Someone had mentioned Officer Tommy Doyle in the comments section so I thought he’d make for an intriguing blog entry.
I was a little kid when Doyle patrolled the neighborhood where he was known as one of the most-feared, disliked and most talked about cop’s from the 7-2.
One of my most clearer memories of the ‘discipline-master’ [...]
Archive for July, 2009
THE MEDIATOR
Posted in Beer, Denis Hamill, Joey Corrar, Officer Doyle, Parkside, tagged Poker, Beer, Brooklyn, Denis Hamill, New York, Daily News, Canarsie, Cops, 4th Avenue, Apartment, Tommy Doyle, 72nd Precinct, 21st street on July 31, 2009 | 44 Comments »
PETER HEANEY
Posted in Fishing Trip, Peter Heaney, The Lot, tagged Fishing Trip on July 27, 2009 | 11 Comments »
This past weekend they had the Peter Heaney Memorial Fishing Trip. I heard a lot of good things about it. (4 kegs + 60 people = a lot of fun!)
(Update July 29th) Kudos to Brook Budd and Chris Bullock for making it happen.
I always liked Peter Heaney, whenever I was playing baseball in the lot [...]
SATURDAY MORNING
Posted in Coffee, Saturday, Schoolyard, tagged Cappuccino Cafe, Coffee, Saturday morning on July 25, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Remember as a kid waking up before everyone else in your house on a Saturday morning? Watching cartoons and eating cereal. You were playing ball in the schoolyard before 9AM!
This morning I awoke earlier than normal. 6:30 to be exact. I usually like to sleep in in Saturday’s; say around 8:30- 9ish. How come when [...]
BACK INTO TIME
Posted in Basketball, Candy World, Holy Name, Schoolyard, tagged Basketball, Holy Name, Schoolyard, Sports, Wish on July 22, 2009 | 23 Comments »
If there was one thing that you could do again, something you did way back in the day growing up in the neighborhood, what would it be? I’m not talking regrets here, something you wish you would have done. I’m talking something you did once, twice, maybe every day that you don’t do anymore.
I would [...]
LEAVIN’ BROOKLYN
Posted in Laura Williams, Michigan, Parkside, Tommy Brick, tagged Windsor Terrace, Basketball, Staten Island, New York Daily News, Michigan State University, New York Times, NBA, Junior College, New York Post, Blog, Laughter, Facebook, Twitter, North Carolina, Moving, Relocation, East Lansing Michigan, Brooklyn New York, Las Vegas, Streetology on July 19, 2009 | 43 Comments »
I moved from Brooklyn, New York to East Lansing, Michigan in April of 1996. I had lived in Windsor Terrace for 32 wonderful years. They were the best times of my life; I had a great experience. It was like earning a degree in Streetology. If you would’ve told me when I was in my [...]
THE WOUNDED WARRIORS
Posted in The Wounded Warriors, tagged Wounded Warriors on July 9, 2009 | 8 Comments »
A notice on the comments board of the following.
The Wounded Warriors are coming to Rockaway this weekend, starting with their arrival tonight July 9th. They will be coming over the Verrazano at around 5pm or so, to the Belt parkway and then into Rockaway and Breezy at around 6pm. Could be a little later depending [...]
BACK TO THE GRIND…
Posted in Peter Heaney, tagged Brooklyn, Work, Grind, 4th of July, North Carolina, Fishing Trip, Sheepshead Bay on July 6, 2009 | 16 Comments »
Hope everyone had a great 4th. Now it’s Monday morning and everyone is back to work. It was fun while it lasted. Get after it like never before…Having a job to go to each and every morning is a blessing. I wanted to send a special shout-out to my girl Mary K who has made [...]
THE ZOO
Posted in zoo, tagged Penguins, Potter Park Zoo, zoo on July 2, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Last year sometime I blogged about the zoo, here is the link to that entry with some cool comments from readers. We enrolled Taylor in zoo camp this week (she wants to be a zookeeper when she gets older). I picked her up yesterday and we decided to have a look around and of course [...]