Nick Judd at the Riverdale Press has a terrific piece looking back on how Lorraine Coyle Koppell's unsuccessful challenge to Republican senator Guy Velella (violating a non aggression pact between Democrats and the sole Republican elected official in the borough at that time) set off a chain reaction of political chess moves that has resulted in Riverdalians getting three powerful Democrats to represent them in the state Senate.
John F. Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was from the Bronx. Who knew?
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