After a quick stop on Park Avenue to see how another Kennedy [Jackie] lived, we moved on to spend the day in the Bronx. We had a little trouble figuring out the subway system to the area we wanted to see, but eventually we were able to work it out. We had to walk through some questionable parts of the Bronx and could not help but make comparisons to Park Avenue.
We made the trek to the Belmont area of the Bronx to see the new "Little Italy". The old Italian district in Manhattan is being taken over by Chinatown and we were hungry for a traditional Italian meal.
The area was small but it contained many restaurants, cheese stores, bakeries and Italian meat markets. They even have their own cigar companies so we spent time watching the people hand roll the cigars to what we thought was perfection.
We wandered around the Belmont area before starting the 50 minute subway ride back to Penn Station. What was supposed to be an easy day was anything but. It's a long way from Upper Manhattan to the Bronx, both distance wise and economically. It made for a stressful day looking at some of the living conditions surrounding the Belmont area.
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