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A Complete Red Hook Life and She Even Saw Sinatra
Mary Anne Pietanza recounts a Red Hook mother whose storytelling captivated children through decades of change. The piece recalls wartime rationing, shifts to gentrification, family ties, neighborhood loyalties, and a famed 1944 Sinatra concert Columbus Day Riot at the Paramount Theatre with 30,000 teens and a police response.
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Sinatra
Mary Anne Pietanza
Red Hook
Anna
Gaeta
Rome
Bay of
Naples
Boston
Gaetani
New England
Bush Terminal
Brooklyn Navy Yard
WACS
Dominick
Francesco
St. George
Brooklyn Heights
Navy Yard
Stork
South
Brooklyn
Coffey Park
Red Hook Pool
Visitation
Joe Bolton
Frank Sinatra
Paramount Theater
Mary
Annie
New York Daily News