When I was about three or four years old, my father would take me with him on occasional Saturday morning visits to three bachelor friends who shared an apartment that must have been fairly close to where we lived. Their names were Charlie Vennen, “Red” Brown and Neil Newton. Charlie was very big, about 6 [...]
Archive for April, 2007
How they electrocuted my father
Posted in Uncategorized on April 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Mama Savarese takes on the Church
Posted in GreenwichVillage, Interesting characters, PrinceSt on April 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
In 1951 my first wife and I took a cold water flat at the foot of MacDougal Street just after it crosses Prince and as it is about to merge with 6th Ave coming in at an angle. Our flat faced the front, the 6th Ave side, on which there was a small paved triangle [...]
