Why Weren’t We Bored? The Bronx Midway through the 1930s, and on to the 1940s the Great Depression provided the economic setting of our lives. With nothing but dust and unraveled threads in our pockets, and parents trying to sustain a family on meager or absent funds, we found the means to add color to… Continue reading Why Weren’t We Bored?
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Street Games
Street Games Tje Bronx 1930s No emerald green grass covering our field, no bleachers or grandstands, no roaring crowds. Seabury Place’s black, asphalt street was our stadium. In the 1930s, one of the few cars that had appeared on our street was Dr. Kulock’s Buick when he made a house call. If a rare intruder… Continue reading Street Games
An East Bronx Obituary
An East Bronx Obituary 1980 Charlotte Gardens, it sounds like a name to a cemetery. It is a neighborhood that died and ranch houses are its gravestones. Bronx, mein shtetleh Bronx* what has become of you? President Jimmy Carter proposed it, and President Reagan bulldozed built it. Rows of silent ranch homes replaced a community once… Continue reading An East Bronx Obituary