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24 YEARS AGO TODAY…

03 Sunday Feb 2013

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Brooklyn, FDNY, John Devaney, Red Hook, Windsor Terrace

Thanks to Eileen Devaney for the reminder.

John Devaney sign

“On February 3, 1989, at 217 Van Brunt Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn, John P. Devaney of Ladder Company 131 made the supreme sacrifice in the performance of his duty.” -Tom Kane

From the New York Times, Feb. 4, 1989

A ten-year Fire Department veteran searching a blazing Brooklyn apartment building yesterday became the first New York City firefighter killed in more than a year, the Fire Department said.

Firefighter John P. Devaney was looking for people trapped in the four-story building at 217 Van Brunt Street in the Red Hook section, when the room he was in suddenly ”flashed over,” everything combustible in it bursting into flames, Fire Commissioner Joseph F. Bruno said.

Mr. Devaney, 36 years old, was found unconscious by other firefighters, his body covered with third-degree burns, Commissioner Bruno said. Efforts to revive him failed, and he was pronounced dead at Long Island College Hospital at 5:15 A.M. Residents Are Evacuated

All the residents of the building were evacuated, the Fire Department said, and four were treated for smoke inhalation and released. Another firefighter, Eneth Moore, 37, was listed in good condition at Long Island College Hospital, where he was being treated for smoke inhalation and abdominal pains.

-Steve

Hoops135@hotmail.com

A TOAST…LIKE NO OTHER

20 Thursday Dec 2012

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Alphie McCourt, Bartenders, Bill Boyle, Bill Reel, Black 47, Bobby Rice, Brian McCabe, Cell Theatre, Chelsea, Chris Byrne, Christmas, Ciaran Byrne, CJ Sullivan, Column McCann, Container Diaries, Court Clerk, Daily News, Dan Barry, Danny Mills, David Amram, Denis Hamill, Dennis Duggan, Eddie Mills, Ellis Henican, Farrell's, Frank McCourt, George Kimball, Harry Chapin, Holy Name, Ireland, Jack Deacy, Jack Kerouac, Jack O'Connell, Jacky Malone, Jen Chapin, JFK, Jim Dwyer, Jimmy Breslin, Jimmy Houlihan, Johnny Kennedy, Josh Chapin, Judy Kennedy, Larry Kirwan, Lisa McLaughlin, Malachy McCourt, Mort Persky, New York Newsday, Newtown, Pat Fenton, Pay it Forward, Pete Hamill, Peter McDermott, Peter Quinn, Queens Supreme Court, Red Hook, Rocky Sullivan's, Sandy Chapin, Scrooge, TJ English, Tom Kelly, Windsor Terrace

My friend Pat Fenton wants to spread cheers to everyone from the neighborhood. Here’s a great piece from an outstanding writer and a better person…

On my wall, above my books in the room I write in, I have a framed original Christmas column Pete Hamill wrote. It’s called “A Garland of Christmas Toasts.” It’s a full-page long, faded, Newsday column dated December 13, 1967. Signed across the top of it are the words, “for Pat Fenton who remembers.” And I do.

It’s perhaps one of the most beautiful, moving pieces of writing about Christmas time that I have ever read. Sad at times, political, sentimental, it rolls across the page like the lyrics of a Van Morrison song. He always started his annual Christmas column with an apology to the writer Jimmy Cannon, who originated the idea and the form as only he could. Jonathan Schwartz should invite Pete Hamill on his radio show and have him read that to us on Christmas day to remind us all of the way we were. And alert his listeners to pour a glass of champagne before he starts. It deserves it.

Here’ a sample of his column: “maybe it’s the beer and the season and the weather, but I could almost swear there was a time when we had a hell of a lot more heroes, and a hell of a lot more laughs. And I’m certain there was a lot more girls.”

It was lines like that made me want to be a writer.

So, with my own apology to him for borrowing the form, here’s to Windsor Terrace tonight…

To Pete Hamill and his brother Denis and to Brian Hamill, and to Bobby Rice, and Judy, and Johnny Kennedy, and to Jacky Malone, and to Steve Finamore from Container Diaries, who records the story of our lives on his Windsor Terrace blog.

Here’s to the bartenders in Farrell’s Bar and Grill on 16th Street and 9th Avenue in Windsor Terrace in my old Brooklyn neighborhood, and especially to Jimmy Houlihan and to Eddie Mills, they all give so much to those who need it. And let’s not forget the memory of the bartender/actor, Danny Mills who also defined what Farrell’s Bar was all about since it opened its doors in the 1930’s. He understood that.

Like Pete Hamill, we all drank there when we were young so long ago, so did our fathers from Ireland, and we all passed through Holy Name Parochial School where our report cards are still on file, hopefully forever.

Glasses up to Malachy McCourt and his brother Alphie tonight. And here’s to Larry Kirwan from Black 47. And to the musician David Amram too, who I learned so much about Jack Kerouac from. Cheers! And to Chris Byrne, another Windsor Terrace boy, whose special bar Rocky Sullivan’s in Red Hook got tossed around by Sandy, but whose still open for business. And to Lisa McLaughlin who brings the talent there.

It’s Christmas time and we have a few toasts to make. Here’s to all the people of the Queens Supreme Court who I spent a good part of my life with, and how they never once asked me, what the hell are you doing here working as a court clerk when you have a by-line in New York Newsday and the Daily News? Thanks to Tony and Maureen and Jackie, and Ken for putting up with me.

Here’s to my friend Jimmy Breslin, tell him to call me on Christmas morning, and be grouchy again when I don‘t have the answer he’s looking for. I miss those calls. Someone tell ‘Bres’ to write one more Christmas column. Let him write about how he is an usher in a Catholic Church in Manhattan, few people know that side of him. What a great Christmas story that would be.

May that women I shared a turkey sandwich on white bread with one cold evening in front of St Francis Assisi Church in Manhattan, as I was heading off to the old Rocky Sullivan’s Bar on Lexington Avenue to read, who trusted me as I handed half of it to her, be in a warm, safe place tonight. I never forgot her. She was Christmas.

Let’s all remember this holy Christmas night these words out of Newtown from a Litchfield Connecticut newspaper, “this heinous act does not define our town. What does is the love, compassion and caring that we have for one another. Love conquers all, especially evil.”

Along with “Scrooge”, let some cable station run a marathon showing of the movie “Pay it Forward” on Christmas Eve. Forget who is a Republican or a Democrat this night and let the politicians in Washington finally understand that we elected all of you to bring America together, not to divide it. It’s time for that.

Fill up my glass bartender, and let’s drink a toast to writers like T.J. English, Peter Quinn, Peter McDermott, Ellis Henican, C.J. Sullivan, who published some of the best stories about New York ever written in the New York Press, Jim Dwyer, Tom Kelly, Dan Barry, Jack Deacy, Column McCann, and the ones who I miss this year, Bill Reel, Dennis Duggan, Frank McCourt and George Kimball.

Here’s a special toast, a double Irish whisky to an editor from the Daily News that I will never forget working with, Bill Boyle, and his words, “go write a good story, Pat”, as he turned over a nine hundred word assignment to me that I just pitched to him. And , “don’t be too nostalgic.”

And let’s not forget to raise a glass to Brian McCabe, a great New York Detective and a great writer, and to my close friend the actor Jack O‘Connell, and the actor Ciaran Byrne, and to Kira and Nancy down in the Cell Theatre in Chelsea who breathe life in to all that we write with their stage.

Here’s to my friend Sandy Chapin this Christmas, and Pegge, and Jen Chapin, and Josh Chapin, and the memory of Harry Chapin who pointed us all in the right direction in America.

Hey bartender, send a drink down to the end of the bar to my friend, Mort Persky there, one of the editors of one of the greatest efforts to create a new newspaper in this town, New York Newsday, who watched over my words there.

Let’s drink to the memory of President John F Kennedy tonight who made my dad from Galway, Ireland so proud. This one is on me. Raise a glass and remember some of the lessons he tried to teach us when he said: “let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divides us.” So simple.

Let his words be a Christmas card for the world this night. We need it more than ever. None of these things may never happen, but if they did it would be a fine Christmas.

Thanks for the use of the hall tonight, Pete. Merry Christmas.

-Pat Fenton

THE PRECIOUS PAST

31 Wednesday Aug 2011

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7th avenue, Baseball, Basketball, Boreum Hill, Brownsville, Car Service, Carl Manco, Carroll Gardens, Central Michigan University, Cobble Hill, Football, Gerard Trapp, GPA, Jimmy Fallon, John Jay, Kevin Fallon, Manuel Training, New York City, Park Slope, Red Hook, Sport Prospect, Sunset Park

I love the history of sports.

Matter of fact, as a non-traditional, undergraduate student at Central Michigan University I scored a 3.5 GPA in my History of Sport class.

The history of basketball is closer to my heart; baseball and football come in at 2nd and 3rd.

Many people from our neighborhood played on the sports teams at John Jay High School located on 7th avenue.  Shoot, some readers of the blog went to the school when it was called, ‘Manuel Training’.

Back in the day John Jay students walked to school, caught the bus or hopped on the train. Some kids even pulled up in front of school in a Car Service!

The red-brick building with safety gates covering the windows is located smack dab in the middle of Park Slope, Brooklyn.  Across the street and up the block from the school you see multi-million-dollar brownstones, celebrity moms pushing expensive strollers and close by is one of the best elementary schools in New York City.

Over the years, John Jay was a school of last resort for transfer students or who were on the verge of dropping out.  It was also a school for students who were considered to be discipline problems and could not or did not get into other schools.

I spent a very short time at Jay. I actually had 2 different stints there.  But I did have some positive experiences during my tenure.  Jay was a tough environment, you had to pass through school security and metal detectors at the doors.  I had classmates from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boreum Hill, Sunset Park, Bed-Stuy and Brownsville.  There was distractions everywhere, hence the nickname, ‘Jungle Jay’. Despite troubled students roaming the halls and hanging on the street corners, the school also produced outstanding students.

The other day my buddy Carl Manco from Sport Prospect mentioned a former basketball player from Jay that went on to play at Fordham University. He called him  a “poor man’s Ernie Grunfeld”. What a great compliment. Knicks fans only remember Ernie towards the end of his career in a Knick uni but the Forest Hills graduate was a great player in college at Tennessee.

Actually, Carl and I discussed this sensational player weeks ago but his name somehow escaped us. You have to realize that Carl and I go way back when it comes to basketball but we were stumped. We reached out to as many people as possible to see if anyone remembered this player who was the main man at Jay during the 1970’s. No one remembered.

Matter of fact he was so good, he was the only player from Jay who was ever named 1st team all-city PSAL.

Thanks to Gerard Trapp for giving up the name or Carl and I would still be searching.

Kevin Fallon was the guy we were thinking of, with some extensive research, we found out he is the first cousin of comedian Jimmy Fallon. The hooping Fallon lived in Sunset Park but he was well-known around the schoolyards of Brooklyn.

When I think of basketball players of the past from the neighborhood who balled at Jay I think of Jackie Ryan, Patty Brynes, Michael Bundrick, John Corrar, Ron Hardy (East 5th street) and yours truly. Yes, this red-headed jump-shooting guard suited up for 7 games as a member of the varsity team.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the coaches at Jay that were also memorable.  The football guys (John Boyle and Vincent Carbonaro) to Pete Coakley, our basketball coach. And of course, Coach Rizzo, who coached the Indians baseball team to the city championship in the early 80’s.

The past should never be forgotten, especially the positive past.

-Steve

hoops135@hotmail.com

OUT HERE IN THE FIELDS

17 Saturday Jan 2009

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3 point-play, 3rd Grade, Alan Sheehan, Basketball, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Chris Mullin, Chris Ryan, Colin Quinn, F-Train, grammar school, Holy Family, Holy Name, IHM, Joe Ciazzo, Johnny Molava, Keith Burroughs, Latrell Sprewell, Louie Zito, Marv Albert, OLA, OLG, OLPH, R-Train, Red Hook, Regina Pacis, Schools, Sports, St. Agnes, St. Brendan's, St. Finbar, St. Mark's, St. Mary Mother of Jesus, St. Rose of Lima, St. Saviour, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Vincent Ferrer, Steve Leondis, The Tablet, Tommy Sina, Ty Cobbs, Tyrone Williams, Visitation

Great discussion on the school system in my previous blog.   Thanks to the many readers who posted their comments – great input and insight into the educational system.

After reading about many of the Catholic blackboard havens that will be closing or have been closed,  I had to think back to all the places I played basketball as a young,  grammar school ballplayer for Holy Name.

Starting in the 3rd grade playing for Georgie Rauthier all the way to the 7th grade where I suited up for Danny Pisselli and the late Joe Farrell,  Getting your name in the Tablet after a game was like seeing your name in the Daily News or Post.  I got my name in every now and then.

I remember driving to places like Regina Pacis in Bensonhurst where a Steve Leondis led team crushed us 63-9.  They had a bowling alley in the building.

Going to St. Finbar, also located in Bensonhurst and losing 29-3.  Our only points came on a Frankie Cullen ‘traditional’ three point-play.  As Marv Albert would say sitting courtside with Cal Ramsey, “YESSSSSSS, and it counts!”  (I would be remiss not to mention Frankie’s coast-to-coast game winning drive against Brooklyn in the Holy Name Summer league in one of the biggest upsets in the history of basketball)

OLPH, their court was by far the longest I had ever played on.

Our Lady of Angels on 74th and 4th, it’s where I picked up my first technical foul as an overaggressive 6th grader.  “Ref you suck!’ is what I said.  This was back in 1976.  And they say today’s kids are out of line?

Visitation in Red Hook, did they ever have a player that was NOT a ‘ringer’.  Do they still call over-aged players ringers? Probably the greatest games I ever played in.  Tyrone Williams, Keith Burroughs and I can never forget ‘Murray’, their coach.  The games we played against them down P.S. 10’s were SRO.  Birth certificates people, we want to see some sort of I.D.!  They had kids with hair on their faces.

Our Lady of Guadalupe, it’s where a guy choked me as we were in transition.  Serious, it was a Latrell Sprewell – PJ Carlesimo deal.  While a member of Ty Cobbs, we were trying to get back on defense and some kid and I from OLG bumped into each other and all of a sudden this huge kid wraps his hands around my pencil-thin neck and I’m on the floor gasping for air.  We decided we weren’t going to stand for that kind of play and promptly pressed them the rest of the game winning 74-4.  Johnny G and I walked about 10 miles to get to that game!

St. Agnes, can’t recall if I ever played well against them – I guess I didn’t. Because you never forget the gyms you played well in.

St. Vincent Ferrer – all I recall is that tile floor that was hard as a rock.  Hoping in Mr. Martin’s car on a cold Saturday morning in January was terrible.

Holy Family – that court was bad.  4th avenue and 14th street, rough neighborhood.  Johnny Molava and Co.   Pillars all over the place. But I scored a lot of points.  Jeff Hect was their coach and it was my first experience with recruiting.  “Steve, you may not see any light your first game.” he said to me.  I never showed up for the game.

St. Mark’s with Louie Zito the scoring machine.  Classic battles on Sunday nights playing against them.  I recall some lady, an adult at that  yelling at me as I walked out of the building, ‘Go back to Holy Name ya bunch of losers.’  Nice way to talk to a youngster, Miss.

IHM with Chris Ryan and the infamous fire extinguisher ordeal.  Something that got out of hand after the game.  Do you recall the long chute they had that led down to the locker rooms?

St. Mary Mother of Jesus, another school located in Benshonhurst. The original home of Father Devlin and Gerard Geneivive.

St. Patrick’s with Alan Sheehan.  Hopy on the ‘F’ to 4th avenue for the ‘RR’ to 95th street.

St. Thomas Aquinas, home of Chris Mullin.  Enough said.

St. Brendan’s, I enjoyed their summer league a lot better.  Jocko Armstrong let me play in a game one night.

St. Rose of Lima with Tommy Sina, and The Baker Brothers.  Can’t forget Gerard Byrnes, Louie and Ziggy.

And of course while I was in the 7th grade I would go down to St. Saviors on 8th avenue and 6th street and watch the Cullen’s play in Carl Manco’s league.  Carl would post the scoring leaders up on a board high on the gym wall.   This palce had to be the smallest gym in Brooklyn.  They had the stage under one of the goal’s.  David Quinn, younger brother of Colin was a scoring machine!   Speaking of St. Savior, which happened to be pretty close to us,  I hear Joe Ciazzo has a daughter that is a pretty good hoops player playing for the high school team.  Remember Auncha Brown played there?

I’m sure I missed a school or two.  If you have any memories of playing C.Y.O. basketball or even baseball, feel free to post them in the comments section below.

Blast from the Past: Jimmy Parker.  Anyone remember him?  Good dude.  Good ball player.  Last I heard he was working for the New York Sanitation department.  He had hops!

Respectfully,

SF

Hoops135@hotmail.com

CAR-LESS IN MICHIGAN

21 Sunday Dec 2008

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Basketball, Bishop Ford, BQE, Bus, Car, Drivers License, Driving School, Lower East Side, New York City, Pilates, Red Hook, Road Test, Staten Island, Taxi, Van, Written Test

I can recall the day I obtained my drivers license.  I was 25 years old.

This afternoon I was waiting at a red light and I usually never turn to look who is by my side in the next lane but for some reason I turned my head to the left and I saw a kid from the area.  I recognized him from somewhere.

He was 16 years old…and behind the wheel of the vehicle.

My wife began taking some Pilates lessons and her instructor lived in New York for a bit.  Turns out her husband is from the Lower East Side.  He’s never driven a car.  (Don’t worry, I won’t reveal his age but let’s just say the instructor is in her 40’s).  She told my wife she has to drive him everywhere.  I mean growing up in NYC, you don’t need wheels.  You have the bus, train, taxi’s and your feet.

My mother and father never drove.

My uncle Tim didn’t get his license until he was 5o years old.

The only reason I received my license was because I was named head basketball coach of the Bishop Ford freshmen basketball team.  If it wasn’t for that, I’d probably be taking public transportation today.

Ray Nash, the athletic director at Ford informed me I needed a license in order to drive the van to transport our players to away games.  (Our first road trip, Glenn T drove the van, I failed my road test a few days before that)

YOU DUMMY! is what you’re probably saying now.  But that’s cool.  I pride myself on always bouncing back when adversity sets in.  Someone once told me you’re not a failure if you fail at something.

So I persevered and didn’t give up.  I was determined to pass that damn road test.

I took some driving lessons from a driving school down on 5th avenue and 9th street – it was a joke.  It was a big reason I probably failed.

The written exam was a breeze, gimme my license, I’m ready to go!

Not so fast my friend.

There was another test; the road test. What’s with these tests? I hate tests!

The road test can’t be that bad, right?  Get in the car, step on the gas and boom, you’re rollin’.

The day of the road test the guy took me out to Staten Island.

‘Where we goin’? I asked.

‘Out to Staten Island’.

“Why we goin to Staten Island” I asked as we drove on the BQE out to the bridge.

“Don’t worry about it, you’ll do fine.” he assured me.

An hour later, I failed.

I was heart-broken.

Now I’m probably going to date myself here but at the time in Staten Island, you had to use hand signals!  No I wasn’t driving a horse and buggy!  The driving school on 5th avenue failed to teach me hand signals.

The next day  I enrolled in the driving school on 9th avenue.  The lady was aces.  She prepared me like no other.

I took my road test down in Red Hook.

“If I pass this test” I told the instructor while we drove down 9th street, “I’m running all the way home!”

She laughed at me as she got out of the vehicle and some old dude with glasses clutching a clipboard got in.

I don’t recall much except for some other people taking the test.   I do remember the guy writing stuff down in between him telling me to make a right here, make a left there.

After turning all over the place and parking the car a couple of times we arrived back where I left my instructor off.

The nice man informed me I passed.

After I received the good news I jogged all the way home.

I was so excited to have my drivers license!

-SF

Hoops135@hotmail.com

MR. WHOLENESS

27 Sunday Jan 2008

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FDNY, John Devaney, Red Hook

So many people have come and gone; some good, some bad. Like all neighborhoods, Windsor Terrace had their fair share of them all. You have the people who everyone loved and respected; then you have the people who no one liked. But as you get older, you look back and realized that some of the bad people had it tough, ‘hey, that person had it hard growing up’.

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One guy from the neighborhood who comes to mind and who everyone thought highly of was the late John P. Devaney. Devaney was one of the most respected guys in the neighborhood. No one ever had anything bad to say about him. He lost his life fighting a fire in Red Hook in 1989 trying to save people. I found this article from the New York Times back in 1989.

Firefighter John P. Devaney was looking for people trapped in the four-story building at 217 Van Brunt Street in the Red Hook section, when the room he was in suddenly ”flashed over,” everything combustible in it bursting into flames, Fire Commissioner Joseph F. Bruno said.

From coaching Farrell’s football to saving lives as a New York City fireman, John Devaney was a person we all could’ve learned something from. Being 12 years younger than Devaney, I wish I would’ve known him better. I use to see him stalk the sidelines shouting instructions to his team. He had that excitement and enthusiasm you see in coaches in every sport.

Here’s a comment posted by G.Trapp back on Nov. 19, 2007:

Hanging out was one of the primary activities, it was what many of us growing up in the neighborhood did, everyday for the most part. What I wouldn’t do to be able to walk down the avenue towards Farrells and see John Devaney, Mike Marronna, Eloy, Jimmy Maloney, and the many others who have passed on; standing outside, preferably on a Sunday afternoon, right after a Farragut avenue football game, and just hang out, talk, laugh, goof, etc. And maybe have a cold one or two.
Would love to be able to walk into the schoolyard again and get on the court and play 3 on 3 with them. My thoughts went this way when I saw that the blog dedicated to John. I have so many good memories of John, in the school yard, on the avenue, 154 football practice, east 5th st football and softball practice and games. He was a great football coach, a natural leader, and for those of us fortunate enough to have known we were all better off for being able to “hang out with him”. Miss you guys.
Redman, love the site, great to read and hear from all who have submitted comments, will be back to comment on the many topics that come up.
Thanks for the kind words, you were always and still are the best!

Feel free to post your comments on John below in the comment section.

Devaney, John P.
Firefighter Ladder 131
(1952-1989)

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On February 2, 2008 at Holy Name Church the 19th Memorial Mass will take place celebrating John P. Devaney at 11:00 a.m.

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