Birth Place - Forest Hills

My family immigrated over from Kiev, Ukraine 30 years ago and settled in Forest Hills, Queens NY. My grandparents still live in the same apartment. The neighborhood remains the same, old obnoxious Russian Jews walking to the Russian shops on 108th street. When I was little, my grandmother would take me out and somehow knew everyone on the street. Things have since changed, as they always do.











In my grandmother's bedroom (my grandparents have separate bedrooms, maybe that's how they have stayed married for 55 years) there is a shrine of photos from over the years. Children, grand children and a great grand children are sprawled across the dresser and any available surface. It's so sad that her vision is almost gone now, but I know that these photos are forever pressed into her memory.