ITALIAN AMERICAN FOOD FEAST AND CAR SHOW
FREEHOLD RACEWAY JULY 2OTH AND/OR JULY 21ST
MEET AT CLUBHOUSE AT 5:15 PM TO CARPOOL

With the admission being FREE this is going to be an unbelievable event. Click on this link to see the events and the food vendors that will be at the Raceway.
http://www.comteche.com/free-image-hosting/images/ptt47305.pdf

ATTENTION ALL KNITTERS AND CROCHETERS!!

Carol Kortmansky represents Regency's chapter of We Care Blankets, an organization whose mission it is to provide blankets (and hats) to children who are undergoing chemotherapy or receiving treatment for other serious illnesses! The blankets are individually, and beautifully wrapped, by our own Vivienne Rubin, and donated to the Robert Woods Johnson Children's Hospital in New Brunswick. The wonderful and caring women of our community have already created more than 100 blankets and hats for these children. Unfortunately, the need for them never ends!!

We now have more yarn available, and are looking for volunteers to make these blankets and hats. If you can knit or crochet, we can provide the yarn. You just provide the time (and love)!!

If you can help, please call Carol at 732 605-9759!!

A THANK YOU FROM ELLEN BALIFF

To all my Regency neighbors and friends:

I would like to thank everyone for all their concern and good wishes after my recent hip surgery. The outpouring of phone calls, cards, gifts and visits were simply unbelievable and I am truly amazed at your warmth and support. This community is truly special and we are so fortunate to live here. I am recovering nicely and can't wait to be participating in all the "camp" activities offered here. Once again, thank you, your caring and kindness mean a lot to me.
Ellen Baliff
(ELLEN, JUST TELL STEVE YOU ARE STILL HURTING SO THAT HE CAN CONTINUE TO DO ALL THE HOUSEHOLD CHORES!).

Thank you from Marcia Midler

For the second time in less than a year, our family has been struck by loss, this time with the death of my dear sister Judy Morenberg. And once again, our wonderful Regency friends and neighbors have been there with offers of help and caring expressions of much appreciated sympathy. We are blessed indeed to have moved into such a very special community.

Thanks again,

Marcia Midler

BRONXITES FIGHT BACK

My last email listed 70 things that the Boys (and Girls) remember about Brooklyn. So, naturally the Bronxites from Regency had to provide me their list of remembrances. The only trouble is that it took about 12 hours to come up with just 40 things. I guess there is nothing more to remember about the Bronx.
So here are the 40 things that Bronxites remember about the Bronx

1 Remembering your elementary school # PS? I went to PS 88 & 104
2 Junior & High School
3 Fordham Road
4 Grand Concourse, and it was Grand
5 Strolling along the GC
6 Bronx zoo
7 University Ave.
8 Poe Park
9 ALEXANDERS
10 Hardware Stores not HOME DEPOT, LOEW'S
11 Adventurers Inn in Yonkers
12 The real Carvel
13 Climbing the palisades in Ft.Lee
14 Fontanas Bridals Webster Ave.
15 Clarmont Park
16 East Bronx
17 If you lived in the West Bronx and the apartment house had an elevator YOU WERE RICH.
16 Arthur Ave., Mario's, Half Moon, smell of garlic umm
18 YANKEE STADIUM AND THE POLO GROUNDS
shuttle from 167th St. to the Polo Grounds
19 Addie Vallens on W. 161st Street
20 Chinese food on Sunday with the family.
21 AhDeli, better then Brooklyn
22 Orchard Beach
23 Rye play land
24 Circle line around Manhattan
25 ALL THE GREAT BRIDGES AND TUNNELS
26 Bungalow's or Good Humor
27 Going Downtown meant NYC
28 Elevated subway
29 Egg creams and salty pretzels
30 Alexander's
31 Parkchester
32 Bathgate Ave
33 Goldman Yarns where you (ladies)
34 Winding the skeins into small balls
35 Krums
36 Paradise Movie Theatre
37 Pelham Parkway
38 City Island
39 Rodman's Neck
40 Potters field

AND OF COURSE ANOTHER BRONXITE WROTE ME THE FOLLOWING:

A Response To “Only From Brooklyn” From A Bronxite

We had alternate side parking and also double and triple.
All our delis had foot long hotdogs.
Sundays we ate with our family at home.
Ate Italian and Chinese during the week.
Bought charlotte rousses at julies bakeshop.
Bought knishes at every dairy restaurant no sand in mouth.
bought pickles from barrels most famous was jake the pickle man on Jennings street.
Can name all Bronx high schools and junior high schools.
We have an accent and are proud of it.
We had no tolls on our bridges.
We knew all the neighbors and their immediate families.
Got a kitchen sink at krums.
Got a G.O .card and felt like Errol Flynn.
Had prom date at concourse plaza hotel.
Had roller skates with gold plated keys around our necks.
Handball played in the playground.
Hit three sewers in handball and then stole the sewers.
Its not the beach idiot it’s the ocean.
Kings Plaza blaa Fordham Road is where its at.
Knew the neighborhood wiseguy and it was the cops.
Knew sams candystore home to all the college students.

Now to set things straight, I responded to another resident who claims that she had all of things that us Brooklynites had. However, my email to her explains the difference:

Unfortunately someone might have said that you lived in the Bronx but from your email, you really lived in Brooklyn, but might not have been told. We did have a few Bronxites living on our street but we played the game of telling them that they were in the Bronx.

Yep, Potsy was a Bronx game. Stealing the Pot was a Brooklyn game - definite difference. The Ebinger's Black Outs (Flatbush Ave) was my favorite cake. The Bronx thought they were getting Ebinger's but in reality some guy in Brooklyn was counterfeiting Ebinger cakes and selling them in the Bronx. The kitchen sink at Jahn's was ice cream; in the Bronx it was my mother's kitchen sink. Pickled Pickles (Abe sold them on 98th street) and NOBODY had his pickled formula. As a kid Abe would sell us a pickle for a nickel but Abe would never sell his pickles to someone he knew who came from the Bronx.

Chinese food in Brooklyn was different then the Bronx. In Brooklyn if you ordered a spare rib, you got it. In the Bronx, a spare rib didn't come from a Chinese restaurant, it came from a surgeon who made some extra money by inserting a spare rib into someone's body.

Alternate side of the street parking - well in Brooklyn we never coped with the problem, we just stole the meters and ripped off all the signs. Bronxites didn't think to do something like this.

I would never leave out anyone from the Bronx. I have taken all Bronxites under my "wing" and have nurtured and cared for them all my life.

Life is too short and those of us who know me, know that I enjoy having a good time (hopefully at nobody's expense). When I get serious people know, but just like my response to you in this email, my wife always tells people that she married me because I made her laugh all the time and hopefully my emails make people smile, laugh and forget about their aches and pains.

Hopefully everyone knows that all this stuff about Brooklyn and the Bronx is just my warped sense of humor. I love everyone no matter where you came from (except for those who came from Staten Island - just kidding).

By the way, the Grossman's and Norm Weiner are interested in starting a BROOKLYN CLUB. More info about this club will hopefully be in my future emails.

REGENCY WOMEN’S ROUND ROBIN TENNIS
Thursday, July 26th 8:45 A.M.

Competitive Games with Prizes

LIMIT TO 16 PLAYERS

Lunch to follow at our Grille Room
Cost $8.00 with lunch
Cost $1.00 without lunch

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Make check out for lunch to “Regency Tennis Club”
Circle choice of lunch:
(Sandwich fill)
Tuna Salad Egg Salad Chicken Salad Turkey
(Bread)
Wrap Rye White Bagel

Drink: Coffee , Tea , Soda

Your name____________________________
PLEASE R.S.V.P. - A.S.A.P. SO THAT I CAN SET UP THE GAMES PROPERLY
MONDAY JULY 23RD IS THE LAST DAY I WILL BE ABLE TO ACCEPT PLAYERS.
PLACE YOUR MONEY IN AN ENVELOPE WITH CHOICE OF LUNCH IN MY MAILBOX.
ARLENE EISENBERGER 67 COUNTRY CLUB 732-605-7838

REGENCY HADASSAH
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THAT'S IT FOR NOW
RON