‘There’s nothing left’: Fire tears through beloved Bronx bike shop, decimating 68-year-old neighborhood institution

John Ventarola had his routine down pat: Every morning, the 83-year-old man left his Harrison, N.Y. home and took the 10-mile trip down to White Plains Road in the Bronx to open his store, Arrow Cycle Inc., at 9 a.m. sharp. But on Tuesday morning, he sat crestfallen in a borrowed folding chair in the middle of the street, watching helplessly as firefighters sifted through the remains of the destroyed Wakefield corner store his father opened in the 1950s.