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Bronx Food: Eating Around the 167th & Grand Concourse Stop on The B

Cassandra's Bakery Bronx Food

The Daily News just posted another one of their ‘Subway Fare’ articles on cool restaurants and eateries focused around subway stations focusing on Bronx food. This time the News takes us to 167th and Grand Concourse on the B subway line hitting up a bakery, a Dominican restaurant and a Mexican taqueria. So who did…

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Bronx Islands: A Brief Guide

Bronx islands is not the first topic that comes up when thinking about our borough. Besides the obvious City Island and (gasp) Rikers Island did you know that we have dozens of islands? Some inhabited, some no longer islands, some abandoned completely. The Bronx even has its own archipelago shared with Westchester known as the…

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17 US Presidents Who Visited The Bronx

Here’s a wonderful historical post by Olga Luz Tirado, executive director of The Bronx Tourism Council on US Presidents who visited The Bronx. Our borough has a rich presidential history that you may not be aware of!   17 U.S. PRESIDENTS WHO VISITED THE BRONX By Olga Luz Tirado On February 12th we celebrate Abraham…

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Our Lady of Pity Church in Melrose is Slowly Being Demolished

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Our Lady of Pity Church

Our Lady of Pity Church, which was deconsecrated by the Archdiocese of New York last November, is being demolished. Not even its former school and rectory will be spared. The parish of Madonna del Suffragio was founded in 1908 by Italian immigrants from Ponza, an island off the coast of Italy halfway between Rome and…

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