BY RYAN STELLABOTTE
Peter Madonia's eyes light up: Driving down Arthur Avenue on a Thursday afternoon in June, he spots a free parking space directly across the street from the bakery his grandfather established in 1918. Good luck finding that spot on a Saturday, when Belmont is bustling with scores of New Yorkers and suburbanites back in the Bronx's Little Italy to shop and eat the way their parents and grandparents taught them.
"This used to be a neighborhood where everyone did what my grandmother did," Madonia says. "In the morning she went out and she bought whatever they were eating that night: fish or meat, vegetables, bread, whatever else they needed, and then she came home to prepare the meal. And that went on for years here, up through the '80s."
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