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    Van Nest is a working-class neighborhood geographically located in the East Bronx section of the Bronx, New York City. Going clockwise, its boundaries...
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    Parkchester/Van Nest station is a planned passenger rail station on the Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line, to be located within Bronx Community Board...
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  • Nick Sandow (category People from Van Nest, Bronx)
    Italian descent, Sandow grew up in the Italian neighborhood of Van Nest in the Bronx. He moved to Manhattan around age 19 to study acting under William...
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    Neck, Van Nest, Wakefield, Westchester Square, and Williamsbridge. The East Bronx is less densely populated than the West Bronx. While the West Bronx is...
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    Roland La Starza (category People from Van Nest, Bronx)
    champion Rocky Marciano. Born in 1927, La Starza grew up in the Van Nest section of the Bronx. La Starza’s skills for boxing showed early, and he would become...
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    Regis Philbin (category People from Van Nest, Bronx)
    still alive to protect his privacy. Philbin was raised in the Van Nest neighborhood of the Bronx. He attended Our Lady of Solace grammar school and graduated...
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    Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 1496 Commonwealth Avenue, Van Nest, Bronx, New York City, near the corner of Mansion Street and Commonwealth...
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    Soundview Bronx River (on the border of East and West) Bruckner Schuylerville Throggs Neck (also spelled Throgs Neck) Edgewater Park Silver Beach Van Nest Westchester...
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    change from time to time. New York City is split up into five boroughs: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. Each borough has the same...
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    John Patrick Shanley (category People from Van Nest, Bronx)
    Adapted Screenplay. Shanley was born into an Irish-American family in The Bronx, New York City. His mother worked as a telephone operator, and his father...
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    C. Paul Jennewein (category People from Van Nest, Bronx)
    sculpture. By 1928, Jennewein had set up his studio in the Van Nest section of the Bronx where he remained until 1978, the year of his death. 1923: Lincoln...
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    Stokely Carmichael (category People from Van Nest, Bronx)
    driver. The reunited Carmichaels eventually left Harlem to live in Van Nest in the East Bronx, at that time an aging neighborhood primarily of Jewish and Italian...
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  • Kill Valatie, New York Martin Van Buren National Historic Site Van Buren, New York Van Cortlandt Village Van Nest, Bronx Van Pelt Manor Verplanck, New York...
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    Park Avenue at the intersection with Holland Avenue, the Bronx, New York City in the Van Nest neighborhood. The parish was established 1903. The founding...
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    The Bronx (/ðə brɒŋks/) is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York. It is south of Westchester County;...
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    Unionport Road, Van Nest, Bronx, New York City. The parish was established in 1927. The Romanesque Revival was built 1925 to the designs of Bronx-native architect...
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    P.S. 108 Philip J. Abinanti (grades PK-5) P.S./M.S. 498 Van Nest Academy (grades K-8) Bronx High School for the Visual Arts (grades 9-12) The New York...
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  • Valentine–Varian House Van Cortlandt House Museum Van Cortlandt Park Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street station Van Cortlandt Village Van Nest, Bronx Vandam Street...
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    James Francis Collins (category People from Van Nest, Bronx)
    until 1970. James Francis Collins was born in The Bronx on September 2, 1905, and raised in the Van Nest neighborhood. A graduate of the United States Military...
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    line of the A Division of the New York City Subway serving the central Bronx. It is mostly elevated and served both subway and elevated trains until...
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    Retrieved October 5, 2016. Beloved Bronx high school named for Christopher Columbus sets sail "About the Pelham Parkway-Van Nest Library". The New York Public...
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  • Little Yemen (category Morris Park, Bronx)
    ethnic enclave located in the eastern half of Bronx, New York in Morris Park. It is wedged between Van Nest and Pelham Parkway. The heart of the neighborhood...
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    (neighborhood), Van Nest and other areas in the borough of the Bronx. Coterminous with the 49th NYPD Precinct, its district is delimited by Bronx Park East...
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  • The West Bronx is a region in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The region lies west of the Bronx River and roughly corresponds to the western half...
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  • – Jamaica, Queens, New York (Long Island) September 30 – Van Nest, Bronx, New York (The Bronx) October 1 – Stamford, Connecticut October 2 – Bridgeport...
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  • Heights, and Woodside. The Bronx portion of the district includes the neighborhoods of City Island, Country Club, Van Nest, Morris Park, Parkchester,...
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    wildlife manager in their Bronx headquarters. The Bronx hosts a population of whitetail deer, mostly in the wooded areas Van Cortlandt Park and Pelham...
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    Riverdale section of the northwestern part of the New York City borough of the Bronx. It is bounded by Manhattan College Parkway to the south, Henry Hudson Parkway...
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  • at 1658 Lurting Avenue, at the intersection of Van Nest Avenue, in the Morris Park section of the Bronx. Cardinal Spellman blessed and re-dedicated the...
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  • Aaron Davis (boxer) (category People from Soundview, Bronx)
    York City and as well at the Morris Park Boxing Club in the Van Nest section of the Bronx. Davis, known as "Superman", turned pro in 1986 and won his...
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