What's Your Life Story? NYC — A Guided Keepsake Journal & Official Brooklyn Playdate Rules Book

Sometime in the mid-1930s, two mothers met in an elevator in the Fort Greene projects in Brooklyn. One had a son named Morris. The other had a daughter. They got to talking, the way Brooklyn mothers do. That conversation is the reason I'm here.
I'm Steve Stein, born and raised in Brighton Beach, the guy who put cardboard in his sneakers because new ones weren't in the budget that year.

A few years back I wrote The Sneaker Tree so myboys would know what it felt like to grow up in old school Brooklyn, egg creams at the counter, stickball till the streetlights came on, everybody knowing everybody's grandmother. What's Your Life Story? NYC is what came after that book found readers who kept telling me the same thing, I have stories like that too, I just never wrote them down.

So here's the book that gets them down on paper.

Guided prompts, plenty of white space, a way to give the gift of your favorite memories, tastes, smells, sayings, life lessons and dreams, and pass them down to the next generation before they're gone.

Pass it to your father, your aunt, your grandmother with NYC in her bones, and let them fill it in. Or fill it in yourself.

Tucked in the back, the Official Brooklyn Playdate Rules Book, the real rules for stickball, stoopball, skully, punchball, and cat's cradle, plus the egg cream and lime rickey recipes that went with them.

A bridge between generations. 

Jon Kabat-Zinn read an early copy and said the boys played skully and stoopball in Brighton Beach pretty much the way he played it in Washington Heights in the fifties. Turns out old school New York was one big neighborhood.

The official companion to Brooklyn Playdate, The Sneaker Tree, and the Brooklyn Stories Podcast. Free chapters, community, and behind-the-scenes access over at flipsidenyc.substack.com
Pick up the pen.

Fuggedaboudit.

📖 Prompts that pull out your best childhood memories

the tastes, the sayings, the stories your family will actually want to keepBonus: the Official Brooklyn Playdate Rules Book, real rules for stickball, stoopball, skully, punchball, and cat's cradle, egg cream recipe included"The boys played skully and stoopball in Brighton Beach pretty much the way we played it in Washington Heights in the fifties" — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Perfect gift for parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, anyone with NYC roots. Pairs with the Brooklyn Playdate Analog Activities Kit, sold separately at BrooklynPlaydate.com

👉 Get the keepsake Journal and rules book

ISBN: 978-1-63757-124-8

96 Pages