A film about Jessie Singer Sylvester, a quite ordinary aging Brooklyn resident, was the inspiration for “Beautiful Hills of Brooklyn.” She lived in the borough during the 1970’s and kept a neat, thorough journal that her great-niece found after her death. Her niece, Ellen Cassedy, found the diary, according to the New York Times. The meticulous, menial notes were “poetic,” the niece thought. Cassedy wrote a play, which later became this film. A showing will be held Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan and has been used to train social workers and senior care workers about how to be sensitive to aging-related issues in New York City.
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