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                Alma Heaney gets coiffed at Aliano’s Salon on Westchester Ave.

A small shopping strip in Pelham Bay off the No. 6 subway line offers bargain shoppers a little bit of everything.

Whether you’re looking to get the new year off to a healthy start by stocking up on vitamins and supplements or ready to tackle a needed home repair, this retail spot has just the items shoppers are looking for - and all for the right price.

HEALTH – Health Bound, 1833 Hobart Ave. (718) 319-0662

This little health store strives to take care of all their customers’ diet and fitness needs.

It offers an assortment of salves and ointments, vegetarian supplements, detox cleansers, herbal teas, beauty aids, organic products, sports drinks and much more.

Vitamins and supplements are especially popular, including a 24-ounce bottle of flax seed for $3.99. Owner Maria Borrero is offering 10% off all products until the end of January. And she’s happy to order anything you can’t find on her shelves.

Health Bound also has homemade protein shakes with names like Bahamas mama and blackcherry blast for $7.

TANNING – Electric Paradise, 3221 Westchester Ave.      (347) 582-2662

This upbeat tanning salon is especially student-friendly. Specials include 30% off with student ID.

However, everyone can save with a 10% off tanning package special that is running through January.

A single lay down session starts at just $8, and unlimited monthly packages start at $65.

A variety of lotions also are on sale to enhance your tanning session.

Electric Paradise also offers custom airbrush tanning. Read more..

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“It is beyond anybody’s imagination when I started that a Puerto Rican could ascend to that position, to the Supreme Court,” said Edwin Torres, who in 1959 was hired as the first Puerto Rican assistant district attorney in New York

In the summer of 1959, Edwin Torres landed a $60-a-week job and wound up on the front page of El Diario. He had just been hired as the first Puerto Rican assistant district attorney in New York — and probably, he thinks, the entire United States.

He still recalls the headline: “Exemplary Son of El Barrio Becomes Prosecutor.”

“You would’ve thought I had been named attorney general,” he said. “That’s how big it was.” Read more..

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When readers of The Universe pick up their favorite paper every week at Mass, Catholics in an historic New York neighborhood can read the latest news from the UK and Ireland as well.

Each week, The Universe makes its way across the pond to a most unique parish. For some time now, one loyal reader of the paper has been leaving a copy on a table in the back of Our Lady of Mt Carmel parish in the Bronx.

The table is a location where parishioners regularly leave Catholic publications of which they have finished so others may read them.

Since there are many Italians still in the parish, it is not uncommon to see magazines such as Il Rosario, Il Santo dei Miracoli and several other Italian-language religious publications.

As can be expected, there are English-language missionary magazines and the like left as well.

The Church of Our Lady of Mt Carmel is located at 627 East 187 Street, in the middle of what is known as “the Belmont section” of the Bronx or
“Little Italy in the Bronx” (as opposed to Manhattan’s famous Little Italy).

The neighborhood is also referred to as “the Arthur Avenue section”, after the its famous shopping area. The parish is set two streets below Arthur Avenue, which is the main street in the area, and is famous throughout the whole of the New York City metropolitan area. Read more..

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NEW YORK.- Documenting the abandoned, burnt out, and razed structures of entire city blocks in the South Bronx in the aftermath of the 1970s, during which this neighborhood experienced dramatic decline, Broken Glass: Photographs of the South Bronx by Ray Mortenson will be on view at the Museum of the City of New York from November 14, 2008 through March 9, 2009. The 50 black and white cityscapes and interiors on view—five of which are large-scale—were taken between 1982 and 1984, and they vividly illustrate the results of a downslide that began in the Great Depression of the 1930s and accelerated with the construction of the Cross Bronx Expressway in the 1950s and the fiscal crisis of the 1970s. Broken Glass is Mortenson’s first museum exhibition in New York City, and it is the first presentation of the South Bronx photographs. Read more..

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The last time we looked at the South Bronx it was 1979 through 1987, and now photographer Ray Mortenson focuses in on 1982 through 1984 in his new exhibit titled “Broken Glass: Photographs of the South Bronx.” Opening November 14th (and running through March 9th) at the Museum of the City of New York, Mortenson’s exhibit of 50 black & white prints will take a look at “the abandoned, burnt out, and razed structures of entire city blocks in the South Bronx in the aftermath of the 1970s, during which this neighborhood experienced dramatic decline.” (Did you know about 12,000 fires occurred annually in the neighborhood  throughout the decade?) Read more..

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