I grew up in the Bronx. We spent the day at the Zoo and Arthur Avenue a few weeks ago and then I asked my husband to exit at my old neighborhood. I showed the girls where I went to kindergarten, the old library, my grandmother's house, the corner where my dad worked in a drug store for over 30 years and our old apartment building. They were all clean and well kept. It was sad to see the Avenue in such a decline. The movie theater, the luncheonette, my uncle's jewelry store, all were gone. The stores looked totally seedy, very sad.