Scott Gassman  

Lived in Building 9.  Now resides in Hollis Hills, New York. During his lifetime, he has been a Principal, Coach Leaders, Facilitate Groups, design/manage meetings; train executives, teams and staff, manage change, develop organizations and support transitions.

Married to Reeva

Two Sons, Benjamin (25) playwright/Double Decker tour bus guide, Adam(19) student at Univ. of Buffalo

Michelle (16) student at Frank Sinatra High School in Queens and Happy (12+) Maltese

Richard Fiol  & Amber Fiol

Married to Liz Bowie and one daughter, Amber.  I am the son of Pepe Fiol, the man who took care of boilers at Marble Hill Projects.  I know some of the folks who will be attending the Marble Hill reunion, and I probably played marbles with the others.  I think I've had a pretty strange life since I left our beloved Marble Hill.  I was an off-off Broadway actor, A union Plumber, and I am now a lawyer working for the National Labor Relations Board in Seattle, Washington. 

Since I left the Homeland, I've lived in Miami, New Orleans, Alburquerque, San Diego, Baltimore, San Francisco and Las Vegas.  These are all nice places but they don't compare to NYC.  I am looking to buy an apartment in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico where I hope to complete this strange trip that I've been on.  Querida, Kathy, I promise to attend your next reunion and PLEASE, hold it soon because the Good Lord works in mysterious ways.  Saludo(best wishes) to my friends from Marble Hill.  To Donny, the Dodgers suck, always have and always will.

 

 

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Gary Blumberg

(Didn't live in the projects but hung out there)

Lives in Scottsdale, Arizona

Widower - One Daughter and one son

Entrepreneur/business owner.

Gary has said that if anybody is planning a trip to Arizona to please email him or call him - his cell is 480-620-9447

Paul Cohen

Lived in Building 4

Now resides in Warminster, Pennsylvania.

Was a CPA, retired from Dreyfus Corp.

Married for 28 years to Maureen

Two Daughters - Karen - 27 living and working as a third grade teacher in Baltimore wil be married July 27

Heather, 25, married to David Haeussler, teaches high school math.

Sherry (Okowsky) & Tobey Balsamo
 
Tobey and I met in the projects and were married in 1972.  So, this year we will celebrate our 36th anniversary on October 14th.  We have 2 sons, David and Steven .  Our youngest son, Steven is married to Colleen and they are both Special Education teachers on Long Island.  Our older son, David is the World Language Coordinator for Syosset schools.  Tobey works for an Italian food distributor and I am a job coach for a supported employment program for developmentally delayed adults on Long Island.  We live in Hauppauge (but our hearts are in Bay Shore where we lived for 22 years).  Tobey and I love to travel and have been to London, Sicily, Italy, Hawaii, Bermuda,  and of course, the Caribbean.  We enjoy the Carolina's and Pennsylvania and will be visiting Las Vegas in November.

Jorge Gomez

Lives in California

Pressman(printer)

Separated

Three girls and 1 boy, 29, 13, 11,9

Grandkids: 1 girl and 3 boys

Allen Turkish

Lived in Building 8.

Left Marble Hill in 1969 and went into the US Air Force.  Where I was sent to Vietnam and Thailand during the height of the war.  After 1 1/2 years in Southeast Asia I was sent to England.  Stationed just outside of Oxford.  I lived there for 6 years where I met my wife, Dawn and afer a 3 year courtship we got married in England.  We came to Las Vegas after living a fun filled party lifestyle since the exhange rate of dollars to pounds was almost 2 times the value after about 1 year in vegas, we bought our first house $31,750 for $1 down thanks to the military.  Afer 8 months in our new house I got orders to go back to England, I decided to leave the service after 13 years.  All my children, Lisa, Rachel and Joey were all born here and all the kids are now married.  I'm the pround grandfather of 3 kids, Aaron, Tyler and Heather with the oldest 10, 7, and 6.  Everyone still lives in Vegas and we get together every Sunday.  Just like the old days when I was growing up.  This Sept. will mark our 35th anniversary.  Who would have thought that I wold be with the same woman that long.

After getting out of the service, I decided to get in the car business, sell car since there is very little public transportation in Las Vegas, the average family owns 3 vehicles.  As Vegas has grown from 1/2 million people when we first arrived to almost 2 millon today, the automobile industry has been very good to me and my family.

I have been a finance director for the past 23 years

Arlene Jacks

(Works at Oxford University Press as Assistant to the President/Event Coordinator for the past 15 years.)

 Live in the city and love going to the theater – have seen most shows currently on broadway but I also go off-broadway, off-off-broadway and regional theater as well. Enjoy going to the Hamptons during the summer and meeting friends for dinner & movies during all the seasons.  Love reunions, especially Marble Hill because I enjoy seeing old friends.  Hope we continue to do so…I already miss everyone.

I’m on the Board of Directors of a non-profit organization called Share The Care whose purpose is to support individuals and families who are caring for a loved one; or people without a caregiver.  Share The Care shows how friends, neighbors and even acquaintances can organize themselves to give essential support to a friend and their family during a major health crisis.


I’m very proud to be part of this much needed organization and hope everyone will visit our Website www.sharethecare.org and read some of the stories of groups and individuals who’ve benefited from Share The Care.

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Neal Wieder

Resided in Building 7, 5360 Broadway

Holistic practioner(chiropractor, acupuncturist and nutritionist)

Resides in Florida

Barry Gold

Lived in Building 5  Lives in Hartsdale, New York. Presently is an attorney specializing in business and commercial litigation.

Married to Lesley(who is a teacher)

Daughter, Sara - 20, is entering her junior year at the Univ. of Pennsylvania

Son - Sam - 17, is finishing his junior year of high school

Jeffrey Himmel

(Didn't live in the projects but hung out there)

Lives in Great Neck, New York

Travel Agent

Married to Eva for 23 years

Stepson Joshua 34, daughter in law, Lianne 34 and Aaron 20

1973-75 - Partners with brother Les in Produce Market in Washington Heights

1976 - Graduated Baruch College

1976-1977 Worked off Bway theaters on 2 Obie award shows included and NY Shakespeare Festival

1977-1979 - Assistant stage manager for Eliot Feld Ballet

1978-1981 - Stage/Cargo/Company manager for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

1981-1983- Stage Manager for Joffrey Ballet

1984- 1996 - Travel Agent

1996 - to Present - Owner of Himmel Travel Associates 

Kathy (Schmitt) Schneider

Lived in Building 9 - 5240 Broadway until 1972

Attended St. John's and St. Helena High School

Became a court reporter and worked at that for 10 years and then moved on and became a legal secretary

Married in 1980 - divorced in 2004

I have one son, David, 23 years old who resides with me.  He is on the path of indecision presently.  He has take the Nassau police exam. He also has a passion for singing Barbershop and currently is with the Long Island Barbershop Chorale

I currently reside in Baldwin, New York and hopefully, plan to retire in 6 long years to VIVA LAS VEGAS.

John O'Brien & Lainee Carroll (Mr. & Mrs. O'Brien):

John and I were real project kids, every time I've gone back to the city I have to go to the projects. I meet many people in my travels and I listen to their stories about growing up and none compare with my time in Marble Hill. We had it all. We went out at 8:30 on a Summer day and returned in time for dinner.Somebody's Mom was always watching, I was never afraid. What a different world today.

Fact:My family was the first to move into the projects. Building one was suppose to be finished but they completed building 3 ahead of schedule. My brother Tom was 2 1/2 and I was 1. My parents moved out in 1992, forty one years. I also had 3 more brothers Bill, Kevin and Richie.I moved out in 1970 Married John O'Brien from building 2 Ha Ha  He didn't get to the projects till he was 10.  I told you we knew people by buildings. Georgette Building 5 married Eddie  building 4 .

 We went to Germany, John was in the Air Force. He joined and didn't wait to be drafted. John Fako got drafted and Died in Vietnam the day of my wedding shower. He would have been John's best man. I had my first son in Germany, John J ( tell Arlene she was right 8- 9- 71. We got out of the Air Force and returned to the projects and moved into building 3 apartment 10C I had lived on 7C for 19 years. We moved to Lake Hopatcong New Jersey, than Tucson Arizona now Mesa Arizona. My son Erik was born 5/14/75 . John has worked for at&t for 35 years. Our oldest Son John J served in the army in Iraq in Desert Storm. He married a girl from Colorado and has a beautiful ( the first girl in a long time ) girl age 4  named Ciena. The daughter in law wanted to name her Sienna but that would make her initials SOB and I said the kids in 5th grade will have a ball with that ( I know the project kids would have ). John J lives in Mesa with his family, He works for Statesman a custom home builder.

 Our Son Erik married a girl who join the Air Force and fly's. He had Patrick age 13 and Connor age 7 and was a stay at home Dad while his wife flew F-15 fighter jets, and moved all over the country. She flew over New York City after the WTC were attacked for many weeks. She was in Iraq for 6 months at the beginning of the war. She kept a diary of her days at war and they printed some of it in Glamour Magazine June 2003 and July 2003 issues. She is now in Korea. Erik lives in Alamogordo New Mexico outside Holloman AFB he goes to the University of New Mexico and he just got accepted to Notre Dame." Me" I was a stay at home Mom for many years had day care for the Teacher's  kids.  Big PTA person and only went out to work when the boys were older. I worked for K-Mart and at&t. I was laid off my job with at&t they gave it to a person in India. Now I take care of the elderly members of our families. John's Mom and Dad Aunt and Uncle and another Uncle moved to Mesa Arizona So did my parents. My Mom is still going strong she's 82 still playing Maj Jung twice a week she learned it in the projects. And John's Aunt is still with us. I'm sorry we were unable to come to your reunion we had already planned a trip to the City and Washington DC with our Grandsons. Say HELLO to all and wish them well. To: jmeaobrien@cox.net

Linda (Golumb) Perkins: 

Yes, I am married for 34 years.
My son is 27 and is a Real Estate Attorney. He is not married, but he is looking. He would like to be married by age 30.
He lives in Long Beach (N.Y.)  and his office is there as well.
 
My husband is in the Garment Center and has been forever.
I have still looking for myself all these years, but I think I finally found what I really like. I had a teachers license, but never taught.  Then I worked in the Garment Center, then I worked retail for around 20 years in the neighborhood, but not in the same stores. It was just a filler to make play money and keep myself busy.
 
Now, however I am busy going to school for my certification in Interior Design. I always liked Interior Design, started it once, but had to leave because of emergency with my son's dog and had to stay in Fl. with him.
 
So, now I decided to continue school again. I re decorated my house this year,really enjoyed doing it, and get a lot of compliments, and decided, this is what I want!
So now I am busy with school, and I also do floral arrangements.
Anybody interested, give me a call. ( Had to give myself some advertising). I can do houses without my certification.
 
Anyway, it only took me 56 years to finally decide what I want for me! Everyone is retiring, and I am starting out!
 
So, that's it. This is my life.
Need any info. - call 516-791-6441.
 
This is my life, and my best buddie in my life is my dog, Maxie.

Carole Krumholz  

I moved out of Marblehill (Building 9) 5240 Broadway, in the spring of 1975 to Jackson Heights, Queens.  Lived there for approximately five years.  Then moved to Rego Park, Queens.  Worked at a couple of major corporations as an administrative assistant over those years.  I finally bought a co-op in Forest Hills, Queens in 1996.  Been living there ever since.  Also have had a couple of other jobs in major in NYC, including working for Estee Lauder, Pearson Inc., SL Green Realty, Inc., and now I work for a major insurance company Amalgamated Life Insurance).  Sorry to say I've never been married and no kids.  I have done some travel for vacations over the years, which included trips to Spain, Portugal, Greece, England, Scotland, Israel, Turkey and some domestic travel to California, Arizona,  Colorado, Florida to name a few.  Have also been to a number of the Caribbean Islands .  Enjoy going to Las Vegas, Atlantic City (I try not to lose too much).

My brother Jack and sister Cheryl live nearby (Queens and New Jersey).

The years have flow by so fast.  I can't believe it's been thirty years since the project days.

Robin (Melasky) Sloma

Robin “Melasky” Sloma  DOB  11/09/51 - Bronx Hospital, Bronx, NY.
I have one brother, Michael Melasky, married and my parents were Evelyn and Martin Melasky, both deceased.
Moved to2831 Exterior Street, Bronx, NY, Marble Hill Projects on or about 11/11/51 and lived there for the next 18 years.  P.S 122 1957-1963   JHS 143  1963-1966  Theodore Roosevelt H.S 1966-1969   Bachelor of Arts – Herbert H. Lehman College, 1981  Master of Social Work – Wurzweiler School of Social Work , Yeshiva University, 1986  Licensed Clinical Social Worker,  1986
Married:  October, 10,  1983 to John T. Sloma, 2 sons, Daniel - DOB 7/23/90 and Alexander DOB- 1/29/94, we all live together.  I’ve lived in Warwick, New York, Orange County for the past 22 years.  Presently living at 118 Onderdonk Road, Warwick, NY.   We have 2 dogs, 2 cats and some fish.
Presently self-employed as an Adoption Home Study Provider out of my home office and a Clinical Therapist out of Associated Counseling, Inc. Middletown, New York

 

 

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Lee Slominisky

He is a hedge fund manager and poet.  His fund is called Ocean Partners LP and trades technology stocks, and his two books of poems are Talk Between Leaf and Skin (2002) and Pythagoras in Love (2007).  He has also published poems in newspapers like The Denver Post, The New York Times and The San Jose Mercury News, and in literary magazines like The Carolina Quarterly and Connecticut Review.  He is married to Hammett Award winning novelist Carol Goodman, and they each have a daughter from a previous marriage.

Raanan Geberer
 
I was at the reunion, but didn't take any photos.

For the record, I am Raanan Geberer, the managing editor of a community newspaper in Brooklyn, 55, married to the former Rhea Lewin, lives in a co-op in Chelsea, Manhattan (Penn South--a Mitchell-Lama). Went to Bronx Science, then SUNY Binghamton, finally to Boston University's journalism program. I don't want to make my address and phone no public but I will make my email public. No children. Main hobbies are going to the gym, gardening, playing music with friends (I play several instruments) and writing fiction. My main interests are music, politics and religion. Moved away from Marble Hill in late '71 to--where else--Co-Op City. My years in Marble Hill were not the best by a long shot--I had a lot of problems as a child and had few friends, and when I DID finally meet friends, they came from a different neighborhood in the Bronx--but I enjoyed the reunion nonetheless. Anything else you'd like to know, let me know

Barbara Sirken
 
I am presently working as an office manager for a prestigious diamond and jewelry house in NYC...great job, great location... I have been in the my industry for all my working career.
 
For many years I performed in community theatre at the Y in Riverdale doing musicals.
 
I am divorced for many years...no children, however, I have 2 beautiful nieces and nephews.
 
I love to travel, belong to the gym(when I go is another story).., love walking, the theater, movies and beaches..and a nice glass of red wine..

 Pat Porter

I worked as spot currency trader  for  Lloyds Bank London, promoted to Chief Trader and Vice-President.  Changed Companies to M.Marhsall Ltd. UK

Become Senior Vice President and was in charge of Swiss Franc Trading for 12 years.    Extensive overseas dealings and trained many of wall street and International
currency traders..
 
2 children:
 Derek ... ( 29)  who works for  South Kent High School   in Conn as a computer techie.
 Brittany ( 17)  3rd year High School in hillsborough NJ.
 
 I now reside in Westchester ( retired )

Debra (Lun) Kunin

Lives in California

Pension/Actuarial Consultant (Semi-Retired)

Divorced 23 years