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The Ice Cream Wars

by 12/26/2021
Neighborhood: Lower East Side, Lower Manhattan

During the summer of 1978 I worked as a Good Humor man.  I would push a cart from the Good Humor depot, located at 3rd Street between 1st and 2nd Avenue, on the Lower East Side, to Exchange Place in the financial district of lower Manhattan, where I would sell the company’s offerings to traders, […]

Memories of an East New York Childhood

by 04/18/2021
Neighborhood: East New York

Boulevard Houses was built in 1950 and consists of eighteen buildings, six and fourteen stories high. Signs in grassy areas warned residents to “Keep Off.” Most people left their doors unlocked, so we could freely go from one apartment to another to chat, play games or borrow a needed item.   My family did not […]