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8 Million Stories: Bigger Than a Bread Box

WILLIAM BRYK still remembers the sound of hooves as the Freihofe

By William Bryk | June 25,2008
Sunday mornings in Bay Ridge are quiet. I dozed away most of last weekend’s, drifting off among the gentle sounds of skateboards banging off curbs, whirring automobile tires or aircraft whining as they make their final approaches to LaGuardia. The noises reminded me of the sound I still miss after 45 years: the clip-clop of the horses drawing Freihofer’s bakery wagons. I am an upstater, born in Troy, NY, and largely raised near Albany. Back then, when America’s local busine more
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Old Smoke: The Subtle Knife

John Romulus Brinkley, from goat testes to fascism.

By William Bryk | June 3,2003

Old Smoke: J. Thomas Heflin, Democrat

The senator who fathered Mother's Day.

By William Bryk | May 20,2003

Old Smoke: Wild Rose MacDowell

The composer who warped the sonata.

By William Bryk | May 6,2003

Old Smoke: DUMBO's Track Marks

Little remain of the tiny railroad made to move coffee.

By William Bryk | April 22,2003

The Jay Street Connecting Railroad

Brooklyn's—and America's—shortest rail track.

By William Bryk | April 22,2003

Old Smoke: American Byron

A hard-drinking bachelor poet ahead of his time.

By William Bryk | April 8,2003
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