Sundays at Rocco's

Nick Petron remembers his Italian immigrant grandfather Rocco, whose New York apartment building held the whole family, until it was slated for demolition.

A warm, funny StoryCorps memory of Sunday family dinners, and how losing a home changes a family.

Nicholas Petron's grandfather, Rocco Galasso, moved to New York City from Italy with the hopes of making a better life. For eighteen years Rocco served as owner and superintendent of an apartment building where much of h

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