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Cool Group on Union Street Saturday began with an afternoon feast on Webster Place at Mark and Penny’s home. It was a post Bar Mitzvah party for their son Glenn. My buddy Ron and I drank, smoked pot and danced for several hours to a live band called Grape Jam.At some point, I left to go for a swim at [...]
This past July, while visiting Grass Valley, California, a small town in the Sierra Nevada foothills, I nearly died. I was driving my mother-in-law’s 1991 Toyota Previa on my way back to her house from a morning tennis match when the brakes gave out while going down a steep and winding hill. As the vehicle was speeding up, I tried [...]
Maybe he did, or maybe he didn’t, but whether it’s legend or fact, the story goes that young George Washington chopped down a cherry tree. But in Brooklyn, after journeying to America from Bari, Italy, my immigrant grandfather—aka Poppa—simply slept under his. His Eden was a small backyard wedged between two other homes on Seventeenth Street between 9th and 10th [...]
