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Glad you found this movie that mentioned the Spuyten Duyvil Station. Historical and very entertaining.
These maps show the only group of houses that match the three under the el, just South of W.236th St. In 1915
Those houses were under the El on the Westside of Broadway. It had to be South of W242nd and North of W23oth.
The El breaks away from Broadway just after W218th and few old houses north to W230th
Too Bad the camera was not rolling in 1783
on November 16, 1783, General George Washington and Governor of New York George Clinton reclaimed Fort Washington on the northwest corner of Manhattan Island and then led the Continental Army in a triumphal procession march down the road through the center of the island onto Broadway in the Town to the Battery.[25] The evening of Evacuation Day, Clinton hosted a public dinner at Fraunces Tavern, which Washington attended. It concluded with thirteen toasts, according to a contemporary account in Rivington’s Gazette,
The west Side Lawn club is shown on the map previously sent.
The Large image of the Tennis Club is clearly near the end stop of the train station at W. 242nd street.
The Photo may have come from a parks dept annual
Not to add to the confusion, but here is a photograph from 1911 at a tennis match of the West Side Lawn Tennis Club.
Plus an other view of the Tennis House at Van Cortlandt Park in 1905
I wonder how the Author, Mary E. Kane’s in “Yesterday in Riverdale and Spuyten Duyvil” knew of this story. The only similar link I could find was a Bronx woman with the same name was divorced from Julius Miert on Oct 30th 1914
The Stockbridge Indians had been scouting the area for some time. Back in the previous month, the Stockbridge brigade surprised Lt. Emmerick and almost captured him . The report of this action embarrassed the British and resulted in the Simco plan to Amish the Stockbridge Indians.
The 1850 mural of Dyckman- Inwood came from a 1990’s flyer from a local bank. I do not have the flyer anymore.
If you explore the woods to the East of the Aqueduct trail, you are still able to find a few springs emptying onto the Mosholu cut-through, the golf course or down a drain.
An interesting story from recent Riverdale history. I wonder if anyone has a photograph
of the restaurant.
Aug 02, 1972 Argent / Flash / Blue Oyster Cult
Jul 13, 1972 The Allman Brothers Band / Captain Beyond
Aug 06, 1971 Ten Years After / edgar winters white trash / Looking Glass
I only recall Jefferson Airplane & Hot Tuna
Dear Cogginss,
Things get done in NYC when a Councilman puts a bill on the desk of the Mayor. Nobody I am aware of did the same for U Thant. However, I wonder if there is a plaque on the building that he lived in in Riverdale. If not, you should petition or fund raise to get it done. I will give $50
When Raoul Wallenberg Park was recommended, interest in U Thant Park was left on the drawing boards until U Thant Island in Manhattan. The State of New York and dedicated the island on September 16, 1977
Info from Wikipedia :In the 1870s, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted envisioned a greenbelt across the Bronx, consisting of parks and parkways that would align with existing geography. However, in 1877, the city declined to act upon his plan. Around the same time, New York Herald editor John Mullaly pushed for the creation of parks in New York City, particularly lauding the Van Cortlandt and Pell families’ properties in the western and eastern Bronx respectively. He formed the New York Park Association in November 1881. There were objections to the system, which would apparently be too far from Manhattan, in addition to precluding development on the parks’ sites. However, newspapers and prominent lobbyists, who supported such a park system, were able to petition the bill into the New York State Senate, and later, the New York State Assembly (the legislature’s lower house). It appears the parkways out of Manhattan and in the Parks of the Bronx have there design based on Olmsted’s work. I am sure there were some issues with condemnation of private & public property. The public opposition came from the building of the The Henry Hudson Bridge. After that, the Henry Hudson Parkway & Mosholu Parkway connecting to the Saw Mill had much less controversy. The Major Deegan caused a “Major” split in Van Cortlandt Park getting traffic out from the Triborough Bridge and too the George Washington. Like the Cross Bronx Expressway, most wished they were tunneled through the Bronx, at least through the Park.
Bronxologist asks … Spuyten Duyvil Parkway, was it originally a scenic avenue to a park, comparable to Olmsted and Vaux’s Ocean Parkway and Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn? Since Olmsted and Vaux designed many or all of the sweeping roads in Riverdale, against City Hall that wanted the Grid System in the Bronx, it is a small miracle that so many of their street designs are still with us.
