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Re: The IRT pre-unification |
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Posted by qveensboro_plaza on Tue Oct 27 10:49:11 2020, in response to Re: The IRT pre-unification, posted by jailhousedoc on Mon Oct 26 16:43:18 2020. My father began working for the IRT Company in 1938. The way he got his job was this --In those days, the employees of the IRT were overwhelmingly Irish Catholic. My father grew up in Hell's Kitchen, and Sacred Heart Church was his parish. A priest in the parish learned that my father was looking for work and referred him to a Monsignor McEntegart at the Archdiocese chancery office. (McEntegart had been a priest at Sacred Heart and later became Bishop of Brooklyn.) My father met with the monsignor, who wrote down a man's name on a piece of paper and told him to make an appointment see that man at the IRT Company. He did so, and was hired to work there, eventually becoming a motorman and working 35 years before retiring. |
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