Growing Up Bronx: 1960s (Part 2 of 2)

This documentary centers around the Bronx in the 1960s, and is the second part of the Heaney family documentary, “Growing up Bronx.” Sue Ann Heaney, a woman born and raised in the Bronx, had four children with her Manhattan husband Roy in the same Bronx neighborhood in which she grew up. The eldest, Suzanne Heaney does most of the narration in the clip. Suzanne explains her own memories and experiences of her young life in the Bronx, and the reasoning for why the family came to be transplanted into a suburban town on Long Island. Michael and Christopher Heaney are her younger brothers, the ragamuffins that stirred up trouble in their ‘Noble Mansion’ apartment on Noble Avenue. The salt-&-pepper-haired brothers, close in age, performed urban antics, setting things on fire, fishing for hats, and the like. Nicole Heaney, the youngest, is the second daughter after Suzanne, ten years her junior. Unlike her siblings, Nicole was a toddler when the family left the Bronx, and was not old enough to attend the Catholic, St. Anthony’s elementary school with her siblings.