Review: Downtown New York
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 8, 2013
5 stars plus 105 stars.  This is a story of what the real world is all about.  The newspaper industry makes strange bedfellows.  There's Al sometimes very funny,  Jack the Ivy League reporter and Vinnie the guy who got a degree in the School of Hard Knocks and is a newspaper photographer.  Jack and Vinnie  a real odd couple work together and become friends, the kind we all think we have but rarely do.  Vinnie lives on Mott St. and has for a long time and he went to school with Lucky Sal, a rather likeable shifty guy.  I don't do spoilers so I'll just say This is  a tough, heart warming,  fast moving story.  I lost a lot of sleep because I read it in one day, could not put it down.Anyone can appreciate this story but if you have ever lived on the East side downtown New York and you remember the pillow women etc.you will not only read this book but you will read it twice.  Charlie Carillo you really made my day.  Please continue to write and I will continue to read your books.