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what year did we leave coney island for maple avenue?

2992 W. 31st St. I think it was Apartment 2A 212-373-2262 became 718 area code when we were in Sea Gate.

i dont think there were area codes. it was esplanade 3 2262. . fays was highlands 9 5440 . and fran was esplanade 3 -8888 .

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i can remeber a big iron and glass front door. mosaic floor in the hall way. nellie and sarah lived downstairs. bonnie and cindy across the street. with a lunchonette that had good tuna.

Phylis Krapes (Crapes?) lived across the hall and was our baby sitter. I remember one time she babysat for us we made a big clown image by taping cut pieces of colored papers to the wall.

I remember standing on the couch and looking through the glass paned door into the kitchen and wondering why Paula was carrying on and crying. It was when she got the phone call that Marcia was born.

I think she lived upstairs.

Cousin Bobby had told me that once when he was over there he climbed out of the window onto the next roof (our personal playground) and looked through a skylight and saw two people fucking down there.

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I didn't remember the Huba Huba being on a corner. Was there another luncheonette on Mermaid Avenue near Mark Twain? (mid block)?

in the heller book it says his sister was friendly with frances goodman.