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April 7, 2009
A baker's dozen of memories
NY Daily News
By Jotham Sederstrom and Sarah R. Kaufman
Last year, neighborhood activists tried to preserve the Ward Bakery building. The Daily News helps residents preserve the memories:
Joseph Medina, who has lived in Prospect Heights for all of his 29 years, remembers weekly trips to the Ward Bakery, a historic building that succumbed to the wrecker's ball last year.
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"It was monumental," Medina said of the buildings that have been razed since last year, including the bakery. "You see buildings you've seen all your life being knocked down, torn down. And they disappear."A mattress store was the first to come down, Medina said, followed by several apartments and, finally, Ward Bakery, which was built in 1911 and knocked down in October.
In middle school, Medina said, he and his friends would get free doughnuts by the dozen from a friendly security guard until the bakery closed in 1995, when he was 15 years old.
Posted by lumi at April 7, 2009 6:43 AM