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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    the Bronx, one of the five boroughs of New York City. When using this article, note that names of many (but not all) neighborhoods in the Bronx are popular...
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  • New York Catholic Protectory (category Van Nest, Bronx)
    Catholic Children in the City of New York, was a Catholic orphanage in the Bronx, New York City, founded in 1863. At one time, it was the largest child welfare...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    of the Bronx's area is open space, including Woodlawn Cemetery, Van Cortlandt Park, Pelham Bay Park, the New York Botanical Garden, and the Bronx Zoo in...
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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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  • – 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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    (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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    Located on Birchall Avenue at Sagamore Street in the Van Nest and Pelham Parkway neighborhoods of the Bronx, it is served by the 2 train at all times and by...
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  • Little Yemen (category Morris Park, Bronx)
    enclave located in the eastern half of Bronx, New York, within the Morris Park neighborhood. It is wedged between Van Nest and Pelham Parkway. The heart of...
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    Westchester Traction Company, the Van Nest, West Farms and Westchester Traction Company, and the Suburban Traction Company. Bronx Traction was leased to the...
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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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    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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