At the age of seven, Rose Irene Paterno lived with her family at 507 112th Street. She married Joseph Francis Faiella in 1912. They lived at 340 Northern Avenue, now called Cabrini Boulevard, in one of the two twin buildings built and occupied by the Paterno Family (photo of 340 and 344 by Kelley Paterno page 292). This is the home they came to after the birth of their first son, Joseph Paterno Faiella. They lived on the third floor; downstairs on the first and second floors were her sister Celestina, her husband Victor Cerabone, and their three children, Carol, Rose, and Louisa. Louisa was just a year older than Joseph and thus a ready playmate. Next door, at 344 Northern Avenue, Rose’s mother, Carolina Paterno, occupied the first two floors, while her sister Maria lived on the third floor with her husband, Anthony Campagna and their children, Joseph and John. Sister Theresa and her husband Ralph Ciluzzi also lived nearby. Rose’s first child, Joseph was born in 1914 and her second son, John as born when Joseph was only seventeen months old. The boys grew up surrounded by family in a rural neighborhood that consisted of the Cabrini nunnery, the Billings estate and woods. In fact, the nuns would bring the cows down Northern Avenue in the morning to graze and take them back up the hill in the evening. After a few years, Joseph and Rose moved their family around the corner to a home at 15 Chittenden Avenue. Theresa and Ralph Ciluzzi also moved to a home on Chittenden Avenue. Joseph Faiella graduated from Manhattan College in 1937 and for a brief time moved back to his family home on Chittenden Avenue. When his father died in 1939, his mother Rose was unable to keep that home and the family moved to a Paterno building at 425 Riverside Drive. Meanwhile his uncle Dr. Charles Paterno was completing Castle Village, also in the same area as the Northern Avenue and Chittenden Avenue homes. Joseph became the first rental agent, which seemed quite natural having grown up surrounded by a family of builders. At that time a studio apartment rented for $75 a month. (Kelley Paterno page 257)
1924 Joseph Paterno President; 332 West 86th Street; 1934 1 apartment made into 2 for Joseph Faiella (Kelley Paterno page 285)
“Aunt Rose Faiella and Aunt Theresa Ciluzzi built two homes side by side, over looking the Hudson River off Northern Avenue just north of the Castle property, where they brought up their children.” Michael J. Paterno book page 11 – note: this was most likely 9 & 15 Chittenden Avenue
Personal Home:
1921
428
$5,000.00
CHITTENDEN AV, 1315-17 2-sty bk dwg, 20˙49 (possibly lots 13, 15, and 17 for #15 Chittenden Avenue)
OWNER / OWNER ADDRESS
(o) Jos. F. Faiella / (o) 340 Northern av COMMENTS
ARCHITECT / ARCHITECT ADDRESS
(a) Wm. A. Faiella / (a) 916 Southern blvd (source)
New York Herald Tribune (1926-1962); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]. 05 Sep 1943: B6.
288 West 92nd Street – once owned but not built