Denise, December 2006 “We are the Highbridge girls, we wear our hair in curls,” we sang. The rest of the song I have forgotten but it was about how tough we were. We were city girls. There were “gangs” in our neighborhoods, although nothing like the violence that there is today. The rumbles involved chains […]
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The Stoop
Denise, April 2015 Where I lived when I was littlewe all had stoops;stone steps or benches of concrete and brick affixed to the front of the building. Gritty and dusty in the summer heat,bleachers of the street arenabox seats to the daily drama of the west Bronx Waiting for Good Humor,watching for friends,giggling over the […]