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THE NAMES OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF THE BRONXThis is the first of a series of five in which I try to explicate as best I can the names of the neighborhoods of each borough. Some of them are easily inferrable, while some of them have to be ferreted out, Holmes- like. Tackling the Bronx first, the only mainland borough…The Riverdale Memorial Tower, Riverdale Avenue and Henry Hudson Parkway. RIVERDALE, NORTH RIVERDALE, SOUTH RIVERDALEIn the mid- 1. Century the Spaulding, Dodge, Goodrich and other families (whose names ended up on area street maps) embarked on a real estate venture, calling it Riverdale because of the numerous brooks, streams and meadows in the hilly region.

Fieldston Road north of Manhattan College Parkway. FIELDSTONThe community, many of whose streets are private (I was discouraged from running a tour there by the neighborhood watch) , is north of Manhattan College, east and south of the Henry Hudson Parkway and west of Broadway. The area was purchased and subsequently developed by Major Joseph Delafield in 1. England. Edgehill Church, Independence Avenue near Kappock Street. SPUYTEN DUYVILThis neighborhood tucked at the confluence of the Harlem and Hudson Rivers under the Henry Hudson Bridge has been known as Speight den Duyvil, Spike & Devil, Spitting Devil, Spilling Devil, Spiten Debill and Spouting Devil, among other spellings. In Dutch, “spuyten duyvil,” the mostly- accepted spelling these days, can be pronounced two ways; one pronunciation means “devil’s whirlpool” and the other means “spite the devil.”In Washington Irving’s Knickerbocker History, a Dutch bugler vows to swim the turbulent waters of (then) Spuyten Duyvil Creek where it meets the Hudson during the British attack on New Amsterdam in the 1.

Duyvil,” or in “spite of the devil.” The Lenape Indians inhabited the land for hundreds of years before Europeans arrived; they called the banks of the creek “shorakapok” or “sitting- down place”. After a few hundred years, the name has been pared down and exists as a street name: Kappock (pronounced kay’ pock).

In the early 2. 0th Century Spuyten Duyvil Creek was dredged and made deeper in order to allow commercial vessels to access the Hudson River via the Harlem River, which took over the creek’s route. This process first made the Manhattan neighborhood of Marble Hill and island, and later part of the mainland — the only bit of Manhattan found there. The former 5. 0th Precinct building, looking down Summit Place at Kingsbridge Terrace. KINGSBRIDGE and KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTSThese neighborhoods take their names from a vanished bridge that spanned a rerouted creek. The story of the King’s Bridge can be found on a grime- encrusted plaque on one of the Marble Hill Houses, on Broadway just south of West 2.

Street. The plaque is devilishly hard to read, since it’s out of range of sight from the street; you have to climb the short fence or walk around it. The plaque reads: “Northwest of this tablet within a distance of 1. Kings Bridge and its successors from 1.

Spuyten Duyvil Creek was filled up.“Over it marched the troops of both armies during the American Revolution and its possession controlled the land approach to New York City.“General George Washington rested at Kings Bridge the night of June 2. Philadelphia to Cambridge to assume command of the Continental Army.“This tablet was erected by the Empire State Society Sons of the American Revolution, June 2.

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Frederick Philipse built the first King’s Bridge, a tolled span over Spuyten Duyvil Creek, in 1. Benjamin Palmer and Jacob Dyckman built a second bridge in 1. Philipse. During his retreat from the Battle of Harlem Heights in 1. General George Washington used both the King’s Bridge and Palmer and Dyckman’s free bridge to escape to White Plains. The original King’s Bridge has inspired a network of roads in Manhattan and the Bronx, some surviving, some not, named for it. The span survived till the excavations for the Harlem Ship Canal between 1.

The Rambling House, one of the many bars on Katonah Avenue. WOODLAWN HEIGHTSThis neighborhood is tucked neatly into a wedge of territory between Woodlawn Cemetery, Van Cortlandt Park, the Yonkers city line and the Metro- North Railroad/Bronx river/Bronx River Parkway.

Its namesake cemetery was initiated in 1. Reverend Absalom Peters, a theologian, poet and proponent of the Rural Cemetery movement in which burial grounds became ‘memorial parks,’ places to go and quietly contemplate, away from the clatter of the city. Woodlawn’s name evokes such serenity.

The cemetery’s first interment was in 1. Mundy Lane, on the Bronx- Mount Vernon city line in Wakefield. The blacktopped section is in the Bronx, while the concrete surface is in Mount Vernon. WAKEFIELDThis Bronx neighborhood at the city line, bordered by White Plains Road, East 2.

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Street and Mundy Lane/Seton Avenue was surveyed in 1. Virginia where George Washington was born in 1. His brother William inherited the house after their gather Augustine’s death, naming it “Wakefield.” The house burned down in 1. Nearby, of course, is the town of Mount Vernon, named for the Washington family residence in Virginia. PS 1. 5, Dyre Avenue. Watch The Woman In Black Online Gorillavid. EASTCHESTERThe further northeast in the Bronx you get to Westchester County, the further into Eastchester you penetrate … Eastchester is a neighborhood in the northeast Bronx that actually used to belong to Westchester County (the Bronx was formed from New York and Westchester Counties and became a county in 1.

New York City until 1. It’s not to be confused with the current town of Eastchester which is actually northwest of here, in Westchester County. The Bronx neighborhood of Eastchester, along with Mount Vernon, used to be a part of the town of Eastchester in Westchester, but was annexed by the Bronx in 1. Who’s on first? The neighborhood includes Seton Falls Park, where rattlesnakes prowled as late as the 1. Century. Co- Op City Boulevard. CO- OP CITYThe present- day housing project (really a complete neighborhood) is called Co- Op City because it consists of cooperative apartments: A housing cooperative, or co- op, is a legal entity, usually a corporation, which owns real estate, consisting of one or more residential buildings; it is one type of housing tenure.

Housing cooperatives are a distinctive form of home ownership that have many characteristics that differ from other residential arrangements such as single family ownership, condominiums and renting. The corporation is membership- based, with membership granted by way of a share purchase in the cooperative. Each shareholder in the legal entity is granted the right to occupy one housing unit. Stardust Movie Watch Online there. A primary advantage of the housing cooperative is the pooling of the members’ resources so that their buying power is leveraged, thus lowering the cost per member in all the services and products associated with home ownership. Another key element is that the members, through their elected representatives, screen and select who may live in the cooperative, unlike any other form of home ownership. The project was built along the Hutchinson River on what was known as Pinckney’s Meadows in the colonial era.

It remained mostly empty in the 1. Centuries, but it burst forth briefly in the early 1. Freedomland, a frontier- themed amusement park that ultimately was a financial failure. Co- Op City was built shortly after its demise. Belden House, Belden Street. CITY ISLANDFrom the Forgotten.