The Amalgamated Houses and the larger Jerome Park community is mourning the recent death of Cecilia “Ceci” Greene at the age of 91. Friends have offered an outpouring of tributes to the German immigrant who grew up during and survived the Nazi occupation only to seek and find lifelong friends and a better life in America. Greene died on Jan. 23.
I get real fulfillment from my work and I cannot think of anything more valuable. Different people could come to different conclusions about me but there is an inarguable fact about me, something everyone can agree on, I have fun at work and I'm doing what I wanted to do when I was a child.
A long-term owner of a 50-year-old dessert shop Caffe Palermo in Little Italy has opened a pizza restaurant and pasta eatery, all on Mulberry Street, dedicated to keeping the street alive and well.