Damn.... so sorry to hear this. In the early years, Neil was like a brother to me. Many of us were like brothers. First time I met Neil, I was hanging with his brother Paul, who was probably just coming off his paper route, and went over to their house on South 9th Ave in HP. I remember the basement stairs were genuinely the steepest stairs I've ever been on ... ever...  but I carefully navigated them downstairs where the video games were. Neil was there playing some Rock N Roll racing game on Nintendo or some other gaming console. Why or how I remember that, I have no idea but I would come to see Neil all the time. Older brothers are always influential because they're always doing things that you can't or didn't know about or whatever, so I was often eager to see what they were up to. I can remember the Gotcha gun (paintball) times, where we'd go to the old Lafayette school parking lot and try to shoot each other. My f**king gun always jammed up immediately with paint and wouldn't work! Mostly Paul and I would hang out a lot but often Neil was around and as I said, these 2 became brothers to me. There'd be times hanging at the old Rt. 1 Flea Market, playing Top Gun on the old Nintendo (when Neil decided he wanted to become a fighter pilot). I'd say that was a pretty common theme. Whatever cool movie or game came out, Neil would often seem to become interested in doing that for a living. We were kids and it was an awesome time.Fast forward a few decades and Neil and I would still get together every so often, as we ended up living in the same town. My new girlfriend (who is now my wife of 23 years) and I spent Y2K at his apartment, preparing for the inevitable computer shutdown apocalypse, with some drinks and a few card games. We'd catch up at Lory's or the Grove and he'd tell me some pretty recent wild stories, as well as us shairing some of the old ones. We went to an UFC event in Newark once, because he won some tickets off a radio show or something. There were more fights in the stands then there were in the ring. Literally, we were standing in a common bar area, to get a better view than those radio tickets he got, and 6 guys started beating the shit out of each other right in back of us. The bartender came out to try and stop it and got hit with a chair and taken off on a stretcher. Life was never boring around Neil. He should've definitely written a memoir because to this day, I've never met anybody with more interesting and crazy stories than Neil, and I loved hearing about every one of them. He was my friend and my brother and he will definitely be missed.

The Bianchetti boys

The old HP crew

My favorite memories of my older brother is when we were very young and living at 9th Ave . We used to play a game in the basement called 'Us People.' I have no idea how we came up with the name but the game was played by us pretending to be characters in some fictional universe. Sometimes we would be spies, sometimes swordsmen in some goblin invested castle, sometimes members of the Justice League. One evening I will never forget we were acting as Star Wars characters and Neil had the drop on me with his plastic laser blaster. I was backing up trying to escape the capture when I tripped over the old kerosene heater that was blazing away. I plopped down hard sitting right on the top. My cheap 1980s pajamas melted right away and I burned my rear end pretty badly. Of course at the time I cried and ran for Mom but now I can laugh about it remembering all the adventures we shared in that basement together. 

Dinning Room — with Annmarie, Mary, Frank, Megan, Paul and Neil

Words are not enough to express how I am feeling for Neil's passed. He becomes my best friend...through the years, our connection was so strong and was always there for me. I am confident He is with Mary,  sharing special moments.  To Frank, you were the best Dad someone can ask, and Neil loved you so much. To his siblings, nieces (he adored), a big hug and the hope that He is resting in peace. Neil, your angel will always be here in my heart! No more pain, all peace and we are praying for you. Love you forever.