Union City in Hudson County, New Jersey — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
Pietro di Donato
Acclaimed American Author
| | April 3, 1911 January 19, 1992 | |
Photographed by Bill Coughlin, August 18, 2016
1. Pietro di Donato Marker
Born in the tenement and raised on these streets of West Hoboken – (Union City), Pietro di Donato would later go on to pen the classic novel CHRIST IN CONCRETE in 1939.
On Good Friday, 1923, di Donatos bricklayer father was killed in a building collapse in lower Manhattan. As a result, young Peter was forced to leave school in the seventh grade to support his mother and seven brothers and sisters. Picking up his fathers trowel, he became a master mason by the age of seventeen. This is the story of Christ in Concrete.
He never forgot his West Hoboken childhood and often relived it in short stories, articles and his 1960 novel Three Circles of Light. His writings paint a vivid and accurate vision of life on these very streets in the early 1900s – di Donatos definitive narrative of the people of West Hoboken.
Dedicated on this 22nd of May, 2010
Mayor Brian P. Stack & Board of Commissioners
& Citizenry of the City of Union City
Erected 2010 by State of New Jersey.
Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Arts, Letters, Music.
Location. 40° 46.299′ N,
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Regionally, this marker is in New Jersey’s North Jersey, in Greater Newark, and in the New York City Metropolitan Area. It is also in the American Northeast and in the Mid-Atlantic. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Netherland and also one of the original Thirteen Colonies.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Embroidery Industry (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); Union City 9/11 Memorial (about 500 feet away); Union City World War I Memorial (about 600 feet away); Juan Pablo Duarte y Diez (about 600 feet away); Liberty Plaza 9/11 Memorial (about 600 feet away); Gold Star Mothers (about
Photographed by Bill Coughlin, August 18, 2016
2. Pietro di Donato Marker
More about this marker. The upper left of the marker contains a photograph of Pietro di Donato.
Photographed by Bill Coughlin, August 18, 2016
3. Marker in Union City
Credits. This page was last revised on November 24, 2019. It was originally submitted on August 18, 2016, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey. This page has been viewed 732 times since then and 29 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on August 18, 2016, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey.
