THANK YOU JOSE´ WHEREVER YOU ARE

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the once-hardest working man in grow business

By now ClockTowerTenants have heard the sad news, our neighbor and groundskeeper of the Maria Sola Garden lost his battle with dementia and had to be hospitalized.

I met José Rodriguez in late 2009, when I stopped to introduce myself while moving into the ClockTower.

If you didn’t know this interesting man I recommend you click the “Jose’s Garden” link to the right and read the posts about him.

If you read just one, read this one:

http://clocktowertenants.com/2010/08/when-anything-was-possible.html

I would sometimes sit with José in Summer and in his Spanglish he’d tell me stories about the South Bronx in his hey-day, the 1950’s and early 60’s.

He was a GoldenGloves boxer of some renown while in his 20’s, winning several cash prizes and he boasted of pretty girls in the backseat of his new Cadillac.

He had a career in the Parks Department and Parks trucks would pull up in winter darkness and drop bales of peat moss and fertilizer off the back. José would drag the booty inside and lock the gate.

Last week the Highway Department cut the lock and scraped the lot clean.

José’s daughter told me on the phone she had to put him in Bronx Lebanon.

Recently I learned he is not getting better— doesn’t recognise her anymore— and he will live out his years in a facility way out on New Lots in Brooklyn.

For a Bronx guy through and through, I hope he’s okay with that.

He shared his ups and downs and he was my pal.

I will miss him.

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Nah.

Jose’s garden.

Have a good one!

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When this old world starts getting me down

And people are just too much for me to face. 

(Up on the roof)

I climb way up to the top of the stairs

And all my cares just drift right into space. 

(Up on the roof)

On the roof, it's peaceful as can be

And there, the world below can't bother me.

Let me tell you now.

When I come home feeling tired and beat

I go up where the air is fresh and sweet. 

(Up on the roof)

I get away from the hustling crowds

And all that rat race noise down in the street 

(Up on the roof)

On the roof's the only place I know

Where you just have to wish to make it so

Let's go up on the roof 

(Up on the roof)

At night, the stars put on a show for free

And, darling, you can share it all with me.

I keep-a tellin' you.

Right smack dab in the middle of town

I found a paradise that's trouble-proof. 
(Up on the roof)

And if this world starts getting you down

There's room enough for two up on the roof. 
(Up on the roof)

Up on the roof (Up on the roof)

Oh, come on, baby (Up on the roof)

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Oh, come on, honey (Up on the roof)

Everything is all right. 

(Up on the roof)

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rosé José

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hardest working man in grow business

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