Pelham Bay, The Bronx: A Blend of Urban & Suburban | NYTimes

Carmine Zeppieri Jr. prepares a cake at Zeppieri & Sons Bakery, where three generations of the Zeppieri family have worked for more than half a century / Edwin J. Torres for The New York Times
Carmine Zeppieri Jr. prepares a cake at Zeppieri & Sons Bakery, where three generations of the Zeppieri family have worked for more than half a century / Edwin J. Torres for The New York Times

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Anyone seeking a large body of water in Pelham Bay would be quickly frustrated: The neighborhood’s namesake no longer exists. Instead, you would find a tidy community with rows of two-story brick homes bearing awnings and grillwork fences immediately adjacent to the city’s largest park.

That’s not to say that water is very far away. Pelham Bay Park has 13 miles of coast hugging Long Island Sound, and residents often consider the prestigious waterfront communities of Country Club and Spencer Estates to the east, and Throgs Neck to the south, to be part of Pelham Bay.

But Pelham Bay proper is a working- and middle-class community of about 23,000 residents, roughly a square mile framed by the Bruckner Expressway and the Hutchinson River Parkway.

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