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28 Front Street

Wooden Houses; One Third of a Nation

IMAGE DATE1935
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A. Zerega's Sons building (background) at 28 Front Street, ca. 1935.

Founded by Antoine Zerega, a French immigrant of Italian background, in 1848, Zerega's is the oldest pasta company in the United States. Zerega Avenue in the Bronx is named after the pasta maker. The company moved from DUMBO to Fair Lawn, New Jersey in 1952.

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