The way it was : From second avenue to Staten Island
(Book)

"The Way it Was is a descriptive autobiography written about an important time in United States History. Memories of that era, roaring 1920s, the Great Depression of the 1930s, the war years of WW II and the post war prosperity of the 1950s followed up with the beginning of the South Florida retirement era. Anecdotes of the 1920s and 1930s are now scarce. To read of experiences through the eyes of a New York City boy of immigrant parents who was orphaned at an early age and his struggles to survive will give the reader incite into those difficult times. My father, Alex Finkelstein, was born on the kitchen table of a Lower East Side New Your City tenement. His first act in this world was to strike the doctor in the eye. He would go on to become a loving successful husband, father, firefighter, accountant and real estate investor" --,Amazon.