Notes
Longer reads on the neighborhood
One subject each, written from the sidewalk.
Richard Joseph Spinelli adds to these notes as the neighborhood gives him something worth writing down: a market stall, a festival day, a corner that was in a film.
Arthur Avenue Retail Market Vendors and What to Buy
The indoor market that opened in 1940 to take the pushcarts off Arthur Avenue, walked stall by stall, with what each kind of counter is for.
Arthur Avenue Bronx on Film From Marty to A Bronx Tale
Seventy years of Belmont on screen, from a 1950s butcher to a 1990s bus driver and a 1999 dinner at Mario's, with the locations still there to walk past.
Arthur Avenue Bronx Festivals Ferragosto and the Giglio
The two days that shape the Belmont calendar, Ferragosto at summer's end and the Giglio feast at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and how to plan for them.