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“I like it so much, I don't even want to charge the people. That's how much I like it.”

Cab driver Jimmy Beatrice to his friend Andrew Vollo.

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Recorded in New York, NY. Click here for more taxicab driver stories.

“I always knew what I wanted to be, from the time I was 8 years old, which was to be a tugboat captain.”

Carl Wennerod interviewed by his son, Roy.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“My father went to work in a chocolate factory. When he'd come home, his hair was all full of chocolate; his pillows were all brown.”

Carmela Pollio tells her grandson, Laurence, and her great grandson, Yoshi, about growing up in Hell's Kitchen.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“Saturday was cleaning day. And while grandma and I did that together, we listened to 'The Make-Believe Ballroom' on the radio.”

Isabel Beaton tells her daughter, Mary, about growing up in Bronx.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“I wasn't very nice...”

87-year-old Kay Wang tells her granddaughter, Chen, and her son, Cheng, about her childhood.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“Both of the boys would call me when they were working.”

Retired New York City firefighter John Vigiano Sr. remembers his sons, John Jr., a firefighter, and Joe, a policeman, who both died at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

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Recorded in Baldwin, NY.

“Her eyes sparkled to me. One day they were blue; the next day they were green.”

Richard Pecorella remembers his fiancee, Karen Juday, who was killed in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“One of the cops said, 'Oh, you think you can do better?'”

Phyllis Johnson tells her friend Danny Perasa about how she went from Police Department clerk to beat cop.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

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