Jane O'Meara Sanders (Bernie's wife) is a Crown Heights native

Jane Sanders, Crown Heights native. Photo: AP via Burlington Free Press

Our nation's next first lady, Jane O'Meara Sanders (okay, I can dream a little), just revealed that she's a neighborhood girl on WNYC's Brian Lehrer this morning. In a long interview with the local interviewer, she talked about growing up in Brooklyn some 40+ years ago. She said she grew up in Flatbush, at "Eastern 7th and Avenue D," which presumably means East 7th Street and Ditmas, but before that at New York Avenue and Prospect Place, just around the corner for this old blog (though she called the neighborhood Bed Stuy, not Crown Heights, but by today's neighborhood names, it's certainly the latter.) Her husband Bernie is, of course, also a Brooklyn native, from Midwood.