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Vendors lined up along Smithtown’s Main Street while attendees filled the street to check out all they had to offer, including music, arts and crafts, raffles and food on June 5.

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Even as the newer omicron subvariant of COVID-19 continues to spread throughout Long Island, hospitalizations and infections have been lower.

Hospitalizations, which had risen to 490 in mid-May from about 130 in early April, have been “slowly declining for the past week or two,” according to Dr. Gregson Pigott, commissioner of the Suffolk County Department of Health Service.

Area health care professionals suggested that the severity of symptoms also had eased up.

“COVID hospitalization rates are lower than in prior COVID waves,” Dr. Adrian Popp, chair of infection control at Huntington Hospital, explained in an email. Most of the patients have mild to moderate illnesses, although Huntington Hospital still does have some severe cases and/ or a COVID-related death.

The average number of positive tests per 100,000 people in Suffolk County has declined from recent peaks. As of June 3, the 7-day average number of positive PCR and rapid tests per 100,000 people was 33, which is down from 52 on May 27 and 67.7 on May 20, according to New York State Department of Health data.

“If anything, Suffolk County rates are dropping,” said Dr. Michel Khlat, chief medical officer at St. Catherine of Siena in Smithtown.

“We’re seeing a drop in inpatient cases.”

Many of the cases St. Catherine is finding are incidental, as the hospital tests for the virus in connection with other procedures.

At this point, the newer subvariant of omicron, called BA 2.12.1, accounted for 78.1% of the positive samples collected between May 22 and May 28 in New York, which is up from 593% in the prior two weeks, according to figures from the New York State Department of Health.

“Preliminary data suggest that Omicron may cause more mild disease, although some people may still have severe disease, need hospitalization, and could die from the infection with this variant,” Pigott added in an email.

Khlat suggested that hospitals aren’t tracking the type of variant. Even if they did, it wouldn’t alter the way they treated patients.

“It doesn’t make a difference” whether someone has one or another subtype of omicron, Khlat said. The treatment is identical.

Area doctors and medical care professionals continue to recommend that residents over 50 receive a second booster, particularly if they are immunocompromised or have other health complications.

“People over 50 should get the booster — it decreases the severity of COVID,” explained Popp.

Like much of the rest of the country, some Long Islanders have also contracted COVID more than once. The reinfection rate per 100,000 is currently 7.3%, according to New York State Department of Health figures.

“We are certainly seeing symptomatic COVID infections in persons who report having COVID at the beginning of this year or last year,” Dr. Susan Donelan, medical director of the Healthcare Epidemiology Department at Stony Brook Medicine, explained in an email.

Popp explained that natural immunity from a COVID infection generally lasts about two to three months. Vaccine-related immunity generally lasts twice that duration, for about four to six months.

Doctors continue to urge caution during larger, poorly-ventilated indoor gatherings.

“Close crowds without masks, in an indoor setting with poor air flow, would be one version of a scenario with potential superspreader potential,” Donelan explained.

Donelan said Stony Brook encouraged staff and patients to consider receiving boosters when they are eligible.

Popp believes wearing masks indoors while in a large gathering is a “reasonable” measure. That includes theaters, airplanes, buses and trains.

At Huntington Hospital, meetings continue to take place online.

“We decided as an organization that the risk of transmission is high enough to continue these measures,” Popp wrote.

“We cannot afford to lose team members to COVID since it can negatively impact our operation.”

Even though the current infection rate is dropping, Khlat said he also continues to remain cautious, wearing a mask when he goes indoors.

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Part I: Mental health strain for Long Islanders

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The first in a two-part series, this article highlights the ways COVID-19 exacerbated an already difficult mental health landscape on Long Island, particularly for adolescents.

Amid isolation and uncertainty, residents had an increase in anxiety-related and mental health crises. Additionally, residents in acute distress who arrived at the emergency room sometimes had to wait hours or days for an inpatient psychiatric bed. In the second feature, which will appear in a future edition, mental health workers describe the challenges of their work during the pandemic.

COVID-19 has taken its toll on mental health throughout Suffolk County, as people in a range of ages confront challenges related to isolation, depression, anxiety and grief.

Area hospitals report that inpatient psychiatric beds are rarely empty. Indeed, patients have had to receive treatment in the emergency room at times for a day or more as they wait for an available inpatient psychiatric bed.

“Our emergency room has two behavioral health beds, but often, we have more patients waiting for admission to [the] inpatient psychiatry unit,” said Dr. Adnan Sarcevic, chairman of the Psychiatry Department at Huntington Hospital.

While patients receive the same treatment in the emergency room that they would in an inpatient unit, some types of intervention, like group psychotherapy “cannot be provided in an emergency room setting,” Sarcevic said.

COVID also exacerbated the shortage of beds when some units had to close after an outbreak of the virus.

“We had periods when some psychiatric inpatient units were closed for a variety of different reasons including COVID outbreaks” which created a shortage of beds, Sarcevic added.

At St. Catherine of Siena in Smithtown, beds filled up as soon as one opened, said Dr. Michel Khlat, chief medical officer.

Adolescent strains

The pandemic exacerbated trends that already reflected the mental health strain among youth and adolescents.

For the previous decade, youth presentations for mental health crises in the emergency room had been increasing.

During the pandemic, those numbers climbed nationally and on Long Island.

Estimates of anxiety among youth increased to 20%, which is dramatically higher than the 12% prior to the pandemic, said Dr. Vera Feuer, associate vice president in the School Mental Health program at Northwell Health.

Depression has also reached about 20%, which was previously below 10%.

Additionally, the pandemic caused a

Dr. Jeffrey Wheeler and Dr. Stacy Eagle from St. Charles Hospital and Dr. Adnan Sarcevic and Dr. Vera Feuer of Northwell Health, discuss the state of mental health on Long Island.

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three-fold increase in children with eating disorders, which is consistent with new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, Feuer added.

“There’s a real big increase in presentation to the emergency room” with youth who are considering suicide, particularly for girls who are 10 to 13 years old.

Additionally, adolescents are showing an increase in tic disorders, which are involuntary movements of the neck, eye or facial movements, Feuer said. While some studies suggest a link between depression and these movements, other research has linked them to the increasing use of social media.

As for the availability of mental health services, adolescents are continuing to find it difficult to become outpatients for an overburdened mental health care system, which increases the need for emergency services.

Community services are often “saturated,” Feuer said. “There are not enough child psychiatrists” which means that children go without care for longer, she said.

On Long Island, the wait for inpatient beds is not as long as it reportedly has been in other areas of the country.

“We do have kids waiting at least a day or over the weekend,” said Feuer. She suggested that access to beds and to crisis programs in school have mitigated some of the adolescent demand.

Dr. Stacy Eagle, director of Psychiatry at St. Charles Hospital, cautioned that the potential for addiction and substance abuse is “concerning. Even marijuana is dangerous, because you don’t know what it’s laced with and it can become incredibly addicting.”

Broader challenges

The shortage of inpatient beds predated the arrival of COVID, with mask mandates, social distancing, remote learning and athome work altering routines and creating stressors that often increased anxiety and triggered the kind of self-medication that led to substance abuse.

“I’ve seen it step up on a daily, weekly, monthly basis” in terms of generalized anxiety

disorders and panic attacks, said Dr. Jeffrey Wheeler, director of the Emergency Department at St. Charles Hospital in Port Jefferson.

Eagle said she has seen more anxiety, mood disorders and substance abuse, with more acute patients coming in from schools.

Doctors suggested that COVID itself can contribute to the worsening of a person’s emotional well-being.

“COVID certainly plays a role in mental health, both as a psychosocial stressor and due to the neurotropic nature” of the virus, said Sarcevic.

The types of treatment varies according to the severity of the symptoms, the underlying conditions, and any ongoing treatment plans.

“Some people come in who are in need of medication to be stabilized for depression,” said Khlat.

To accommodate the increasing need for non-acute psychiatric services, health care professionals have been offering

telepsychiatry help.

In the last three months, St. Catherine of Siena expanded their telepsychiatry services, which had been offered primarily on the weekends, to seven days a week.

“Due to the influx of patients we’re having, with COVID depression we had to [expand that] to the rest of the week,” Khlat said. These services “helped us out a lot.”

Silver lining

Feuer suggested a few silver linings amidst the health care crisis.

“The attention to something we know has been a problem for a long time” will help the community, she said. “I’m hoping the right resources and interventions will come.”

Additionally, the increased vigilance of mental health challenges has enabled people to feel that asking for mental health resources is something they can, and should, do.

“It has normalized these conversations,” Dr. Feuer said.

Available resources

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF Dr. Gregson Pigott, commissioner of the Suffolk County Department of Health Services, urged people who think they need help to get it right away.

Those people seeking help for substance abuse or mental health can visit www.SuffolkStopAddiction.org to find a network of providers in the 2022 Suffolk County Directory of Behavioral Health Services guide.

The following are resources available to those in crisis: — Family Services League’s Diagnostic, Assessment and Stability Hub (DASH) program. This is a 24hour stabilization response program for children and adults in crisis due

to substance abuse, mental illness and other life stressors. They are located at 90 Adams Avenue in Hauppauge. Their phone number is (631) 952-3333.

— A free 24-hour hotline: (631) 7517500, or www.responsehotline.org.

— A Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program (CPEP) at Stony Brook Hospital at 101 Nicolls Rd in Stony Brook is available at (631) 444-6050.

CPEP has voluntary and involuntary emergency psychiatric services for children and adults every day.

“It is important for individuals to engage in self-care,” Pigott wrote in an email. “Listening to each other and recognizing the signs of mental illness and substance use can help mitigate a developing crisis.”

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from a residence on Deepwells Lane in Head of the Harbor on May 30. The vehicle, which was valued at $50,000, had been left unlocked with the key fob inside.

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Comsewogue 8 Smithtown West 6

Comsewogue Warriors corral Bulls in Suffolk Class B title game

BY BILL LANDON DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM It took the Comsewogue Warriors four minutes into the fourth quarter to take the first lead of the game only to have the Bulls of Smithtown West retie the game at 6-6 on the ensuing possession.

With four minutes, five seconds left on the clock, James Krieg stretched the net to edge ahead by one when Michael Katz on a defensive take away scored the insurance goal a minute later to win the Suffolk Class B boy’s lacrosse final, 8-6, at East Islip High School June 1.

Katz scored three goals in the victory, Dylan Rocchio had two goals and an assist and teammates Brayden Arias, Thomas Kennedy and James Krieg each scored.

Adam Wachholder had back-to-back saves in the closing minute for seven stops on the day.

The win propelled the Warriors to the Long Island Championship round where they beat Garden City at Hofstra University June 4.

Pictured clockwise from above, Smithtown West senior attack Ryan Trebing drives on a defender; Comsewogue midfielder Justin Bonacci looks for a cutter; and Trebing drives on a defender.

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Northport puts an end to Smithtown East boys lacrosse’s season

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Northport defeated Smithtown East, 1613, in the Suffolk County Class A Boys Lacrosse Championship in a game that took place over the course of two days.

After a flash lightning storm struck at East Islip on June 1, the game was delayed for 30 minutes with Northport leading, 6-5. After the officials restarted the game, Northport would outscore the Bulls, 7-2, but the weather would force yet another stoppage. The game resumed June 2 with seven and a half minutes remaining, and

despite a furious flurry of goals by the Red Bulls, Northport would hang on to win their second consecutive Suffolk County title.

Marcus Wertheim scored four goals and Brandon Marz three goals for Smithtown East. Michael Meyer and Jacob Starcke scored four each for the Tigers, and Jack Deliberti would net three. The Tigers took on Port Washington for the Class A title on Saturday at Hofstra and won, 13-9.

Pictured clockwise from above, the Bulls Joe Hobot, left, fights for a loose ball, Northport’s Jack Helrigel gets knocked down by East’s Joe Fallon; and Fallon checks Helrigel.

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Setting a course Reaction to recent gun violence Working with LIRR for a better ride

A growing divide has emerged between the people of the North Shore and the Long Island Rail Road, and it is time for the local community to bridge this gap.

In board rooms and public meetings throughout this area, local officials today express similar frustrations about their various dealings with this public railroad company.

On Monday night, Port Jefferson Village trustee Bruce Miller described the complications that arose during a recent meeting with LIRR reps as neither party could agree on a common path forward. A day later, Brookhaven and state officials traveled to Stony Brook train station, echoing the decades-old call for the electrification of the Port Jefferson Branch line.

Local elected officials are most familiar and best equipped to handle the plights of their constituents. Yet in communities throughout this area, our leaders are meeting resistance with LIRR, whose leadership changes too often.

While LIRR rightly devotes much of its energies to the more heavily traveled Ronkonkoma Branch, the residents of the North Shore pay taxes and have an interest in this company, too.

LIRR officials should be aware of the frequency of riders who travel inland to the main line in the center of the Island. This suggests residents here are rejecting the railways in their own backyard for a longer drive to the train station — albeit a faster and more direct commute into Manhattan. The unintended consequences of this are greater congestion on our roadways and more pollution generated by cars. This burdensome commute impairs our quality of life, costing us more energy and placing unnecessary strain on our physical and mental health.

For decades, the people of this area have asked LIRR to electrify the Port Jefferson Branch. Today, as the cost of diesel fuel surges exponentially due to inflation, this transition is more necessary than ever before. Despite the preponderance of evidence that electrification will reduce air and noise pollution, that it will cut costs for the railroad and the taxpayer, and that it will deliver a better ride for the people of this community, electrification has been nothing more than a pipedream.

There is no better time than right now to electrify the line. With a flood of infrastructure stimulus cash from the federal government, the opportunity is ripe for the taking.

We must thank our representatives who are fighting to secure a better ride and remind them to keep applying the pressure.

At some point, LIRR must soon give in and when it does, it will be for the better.

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BY DAVID FRIEDMAN

Ten dead in a mass shooting in Buffalo, 21 dead in a school shooting in Texas. The shooting in Texas was actually the 27th school shooting this year in the U.S. It’s all too predictable. It’s the logical outcome of our worship of “Second Amendment rights.” We abhor the practice of human sacrifice. But how many more humans will we sacrifice on the altar of the great god of gun rights?

There’s no such thing as an individual right to gun ownership in the Constitution.

The epidemic of mayhem and death we’re now experiencing and will continue to experience is the inevitable result of the creation of such a right by the Supreme Court. A Supreme Court stacked with activist judges appointed expressly to legislate from the bench in order to achieve the political objectives of the Republican Party. A Supreme Court twisting the plain meaning of the Second Amendment. “A well-regulated militia” — is that phrase so hard to understand? Not really — for more than two centuries it was understood to mean exactly what it said.

We’re living in a cloud of delusions.

What do we expect if buying a semiautomatic weapon is easier than being

licensed to drive? What do we expect if there are more guns than people in our country?

You don’t have to be a gambling genius to figure out the odds. How many lives is it worth to make buying a gun so easy?

10,000? 100? 1?

Spare me talk of mental illness. The truth is there will always be people with psychological problems. Devoting more resources to treating psychological problems is a great idea, although our politicians seem in no hurry to actually spend the money to do this. But if we think that will eliminate or even significantly reduce gun violence, we’re living in a dream world. The Buffalo killer openly stated his intention to kill. He then disclaimed that as a “joke.” You don’t have to be Sigmund Freud to figure out that he should not have been allowed to have a gun, much less a semi-automatic weapon.

Spare me the talk of “a good guy with a gun.” The fact is that the police, who were well-armed and specifically trained in how to respond to school shooters, failed miserably in the Texas shooting. The armed security guard who tried to stop the Buffalo killer was shot dead when he confronted him.

The truth is that a determined and suicidal killer armed with the “best” of today’s easily obtained weapons and the “best” tactical gear can wreak havoc and death no matter

how many teachers are forced to double as armed security guards. Or maybe we should be arming 10-year-olds to defend themselves.

Spare me talk of making schools “the single hardest target,” heard at the recent NRA convention. What kind of insanity is this? Are we all to go to school, shop, go to the movies as if we’re at war, liable to be attacked at any time, just because some among us can’t put up with the inconvenience of delays, background checks, and licensing and training requirements when they decide to get a gun?

Above all, spare me the talk of “evil.” It’s so easy to denounce and condemn the killer after yet another all-too-predictable incident of someone with a gun run amok. The simple fact is that there will always be disturbed or angry individuals among us. But there’s no law of nature that says they need to be armed with easily obtained weapons of mass death. That’s our own decision, as citizens of the only country in the world that has this problem. We have to live, or in some cases die, with the consequences. The fault, as has been said, is not in our stars but in ourselves.

David Friedman is a retired software developer who has worked for a variety of Long Island companies, including a local subsidiary of Ebay. He lives in St. James.

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Three of four tunnels running inbound mornings and outbound evening rush hours have tight spacing between trains.

One tunnel is shared by the LIRR, NJ Transit and Amtrak for reverse train movements with equally tight spacing during rush hours. There is no platform capacity at Penn Station to accommodate additional trains during rush hour.

Penn Station operates at 100% capacity. If one of the four tunnels is temporarily out of service, the result is numerous delays and cancellation of trains. Amtrak plans on removing one tunnel from service at a time. This will start in 2025 for major repairs. Work to bring all four of the East River Tunnels back to a state of good repair will take three to four years. The LIRR will have to cancel and combine numerous trains to and from Penn Station during this time while Amtrak performs major reconstruction.

While the MTA and LIRR give Penn Station-bound commuters added service one year, they will take away another year.

So much for truth in advertising.

Larry Penner Great Neck

Letters to the Editor Honoring 100 years of life

Thank you so much for the lovely April 21 article about the amazing “professional volunteer” Claire Baer, who will turn 100 on June 18.

She has been a contributing member of Temple Isaiah in Stony Brook for half a century, serving on the Temple Board as treasurer and trustee and as a congregational representative on the original Three Village Interfaith Committee.

Claire was especially excited to provide the seed money to launch the restoration of a Holocaust Torah scroll under the guidance of Sofer [scribe] Neil Yerman, which provided a “once-in-a-lifetime” experience for congregants.

Her dedication and generosity to Judaism, Israel and tikkun olam [repairing the world] — and to supporting Jews and Jewish life — has benefited so many people and organizations and established Claire’s unique legacy.

On Friday evening, June 17, Temple Isaiah will honor Claire with a special service to celebrate her centennial. Our congregation is grateful for the privilege of

MTA and LIRR give and take away service

Gov. Kathy Hochul [D] and MTA Chair/CEO Janno Lieber’s recent announcement concerning significant service improvements upon the initiation of the LIRR East Side Access service to Grand Central Terminal, promised to start in December 2022, was less than candid.

Only MTA vice president Jolyan Handler was completely honest when he said, “Upon completion of East Side Access, a significant number of trains will be removed from Penn Station.”

The LIRR has promised to increase the number of Manhattan-bound peak morning trains from 113 to 159 and Long Island-bound peak afternoon trains from 98 to 158. What it omitted to say is that there will continue to be no room to run additional trains into or out of Penn Station during rush hours via the East River Tunnels with connections to Long Island.

This has been the case for decades.

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The dos and don’ts of 2022 weddings

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e’re finally here.

These poor couples have had to wait for days, months and years to tie the knot in front of family and friends. It’s such a relief that we can all gather again, celebrating the love that binds two people forever and that may, if it hasn’t already, lead to children.

It seems that the list of dos and don’ts for weddings has changed, just as so many other D. None parts of modern reality of the above have altered the way we

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF go about our lives.

Here are a few of the dos and don’ts, starting with the don’ts.

— Cough. Ever. If you have to cough, swallow it or make it sound like a strange laugh.

No one wants to hear a cough, least of all at a wedding. Go outside to cough. Cough in the car. Cough into your hand like you’re saying something private and being discrete. Go to the edge of the parking lot and cough.

— Chew with your mouth open. No one wants to see the food you’re eating, especially not in the third year of COVID-19.

— Point to the food and say how much better you could make it. Look, we know that you’ve lost a step on your social graces from being home so often. We know that you’ve spent a great deal of time cooking meals to your satisfaction. We know that you are a great admirer of your own food, your own voice, and your own way of doing things. Appreciate that someone else has made the food and will clean it up and that they do things differently than you do. You can have food you know you love as soon as you walk back into your fortress of solitude.

— Talk about politics. You’re not going to convince anyone who doesn’t agree with you already of your views. So, why bring it up?

This isn’t the time to try to make a reasoned argument with relatives who only share genes and nothing else. Smile if they bring something up you find disagreeable.

— Complain about the weather. The bride, groom and the extended family have no control over the weather. If it’s too hot, get a drink. If it’s too cold, shift back and forth from one foot to the other or bring a sweater. The weather is either perfect, dramatic, lovely or dynamic.

— Talk about your own wedding. If people were there, they remember. If not, they don’t need you to compare what’s going on to what you did. Your wedding may have been lovely, but you’re not there right now.

— Point to someone else’s mask and ask them why they’re wearing it. Do whatever is comfortable for you. Don’t tell anyone else what to do because, well, that doesn’t work and it gets people angry. They do their thing, you do yours.

— Binge watch shows while you’re waiting for the ceremony to start. Yes, the invitation said the party would start at 7 p.m. and it’s now

7:18 p.m. So what? You’re there to celebrate other people and to witness this lovely moment.

Netflix and other shows can wait. Live your life.

— Show pictures of your pet. Many of us added dogs, cats and fish, particularly during the pandemic.

Okay, so, here is a short list of dos: — Give other people a chance to talk.

Silence, periodically, is okay. You don’t need to fill every quiet moment, if there are any, with your opinions, thoughts and experiences.

— Ask someone to dance who seems eager for a partner. Grab your mother-in-law, your brother-in-law, or your something-in-law by the hand, lead him or her to the floor, smile, and appreciate the chance to dance.

— Remember that you won’t have to see many of these people until the next blessed event, whenever that is.

— Thank the bride, groom and their families for a lovely event. Even if you hated it, you’ve got some good stories to share and you gave your wonderful pets a short break from you.

Rectal cancer cured but too late for my father Medical scientists released fantastic news Sunday that made me think of my father and weep. In a small trial of 18 patients with rectal cancer, who took a particular drug, the cancer totally vanished.

My dad died of rectal cancer in 1975.

Dr. Luis A. Diaz Jr of Memorial Sloan Cancer Center was an author of the paper published in The New England Journal of Medicine explaining Between the results, according to The New York you and me Times. He said he

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF knew of no other study in which a treatment completely obliterated a cancer in every patient.

“I believe this is the first time this has happened in the history of cancer,” the NYT quotes Diaz as saying. The trial was sponsored

by the drug company GlaxoSmithKline. My dad and all these other patients faced chemotherapy, radiation and surgery with possible colostomy bags as treatment for their cancer. Unlike my dad, with the benefit of the new drug, dostarlimab, 47 years later, they all seem to be cured, although only time will tell. So far, it has been three years. And none of the patients had “clinically significant complications.” The medicine was taken every three weeks for six months and cost $11,000 per dose.

“It unmasks cancer cells, allowing the immune system to identify and destroy them,” according to the NYT. I guess we are thinking of our dads this month in particular since Father’s Day is coming quickly, and we need a gift for the occasion. This incredible breakthrough seems like the ultimate present for any fathers suffering from this disease, and of course for anyone else, too. But it has come too late for my adored dad.

My father, born in 1904, came to the City from the family’s Catskill dairy farm when he

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was 13. One of 9 children, “the middle child,” he would like to distinguish himself by saying he was sent off by his father to build his life since he was now considered an adult. He liked to tell us stories about his total ignorance of urban life.

A favorite concerned the boarding house in which he first rented a room. It was in a brownstone a block away from where his next older brother lived in Brooklyn. He had only shortly before arrived, had dutifully sat down to write a letter home explaining his new circumstances and had gone out as instructed by his landlady to mail the letter in the mailbox on the corner. Deed done, he turned around to return, only to discover that each building looked the same. He had no idea which held his room. Ultimately someone came out to find him.

He quickly found a job delivering packages to various parts of the city. But that proved a puzzle. He had a map and was able to figure out his destination for each delivery. He rode the buses so as not to lose his sense of navigation.

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So to be sure of winding up where he needed to go, he ran. He ran all over the city until he was fired. He was deemed to be too slow.

Another early instance of having arrived in an alien world happened when he followed his brother into a tiny room in a tall building.

Surprised when the doors slid closed behind, he could feel the floor drop beneath his feet.

Bending into a crouch, he prepared to cushion the shock of the landing when he realized the others in the space were staring at him. He was in his first encounter with an elevator.

Of course, he was the constant victim of teasing in the next office in which he worked.

He still remembered when the office manager gave him a folder to bring to the stationery store down the block. Wise now, he retorted, “I’m surprised you would try to trick me, Miss Murphy. I know every store is stationary.”

My dad went on to become a successful businessman in Manhattan. But that’s a story for a different day.

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