“I’m not sure if Willy was truly able to walk each and every street in New York City before he left us,” Boudreau added. “He said he did, but sometimes he exaggerated a little. You would have been hard pressed to name a street he didn’t recall, and he’d tell you about it. I’m glad that he wrote so many of his stories down, and aggrieved that we’ll no longer get to hear them from his lips.”