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Vinny Coppola’s Carroll Street memories and Brooklyn grit
In a vivid Brookyn memoir voice Vinny Coppola recalls growing up near the Carroll Street Bridge and the Gowanus Canal. He chronicles neighbors and hustlers, a cancer battle, and a journalism career from St. Augustine High to Newsweek while shaping a life amid a tight Italian American community.
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Y Pal Vinny
Carroll Street Bridge
Vinny
Columbia School of Journalism
U.K
Newsweek
Atlanta
Esquire
Rolling Stone
America
Federal
Oklahoma City
Savannah
Carroll Street
Gowanus Canal
Our Lady of Peace
St. Augustine
Ray Sharkey
Gowanus
Hollywood
Ray