By TESS BERGEN FRIEDMAN

This was my grandparents' home at 82-16 Lefferts Boulevard on the corner of Abingdon across from Adath Yeshurun. They came from Berlin, Germany in 1941. My grandfather was a dentist but couldn't practice right away in the U.S. They moved to Manhattan and then purchased this house. The house was a boarding house for many other German Jews. There was a huge Magnolia tree that everyone admired when it was in bloom. The magnolia tree is in the photo on the Abingdon side - pretty much on the corner . When my grandfather passed away my grandmother sold it in 1973 and moved in with us at 83-26 Abingdon Rd [shown on the next page]. The House was torn down in 1974. A Dr. Hartmann lived in the house on the other side of Abingdon. That house still stands."