BERNARD FAVUZZA: Model Trains a
Passion
Each
time his wife, Vincenza, got pregnant, Dominick Favuzza
would buy a Lionel train set: engine, box cars, caboose
and tracks. This was postwar New York in the 1950's.
He did this a month before Bernard's birth. And he did
it before his daughters, Janice and Anna, were born.
Around Christmas, the shiny trains would clack around the
tree.
Bernard Favuzza, who was 52 on Sept. 11, had taken to
the hobby. He built a miniature model of Ridgewood,
Queens, in his house in Suffern, N.Y. with a train that
whistled through his childhood neighborhood complete with
Dietz Coal.
And he took over his dad's tradition of buying the
trains for those soon to be born. He bought them for his
nephew Kevin, 12, and his grandson Dominick, who is 2
today.
"They were relaxing," Anna Favuzza said of her
brother's train hobby. "It's stressful, right? The
market. Wall Street. This was a way for him to
unwind."
Mr. Favuzza was at Cantor Fitzgerald, above where one
of the planes went in. Now his daughters, Donna Posta,
32, and Laura Favuzza, 24, will take care of his
trains.
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