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Mike DeMartino [email Mike]
- St. Francis Xavier 1961, Cardinal Hayes 1965, St. John's University 1969 - NY Army National Guard, 32 years, retired - married Norma in March 1972 - 2 children: David 29, Lauren 25 - live in New Hyde Park, NY (Nassau County) - High School teacher; guidance counselor and Assistant Principal for 33 years - enjoy Yankees baseball, Giants football, NYC history, Civil War history - favorite music: Oldies, Broadway musicals
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"My roots in Chelsea
go back to 1912 when my grandfather started DeMartino's Fish Market on 8th
Avenue between 16th & 17th Streets. So much of my growing up in the
neighborhood revolved around the family business. We are frequently in
Manhattan because my two children live there, one on the upper west side
and the other on the upper east side. When I ride through Chelsea
and the Village I often think of the many and varied experiences growing
up there and the friendships that were formed: playing stoop ball, stick
ball, touch football on 15th and 19th Streets while always dodging the
traffic, our sandlot football team, the Chelsea Chargers, and the trips to
play in Clove lake Park in Staten Island (God's Country to us at the
time), the softball games on Saturdays up in Central Park and all our
adventures as altar boys at Xavier. A group of Mike DeMartino |