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unusual facts about Belmont, Bronx



Adolfo Carrión, Jr.

In the end, $800 million will be invested in construction of a new Yankee Stadium with at least 25% of the contracts going to Bronx businesses and at least 25% of the jobs going to residents of the Borough.

Amalgamated Bank

In 1957, it financed the construction of Park Reservoir Housing Cooperative in the Bronx, which was the first affordable housing development created under New York State's Mitchell-Lama Housing Program.

Andrea Batista Schlesinger

Andrea directed a national campaign to engage college students in the discussion on the future of Social Security for the Pew Charitable Trusts, and served as Director of Public Relations of Teach For America before working as the education advisor to Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer.

Andrew I. Porter

He had been calling science fiction writers in the Bronx and Manhattan telephone books to discuss science fiction, and Donald Wollheim put him in touch with local science fiction fandom in New York City.

August Belmont, Jr.

In addition to his Kentucky horse farm, in 1908 Belmont established Haras de Villers, a breeding operation near Foucarmont in Upper Normandy, France.

Bannered routes of U.S. Route 3

It runs from US 3 in Laconia south to US 3 and New Hampshire Route 11 in Belmont, along NH 107 and NH 11A.

Belmont Books

Belmont Books was owned by the same company that owned Archie Comics.

Belmont High School

Belmont City College, Belmont, Western Australia (formerly Belmont Senior High School)

Belmont Hospital

Established in 1968, it is the only public hospital in the Local Government Area and is located on Croudace Bay Road in the suburb of Belmont.

Belmont, California

The city's largest hotel is Hyatt House, which in an apartment hotel and caters mostly to a business clientele, due to its proximity to Oracle headquarters.

Belmont, North Carolina

He later became postmaster and town depot agent for the new Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line Railway, which was constructed in 1871.

Belmont, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

It is located to the east of the capital, Kingstown and northwest of Stubbs.

Belmont, Wellington

It borders the Belmont Regional Park (open 8am - dusk) and as such is surrounded by native bush and beautiful views.

Bronx Borough Courthouse

For several years, since the annexation of the West Bronx in 1874, several Bronx advocates including Louis F. Haffen, and The Association of the Bar, in the Borough of the Bronx, in the City of New York, had consistently been striving for the placement of a proper court house in the borough.

Bronx Borough Hall

The Parks Commissioner at the time, Newbold Morris supported the idea of tearing down the building to create more park space, possibly to replenish what was lost during the construction of the Cross Bronx Expressway.

Bronx High School for the Visual Arts

The Bronx High School for the Visual Arts (BHSVA), familiarly known as Visual Arts, is a New York City public high school established as an art school in 2002 under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Small Schools Initiative program (officially, the New Century High Schools Initiative).

Bronx–Whitestone Bridge

The Bronx–Whitestone Bridge opened on April 29, 1939, in festivities led by then-Mayor of New York City Fiorello H. La Guardia.

Bruckner Expressway

It is named in honor of former Bronx Borough President and Congressman, Henry Bruckner (1871–1942), and was built on and over the roadway of Bruckner Boulevard.

Charles Dunn

Dunn then resumed his law practice settling and living in Belmont, Wisconsin for the rest of his life.

CW46

WJZY Former CW affiliate of Belmont/Charlotte, North Carolina (Now Fox O&O)

E. R. Sanborn

The Bronx Zoo, led by Hornaday and the American Bison Society raised a small herd for reintroduction to their home range.

Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 3rd Marquess of Dufferin and Ava

He served with the 9th Lancers during the Second Boer War from 1899 to 1901 and was present at the engagements at Belmont, Enslin, Modder River, Magersfonstein, the relief of Kimberley, the advance to Bloemfontein and Pretoria and the subsequent fighting in the Transvaal, Orange River Colony and Cape Colony, where he was badly wounded on Christmas Eve 1900.

Global Boxing Gym

Global Boxing has also served as a filming facility for Everlast photo shoots for professional athletes such as NFL running back Reggie Bush, Super Six Champion Andre Ward, 2008 Bronx Olympic medalist Deontay Wilder and many more.

J. Morgan Puett

Her work has been exhibited at the Fabric Workshop and Museum of Philadelphia, Wave Hill (Bronx, New York); Spoleto USA in Charleston; SC, the Tate, the Serpentine Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts.

Jack Rosen

The rest of his childhood took place in The Bronx neighborhood of New York City, where he later attended Columbus High School and later graduated from City University of New York with a degree in mathematics.

John M. J. Quinn

John M. J. Quinn (1886–1955) was a Monsignor and from 1951 to 1955 head of St. Francis Xavier's Church in the Bronx, New York, and also head of the Catholic War Veterans.

Joseph Owades

Born in Manhattan and raised in the Bronx, he graduated from City College of New York (undergraduate) and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (Master’s and PhD in biochemistry, with a dissertation on cholesterol).

Katharine Elizabeth Dopp

She grew up in the area known then as "Dopp Neighborhood" and attended the one room "Dopp School" in what is now in the town of Belmont, in Portage County, surrounded by a large family and the experience of her early years in a farm near the wilderness was to mark her for her life.

Lonely Ol' Night

The song was recorded at Belmont Mall in Belmont, Indiana, was produced by Mellencamp (under the alias "Little Bastard") and Don Gehman, engineered by Gehman and Greg Edward.

Majora Carter

Sustainable South Bronx, an organization Carter founded, publicly opposed FreshDirect's move to the Bronx.

Mark Ripple

Investors who bought dot-com shares at the height of the boom and horseplayers who bet on War Emblem, Funny Cide, and Smarty Jones at the Belmont all took a loss on their wagers.

McAdenville, North Carolina

High school-age students living south of Interstate 85 attend South Point High School in Belmont, while most of those living north of the interstate attend Ashbrook High School in Gastonia.

Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont House

Construction was still underway when Oliver Belmont died, when Alva announced that she would build an addition that was an exact reproduction of the Gothic Room in Belcourt Castle, to house her late husband's collection of medieval and early Renaissance armor.

North Cambridge, Massachusetts

North Cambridge, also known as "Area 11", is a neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts bounded by Porter Square and the Fitchburg Line railroad tracks on the south, the city of Somerville on the northeast, Alewife Brook and the town of Arlington on the northwest, and the town of Belmont on the west.

NYRA

New York Racing Association, The NY State franchisee which runs racing operations at three New York State Thoroughbred racecourses; Aqueduct, Belmont Park and Saratoga Racecourse.

Peter Rabe

The last books Rabe published before he backed off from his writing career were novelizations of episodes of the television series "Mannix" using the pseudonym "J. T. MacCargo." This was apparently a house name for Belmont, with an unknown author penning the first and third books of the series.

Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad

Just after crossing the river, it traveled up the Belmont Plane, an inclined plane in the current location of West Fairmount Park, and continued west across the eastern part of the state to Columbia, where the Columbia Plane headed down to the Susquehanna River.

Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx

Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx is a 1970 film directed by Waris Hussein and written by Gabriel Walsh.

Quentin Bryce

While living in Belmont she attended the Camp Hill State School, and there first met her future husband, Michael Bryce.

Radioimmunoassay

This technique was developed in the 1950s by Rosalyn Yalow and Solomon Aaron Berson working at the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital affiliated with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Sidney Edward Mezes

He was born in what is now the town of Belmont, California on September 23, 1863, to a Spanish-born father and Italian-born mother.

Skip Away

After Skip Away was soundly defeated as a four-year-old by Formal Gold in the Philip H. Iselin Breeders' Cup Handicap at Monmouth Park and in the Woodward Stakes at Belmont Park, he was given a new rider, Jerry Bailey, who replaced Shane Sellers.

Spuyten Duyvil

Spuyten Duyvil Bridge, a swing bridge that carries Amtrak's Empire Corridor line across the Spuyten Duyvil Creek between Manhattan and the Bronx, in New York City

Stanley Moskowitz

Moskowitz was born in the Bronx and graduated from Alfred University.

Thomas Oliver Selfridge

Rear Admiral Selfridge died in Waverly (now part of Belmont, Massachusetts).

Tony Sunshine

Tony Sunshine (born April 23, 1977 as Antonio Cruz in the Bronx, New York) is an American R&B singer of Puerto Rican descent, famous for singing on a large amount of Terror Squad's songs.

United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing on television

From 2002 to 2004, the Belmont had the highest ratings of any horse race on television.

Winley Records

Death Mix was a vinyl pressing of a third- or fourth- hand cassette tape copy of a bootleg recording of a Bambaataa Zulu Nation night at James Monroe High School in the Bronx in 1980.


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