"My twin and I were born on April 26th, 1904 on Jennings Street, which is now in the devastated area of the South Bronx.

It was a neighborhood of small one family homes. And was our home.

We lived there only one year, but the home eventually was confiscated by the city for the building of a school.

That was the first time that a house was confiscated, but not the last time."