True Yorkers

in the early 80's most kids would get working papers or learn to be lifeguards during the Summer. My crew and myself had another job which I kept for about a decade.

Fireworks class of 1991 where Joooeeeyy was no friend of ours and the hustle of fake bags and bootleg kicks on Canal street was substituted with festival balls, mortars, M80's, Pineapples and for our corner 1/2 sticks of homemade dynamite. Like Summer school come June there were hundreds of kids working for dozens of men. These made men made millions while we made thousands from June till July 3rd and a 1/2. Us locals stuck around mostly to blow up things on Canal but also for some last minute mats or belt sales or maybe some of the industrial size sparklers? Quite the smoky scene in Soho where the Dominicans & Italians of Mott st. competed with the chinese on the South side of Canal, the Vietnamese on the North side of Canal, the West siders on the rail and us Vandals on Broadway. Our corner was different, we did it for the kicks.... literally! the legendary Broadway Sneakers was on Howard and that's how this TrueYorker crew stayed fly. Too many stories of hot sticky Summers in the City, like when the Squeegee kids in Hawaiian suits would make more in change per hour than us.

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