Monday, December 17, 2007

Who's (Almost) Who In Knickerbocker Village History: Bobby Darin

Bet you didn't know that Bobby Darin lived in the Baruch Houses
This comes from official Bobby Darin site. I also read that he lived here in his biography, but until I recently discovered this site I didn't have the exact address. I took these two views of the building. It's right off Delancey near the Williamsburgh Bridge
# Bellevue Hospital: Bobby was born May 14, 1936 at 5:28 in the morning. # 125th Street and Second Avenue, Harlem: First home.
# 60 Baruch Drive: He grew up here, on the lower East Side by the FDR Drive.
# P.S. 43 on Brown Place: In the fall of 1943, Bobby was enrolled. By the end
of the first grade, he was advanced to the third.
# 629 East 135th Street, Apartment 2-W Bronx: Lived here in 1954
# Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 14, Wall Street: Founded during the presidency of George Washington (1792), it is one of the nation's oldest law firms. Bobby was employed there at one time.
# The Bronx High School of Science 75 West 205th Street, Bronx:

# Sunnylands: Bobby worked the summers at this hotel in Parksville.
# Liberty: In 1951 Bobby attended summer school during the day and hitched a ride to Parksville each day.
# Hunter College, Manhattan's Upper East Side: Bobby enrolled as a theater major.
# Hanson's Drugstore, 51st and 7th Avenue: A spot for Bobby and his friends to meet. He met Harriet Wasser here. (Hanson's is now an art shop.)
# Club 78, Broadway and 78th Street: 1954. A popular hangout for unemployed musicans who gathered to play -- and complain.
# 217 W 71st Street: His first apartment
# Apollo Theater 253 West 125th Street, Harlem: In 1957, Bobby played the Apollo as a part of Alan Freed's Rock 'n' Roll Revue.
# 1697 Broadway: CBS Studio 50 where Bobby appeared on The Dorsey Brothers
Stage Show and The Ed Sullivan Show.

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