Born, 02/05/1945, in Manhattan, NY. Lived most of his life in Brooklyn. Attended P.S. 47, P.S. 6, Aviation H.S. in Queens and John Jay H.S. in Brooklyn. Worked 20 years for the Sanitation Dept. Retired from city service in 1990. Owner driver, New York City medallion taxi. Traveled throughout the U.S. in a 32 ft. 5th wheel for three years. Lived in Seattle; 1999-2005. Presently resides in Scranton, Pa. ardelvalle45@yahoo.com
Searching for the Sun
by Adrian Del Valle
Upstairs, he removed a yellow note, folded and stuffed between the apartment door and the molding. To Sam Garrety. I don't appreciate your cat having fits every time you leave that apartment. Either you shut him up, or I will be forced to notify the landlord. Sam wrote her back and taped the note to her door. Dear Bertha, Sorry about the...
It’s not every day that a newborn baby is stuffed inside a cardboard box, folded up and left in the gutter. Nick Santinelli steers a huge New York City street sweeper around a corner and sees the box lying just ahead. He gets out and picks it up, both surprised and shocked at what he finds inside. He brings the sleeping baby home and...
A Catholic orphanage in Palos de la Frontera, Spain, releases Arturo Castillo de Garza to fend for himself at the age of fourteen. He's given a canvas sack containing a loaf of olive bread, a lump of cheese and one green apple. For the poor, Old Spain in 1502 was competitive, harsh and unforgiving, especially if you have no family....
Joe Barnes’ home is a 9X12 room on a quiet tree-lined street near Downtown Brooklyn. He borrowed $10,000 from the Irish Mob in “Hell’s Kitchen”, a lot of money in 1961. The first payment is well over due. He’s late by three months and now they want it all back. That’s why he’s hiding out across the river with no plans of going back to...
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Born, 02/05/1945, in Manhattan, NY. Lived most of his life in Brooklyn. Attended P.S. 47, P.S. 6, Aviation H.S. in Queens and John Jay H.S. in Brooklyn. Worked 20 years for the Sanitation Dept. Retired from city service in 1990. Owner driver, New York City medallion taxi. Traveled throughout the U.S. in a 32 ft. 5th wheel for three years.
