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Let us now visit the house where a 10-year-old John F. Kennedy lived.

It’s in the Bronx.

And it’s a bit creepy.

We stopped by yesterday in recognition of the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination, coming up Friday.

The Kennedys lived in the upscale Riverdale section of the Bronx in the late 1920s.

At the Riverdale Country School, Mr. Kennedy was not a star student.

One year, he got a D in French.

In a 1960 campaign appearance at a Bronx hotel, he boasted of his local roots.

“I said up the street that I was a former resident of the Bronx. Nobody believes that, but it is true,” he declared. “No other candidate for the presidency can make that statement.”

About that house, though.

It’s enormous, 20 rooms of stuccoed splendor, set on two acres fringed by pines. (See photo.)

But it’s been empty for years, said neighbors and a lawyer for the owners, Andrew Klinger.

Mr. Klinger said that the house had been “renovated substantially” but that he did not know what the owners planned to do with it.

The front doorway is sealed over with concrete.

No historic plaque is visible.

A few houses down, a man named Ian Kirby, who grew up in the neighborhood, was raking leaves.

“It’s always looked to be in some sort of disrepair,” he said of the house.

Here’s what else you need to know for Wednesday.

WEATHER

Brrr. A high of only 45, with a ruffling breeze. Stay in the sunshine.

COMMUTE

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Rails: Click for L.I.R.R., Metro-North or New Jersey Transit status.

Roads: Click for traffic map or radio report on the 1s.

Alternate-side parking is in effect all week.

COMING UP TODAY

• Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio visits the Talking Transition Tent, on Canal Street, where New Yorkers can offer opinions on policies for his administration, at 2:30 p.m.

• The City Council holds a hearing on allegations of racial profiling at department stores, at 11 a.m.

• Cabdrivers will protest a new 6-cent-per-fare tax outside Taxi and Limousine Commission headquarters.

• Opening: “‘Dearest Jackie’: On the Death of JFK,” with art by Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg, and a condolence letter to the first lady from Arthur Schlesinger Jr., at the main New York Public Library. [Free]

• A fancy food court, Gotham West Market, opens on 11th Avenue and 44th Street, with stalls from name chefs.

• More foodie news: Mission Cantina, the new offering from Danny Bowien of Mission Chinese Food, opens on Orchard Street.

• A tribute concert for the 109-year-old pianist Alice Herz-Sommer, believed to be the oldest Holocaust survivor, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. (She will not be there.) 7 p.m. [$10]

• For more events, see The New York Times Arts & Entertainment guide.

IN THE NEWS

• The world-renowned Queens graffiti haven known as 5Pointz was whitewashed without warning, weeks before its demolition. [New York Times]

• Black New Yorkers are 25 times more likely to be shot than white New Yorkers. [Daily News]

• The iconic World’s Fair pavilion in Queens needs $52 million worth of repairs. [Daily News]

• Despite skeptics’ predictions, a statistical analysis seems to show that Citi Bikes have not led to an increase in cycling injuries. [Streetsblog]

• A 32-year-old man was charged with Sunday’s rape in Central Park. [Newsday]

• A man suspected of groping pre-teenage girls on the streets of Park Slope assaulted a police officer who tried to question him, then fled. [CBS Local]

• Scoreboard: Pistons beat Knicks, 92-86. Bruins beat Rangers, 2-1. Leafs beat Islanders, 5-2.

AND FINALLY…

In 1963, a newly formed band in New York, Frank Hubbell and the Hubcaps, released a single that went nowhere.

Soon they had changed their name to the more commercially viable Village Stompers, a nod to the burgeoning Greenwich Village folk scene.

Their first single was a bit of Dixie-tinged instrumental fluff named to drive home the Village folk link: “Washington Square.”

The week that President Kennedy was killed, it was the No. 2 hit in the nation. (Click to listen to it.)

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