Did 4th Warder Jimmy Durante learn this old ditty from 4th Warder Al Smith? Who is the man whose bad tosses will bring a loss? Chambe...

Jimmy Durante & Harry James - Inka Dinka Doo An excerpt from It May Sound Funny, from Atlantic Monthly In his 1960 essay "What Is N...

a relative of Jimmy Durante? Not a photo of the fire above, but a 1937 photo of a South Street fire by the famous photographer Arthur Fellig...

A family name mentioned In Jimmy's biography is Palladino. Could it be a relative of Monroe Street's and PS 177 classmate Rosemary P...

From an 1893 map. Note St. Joseph's and PS 1 hadn't been built yet. The next post will have more information on Jimmy Durante on Cat...

Durante was born in Brooklyn, the third of four children born to Italian-Americans Mitch Durante (1855-1929) and Margaret Durante (1858-1936...

The audio from a radio show in the 1950's. I provided a background of Durante and Cantor iages.

The first of a new series. 6/1/08 was a really beautiful day. Many of the pics are raw material for several panoramas to follow. I might as ...