Billy Geib – I Get Homesick If I Leave for Three Days
Billy Geib—everyone knows him as Billy—has deep roots in Hoboken. At just about every corner of the city he can conjure stories about what happened there, from “Murder Hill” near Stevens Institute, where he and his friends risked their lives sledding, to the clothesline poles he climbed to re-attach laundry lines for moms at Eighth and Park, to his stint shoe-shining at the American Hotel alongside members of a big family that lived in his building—seven wild kids, he recalls, who also had a pet monkey.
In I Get Homesick If I Leave for Three Days Billy remembers the places he worked, the people he knew, and, with his lifelong love of animals, the cats, dogs, and birds he rescued in the city.
