One of the nicest things about driving north out of the city is that point ten or fifteen minutes past the Bronx Zoo when you see the familiar sign and you say to yourself or the unlucky person who's in the car with you and has had to hear you repeat your own silly little favorite sayings again and again and again for the past ten years, "Money Earnin' Mt. Vernon!" It's such a great rhyme, it rolls off the tongue perfectly, really one of the best municipal nicknames anyone's ever come up with. Sadly, the man who grew up there who coined the phrase—or, at least, the man who [...]