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I met a gentleman at the last HOA meeting who told me that they meet the 3rd Tuesday of the month at the Canal Rec Center at 6:30pm. I just called the Rec Center to confirm the time. So that would make the next meeting on Sept 17.



The Bronx/Stamford CT/New City NY/Coral Springs FL/Hampton Bays L.I./TV

grew up in the Van Nest section of the Bronx and graduated from Cardinal Spellman HS in '69

Hi everyone. I've been lurking for about a year and a half and this is my first post on TOTV. I love this site. And it took ' Bronx Tale' to get me to become active.

I grew up on Manhattan's West Side but went to All Hallows High School up near Yankee Stadium at 164th between Walton and the Concourse. I had the Irish Christian Brothers and it was a magnificent experience.

We had end of year boat trips on the old and venerable 'City of Keansburg' to Rye Beach. Girls schools were always invited, including variously Aquinas, St. Simon Stock, I think Preston and once at least, Dominican Academy from the east 60's in Manhattan.

After college, I taught for two years at St. Catharine Academy, an all girls Catholic hs on Williamsbridge and just off Pelham Parkway. As a wet behind the ears teacher, I seemed to be the only one concerned and alarmed about the occasional bomb threats called in. I relaxed after many of the students explained that there was no need for concern and did I notice the threats were called in only in the mid afternoon? I was told the boyfriends down a few blocks at Columbus were the culprits and were trying to see if they could gain additional time with their girls after school. The nuns generally foiled this by making the girls return to the school without the hoped for early dismissal. LOL.

I moved with my beloved to beautiful Woodbury up north in December 2012 and love the Villages. It's still a 'pinch me I'm dreaming' kind of feeling!

I'll try to introduced myself in the traditional way on the newbies' thread soon.

Creston JHS......De Witt Clinton HS.
Lived off Fordham & Grand.

This is funny.Now, looking over all your posts above, it is a bit of a small world.

Often in the summer, several of us from our West Eighties neighborhood in Manhattan would take the Pelham Bay subway/el to the end, then grab a bus to City Island where one of our crowd had a summer bungalow. We'd canoe out to Rat Island and sit amid the bird droppings and drink our two tall cans of Rheingold and smoke Hit Parade cigarettes and think we were beyond 'cool.' :) Bringing the canoe back up the ramp later was often very 'un-cool' but enough.

My dad worked for years in Con Edison in the manhole gangs around the city. When he approached retirement, in the mid 1970's, the company, as it did with many of the old guys, put him in a dispatch job in Van Nest yard. Light duty til retirement. Good company back then.

We lived on Long Island before moving here, and as another Bronx connection, we got our beagle in 2009 from a girl who bred AKC beagles at her home in Morris Park, the clean, tight knit and heavily Italian-American neighborhood right across Pelham Parkway from St Catharine HS. Her mother was one of my old students unbeknownst to any of us until we met!

I remember happily Jahn's on Fordham Road, Donaghy's Steak House on 231st in Kingsbridge, Stella Dora's restaurant with its aromas wafting up to the commuters on the 238th St Station on Broadway, and S&S Chessecake also on 238th. In college, we hung out a lot on Fridays in Forde's Bar across from the Kingsbridge Armory.

I loved the Bronx back in the sixties and early seventies.

Parkchester

St. Helenas, Class of '68