Pretty interesting watching this as someone who was not born yet when this happened. My mother was a teacher in the Bronx, and my father worked in a store in the Bronx when this happened. He said that “crooked nosed gentlemen” would patrol the streets around the neighborhood to ensure that what...
That top picture Dan, Mike Barone on his second of three episodes on GSE talks about being at that job with Ladder 18. There are some good news videos floating around on YouTube about the blackout.
There was a large fire in a loft building on broadway on Valentine’s Day 1979 where the building ran from broadway to Mercer street. It had a disco occupancy on the first floor and commercial and residential on the floors above. The owner of the property was doing a “freeze out” and had the hot...
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