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Bronx Pinocchios of the Borscht Belt
by Eugene Barron 12/10/2022Neighborhood: Bronx, The Catskills
My home base in the 50s was Wyatt Street, essentially, a one-block middle class Jewish enclave in the East Bronx. Theirs was a few miles away, on Fox Street in the South Bronx, then a tough area of mostly poor Jews, Italians, Blacks and Puerto Ricans. Our paths were unlikely to have ever crossed, except […]
Crotona Park
by Marissa Piesman 03/14/2021Neighborhood: East Bronx, West Bronx
Blanche, my mother, was past thirty, an old maid by the standards of the mid-twentieth century. She finally picked herself up and hauled herself off to a lefty resort in the Catskills, the kind of place where people were more likely to play Twenty Questions than tennis. There she met my father, Harold, who was […]