Silver Chains, Playgrounds, and the Oval: A Celebration of Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town

They were sixteen, and they had jobs around Stuyvesant Town.  And a few years later, Tommy bought a neighborhood bar.  Lots of memories and lots of stories from George, Tommy and Steve.

In part 2 of this podcast, we continue our conversation with the trio, and we also go a bit beyond the silver chains to learn a little more about these playground 3 legends.

Hank, Kevin, and Don share humorous memories of playground 3, Little League baseball careers, neighbors, and some "interesting" friends.

Donna and Pat look back fondly on unlocked apartment doors, playground 8, granny dresses, and Immaculate Conception's May Festival.

Brendan Crowe, Brian Crowe, Reynold Kurth, Joe McGrath and Mike Lyden talk with us about the "other" city game, sharpening their hockey skills, competing for playground space, and "borrowing" hockey nets from uptown.

In the last episode before a summer break, we return with Andrea and Steve to growing up in Peter Cooper Village, as they share memories of the middle playground, P.S. 40, platform shoes and Huckapoo shirts.

Jeanne and Mike re-visit the St. Emeric's School quonset hut, a Charlie Brown school play, playgrounds 4 and 5, and friends and neighbors from the 60's and 70's.

Mary Anderson Gallagher, Robyn Muskat Frank, SueEllen Levine Eshed, and Laura Capuano Schmidt share their memories of divided bedrooms, table manners, long telephone cords, and parents out on the bench on summer evenings.

Susan and Gil take us back to P.S. 61, school plays, Freidel's, and first crushes.

Eileen and Tim take us back to the summer point tourney, awful memories of cream cheese and jelly, "spending time" in jail cells, and the coolest people they knew growing up.

Kevin takes us along to the East River, the Bash, and several memorable nights out.

Patti and Joe chat about Stuy Town, Immaculate Conception School, roller hockey, and the Dirt Bowl.

The Nieporent brothers reminisce about roller hockey, the 23rd street pool, their parents, and more in this episode about growing up in Peter Cooper Village.

Ken and Richard take us back to growing up in Stuy Town in the 1950s and early 1960s

Stuyvesant Town resident Tommy Issing recalls his growing up years in Stuy Town the 1960s and 1970s.

This inaugural episode has two components: in the first half, we provide a refresher on the physical layout of Stuyvesant Town.  The second half is a conversation with our first guest, Ellen Sullivan Hart.