About my little jaunt to the Bronx today...

I had great fun with 40,000 of my closest friends, about 10 blocks from where I was a wee bairn. Before I went up, I thought I'd do some googling of the old block. I knew it might not be good - it went through some hard in-between times - but I didn't have a sense of what was going on there now.

The photo on the left - yeah, I know, snow, xmas lights, tugs at the heartstrings - was taken from one of the windows of our apartment. Gee! look at all the old cars!

Now, take a look at the current views. Go into street view. Swizzle around. The intervening decades have not been beautifying to Nelson Ave. between 168th and 169th.