The Bronx
They say the Bronx is the realest borough.
Car that says “doesn’t start”
With no license plates
Seems sketchy
I know not everything is how it seems or how it looks like on its surface.
It feels like living the Bronx people are poor but happy.
When I saw little girls playing with the fire hydrants sprinkling water all over them and like 30 guys crowding a guy in his nice car doing hydraulics.
When I see that, it feels like the people in the Bronx seem so happy and also proud to be where they’re from.
When I see a woman driving a car with the Puerto Rican flag hanging from the rear view window blasting reggaeton. I’m like wow reminds me of when I used to study in the library on books on what ethnicity I’d like to study and where they live.
I saw a group of Dominican immigrants washing cars with a hose attached to the fire hydrant.
The Bronx has a history for being creative and having its innovations felt worldwide. The birthplace of hip hop and breakdancing kids couldn’t afford to go to the clubs.
As my art teacher would say, the Bronx is the one borough with culture. His words.
The Bronx is mostly residential.
Fresh kidz Express
Even though when many people think of the Bronx, they think of the South Bronx.
North Riverdale
I saw two cute little white like ten year old girls riding bikes ther. It’s that suburban (like you’re in Westchester County) and you’re still in the Bronx.
Woodlawn- the Irish enclave.
The Bronx Botanical Garden, the zoo, and yankee stadium but also Arthur avenue or Bronx’s”Little Italy.”
Arthur Avenur, Bronx’s “Little Italy”
A taste of Europe/Italy in the Bronx. An oasis in the Bronx.
The tree lined street.
Arthur Avenue in Belmont is known as the "realest LIttle Italy" in New York. It is more authentic than the one on Mulberry Street in Manhattan. If Belmont sounds familiar to you, it is because the this old Italian neighborhood has been featured in the 1993 hit movie " A Bronx Tale." Today only about 6% of the residents that live here are Italian, (it is now a majority Latino neighborhood.) Many Italians have moved out to other parts of the city and other parts of the Tri State area. However, Italian delis, bakeries, butcher shops, and restaurants remain There is even an Italian food market called the Arthur Avenue Retail Market.
If you’re Italian or at least into Italian culture, you’re at risk here because you’ll spend so much of your money here.
It’s taken care of.
Some salumerias or delis play Italian pop music in the background.
Italian delis, bakeries, and restaurants line the Italian enclave of Arthur Avenue in the Bronx. There used to be Italian coffee shops too but now there are Albanian coffee shops.
Most of the Italian restaurants are owned by Albanians now. However, I went to two Italian restaurants that were still owned by Italians at the time of this blog- Mario’s and Ann & Tony’s. San Gennaro’s is too.
I overheard a guy saying once on Arthur Avenue “It’s a beautiful day to be on welfare.” The jerk.
Arthur Avenue is a mix of Italians, Albanians, and Mexicans.
You go to Arthur Avenue, mostly for food.
I saw a guy blast traditoinal Italian music from his boom box on Arthur Avenue. And he wasn't Italian. He was African.
There's no dining like Arthur Avenue dining.
The Restaurants Maybe the restaurants should go first? Before the groceries ike Arthur Avenue Retail Market
Owned by an Italian immigrant.
This is an Albanian owned Italian restaurant
Ann & Tony's Italian Restaurant
Lasagna
Mario's
From their Facebook and website respectively
From an unknown google user
Full Moon Pizzeria
Arthur Avenue Retail Market
You can't visit the Bronx's Little Italy on Arthur Avenue without without visiting Arthur Avenue Retail Market
Eggplants
You can sit with Al Capone too.
Luna's Cafe
the Italian delis
Casa Della Mozzarella
Ahh! You could see the fresh prosciutto (which was imported from Italy) and the their homemade mozarella at Casa Della Mozzarella.
The prosciutto ham should be like the first image for this store
Italians
Prosciutto imported from Italy gives you energy idk why
They have the best prosciutto Tino's delicatessen.
You know you’re in a true Italian deli in NYC when a customer asks the owner “Come stai?” and he replies “Bene, bene!”
At Tino’s Delicatessen, you could try the Godmother sandwich for eleven dollars. It comes with
I liked it because you could really taste the olive oil!
I like Italian sandwiches because they taste healthier many times than other sandwiches.
Italian imports. Canned tomatoes, pasta, olive oil, artichoke, Pellegrinos (both the soda and water),
They also sold gelato.
The owners are Italian and come from
Salerno. But the store does bring many other including Italian Americans, millennials, Latinos (most of the neighborhood is Latino), even tourists from France.
Bakeries
Morrone Pastry Shop- 2349 Arthur Avenue
This was their lemon gelato. The coffee at Morrone’s is good, too.
Gino's Pastry Shop & Cafe- 580 E.187th Street
I thought what looks like a lobster tail. It was really delicous s o I had to take a pict ure of it!
De Lilo Bakery- 610 E. 187th Street
Bakery cannolis Italian lemon cookies!
Baba
Baba
Babas and Santa rosas
E. 187th Street is where most of the bakeries are for some reason lol
Addeo Sons & Bakery
Addeo just bread they don’t serve pastries
Egidio's Pasticceria 622 E. 187th Street
According to the site, it is the first Italian pastry shop on Arthur Avenue that
Artuso's Pastry Shop- 670 E. 187th Street
Arthur Cantina 2380 Arthur Avenue
They sell Italian wines here.
Vincent’s Meat Market 2374 Arthur Avenue
get rid of?
They take great pride in even showcasing their meat.
Authentic- Rabbit meat exotic meats like rabbit, goat, duck?, quail,
Best butcher so fresh
Calabria Pork Store 2338 Arthur Avenue
Maybe I should get their sausage? Are they imported?
“Vast assortment of cheese and sausage.”
Their hot Italian sausage is good.
But their jalapeño cheddar sausage is really good, too.
Mike’s Deli very authentic Italian deli
And Joe's Deli too.
There's also Teitel Brothers Groceries?
Pace's Italian Market
THere;s a pattern with a lot of these stores how they sell meats , cheeses, pasta, maybe sauces for that pasta, and imoportedsweets. THe sweets are often imported but so are the meats,s and cheeses?and I think the pasta?
A lot of these stores have online shopping options now
Borgatti's Ravioli & Egg Noodles 632 E. 187th Street
Randazzo's Seafood 2327 Arthur Avenue
Randazzo’s some of their stuff comes from Italy
Randazzo’s Seafood
Italian store
Older Italian guy younger braven? Mexican guys
Is that the future of Italian stores.
Bronzino is healthy too not too much grease or oil? I think
I’m sure blacks and Hispanics go to these butcher shops and seafood stores, too.
Albanians
Coffee houses
An Albanian coffee shop in the middle of the Bronx’s Little Italy. Cafe Luna.
So much Italian stuff here, one thing that’s missing is an Italian owned coffee shop.
But you have that in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
Not all the workers are Italian in these Italian establishments anymore (some are Albanian, others are Mexican, some are Dominican too.)
French tourists eating at the Italian deli
Italian imports
2 Mexican restaurants
Diversity outside the Arthur Avenue Retail District
Although this photo was taken in Mosrris Park, it shows you that the Bronx has a large Albanian presence.
And it’s often the Hispanics who are maintaining these Italian businesses
Mott Haven/ 3rd Ave Shopping center “low class”
It’s baicallly a big Walmart.
If you want to see where poor people shop in the US, go to Walmart. The Hub in the South Bronx is like a giant Walmart with even anchor stores one Marshall’s, Burlington, and Five Below (the same stores in Appalachia but it’s disproportionally black and brown so if you’re fine with that, it’s ok if not, then go to Walmart.
A lot of Dominicans and blacks and a few Mexicans/Ecuadorians, much like the rest of the Bronx.
The ethnicity: Mostly Dominicans and blacks
There’s not a whole lot of Puerto Ricans here.
There were a lot of Puerto Ricans back in 2006, een.
Now they're gone
ANd its' mostly Domincians and blacks with some Mexicans.
There used to be more.
Few Mexicans maybe Ecuadorians
Addicts of all colors (but mostly white and black).
The Spanish and black Walmart in the Bronx.
Mostly apparel?
On the subway , there was an angry man asking one of the people in the station “Are you shadowing me?! Are you shadowing me?!”
On Instagram one woman said “3rd Avenue has everything.” And one person replied, “So, it’s basically Walmart.”
It’s basically the Bronx’s Times Square.
This is the best? The 2nd?
Fordham shopping center
Mostly apparel too.
They know Hispanics and blacks in urban communities spend so much of their money on clothes.
Fordham, The Hub- mostly apparel, Arthur Avenue- mostly food.
629 Leland Avenue- "La Bruja"- Soundview, The Bronx
It was such a humble home but man it was so jumping, Latins know how to best out of poverty- you live in poverty and you still know how the scenery jumping and popping.
Poetry
Does poetry to Rikers Island.
That’s because it’s art.
Even people from the Bronx say how bad Paterson, NJ is.
It seems like there’s a strong sense of community in the Bronx. Also East Harlem/ Harlem
Although the Bronx is mostly Hispanic and black , ther are white communities like Irish Woodlawn, Italian Arthur avenue in Belmont, and still a strong Jewish community in Riverdale.
Morris Park/ Throggs Neck? Italian/ Irish.
Plham Bay formerrly mostly white ehtnci middle class areas that have now become more diverse
QUasi suburban?
AN influx of middle class Puerto Ricans Dominicans nad other HIspanics. or HIpsanics (mostly Puerto Ricans)
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