![]() ![]() The school’s majority of pupils were Irish and Italian, and my closest and best friend to this day was a student named Walsh, now a retired pulmonary medical professional. It was a fabulous four years where I learned about life and white people, given that I was one of only four African American students in the school, and the only Black kid for four years in my entire graduating class. These guys were serious about education and behavior. For the record, I must share the fact that the high school I attended was a Catholic secondary institution run by a religious order known as the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits. The City of New York contains five boroughs, one of which was Brooklyn, another Manhattan (plus the Bronx, Queens and Staten Island), but we referred to Manhattan as The City. ![]() A little confusing, but we residents all got the hang of it. ![]() I boarded the train at the Bergen Street stop in Brooklyn, and got off (having made two changes of train lines) at 86th Street in the borough of Manhattan, also called New York. It is so named because it operates electrically on tracks below the streets of the city. Your columnist attended school in the City of New York, traveling to high school daily via the New York transit system, otherwise known as the subway. And yes, indeed it is today! So why in the world is Peter Carter, obviously not Irish, writing about the patron saint of Ireland, perhaps even the patron saint of New York City?įor those of you who have not yet read my book(s), let me bring you up to speed with respect to the place of my formative years. ![]()
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