By Joe “Kirsch” Curcio
Those are my late mother-in-law’s live forevers. To be exact their botanical name is
Hylotelephium telephium—but they definitely weren’t ever called that in Brooklyn. Other
than calling them “live-fa-ev-uhs”, that whole Hylotella-ooh-gots-whatever thing had way
too many consonants for this neighborhood.
They were planted in the late 1970s in her “airy-way”—that’s Greenpoint for areaway—by
Pete, the old Italian guy from down the block.
Not only did Pete have the Italian…