Oral History Reading Blog: 10/28, Perkiss

The story spoken about in this book has a personal meaning to me. One of the most enduring memories from my adolescence consists of watching the 14th Street ConEd station blow up from my apartment, followed by weeks of trekking forty blocks uptown to buy any food that wasn’t spoiled. I remember watching cars half-submerged …

Bob Humber: Neighborhood Superhero

As mentioned in a previous post, I am a former resident of the Lower East Side – and anyone who lived along or frequented its Sara D. Roosevelt Park was familiar with Bob Humber. Born in 1936 to a Panamanian father and an African-American mother, Robert “Bob” Humber moved to New York City from Georgia, …