12/14/2023 0 Comments New york city gridlock alert days 2015![]() I showed Zio the route I would take with neighborhood friends from my house to the very small main street where we would plunder bubble gum dispensers not for money, but for the tasteless balls of bubble gum. On this night when I planned to feast on Indian food there he was. All those years anxiously tossing and turning on Christmas Eve on the top bunk of the bunk bed in the room I shared with one of my brothers hoping to hear Santa on our roof, I never did. I noticed there was a Santa Claus with eight tiny reindeer on the roof of the house. Since we had extra time, I took Zio past the modest suburban home where I spent my early school years. I explained all this to the Bronx born Zio as we arrived about a half hour early narrowly escaping the hellish transverses out of Manhattan. In the Leave it to Beaver days of my youth, like the television in our living room, Ardsley was a black and white town, minus the black-or any other color. Our destination was a joint called Calcutta Wrap & Roll, in the small town plaza surrounded on either side by the Saw Mill River Parkway and the Major Deegan Expressway.Īrdsley was my home in the middle years of the last century. I had the pleasure of Zio’s company for the ride out. ![]() So when I knew I would be traveling to Ardsley, normally less than a half hour drive from my city home, and knowing there would be holiday traffic, I gave myself about an hour and a half to get there. ![]() Gerry, when he announced his pick, called the location we were to visit the “childhood home of our fearless leader.” The fearless leader he was referring to was me and I wasn’t so fearless in anticipation of driving out of the city at rush hour during the Christmas gridlock alert days but it was something I expected knowing Gerry’s sadistic tendencies. ![]()
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