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Bob O: Thanks for all the memories of Yorkville where I grew up from the 30s through the sixties. I was born over in New York Hospital, went to school at St. Ignatius and then Cardinal Hayes.......

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Bob O: Thanks for all the memories of Yorkville where I grew up from the 30s through the sixties. I was born over in New York Hospital, went to school at St. Ignatius and then Cardinal Hayes.......

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Bob O: Thanks for all the memories of Yorkville where I grew up from the 30s through the sixties. I was born over in New York Hospital, went to school at St. Ignatius and then Cardinal Hayes.......

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maureen.downing@comcast.net: I lived on E. 89th St. between York and East End Avenues from 1940-1955 and have tons of great memories of coming of age in Yorkville during World War II & thru the 50's. ......

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Joe F: Hi Laura ! RE: "my" 3rd Ave EL PHOTO ! I enjoyed reading your Yorkville memories as an ex 1940's-60's Yorkville-ite myself. It would have been appropriate and nice for me to also have been given ME......

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Jim M 52: My brother Bill and I lived in 90thST between 1st & 2nd Ave from the early 50's untill the early 60's. The yorkville experience was the best of our lives, my brother married "the girl......

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Dee McArdle: I was just going to mention that book by George Brennan. Kevin beat me to the punch. Bats, Brats and Stats is truly my favorite Yorkville based book....

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Kevin: I would like to recommend a great new Yorkville book out by a Yorkville author,George Brennan,called Bats,Brats and Stats. It is about being among the last era of stickball players in Yorkville through the author's......

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ed marecek: go yorkville pirates....grew up 76th second and third....east side house, john jay park[yea, we played softball] and association in the street, remember that?? sold shopping bags on 2nd ave....doubles and homers of the wall [77th......

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Jean: I grew up in yorkville .i lived in the 40's to the 50's. Went to St Monica's school I hung out in Teddy's ice cream parlor on york ave between 83rd & 84th & some......

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jettr130: I"grew up"on the streets of Yorkville.I lived there from 1946-1957.My family first lived on 73rd and 74th sts. on 2nd Ave. My grandmother lived on 87th and 88th on York Ave. I went to just......

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Bob Watt: I'm English, but worked in NYC 1974-77. Although I never lived in Yorkville, some friends had an apartment in Ruppert Tower, and I visited them frequently. There was a store on 86th St.,......

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Liam McCann: Reading your article was like going back home. I grew up on 87th ST. off of Lex and remember alot ot the locations you cited. I remember what the Rupert Towers development was......

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T DAWT: Toronto is underepresented in pictures. Did you know the skyline actually isn't along the lake but North/South. It'll probably soon surpass Vancouver in terms of density and has some nice tall buildings in......

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JOEY - The TPA Crew - ThePublic Animals: Thanks Laura, Yorkville and the whole nebulous vicinity nowadays was always one of my favorite areas of NYC when I was cruising around there in the early 70's. Thanks for giving me tons of good......

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lynn ward: Grew up in Yorkville 72nd & 73rd on third, in the 40's & 50's. St.Jean the Baptiste, St. Catherine of Sienna and St. Vincents was our neighborhood schools. I'd love to see more "el" pictures......

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Lulu: Thanks for the article. It will be three years this January since I moved to Yorkville (as a grad student as well) and I can't imagine living anywhere else in New York. We......

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Michael: I grew up in Yorkville in the 1950's. We lived on 90th St between First and York. I remember the fireboat station at the foot of 90th St just outside the fence at Schurz park.......

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John: I grew up in Yorkville as a kid during the 1970s-1980s in "the projects". When I'm in town, I always think of Johnny and Matilda's Candy Store and Soda Shop. It was the center of......

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gus hassler : I am now working as the master mechanic on the second ave subway.anyone have photos of brewery before and during demolition and would like to share them with me.my only connection to yorkville was the......

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Tboy: ok i've been all over canada and everyone hates toronto. i live in the core of toronto, actually in yorkville which is a block away from younge and bloor, toronto's main intersection. every1 hates toronto,......

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Jarrod Lynn: I am putting a book together on Yorkville. Anyone who is interested in preserving the history of our neighborhood, please contact me at JDLJAG@GMAIL.COM I am interested in speaking with anyone who would like to......

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Laurie: I loved reading your story.My Grandparents came from Yorkville 73rd and 2nd and 72nd.My Greatgrand father Joseph Hala owned a bar,Tavern or whatever it was called back then.They lived above the bar.I've been trying......

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Helen Kane Munro: ENJOYED PHOTOS AND COMMENTS. YES, YORKVILLE WAS A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE IN THE 50'S AND 60'S AND OLGC CHURCH AND SAINT JOSPEH'S SCHOOL OFFERED A GREAT EDUCATION TO ALL....

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AG: Thank you for this wonderful article. I grew up in Yorkville, went to OLGC and wandered 86th street all the time ... I loved the photos - thank you for the walk down memory lane.......

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Joe: Oh and also I'd have to say yes this is a cute story but the buildings on 86th St. both on lex & third were nothing but broken down tenements which were demolished to make......

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Joe: What contributions did ruppert brewery do for Yorkville besides suck it's blood & abandon it? They were the last of the robber barons. I grew up across for the brewery & it was a rat......

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K. Jacob Ruppert: Thank you so much for a wonderful article and for the effort to better preserve my ancestors' contributions to New York and Yorkville from fading into the footnotes of a forgotten history. Save Yorkville......

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anon (localhost): It was such a lovely place in the heart of yorkville.. I believe it was a kichen fire.. :(...

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Marty: Come by the Yorkville web site for a trip down nostalgia lane. Find an old friend or just make a new friend. http://www.liveworkplayoutwest.com/yorkvilleindex.htm...

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cyber: I saw him during the filmfest in September. He was doing his thing in Yorkville and huge crowds of people watching for film stars at Sassfraz restaurant and then out of nowwhere Zanta jumped......

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Get out of your car, buddy: LOL! Those are the ones! Everybody was mocking them by doing that cheesy little wave. Watching from Neville Park was a good move. Not as packed, and you can get away before......

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