Steve Bernstein is a plumber turned author whose memoir, Stories from the Stoop, was published by Skyhorse Publishing in 2021. The memoir is a window into Bernstein’s life growing up in the 1960's South Bronx among racial tension, street violence and trouble at home.
August, and the PS.104 schoolyard was empty. A good thing. Gave me a chance to develop my pitching arm. And avoid trouble. As a white kid in the South Bronx in 1967, trouble had a way of finding me.