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Sledding at the Bowl

Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library
Date: 2016 Material: Essay manuscript Dimension: 8.5 x 11 inches; 1 page
Creator: William Woolf Identifier: aql:33628 qmp-bill-woolf-essay qmp-bill-woolf-essay.pdf

Description: Bill Woolf writes about his childhood in Sunnyside Gardens where he lived at 39-17 45th Street; with his good friends Pete Scheiner and Danny DeLeon, he went sledding in an area they called the "bowl" near the Sunnyside Railroad Yard - he later learned that the bowl had once been the Madison Square Garden Bowl, an outdoor arena located at 48th Street and Northern Boulevard.

Collection : aql:13844; aql:33733

Creator : William Woolf

Date : 2016

Summary/Description : Bill Woolf writes about his childhood in Sunnyside Gardens where he lived at 39-17 45th Street; with his good friends Pete Scheiner and Danny DeLeon, he went sledding in an area they called the "bowl" near the Sunnyside Railroad Yard - he later learned that the bowl had once been the Madison Square Garden Bowl, an outdoor arena located at 48th Street and Northern Boulevard.

Subject : Sledding; Children; Friendship; Madison Square Garden Bowl

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Coverage : Sunnyside, Queens, NY Sunnyside (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.) Sunnyside Gardens (New York, N.Y.) Sunnyside Yard (New York, N.Y. : Railroad yard)

Type : Essay manuscript

Format : Essay manuscript; 8.5 x 11 inches; 1 page

Identifier : aql:33628 qmp-bill-woolf-essay qmp-bill-woolf-essay.pdf

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Sledding; Children; Friendship; Madison Square Garden Bowl
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