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YOU OLD BAT! My grandmother’s apartment in the Ansonia Hotel was a wild place but in the worst way. The fights between my mother and grandmother were as volatile as the fights my mother had with my father before he left. When my mother came home from work, I’d feel her rage outside the door. Here it comes, I thought, [...]
The year was 1950. I was five years old. There was barely room for my mother, much less me, when we moved into my grandmother’s small, crowded apartment on the 9th floor in the Ansonia Hotel on 74th Street and Broadway, where my mother had lived before marrying my father. When she and my grandmother moved after my grandfather’s death, [...]
My father and I emerge from the long green canopy and stand outside the Ansonia Hotel on Broadway where we live. It’s Sunday afternoon. 1949. Winter. A chill wind blows. I am four. My father wears his gray felt fedora at a jaunty angle, the shadow from the brim hiding one eye. That fedora with the grosgrain ribbon is my father. He’s [...]
