Port Chester, NY march

Port Chester is having protest marches today against a proposed law to make it a felony to be in the United States illegally. CBS bottom scroll. Newspaper columnist and TV variety show host Ed Sullivan had his first show around here, perhaps only once, in the once beautiful RKO Chester in West Farms, the Bronx, which became the Alps Hotel, then a warehouse and in part a Howard Johnson motel now, near the Cross Bronx Expressway to the George Washington Bridge. So I was told by someone indirectly working on the redesign of the highway near there, we in the former right-of-way condemnation for an Interstate-95 extension. The GW bridge ribbon-cutting was done by "John Vernou Bouvier III (1892-?1957) who was a Wall Street stockbroker who was the father of the late former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and her younger sister, Lee Radziwill." (Wikipedia) Interestingly, recent local history reports in the news that the Joseph Kennedy family lived here in the Bronx, in Riverdale. He was interested in investing in the film industry here in NYC, but they moved away after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. The young future President, John F. Kennedy, played here, and later other members of the family lived in nearby Bronxville for a number of years. A developmental center for children is named for one of them is also nearby, not far from the Bronx Zoo.