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This is where I grew up it was worse when there were buildings instead of the vacant lot but there was a time when it was a very stable area and believe it or not there was a time when very famous movie stars even had apartments so they would not have to travel into Manhattan when they were filming as the area is very close to Biograph's Sound Studios.

Biograph had some pretty well known stars Douglas Fairbanks, Lillian Gish and so on their original Studio was in Manhattan on 14 Street at 5th Avenue. the studio in the Bronx was the world's largest film studio outside of Hollywood. The Bronx is actually where the motion picture industry started. Edison built his studio there and it rotated so as to take advantage of the sunlight. The Biograh studio was later sold and the name was changed to Gold Medal Studio and one of their more famous film's was Butterfield 8 with Elizabeth Taylor.

Lots of well known people come from that area including I guess the most famous one is Al Pacino who attended the Junior High but of course a few years before me. My step mother knew him! That is kind of joke, but she really knew him. He was in my step brothers class.

Oh, yes Lamb Chops comes from the area as well Shari Lewis went to the same Junior High.

This is what it looked like in 1980 can you picture limousines?

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Most of the people who originally lived there worked at the studio I am told and many of my school mates moved to LA as their parents work in motion pictures.

There are now private homes of very modest value in this place. During the time I lived there it became one of the most dangerous places on the plane to live in.