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Story Helps Recall Her Winfield Days

Dear Editor:

By chance today I stumbled upon a Jan. 24, 2002 article in the Times Newsweekly about my father, Dr. Paul Weiss. It brought back sweet memories, not only about my father but also about my childhood in the “Winfield” community we sometimes called Woodside and sometimes Maspeth. I was deeply touched.

My thanks to the author of that little story. He captured the essence and spirit of my father’s personality and his commitment to the many patients he served in the community. He remembered Eva, my father’s nurse/assistant and someone dear to our family. Incredibly, he even recalled the color of my father’s cars, though I think he missed the chartreuse Studebaker my father drove for a short time.

Let me offer a very minor correction and another fact or two. Dr. Weiss retired in the late 1970s and died at the age of 82 in February 1991. My parents were married for 55 years. My mother, Magda Weiss, who met Paul in medical school in Vienna, died at the age of 96 in September, 2007. Eva returned to her home in Germany after my father retired. She passed away sometime in the late 70s, I believe.

I sometimes take a sentimental journey from Manhattan, where I live now, to 69th Street and Calamus Avenue. The sturdy semi-attached brick house on the corner has different trappings now, but I can still spot my bedroom window where I watched for my father to round the corner in one of those snazzy cars. Thanks again for pleasant memories.

KittyWeiss Krupat
Manhattan

Editor’s note: We thank Ms. Krupat for providing us with the additional information about her father. To read the original story as published on Jan. 24, 2002, which appeared as a part of our “Our Neighborhood: The Way It Was” series, visit our archives at www.times newsweekly.com.

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