If you watched the movie “Pomonok Dreams” you saw an interview with Richard Jay Hyman, a Pomonok native who also happens to be the Director of the Northport Symphony Orchestra on Long Island. Rick and Al Stark collaborated on a great new song about growing up in Pomonok, and, if you click on the link […]
This is a very primitive sketch of apartment 4A in Pomonok Houses. I assume that all apartment 4As are exactly the same. It has two bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, a bathroom, and a dinette. We were a family of five and we lived there for decades. It never seemed small to me until […]
It was the end of 1959. Eisenhower was still President and I was 8 years old. My third grade teacher was Miss Spar, pictured with my class below. I have absolutely no memory of her. If she is still alive today, she is at least in her 80s. In the class picture I am the […]
We are social creatures and allegiance to groups is built into us. It would be interesting to do a study of Met fans and Yankee fans to find out how their allegiance came about. Was it passed down from family and friends at a young age? Is there a critical time period during one’s life […]
The Pomonok Community Center and library were both located in a two-story brick building on Kissena Blvd. adjacent to the PS 201 park. Today it functions as the Pomonok Senior Center. I remember attending summer day camp there when I was very young, sitting around in a circle of kids on a cement floor being […]
To those of us who grew up in a New York City housing project, the word “court” has very special connotations. Physically, the court was defined by the area encircled by several apartment buildings. It usually had a set of benches, an open concrete play area, and lawns, with some variations on that layout. More […]
It took me a while to figure out why the rubber balls we played with as a kids invariably found their way into the sewer. It wasn’t just bad luck. Drainage sewers were situated at low points on the streets so that rain water could flow easily down into them, which is why our rubber […]
It’s the month of May 1973. Secretariat wins the Kentucky Derby in record time and the Preakness two weeks later. The Watergate hearings begin on television. On May 14th SkyLab is launched. And on that very same Monday night, the first game of the Pomonok Softball League is played. Lukes Dukes, captained by Lloyd Stark, […]
