https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Sat, 26 Dec 2015 01:56:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1125 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 17:09:19 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1125 Even today, when people often change careers, General Edward Ferrero’s resume might seem startling. The son of Italian political refugees, the future general was practically raised on the shining floors of the dance academy’s his father ran at the northeast corner of 14th Street and 6th Avenue, becoming a dancer, choreographer, and teacher, even teaching dancing to the cadets at West Point. Yet the dance master was also a lieutenant colonel in the New York National Guard....]]>