THE CARROLL ST BRIDGE

BUILT IN 1889 BY THE BROOKLYN DEPARTMENT OF WATER WORKS WHEN BROOKLYN WAS STILL A CITY.IT IS A RETRACTABLE BRIDGE AND 1 OF 2 IN NYC AND 1 OF 4 LEFT IN ALL OF THE UNITED STATES. ITS ALSO THE OLDEST.

HONEYMOONER'S MARATHON

KISS YOUR LOVED ONES THEN PUT ON CH. 11 AND LAUGH YOUR ASS OFF TO START THE NEW YEAR.I'LL MISS CALLING MY GRANDMOTHER AND TELLING HER PUT IT ON RALPH JUST FOUND THE SUITCASE WITH THE MONEY.THAT WAS A FUNNY ONE. THEY ALL ARE.ENJOY I WILL.

BY 21 FOR 21

REDSKINS NEEDING TO WIN TO GET IN BEAT THE COWBOYS BY 21 POINTS ON SUNDAY. DO U THINK THIS IS A COINCIDENT? SEAN TAYLOR WORE #21 THEIR FALLEN TEAMMATE.DEFENSE GAVE UP 1 YARD RUSHING. STRONGER FORCES WERE AT WORK HERE, AS I HAD EARLIER TABBED REDSKINS AS PICK OF THE YEAR VS COWBOYS. I THINK THEY KEEP ROLLING IN SEATTLE..... TO BE CONT....

A SAD NOTE

ON SUNDAY MY COUSIN PETER PASSED AWAY.HE MOVED UPSTATE MANY YEARS AGO,BUT FAMILY STAYED IN BROOKLYN.UPON HEARING THE NEWS I WENT OVER TO MY AUNT MARY'S HOUSE TO CONSOLE AND SUPPORT MY COUSIN VINCENT AND AUNT MARY.WHEN I ARRIVED MANY PEOPLE FROM THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD WERE THERE WITH MANY MORE TO SHOW UP SOON AFTER.WE MAY HAVE MOVED AWAY TO DIFFERENT PLACES A LONG TIME AGO, BUT NO AMOUNT OF TIME CAN SEVER THE BOND WE FORGED GROWING UP IN BROOKLYN . WHEN SOMEONE WE LOVE FROM THE PAST IS IN NEED WE COME OUT IN FORCE.COUSIN PETER REST IN PEACE.

THE NIGHT OWL

DO YOU REMEMBER THE DAILY NEWS EDITION CALLED THE NIGHT OWL? IT WOULD COME OUT AROUND 10PM EVERY NIGHT AND WAS DATED THE FOLLOWING DAY.WE WOULD ALWAYS GET A GANG TO WALK OVER TO UNION ST AND 4TH AVE TO BUY IT FOR OUR MOMS, I THINK THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THAT EDITION WAS THE DAYS NUMBER. THAT WAS THE DAILY AMOUNT SPENT AT THE TRACK THAT DAY.THE LAST THREE DIGITS WERE THE ILLEGAL NUMBER,WHICH ALMOST EVERYONE HAD A BUCK OR TWO ON.YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE PAPER AS THE CLUB WOULD GET A PHONE CALL AROUND 5PM WITH THE NUMBER, THE PAPER WAS CONFORMATION THAT YOU HIT!!

PATS PERFECT

THEY DID IT. 16 - 0 FIRST TIME IN HISTORY OF NFL.UNDEFEATED FOR 16 GAMES MIAMI WAS 14 - 0. ALWAYS HATED THAT DOLPHIN TEAM,NO CHAMPAGNE THIS YEAR FOR SHULA AND THE BOYS.

OTTO'S CLUB

OTTO'S WAS A SOCIAL CLUB AT GROUND FLOOR OF 494 PRESIDENT ST. THE DOOR WAS OPEN 24HRS, WE WERE TO YOUNG TO BE MEMBERS BUT WE WOULD ALWAYS SNEAK IN WAS NO ONE WAS THERE.THEY HAD THE COLDEST COKE MACHINE IN THE WORLD, A BOCCIE BALL COURT IN YARD,BASEBALL GAME ON TV,OR WHATEVER SPORT WAS ON AT THAT MOMENT. ON SATURDAYS MIKEY SISTO WOULD MAKE SAUSAGE SANDWICHES AND A HUGE BOWL OF SALAD.AND ON SUNDAYS UNCLE TONY WOULD HOLD COURT WITH CEMENT MASONS COMING FROM ALL FIVE BOROUGH'S TO HAVE BLACK COFFEE SERVED BY PIPONEIL IN THE WHITE APRON.DICE GAMES OFTEN BROKE OUT ACROSS STREET AGAINST WALL. AND WHO COULD EVER FORGET WHEN THE FEDS FOUND 3 BODIES IN BASEMENT OF CLUB.THOSE DAYS ARE GONE AND SO IS OTTO'S .