[PRCo] Re: Rialto St.

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Greetings

Speaking about meat packing plants.  were they on Herr's island?

In Manhattan, there was a large packing plant with live cattle on
42dt sreet at 11th Ave..  This became the siite of a Greyhound Garage
and is now the site of a large NYCT bus depot.

Going to the 42d street ferry or the dayline boat was a smelly experience.

Harold Geissenheimer

Bob Rathke wrote:

>Rialto St. - which I drove up and down many times - was known to the locals
>as Pig Alley, supposedly because early farmers on Troy Hill/Mt. Troy herded
>their hogs down that street on their way to the stockyards.
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>This time was not necessarily too "early." Growing up on Spring Hill in the
>late 1940's, I remember dairy cattle from Schnitgen's Dairy on East St.
>grazing in the fields just beyond the route 5 trolley loop.  And in the
>early 50's we sometimes saw cattle that had escaped from one of the meat
>packing houses in the area.
>
>Bob 6/22/04
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