Fufidio Triangle

Tiffany Bet. Longwood And Spofford

Bronx

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This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park.

This triangle is named for Walter Fufidio (1924-1945), a native of Hunts Point in the Bronx, who was killed in the bloody battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. Enlisting in the Marines at the age of 19, Fufidio participated in the Pacific campaign from 1944 to 1945.

Fufidio lived on Casanova Street in the Bronx, and attended the Manhattan School of Aviation before he began to work for his father at the Esdorn Lumber Company. Fufidio was seventeen years old at the outbreak of war in 1939, and as the war progressed he became anxious to participate, eventually enlisting in 1944. Fufidio served in the Marines for a year during the pivotal U.S. drive towards Japan.

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