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Stuff in Stockings
by Thomas R. Pryor 03/20/2011Neighborhood: Featured, Yorkville
Gabriella breezed into St. Stephen’s 6th grade as a new student, and left a battleship wake when she mysteriously disappeared after seventh grade. Gabriella was an adorable Hungarian immigrant with a low voice like Natasha on the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. Her hair was cut short and bobbed to show off her huge dark almond-shaped [...]
Thanksgiving 1961
by Thomas R. Pryor 11/24/2010Neighborhood: Yorkville
Thanksgiving morning, 1961, Mom woke me quietly and whispered, “Rory is sick. If you wake him up before you leave, you’re not going either.” I shook my head yes. I felt bad that my younger brother, Rory, wouldn’t see the parade, but I was happy to go with Dad alone. It was much easier having [...]
Dad Shot Thumper
by Thomas R. Pryor 06/19/2010Neighborhood: Yorkville
Dad used to hunt. He didn’t golf, so hunting was another made up reason to get out of the house. He never struck me as the hunting type, but once or twice a year, he’d be off upstate for a long weekend. It was a Yorkville man thing in the 1950s and 1960s. As he [...]
At the Polo Grounds
by Thomas R. Pryor 04/06/2010Neighborhood: East Harlem, Featured, Yorkville
"Hey Dad, who were you just talking to down at the end of the bar?" "Oh, that's Al Dorow, the quarterback for the New York Titans." It was fall 1961, Dad and I were in Loftus Tavern after throwing the ball around outside on York Avenue. My two teams, the New York Giants, football, and [...]
