Uncle Dominick, Aunt Lena, and Connie, my mother at Coney Island.

My father Frank, Father Troy, and my sister Rochelle playing the accordion.

Left to right – Robert, Terrance, Larry, and Poppo, celebrating his score at the Copa Cabana.

Right to left – Uncle Jimmy, my father Frank, Joe Lefty, Uncle Charlie and friends at Jay’s Bar.

Left to right – Vinny, Paulie, Robert, and Johnny on my roof next to my uncle’s pigeon coop

My father in his Marine uniform.

A still from Martin Scorsese’s “Who’s That Knocking at My Door” – I’m 3rd from the right facing the camera.

Uncle Charlie and me at the summer house in Monroe.

Clockwise – my father and mother, Frank and Connie, and my sisters Rochelle and Nicki, before I was born.

Sam the fruit man and me on Houston Street.

Terrance and me on a Copa Cabana match book cover.

My mother’s mother, Nicolina, with my aunt Lena, and Uncle Dominick at her grocery/restaurant at 280 Mott Street after 8 kids.

Me reading part of Chapter 5, “Hanging Out on a Sunday Afternoon” at the Mulberry Street Branch of the New York Public Library.

My 8th grade graduating class at Saint Patrick’s Elementary School.

My sister Nicki’s sketch of the Fisherman’s Wharf Restaurant.

Left to right – Uncle Jimmy, Uncle Charlie, and a friend on Mott Street.

Aunt Lena as a maid of honor at a wedding in Saint Patrick’s Church.