A moving memoir of growing up Irish Catholic & poor in New York City. Told in the first person, this lyrical remembrance is a powerful odyssey of one young man coming of age in a confusing & sometimes hostile world.
The following quotes are taken from Report from Engine Co. 82, by Dennis Smith. Page numbers are provided from the paperback published by Warner Books in 1999, ISBN: 0-446-67552-0---I hope that the young men joining the fire departments around the country are doing so out of some sense of commit...
“This is going to be the worst day of our lives,” Chief Nigro uttered as they watched the smoke rising from the North Tower. Not long after, Chief Ganci asked him to walk the perimeter of the buildings to do an additional evaluation. The South Building came down when he reached the Church Street ...
I would have been on time, but Mr. Dempsey asked me to sweep the store again. I thought he would give me a quarter or even more, but I only got a dime. It wasn’t worth a dime to be kept from going to Kips. Instead, I have to sit around Mrs. Grayson’s apartment on Sutton Place while Mommy works th...