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The Rottino House

by PATRICIA ROTTINO CUMMINS

Our house at 83-75 116th Street was a two family home. It was built on a huge hill and had a strange concrete ramp like driveway cut into the south end of the hill. Behind it was a vacant lot until "garden" apartments were built. I knew growing up there was special because I lived in a house and not an apartment. I had a dog and a garden where my friends and I actually harvested corn. They were jealous because I had things they didn't! It was a wonderful house! The porch was so big I could rollerskate on it when it rained! There was also a private school around the corner with a great mulberry tree!

Sources:
  • 1960 photograph courtesy of Kew Gardens alumna, Patricia Rottino Cummins, who is a fine arts instructor for Florida's Miami-Dade Public Schools, and an adjunct professor at Barry University
  • 2004 photograph by Carl Ballenas

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