Silver Chains, Playgrounds, and the Oval: A Celebration of Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town
A podcast intended to share recollections, memories, and anecdotes about growing up in a large middle-class housing development in New York City between 1960 and 1980.
Episodes
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.
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