Tag: The Bronx
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Harlem and The Bronx
This image from the 1930’s from a high vantage point (likely from the towering 555 Edgecombe Avenue), shows Harlem in the foreground and The Bronx in the background. What is now Jackie Robinson Park is immediately below (in the foreground) and you can see the distinctive kiosk shown in another 1930’s photo and from Google…
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Viaduct, 155th Street, Harlem Bridge
The view of this photo (looking back and up to Harlem – if you were headed to the Bronx you’d be traveling to the right and down) shows a recently competed 155th Street Bridge that now goes from Harlem over to the Bronx near Yankee Stadium. Note how isolated many of the buildings on the…
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Zero Vehicle Households
Zero-vehicle households are concentrated in Manhattan and southern parts of the Bronx. Outer borough households generally have more vehicles, a function of land use and density, non-vehicle transportation options, and income. The number of household vehicle registrations increased by 8.7% between 2010 and 2020, resulting in a very slight increase in the ratio of vehicle…
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Ethics Concerns Regarding State Senator Benjamin
The Daily News has a report out on State Senator Brian Benjamin’s questionable expensing and financial dealings, including: using Senate campaign money to pay for “constituent services” at a Harlem jazz club sitting on the board of a company led by a shady Wall Street executive — a job he stepped down from after it…
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Stoops
Ephemeral New York ephemeralnewyork recently had a great article on the Dutch origins of the New York stoop: New Yorkers can thank the Dutch settlers of the 17th century for the stoop arguably the city’s most iconic and beloved architectural feature. Houses in Holland were built with a front stoep to keep parlor floors from flooding. When…
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A Call for LegislationThe Bronx is Building
The Greater Harlem Coalition has recently written to our elected officials to ask them to begin the work of enacting legislation that will stop and then reverse the oversaturation of drug treatment programs in our community: The Bronx is Building A new rental building has been proposed for the Bronx waterfront between the Madison Avenue…
