The Sound of a Native New Yorker
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General) North American (US New York, New Jersey, Bronx, Brooklyn)Transcript
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Yeah, we lived in Hoboken, right across the river from Manhattan. And even though we lived in Hoboken, I was supposed to been born in Jersey City, the town just south of Hoboken. However, it didn't work out that way. What happened was my mother, eight months pregnant with me, decided that she needed to escape from the confines of our apartment and see the New York Yankees play. That night in the Bronx. She gathered up her three sons and one daughter and made off for Yankee Stadium. Came the bottom of the seventh, and along with the Yankee faithful, she stood up with seventh inning stretch and she went into labor right there on the spot in the left field general admission seats. After having had four Children and knowing how much time she didn't have, she left the boys at the game and took Margaret, the daughter, with her, determined to get from the price to Jersey City. The two of them we got on the subway. The I R T number four got off in Fulton Street planning to walk the two blocks to the train. Known then, is the Hudson tubes to get to Jersey city didn't happen. My mother went into a drug store arrest to catch your breath. The pharmacist understanding the situation, called a cab and was off the Beekman Street Hospital just a few blocks away in Lower Manhattan. I was born shortly after getting to the hospital, in fact, only 15 minutes after going through the emergency room door, so this Jersey boy became a native New Yorker. If I had known where we were earlier that evening, maybe if I hurried myself along, I might have been born right there in Yankee Stadium. Ol nevertheless, in honor of the occasion. I was named after the Yankee left fielder that night. Johnny Lendell and, Oh, by the way, the Yankees lost to the Cleveland Indians for 23