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My Bella Grace Summer
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Right now, I am standing in the parking garage of my apartment building, having a cigarette, listening to Nick Drake sing Northern Sky. I’m listening to the rain outside, the soft patter of raindrops on the street below. My eyes drift over, and I notice a duck walking, or maybe…
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The Brooklyn I Remember
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Voorhies Avenue itself always felt alive to me. In the late 1970s, Sheepshead Bay still carried the feeling of old Brooklyn, the kind of neighborhood where life revolved around family-owned shops, crowded sidewalks, corner bakeries, pizza shops, and familiar faces that became woven quietly into the fabric of everyday life.…
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Dear Jennie: The Place My Heart Still Calls Home Part One
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When I think about home, I do not think about an address, although I still remember the exact address that sits quietly within my mind and heart. 1527 Voorhies Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11235. I think about that two-story single-family house on Voorhies Avenue in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. It was roughly…