On the left side of Lady Liberty
the tall wide building is 30 Hudson Street,
in the 6th Borough, Northern Jersey. 1/4 mile
from the river there, I attended high school
at 144 Grand St, and sometimes we'd eat lunch
on the docks across from Wall Street.
Downtown Jersey City was my grandfather's turf.
Joseph Delaney was a NJ State Assemblyman
and member of the NJ State Board of Education,
and my mother's birthplace home was directly
across the street from City Hall.
She and her two sisters would walk to a PATH
train subway in 5 minutes, and be in
Greenwich Village or 23rd St Midtown
(11 short blocks from The Empire State Bldg)
after a 10 minute train ride.
She was a real New Yorker.
But my birthplace home was 50 Hazelwood Ave
in Newark 10 miles west, my father's turf.
He worked at AT&T, 195 Broadway, Wall St,
accountant 48 years
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On the right side of Lady Liberty
is One World Trade Center, Wall Street.
After high school in 1968 I saw an ad, applied,
and worked as a clerk at Merrill Lynch PF&S,
had a window seat in 70 Pine St skyscraper.
It was a permanent position but parents told this
17-year-old living at home to go to college.
WHERE I LIVED AND WHAT I DID FOR 5/1/2 YEARS.
I LIVED HERE. South Orange, Journal Sq NJ,
132 Thompson St SOHO, room by Rutgers Newark,
East Village by Ave C and 6th St, Denver,
Woodstock NY, Seaside Park NJ
INFLUENCERS. Chinatown Karate Sensei Peter Urban
Yogi Bhajan, Denver.
Charles Weldon, brother-in-law, chess master,
professor NYC City College, computer science
and maybe sparked my 1982 sac state Newsletters.
Robert Price (aka Sabu). Charles and Robert
exposed me to haute&street culture, respectively
I WORKED HERE. Merrill, Lynch. UPS Secaucus NJ
and bus boy Plaza Hotel Journal Square,
Avco Embassy Pictures mailroom 6th Ave & 52nd,
student Rutgers and Hobart taxi (West Side)
and Ramp Maintenance taxi, (Bronx)
restaurant and messenger (foot and bike),
restaurant Woodstock, gas station Seaside Park
Joined The Navy, went to a carrier in S.F.
(Alameda) to escape family, childhood,
adolescence, and the region.
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