tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092692381720667997.post4343978972749643359..comments2023-09-27T22:02:05.291-04:00Comments on The High Bridge -- Its Past, Present & Future: The Mystery at Highbridge ParkDr.Sliderulehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01041263408058380846noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092692381720667997.post-58667831998934277072016-09-19T12:53:26.721-04:002016-09-19T12:53:26.721-04:00Robert, thank you for your kind words, and thank y...Robert, thank you for your kind words, and thank you for solving, at least part of, the mystery of the money found in Highbridge Park in 1928. For those of you not familiar with Robert Snyder, he is a Professor of Journalism at Rutgers University and wrote the book "Crossing Broadway: Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City" which was published by Cornell University Press in 2014. Robert tells me that the reason he did not include this event in the book was because he did not have any information to document the story. The only reference I found was from a paper in Montreal Canada. Dr.Sliderulehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01041263408058380846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092692381720667997.post-79461864604728908682016-09-09T09:51:37.697-04:002016-09-09T09:51:37.697-04:00Thank you so much for posting this piece! This is ...Thank you so much for posting this piece! This is the story of my father, Max Snyder, and it is a joy to read it after hearing talk about it when I was a child. Virtue was rewarded: eventually, no one claimed the money and my dad's family got to keep it. It meant a lot to them because they were far from affluent. It never became clear to my father how the money wound up stashed in Highbridge Park in the first place; he said he later heard that it might have been ransom money. He did, however, say that the news stories about the event were shot through with errors.<br />To the end of his life, my dad said that serving in the US Army in World War II was the biggest thing he ever did, but marrying my mother was the best thing he ever did. But finding this money, turning it in like the honest guy that he was, and getting to keep it was the only time he wound up in the newspapers. Thanks for unearthing this story.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07409202681864851528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092692381720667997.post-90729252544847565562016-09-09T09:51:02.829-04:002016-09-09T09:51:02.829-04:00This is the story of my father, Max Snyder, and it...This is the story of my father, Max Snyder, and it is a joy to read it after hearing talk about it when I was a child. Virtue was rewarded: eventually, no one claimed the money and my dad's family got to keep it. It meant a lot to them because they were far from affluent. It never became clear to my father how the money wound up stashed in Highbridge Park in the first place; he said he later heard that it might have been ransom money. He did, however, say that the news stories about the event were shot through with errors.<br />To the end of his life, my dad said that serving in the US Army in World War II was the biggest thing he ever did, but marrying my mother was the best thing he ever did. But finding this money, turning it in like the honest guy that he was, and getting to keep it was the only time he wound up in the newspapers. Thanks for unearthing this story.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07409202681864851528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092692381720667997.post-77243486316233515892016-09-05T09:35:03.678-04:002016-09-05T09:35:03.678-04:00Where do you dig up these off the wall stories?Where do you dig up these off the wall stories?Joanhttp://highbridgeparkdevelopment.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com