Thom Forbes

Even though we were at opposite end of the political spectrum, I used to love listening to my father-in-law's war stories about his days in politics. Bill Drohan served a term or two in the New York State Assembly in the late Forties and early Fifties, representing the Riverdale/Spuyen Duyvil section of the Bronx, where I later grew up. By the time I moved to Spuyen Duyvil in 1962, it was filled with apartment buildings that were filled with Democrats; when Bill  represented it, it was still a…