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Fresh Veggies in a Food Desert
Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by Janet Lawrence.
By Janet Lawrence The only grocery store that East New York resident Gloria Harvey can get to easily is Junior’s Supermarket—a big store among shuttered row houses and vacant lots on New Lots Avenue. Despite its size, it doesn’t sell fresh fruit or vegetables. That’s a problem for Harvey, 64, a diabetic who relies on […]
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Halloween Fears in East New York
Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by Janet Lawrence.
By Janet Lawrence For shop owners and residents in East New York, Halloween stirs up real fears. And so does the Jason mask. Jackie Davis said she is afraid that thieves are more likely to commit crimes under the cover of Halloween costumes. “What are you going to say, Jason robbed me?” she said. “If […]
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Memories of the Military
Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by Janet Lawrence.
Gus Guisintanner remembers the sand sprinkled on the Savoy Ballroom’s floors, so feet could slide more easily to the rhythm of live performances by Jackie Wilson or Lou Rawls.
“That’s what I really liked, the sanding on the floor. Shuffling and carrying on,” Guisintanner, now 75, said at the Wayside Boulevard Senior Center in East New York.
