Bronx Burns No More as NYC’s Poorest Borough Comes Back: Cities

Jerome Raguso, known locally as the Cannoli King of Arthur Avenue, has lived his whole life above the family bakery in New York’s other Little Italy.

Gone are the days when he and his buddies threw some wood in a metal garbage can to grill steaks or set up tables on the sidewalk to dig into plates of his mom’s pasta. But vanishing too are the gangs, violence and drugs that gave a local police precinct the moniker -- celebrated in a 1981 movie title -- “Fort Apache.”