Today the Conservancy remembers our dear friends World War II Veterans Jack and Roy Vanasco.  Four brothers, Terry, Roy, Joe and Jack all signed up for the National Guard early on but were sent home because they were underage. They all went on to serve in the Army except for Roy, who served in the Navy.  Jack dropped out of John Jay High School to serve our country and he received an honorary degree in 2003. 

Written by Mary Frost for the Brooklyn Eagle: “Brooklyn Heights resident Norman Wasserman, a decorated WWII veteran known for his poise, intelligence and joie de vivre, passed away on September 4. He was 96.

Drafted as a teenager, Wasserman shipped to Europe and joined the 286th Field Artillery Observation Battalion in General George S. Patton’s Third Army in 1944. American soldiers took the brunt of a furious six-week German assault during the coldest winter on record in Luxembourg. Winston Churchill described the Battle of the Bulge as “the greatest American battle of the war.”

The Conservancy is deeply honored to remember World War II Veteran Stephen McKarski shared by his granddaughter, Kelly Carroll, the Executive Director of the Atlantic Avenue Business Improvement District.