{"product_id":"whats-your-life-story-nyc-a-guided-keepsake-journal-official-brooklyn-playdate-rules-book","title":"What's Your Life Story? NYC — A Guided Keepsake Journal \u0026 Official Brooklyn Playdate Rules Book","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat's Your Life Story? NYC \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Guided Keepsake Journal \u0026amp; \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOfficial \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrooklyn Playdate \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRules Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSometime 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.\u003cbr\u003eI'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSo here's the book that gets them down on paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGuided prompts, plenty of white space\u003c\/strong\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePass it to your father, your aunt, your grandmother with NYC in her bones\u003c\/strong\u003e, and let them fill it in. Or fill it in yourself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTucked in the back, the \u003cstrong\u003eOfficial Brooklyn Playdate Rules Book\u003c\/strong\u003e, the real rules for \u003cstrong\u003estickball, stoopball, skully, punchball, and cat's cradle,\u003c\/strong\u003e plus the egg cream and lime rickey recipes that went with them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA bridge between generations. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJon 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe official companion to Brooklyn Playdate, The Sneaker Tree, and the Brooklyn Stories Podcast\u003c\/strong\u003e. Free chapters, community, and behind-the-scenes access over at \u003ca href=\"flipsidenyc.substack.com\"\u003eflipsidenyc.substack.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePick up the pen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFuggedaboudit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e📖 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePrompts that pull out your best childhood memories\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003ethe tastes, the sayings, the stories your family will actually want to keep\u003cstrong\u003eBonus: the Official Brooklyn Playdate Rules Book\u003c\/strong\u003e, 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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect gift for parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles\u003c\/strong\u003e, anyone with NYC roots. Pairs with the \u003cstrong\u003eBrooklyn Playdate Analog Activities Kit\u003c\/strong\u003e, sold separately at BrooklynPlaydate.com\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e👉 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGet the keepsake Journal and rules book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 978-1-63757-124-8\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e96 Pages \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WisdomFeed","offers":[{"title":"NYC Keepsake Journal - Softcover","offer_id":45237433794675,"sku":"978-1-63757-124-8","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0033\/0602\/files\/lifestory-3D-outside_1_904ed052-8626-4034-a2f3-cf3f288ac0c9.jpg?v=1784037827","url":"https:\/\/www.betterlisten.com\/products\/whats-your-life-story-nyc-a-guided-keepsake-journal-official-brooklyn-playdate-rules-book","provider":"BetterListen!","version":"1.0","type":"link"}