<p>In <strong><em>Broadway, Schrafft’s and Seeded Rye</em></strong>—<em>Growing Up Slightly Jewish on the Upper West Side,</em> Lyla Blake Ward, author of <em>How to Succeed at Aging Without Really Dying, tells it like it was</em> growing up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the 1930's and early 1940's. Through essays and poems, histories and vintage photos, Lyla Blake Ward makes this unique neighborhood-- 72nd street to 110<sup>th--</sup> east and west of Broadway, come alive.</p>
<p>Looking back-- and back---and back,, she is able to recapture the atmosphere of this singular community, its culture and the families who lived there--a place, according to the author, where almost everyone she knew was Jewish and only the pigeons ate white bread.</p>
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