I just transcribed and uploaded another of J.B. James recollections of old Riverdale, Kingsbridge, and Spuyten Duyvil. I included a bunch of great photos too. It has some interesting stuff about how horrible the trains were to ride in the early days. It also contains a lot of info on the colonial-era houses of the neighborhood (a few of which I referred to in this thread). It is amazing how many of them survived the Revolution only to be torn down in the 20th century. There is also a interesting nugget of information at the very end concerning a burial ground for enslaved people in Van Cortlandt Park. According to James, “a great number of skeletons of former slaves of the Estate were unearthed.” This is the first time I have ever read an attempt to describe the number of skeletons that were exhumed when the railroad was built.