I delivered a package here Not much of a experience after that

Its an old complex building next to a sacret hart church that gives great pantry to those people in need

Been on the waiting list for 9 years but yet Hispanics who are related to the super or maintenance are getting apartments right away Crooked system

I love this building always clean the apartments are spacious and afordable to live in Have friends and family living here

I lived in the Noonan from when I was born in 1937 until we reluctantly moved to the North East Bronx 16 years later I wish my computer skills were better soni could upload some of my photos The building was still gorgeous still in its heyday We had I lived in the Noonan from when I was born in 1937 until we reluctantly moved to the North East Bronx 16 years later I wish my computer skills were better soni could upload some of my photos The building was still gorgeous still in its heyday We had a spacious twe bedroom 2 bath apartment with a huge foyer and a lovely dinette off the kitchen large enough to seat the whole family which included my parents my older sister Harriet my aunt and my grandmother We all lived in this space and no one felt cramped It was the way middleclass Jewish Bronxites lived taking care of relatives making room creating sub spaces within larger onesnnBut the apartment was light and airy with lots of windows two exposures west and north parquet floors and a sense of elegance that was built into the walls The western exposure in the large living room where I used to roller skate once we took up the rungs in the summer until the neighbor below knocked up which meant she banged the ceiling with a broom to tell me to stop it not that anyone got pregnant faced Ogden Avenues trolly tracks where the kids put pennies on the tracks and delight in seeing them being squished into molten copper by the passing trollies until my mom saw us through the window and put a stop to it or so she thought Our apartment on the second floor of 125B at West 168th Street also faced PS 11 where I went to school from kindergarden through 8th gradennThe Noonan was a world unto itself Its where most of my friends lived Where we had a pharmacy a small market a beauty shop a shoe repair shop and more that I cant quite recall all right there on 168th Street with entrances from both the street and through the basement so we never had to go outside in bad weather My beautiful sister went to dance classes there I still recall her recitals also held in the basement auditorium and the time step she tried to teach me but which I never masterednnWhen I told friends at camp about the courtyard the pond the swans the waterfall the cedar bridge and the light house they called me a liar It was too good to be true They were right It really was And our rent was 75 a month The moms stayed at home The dads worked No one got divorced Those were the daysnnI went back in 1982 to take a look It was done for by then had been converted into lower income coops with no gardens no pond all cemented over The neighborhood was downtrodden What a loss I miss it stillnnI may be moving to Takoma Park MdDC soon and in my apartment search I discovered a building that brought me back Art deco With interior space like we had in the Noonan A huge foyer a gracious dining space Space that was good for nothing except being spacious and gracious Perhaps Ill move there Who knows more ... hide ...