[John Tierney]

Great post, Peter! Fascinating history. Thanks for brightening the Christmas season!

[John Tierney]

Thanks to all! My son, Luke (who did volunteer work for KHS when he was in high school), lived in the Villa Rosa Bonheur from 2014 until it was sold. We loved it — we had a duplex, so that my son had the second floor to himself. It was in pretty bad shape at the end — the last winter, when most of the other tenants had moved out, the oil furnace was leaking so many fumes (through a patchwork of duct tape on the furnace’s seams) that we told the new owner to shut it down and buy us electric heaters. The new owner directed us to a web site with detailed floor plans for renovating the building, but they were odd — the plans gave our apartment an extra balcony leaving the bigger apartment next door without a balcony, which didn’t seem to make any sense (and the owner didn’t really seem to know what was in the plans). Then, of course, they just tore down the building anyway. I was sorry to see it go, but I’m glad that so many people get to enjoy the views (and the two-minute walk to the train platform) the new building, the Henry.

[John Tierney]

Thank you, Zach, Peter and Nick! Great to see what it used to look like at 231st Street.  I’m a railroad buff myself, but I have to say I’m glad the Old Put is now a path instead of a railroad in the park, and I hope they do bring back the creek.

[John Tierney]

Thanks for that history! Was the train station for the Old Putnam Railroad?

[John Tierney]

Fascinating material! Thanks for sharing it.

[John Tierney]

Thanks for that discovery, Peter and Nick. I wonder if CongressBridge was just too much of a mouthful. Spuytenbridge would have been a little better, but Kingsbridge is a lot easier. And I’m with you on the Triboro and the Tappan Zee!

[John Tierney]

Fascinating history. Thanks, Nick! o that’s how Kingsbridge became an official name. I’m sorry to see “Spuyten Duyvil” disappear from the road’s name, but as Bronxologist notes, I guess it didn’t really lead to Spuyten Duyvil anymore.

[John Tierney]

Great find! And what a lovely illustration of the foundry. Didn’t realize the railroad used to have water on both sides of it at Spuyten Duyvil.

[John Tierney]

Thanks, Nick. Good to know that my Irish kinsmen were growing their potatoes along with all those crops — and had plenty of milk. And I had no idea that Boss Tweed had a farm up there — including what is now Tibbetts Brook Park, I gather.

[John Tierney]

Fascinating, Nick. I see that the Albany Post Road is parallel to Broadway in this map. Did it generally go along the route of Broadway up through Yonkers and Westchester?

[John Tierney]

Fascinating! Thanks, Nick!

[John Tierney]

That’s a lot of work for $10.50. Although I guess it was a lot more  back then. Thanks for the post!

[John Tierney]

Great article, Nick. Thanks! So this house stood near the baseball field in the lower half of Henry Hudson Park, where there’s now a utility shed?

[John Tierney]

Great post, Nick! Thank you! I had no idea there used to be a causeway in front of my old home at the Villa Rosa Bonheur. I gather they filled in the shoreline out to the tracks at some point — and that’s why we have a park there now.

 

 

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