The schools, Incarnation, SHM and All Hallows in The Bronx. Incarnation, Saint Elizabeth, and Holy Rood. Broome stick bats and key tossing hop scotch hoppers. The Cloisters, the egg creams and candy stores. I fully intended for the novel to be historically correct. I guess it is, in that events taking place in Kate’s world did occur. An academically gifted, height challenged, introspective middle child between her fifteen -year-old Rory and the ever pesky six-year-old Danny.ĭescribed by editors as a historical. The daughter of Liam, a NYC cop, and Colleen a lampshade maker. The story focuses on the Dunn family, and centers on twelve-year-old Kate. My noel takes place during Christmas week 1962 and is now available on Amazon books. What began as a slice of life essay, a little over three years ago evolved into The Freeze. Take a nostalgic trip to the past click on the arrow below This web site is a cooperative effort of all of us, so please contribute your personal memories from long ago! Photos may be scanned and sent as email attachments by clicking on the email link at the bottom of this web page. Please send your personal memories AND your old photographs that show Heights neighborhoods, and landmarks.
Who knows you might even re-acquaint with your old friends from the apartment across the hallway!
Through this unique web site we can have the opportunity to meet many former Heights neighbors now scattered all over the world. The immigrants who who populate the same apartment buildings today have the same dreams for their children, as did the Irish, the Jewish holocaust survivors, the Italians and the Greeks before them. In seeking a new life in a better place for their families, all wanted a piece of the American Dream. For thousands of refugees fleeing from Nazi Germany, it was a safe haven and a new start. For many "The Heights" was a big step up from the downtown cold water flats they moved from. To several generations of immigrants and their children who were yearning for a better apartment and a new start "uptown", Washington Heights was the neighborhood of dreams.
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