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On this month’s installment of “Our Forgotten Borough,” we check out the state of transportation within the Bronx. Photograph by Jonathan Portee/Illustration by Luis Matos East Tremont was a bustling, numerous, vibrant neighborhood for the primary a part of the twentieth century — teeming with small shops, residence buildings and households who beloved the neighborhood and made it a particular place. Then got here Robert Moses, the grasp builder.  Over 44 years in public workplace, Moses reshaped town like no different authorities official had within the twentieth century. When he got here to the Bronx, his intention was pushed solely…

A number of dozen folks gathered for what Jack Schlossberg’s marketing campaign known as a Sunday afternoon “pizza party” — a casual meet-and-greet designed to recruit volunteers, reply questions, and join with voters straight within the run-up to June’s Democratic main.  Schlossberg, the son of Caroline Kennedy and the one grandson of President John F. Kennedy, entered the race with one thing few first-time congressional candidates possess: instantaneous identify recognition and the form of media consideration that may flip a down-ballot contest right into a nationwide curiosity. However within the twelfth Congressional District overlaying a lot of central Manhattan —…