Claim OwnershipSilver Chains, Playgrounds, and the Oval: A Celebration of Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town
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Tucked neatly into the lower east side of Manhattan between 14th and 20th streets and from 1st Avenue to Avenue C, Stuyvesant Town has been home to 30,000 people at any one time since 1948. This special place -- a “city within a city” – provided a unique setting in which to live, especially if you were a kid.
This podcast is a forum for sharing recollections of growing up here. The finely manicured lawns, the endless tracts of landscaping and trees, and the playgrounds form the backdrop for your memories of a time and place that, although far removed from now, many of us still refer to as “home.”
Take a little time out from your busy adult life and go back to a time and place where lifelong friends and lasting memories were forged. You will even have opportunities to share your own special memories!
This podcast is a forum for sharing recollections of growing up here. The finely manicured lawns, the endless tracts of landscaping and trees, and the playgrounds form the backdrop for your memories of a time and place that, although far removed from now, many of us still refer to as “home.”
Take a little time out from your busy adult life and go back to a time and place where lifelong friends and lasting memories were forged. You will even have opportunities to share your own special memories!
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Brendan Crowe, Brian Crowe, Reynold Kurth, Joe McGrath and Mike Lyden talk with us about the "other" city game, sharpening their hockey skills, competing for playground space, and "borrowing" hockey nets from uptown.
In the last episode before a summer break, we return with Andrea and Steve to growing up in Peter Cooper Village, as they share memories of the middle playground, P.S. 40, platform shoes and Huckapoo shirts.
Jeanne and Mike re-visit the St. Emeric's School quonset hut, a Charlie Brown school play, playgrounds 4 and 5, and friends and neighbors from the 60's and 70's.
Mary Anderson Gallagher, Robyn Muskat Frank, SueEllen Levine Eshed, and Laura Capuano Schmidt share their memories of divided bedrooms, table manners, long telephone cords, and parents out on the bench on summer evenings.
Susan and Gil take us back to P.S. 61, school plays, Freidel's, and first crushes.
Eileen and Tim take us back to the summer point tourney, awful memories of cream cheese and jelly, "spending time" in jail cells, and the coolest people they knew growing up.
Kevin takes us along to the East River, the Bash, and several memorable nights out.
Patti and Joe chat about Stuy Town, Immaculate Conception School, roller hockey, and the Dirt Bowl.
The Nieporent brothers reminisce about roller hockey, the 23rd street pool, their parents, and more in this episode about growing up in Peter Cooper Village.
Ken and Richard take us back to growing up in Stuy Town in the 1950s and early 1960s
Stuyvesant Town resident Tommy Issing recalls his growing up years in Stuy Town the 1960s and 1970s.
This inaugural episode has two components: in the first half, we provide a refresher on the physical layout of Stuyvesant Town. The second half is a conversation with our first guest, Ellen Sullivan Hart.
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