doctor disease redux

[Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema]

I couldn't open the Bronx Beat site. I read it regularly though, and vaguely recall what
you refer too. However, the replacement is in full operation. You see it looking south
from the 2 or 5 train just east of 149th St and Third Avenue. Big cream-colored building.

Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema

Gordon Fitch wrote:


> Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema:
> > This sounds fishy:
>
> Fitchy.
>
> > Gordon Fitch wrote:
> > >   Another case involved the
> > > ten-year-old grandson of the building superintendant, who was
> > > taken away from his parents in Harlem because they were busted
> > > (for drugs, I believe, but it doesn't matter) and was sent to
> > > Spofford.* Ever heard of Spofford?
>
> Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema:
> > I live in the same borough as Spofford Avenue. And Spofford is not foster care. You
> > end up in Spofford's replacement (Spofford's actually closed) by getting arrested.
> > You're talking about something else.
>
> It's not closed any more; they reopened it; same building,
> different name.  See the link I posted, of which the '*' is
> a residue.
>
> Beats me how the boy wound up in the Spoff; maybe he was
> busted along with his parents, a ten-year-old drug kingpin
> armed with a green marker pen.  Or are you saying one of us
> made the story up?