by Geoff Cobb 
In 1932 New York State Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt was running for president as the nominee of the Democratic Party. The country had been in the throes of the Great Depression for two years and in these days before the safety net many Greenpointers were actually hungry. Roosevelt’s promise of a New Deal was very appealing to the many struggling locals. In those days New York had…
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