East Side Story

Image Credit: Gina Greenlee, paint, ink, collage

For more of my take on growing up on New York City’s Lower East Side:

Black and Blintzes: Growing Up Not Quite Jewish on the Lower East Side

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments in New York

Hush Life, a novel

No Tears for Frankie: A Memoir on the Life of an Essay

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Take a YouTube tour of my hometown. The background song is the 1977 hit Native New Yorker, performed by Odyssey. The lyrics, shared in this blog and written by Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell, kick in at minute 1:15. Enjoy!