Not This Day In Knickerbocker Village History: July 4, 1923

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Not This Day In Knickerbocker Village History: April 29, 1929

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Not This Day In Knickerbcker Village History: March 1, 1904, Clinton Hall Opens

Not This Day In Knickerbcker Village History: April 22, 1958

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Not This Day In Knickerbocker Day History: May 26, 1959

an excerpt from the nytimes of May 24th 2009 The 1959 LMRC team certainly remember this game.

Linked to Haddix’s Perfection by Western Union Ticker Tape, By GERALD ESKENAZI. The ticker tape in the bell jar began to click.
It was May 26, 1959, my first night at The New York Times. I was a $38-a-week copy boy.
I knew that Western Union ticker was important — it was the sports department’s lifeline to baseball games that were increasingly being played at night. Why, they were even playing on the West Coast now.
The yellow ribbon unfurled out of the jar. Usually, it gave bare information, a line score. This time, it read, in shorthand, as I recall: “Harvey Haddix Pittsburgh Pirates pitching perfect game through eight innings.”
Wow! What a business, I thought. What a way to start what was to be a sportswriting career with the paper for more than 40 years.
The game was in Milwaukee, another place that symbolized baseball’s break with its longtime franchise cities. But for me, baseball life, a part of my soul, had ended when the Dodgers left Brooklyn only a couple of years earlier. Here I was, a budding sportswriter, yet disenchanted with the American pastime. Oh, sure, I knew about the Columbia University cultural historian Jacques Barzun’s famous claim, “Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.”
I had come in to work at 7 that night — I was on the 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. shift. But some of the other copy boys had whispered to me that you never had to stay that late, that usually you’d get a slide, be out by 2 in the morning. Even with stuff going on in the West Coast, nothing happened that late at night.
I watched what the other copy boys did: They brought the editors on the copy desk coffee. Like them, I tore off the stories from the Associated Press and the United Press machines. I took the “copy,” the edited stories that the head desk man gave me, and I rolled them up, put them in a plastic tube and sent it up the pneumatic tube toward the composing room. I went up to the composing room for the first edition, a noisy place clanging with metal, where men had ink on their fingers, where Linotype machines from the 1890s were going through some convoluted mechanics to punch out six metal words a minute.
Meanwhile, halfway across America, Haddix, the Kitten, was mowing them down, playing by the same rules they had played by for all the 20th century — 60 feet 6 inches from home, three strikes and you’re out — while I was part of an operation that, similarly, was unchanged over that course of time.
The ticker continued clacking: nine innings, no base runners; 10 innings; 11 innings; 12 innings! No one in the history of baseball had ever had such a performance, and I was there, tethered to the game through Western Union ticker tape.

Not This Day In Knickerbocker Village History: July 11, 1945: Part 2

July 11, 1945 was a Wednesday. The broadcast announcer says Thursday night comedy, but the first slide says Tuesday. The slide image may refer to a different broadcast year for the radio show. The audio file comes from the prelinger archives.
As many know, Eddie Cantor, grew up right near Knickerbocker Village, but George Burns (Nathan Birnbaum) wasn't far away. More on this later. About the Burns and Allen radio show from wikipedia

In 1929 they made their first radio appearance in London on the BBC. Back in America, they failed at a 1930 NBC audition. After a solo appearance by Gracie on Eddie Cantor's radio show, they were heard together on Rudy Vallee's The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour and in February 15, 1932 they became regulars on The Guy Lombardo Show on CBS. When Lombardo switched to NBC, Burns and Allen took over his CBS spot with The Adventures of Gracie beginning September 19, 1934.
The title of their top-rated show changed to The Burns and Allen Show on September 26, 1936. When ratings began to slip in 1940-41, they moved from comedy patter into a successful sitcom format, continuing with shows on NBC and CBS until May 17, 1950. As in the early days of radio, the sponsor's name became the show title, such as Maxwell House Coffee Time (1945-49).
Burns and Allen had several regulars on radio, including Toby Reed, Gale Gordon, Bea Benaderet, Mary "Bubbles" Kelly, Ray Noble, singers Jimmy Cash and Tony Martin and actor/writer/director Elliott Lewis. The Sportsmen Quartet (appearing as "The Swantet" during the years the show was sponsored by Swan Soap) supplied songs and occasionally backed up Cash. Meredith Wilson, Artie Shaw and announcers Bill Goodwin and Harry Von Zell, who were usually made a part of the evening's doings, often as additional comic foils for the duo.
For a long time they continued their "flirtation act" with Burns as Allen's most persistent suitor. Their real-life marriage was not written into the show until the 1940s. The couple's adopted son, Ronnie Burns, portrayed himself as a young drama student who tended to look askance at his parents' comedy style. Their adopted daughter Sandy was somewhat shy and not too fond of show business. She declined efforts to get her on the show as a regular, though she appeared in a few episodes as Ronnie's classmate. Recordings of 176 episodes of the radio shows circulate on the web, CDs and DVDs.

Not This Day In Knickerbocker Day History: July 11, 1945

When Norma Petillo (Boodman), a KV Californian, saw this previously posted picture she wrote, maybe half-kiddingly, that it could be her in that baby carriage. She was 8 days old at the time. I made up some imaginary dialogue between her mother, Claire and another KV mother Roslyn Romm. July 11, 1945 was a Wednesday. Burns and Allen was really on in those days on a Thursday.

Not This Day In Knickerbocker Village History: Nov 24, 1957

While the mother's sat in Tanahey, the Bridge On The River Kwai was set to premiere at the Palace Theater on December 18th.

Not This Day In Knickerbocker Village History: September, 1959

While we await the news of the naming of Obama's cabinet, Archie's gang had already announced theirs. From Archie's Madhouse Comics, number 1 from September 1959.

Not This Day In Knickerbcker Village History: October 10, 1964

Speaking of remembering things...Mark Schumer remembers the exact day he moved out of Knickerbocker Village, October 10, 1964. It was the day the Mick hit a home run to win game 3 of the World Series.

In this game, Mickey Mantle reached deep for one of the last ounces of Yankees magic. In the bottom of the 9th inning, with the game tied at 1, Mantle swung on the first pitch from Cardinal pitcher Barney Schultz, a knuckleball that failed to move, and hit it into the right field stands to win the game for the Yankees. Schultz had been a mainstay of the Cardinals' stretch run and Yankee scouting reports had advised his knuckler was most vulnerable on the first pitch when he threw harder than usual to try for a strike. Mantle's home run (his 16th Series home run) broke Babe Ruth's record for most home runs hit in World Series play.

Not This Day In Knickerbcker Village History: June 26, 1958

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from Sarah:

I'm pretty sure that these two photos are of the same incident. During or around 1958, two barges collided on the East River (Before) and one sunk (After). These were taken from the living room window of apt. FC8, 40 Monroe St.

There were previous posts about this back in June that included articles from the nytimes. Here's a link to the first article
Here's a link to the second article

Not This Day In Knickerbocker Village History: 8/12/1911, Rutgers Street Springs A Leak

During the construction of the Forward Building

Not This Day In Knickerbocker Village History: 11/8/1960, Pat Picariello Of 12 Monroe Defeats William Sandler Of 14 Monroe

Not This Day In KV History: June 26, 1958 Freighter And Tanker Collide In East River

...but almost 50 years ago. Thanks to Neal Hellman for recalling this event.

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Not This Day In Knickerbocker Village History: Murder At The Madison Street Boys Club, 3/8/1927

Interesting is that at this time the famous Epstein Twins, who were born on Market Street, just a few doors down from PS 177, were living at 245 East Broadway at this time. Was the murder later part of the plot for some of their screenplays? Did they belong to the Madison Street Club?

Not Necessarily This Day In KV History: Eviction Sought For Negro Tenant

From April-May 1952. No "Holiday Spirit" for Edward Strickland and one can see the battle lines are being drawn as traditional segregation practices are challenged. If you enlarge the images to get a better view you can read that the sub-letting practices were not unusual, yet when it involved a "negro" ....

Not Necessarily This Day In KV History: PS 177 Kid Lights Yule Tree

From 12/15/1960. No luck so far in trying to find whatever became of Mark Hoyte of 180 South Street, a third grader at PS 177

Not Necessarily This Day In Knickerbocker Village History: Bow Tie Influence Of Sinatra Felt In Chinatown

From June 23, 1946 and the winner is 5 year old Philip Liu of 10 Monroe Street.
From the nytimes archive with added image

Not Necessarily This Day In KV History: Toys For Tots 12/13/1956

Something suspicious about this event. I would think Bernadette Tanahey, living in Knickerbocker Village (38 Monroe Street) wouldn't have been as deserving of a toy as some kids living in tenements. Could she be related to Martin Tanahey, a Tammany politician, for whom Tanahey Park was named after? Say it ain't so Cardinal?

Not This Day In Knickerbocker Village History: 9/14/1937

from the nytimes: The Log Cabin Bar and Grill owned by Carmine Martroano (not to be confused with the current Log Cabin Republicans) was vandalized by the agents of the Tammany faction of the local assembly leadership (1st District). This faction had as its leader Joseph Greenfield. It's county clerk ally was Albert Marinelli. They were supporting Royal Copeland in the upcoming mayoral election (opposing Fiorello LaGuardia). Martroano was throwing his "500" votes behind a Democractic group headed by Dr. Paul Santangelo. Their candidate was Jeremiah Mahoney. Confusing to say the least. Click on images for enlargements.

BTW the bar was located on Market Slip and Cherry Street opposite Knickerbocker Village. This was before Tanahey Park was built.