The 'Os'... | Emanuele Corso

Emanuele Corso, "looking like an old Sicilian," with "genius cat" Sheba

Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust

Dec. 16, 2014

It has been a good long time -- 70-plus years -- since my last encounter with the New York City Police Department.

My name-sake Grandfather had his grocery store in Manhattan, on West 46th Street, between 9th and 10th Aves. I spent my summers and school vacations with him opening the store at 6 a.m., after stopping first at the Fulton Street markets.

Home was in Brooklyn and the daily drive over the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan remains a vivid memory. At the market we’d load up with fresh fruits, vegetables, and cheese. Each vendor would offer a slice or a piece of whatever they were selling -- it was the original walking breakfast.

We’d next drive through the streets, just awakening with activity, to the store. My first job was to sweep the sawdust from the floor and replace it with fresh. Then into the front window to sweep up bread crumbs and put fresh white butcher paper before the bread man arrived. Next began the parade of eponymous truck drivers whose names were Mr. Ballantine, Mr. Borden, Mr. Schlitz, and so on.

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