On the Sidewalks of New York

On the Sidewalks of New York

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On the Sidewalks of New York is a memoir by Richard Paul Poethig, who was born in 1925 into a working-class, German-American family in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan. It tells the story of Richard’s journey from an “old law” tenement on 80th Street, to Good Will Sunday School (Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church’s mission on the East Side), to the College of Wooster in Ohio in 1945 before the end of World War II, to Union Theological Seminary in New York where he met his wife and graduated with an Masters of Divinity.

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  • Chapter 26 – Leaving New York Behind

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  • Chapter 25 – Starting A New Chapter

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  • Chapter 24 – An Adirondack Summer

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  • Chapter 23 – On the Line

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  • Chapter 22 – The Summer of 1950

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  • Chapter 21 – Reinie

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  • Chapter 20 – Beginning at the Beginning

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  • Chapter 19 – Saying Good-bye

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  • Chapter 18 – The Election of 1948

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  • Chapter 17 – Up on the Co-op Farm

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