen" has gotten all goofy

anyway the tenement museum is a neat resource

i wanna go to that museum irl so bad....one day

right… me too.

brooklyn had a much bigger polish immigrant population in the early 1900s

and various other slavs but

we talked about it for a day in the museums class I took and I wanna visit but it's very far

i am not as far but everything is closed rn

nyc is day trip far for me

but this museum has been on my to go list for a while

it's a rough time for museums, in general.

yeah

howard is from the lower east side

howard is the true captain america

presumably maria stark was also from the lower east side

they probably met there,

tbh steve's parents are kind of statistical outliers even in the les

but its fine jack kirby can do as he likes

well mcu steve's middle name is grant so he's clearly from maryland

ah,

but yeah he's from les in spirit anyway because jack kirby

what matters is that captain america is an illustrator living in brooklyn who wears old fashioned pants

also kirby briefly went to pratt so you know brooklyn does have that one