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Dolly passed away peacefully on Saturday morning after a long struggle with declining health.  She was a vibrant woman, funny & opinionated. Dolly lived in the Bronx until she moved to Spring Hill, Florida. She was the widow of Manuel Fuenmayor and had two children. This is Dolly on the left,...

My parents Luddy & Orlando, Abuela Angie & Abuelo Moncho, Rachel & Ellen, 1022 156th Street, South Bronx, 1960s.   Today brought an odd sense of virtual dislocation. The first time I felt something like this was in 1988. We were newly married and Tom drove us to the South Bronx,...

A photograph of my aunts dancing on a Bronx tenement rooftop makes me think about the gap between then and now.  A camera held by either my father or uncle took a series of pictures one Spring afternoon, capturing something of their youth, and their hope for the future. It is...

Holidays in our home meant company, and the preparation of a table weighed with food.  Hours of preparation yielded a large mound of pasteles and a huge pot of arroz con gandules, in addition to a turkey and a roast pork shoulder, a stand-in for puerco asado, roast suckling pig. For...

As a child I lived in a tenement building at 548 Fox Street, near Southern Boulevard in the South Bronx, with my younger brothers and parents. School wasn't far away-- PS 25, at 811 E. 149th Street. My mom walked us to school in the morning, and I looked forward to...