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The Ice Cream Wars
by Peter Margolies 12/26/2021Neighborhood: 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 Renee Shanker 04/18/2021Neighborhood: 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 […]