Fordham Road

Neighborhoods

The last stop on the D train opens to the bustling sidewalk of Fordham Road in the northern section of the Bronx. The area has long been home to working-class people who want to live within a short train ride to Manhattan. The brownstones and tenement buildings once were settled by Italian immigrants, but the area now has a predominantly Latino presence.

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