A detour to American Dream
Dennis Duggan
Dennis Duggan Former Newsday Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Dennis Duggan joined Newsday
The Romeros of Ecuador arrived here a week ago after New
Orleans, the American city of their dreams, turned into a nightmare.
They arrived via Baton Rouge and Miami, not the usual path to New York for
immigrants.
I met them Monday at McSorley's Old Ale House, a favored pit stop on East
Seventh Street for Irish immigrants at the turn of the century and beyond. The...
