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Manhattan's Public School 19 was a splendid new building, sporting the very latest gaslamp fixtures, when Abraham Lincoln was campaigning in the neighborhood in 1860. Although its gaslights have long since been replaced, P.S. 19 still stands, somewhat the worse for nearly a century of students' wear & tear. Alongside a five-story addition built 61 years ago, the antique landmark is jammed by 1,009 kindergarten - through -sixth -grade pupils. The children crowd through its dingy, narrow halls, must sometimes go down five flights of stairs to reach the toilets, which are all in the basement...
Lawyer Allen Murray Myers, new in the neighborhood, walked into P.S. 19 last September to register his nine-year-old daughter Shelley for the fall term. He was, he recalls, "shocked to tears." He promptly told New York City's board of education that he "would rot in jail myself first . . . before I would send my only child to that dump." Myers and his wife, who holds a New York state teacher's certificate, began tutoring Shelley at home in her prescribed subjects. Shelley's five hours of "classes" are held on every day that...
...arranged the deal, the young marrieds could neither read nor write. Now they were going to the distant town of Barataria near Port-of-Spain, the capital, to start life on their own with Urmilla's dowry: a cow, a thatched hut and garden, 200 Trinidad dollars. The neighborhood kids were there to see them...
...knowing sorties into the field of quantitative analysis, something he wasn't supposed to take up until his sophomore year in college. He bought himself equipment for a laboratory his father had set up for him in an old shack by giving "magic shows" for kids in his neighborhood; he billed himself as "the Young Edison," charged admission, and performed some of the more spectacular experiments in the beginner's repertory. At school he kept up with his serious chemistry while captaining the second crew and editing the school paper...
Benny's own childhood in Chicago was a slum-cramped scrabble; his father had twelve kids to raise on factory wages. But Benny was only ten when he got the break of his life: a chance to play in the boys' band of a neighborhood synagogue (which supplied the instruments). Because he was the smallest, they gave Benny a clarinet...