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Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back | movie | 2008 | Official Trailer
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6/20/2025
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So this is my father and this is his brother Joe. They were both born DeLille but I told
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the story about my father changing to Mitchell so there's Angus Mitchell and that's Joe DeLille.
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The first dinner at the Waldorf. Myrtle Bush and her sister Pearl Lahash called Brooklyn home for
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many years. Both their father and grandfather were ironworkers but ironically it was their
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grandmother who actually brought the family to New York. After her husband was injured on the
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job in the 1920s she had to support her family. She bought a boarding house in downtown Brooklyn
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and opened it up to Mohawk ironworkers. She opened up the boarding house on Myrtle Avenue
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which is maybe how I got the name Myrtle. Downtown Brooklyn, State Street and Pacific Street became
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the place to live as was Atlantic Avenue where local 361 was located making it convenient for
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ironworkers looking for jobs. It was also centrally located near the Brooklyn Bridge
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and rents were much cheaper than in Manhattan. Over the years the community grew with most people
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settling within 10 square blocks of each other. It was like a transplanted Gunnawaga and often referred
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to as Little Cocknawaga. And I think there's a sort of a sense of absolute need to be among your own
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people when when you're in a place like that.
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