This remembrance of a vibrant New York neighborhood during World War II restores to life through a boy's eyes— a New York of baseball teams, prizefights, side bets, big bands blaring from the radios and worried soldiers' mothers— as absorbed from the safe precinct of his father's bakery in the Bronx where the boy spent his after-school hours and many warm summer days. Includes recipes for the bakery's bestselling bread and butter cookies.