Brooklyn Back When - Open Thread

TIM WHO DID JIMMY UCCIO MARRY? I CANNOT REMEMBER

TIM ARE YOU ON YOU ON F.B. AND IGNORING US?? LOL

They talked about it months ago on the blog.

He was shot on his route.

Well, I guess they got what they deserved, I just hope that Tommy has some good things & people in his life.

I DON'T REMEMBER THAT. OH WELL, IT WAS PROBABLY SOMETHING I NEEDED TO BLOCK OUT AT THE TIME

Nobody deserves that. Its just the way thing happen. The last time I saw Tom there weren't anyHatred in him. He wassetteled in his situation. The first time I saw him at his apartment his first words to me were "Boy, You got fat". I told him I can lose the weight you,ll never get your hair back. Then we went out to the bar down the block

THAT WAS A GOOD COME BACK TIM LOL

I think Jimmys wife was named Vicky. She was very pretty they have triplets, all girls

Driver of Delivery Truck Is Shot In Latest of Brooklyn Holdups



By JOE SEXTON
Published: August 23, 1994

The holdups have become routine along Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn. The Hostess bakery truck was hit a month ago. The robbery of the Pepsi truck came a week later, the take limited to the $40 torn out of the shirt pocket of the driver because the safe in the back was bolted to the floor. The United Parcel Service delivery truck was next.

The routine continued yesterday in Bedford-Stuyvesant, its numbing familiarity broken only by gunfire.

Thomas Reilly, a 41-year-old truck driver and a delivery man for Boars Head Meat Company, was shot once in the chest after he was robbed by three teen-agers outside a grocery store at 920 Myrtle Avenue, the police said. Mr. Reilly was in critical condition last night at Kings County Hospital Center.

"These kids work these streets like they own them, their guns out in the open," said Ivan Rodriguez, whose father owns the store, the Shop Smart bodega, where Mr. Reilly had just received a $175 payment for his delivery of cold cuts. Youthful Robbers

The police combed the Tompkins Houses across the street from the store yesterday afternoon. A bloodhound paced along Myrtle Avenue, trying to pick up the trail of the three youths, all estimated by an eyewitness to be 16 or younger. The meat truck, new and glistening and locked, sat in the rain.

Mr. Reilly had just brought his weekly delivery to Elias Rodriguez and his sons. He did not order his customary sandwich, but spent a half-hour, talking and taking inventory. He walked past the Lethal Enforcers video game, complete with holstered guns, and into the street. He was climbing into the cab of the truck when the three youths arrived.

One shot was fired from a handgun. Mr. Reilly toppled across the truck's seat.

"He wasn't conscious," said Officer Dolores Pilnacek, the first police officer at the scene. "I've worked this neighborhood for seven years. The drivers are always scared. The people with the guns are always 15 to 21."

A woman who identified herself only as Mary, said: "It happened so fast. I walked by when he was arriving, and when I came back, he had a hole in his chest. It's unreal."

Unreal, but familiar. When the detectives had gone, the television cameras packed up and the store again opened for business. Mario Cumberbatch, 8, and Wayeed Foster, 13, sat on their bicycles next to the truck. Mario's father was killed three months ago in a hail of gunfire on Myrtle Avenue. Wayeed's mother was an innocent bystander, shot dead eight years ago.

"Shootings?" Mario said. "I don't think about them."

Yes Patsy I'm on f.b. I try not to ignore anyone, I'm just not on as often as I'm on here

YES, THAT'S RIGHT VICKY. TRIPLET GIRLS, WOW. THAT'S SOMETHING
THANX, TIM

The only error in that report is that he was shot in the back, after he had turned over the money

Wow, didn't realize that it was 15 years ago.

JANET, HORRIBLE STORY I LIKED IT BETTER WHEN I DID NOT KNOW ALL THE DETAILS

WHAT A DAMN SHAME!!!

I think they just mean that there was a hole in his chest because the bullet went through, no??

OK, I see where it says shot in chest.

Sorry to drag up any bad memories. Here I am watching Monty Python on 13 and depressing you guys

CAN WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE, PLEASE??

OMG Janet - how in the world did you find that article? Thanks - I guess I never heard about it out here. What a world.

Tim - you are right - no one deserves that, but the unfairness of it rankles. I am glad that Tommy has made his peace with his situation -

janet, I can't watch american Idol either. I'll watch any thing even pbs

Sorry Patsy.

On a lighter note, Tim, weren't you a fan of the Marx brothers. I swear I remember you talking about going to Clown school, too...

LOL, I watch some Bravo also.

Yes i had the application but never sent it in.

THANX, GUYS. THE TOMMY STORY IS JUST UPSETTING TO ME:(

CLOWN SCHOOL???

Ch 13 right now, Monty python. I think me and Larry Nardo were their first fans

I have to agree with Tim & Janet - American Idol doesn't do it for me either...I rather read a book

Tim, are you in touch with Larry? to invite them to the reunion???

JANET, MARGARET ORLANDO WAS IN MY CLASS I BELIEVE SHE SHOULD BE 57 58.
WHY DID I ALWAYS THINK AND ASK ON THIS BLOG IF ANYOE KNEW HER AND IF HER FATHER WAS A SHOEMAKER.
SOOOOO.....JOE AND SMILEY FROM NOVELLI'S ARE RELATED TO MARGARET???? LOL I CALL HIM SMILEY JOE BECAUSE I HAVE NEVER SEEN HIM SMILE ALL THE TIMES I HAVE BEEN IN THAT STORE. MEANWHILE I DID NOT KNOW UNTIL THIS BLOG HE CAME FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
BY THE WAY YOU LOOK PRETTY DAM GOOD AND YOU LOOK LIKE YOU DO BELONG IN A BAND.....

GOOD NITE ALL.
GOING TO WATCH TV AND REST UP FOR THE TRIP TO BKLYN TOMORROW WITH THE KID WHO IS NOW SAYING OH SHIT EVERY TIME SHE DROPS SOMETHING......NOT FROM ME LOL