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<p style=”text-align: center;”>Agreed most likely Fieldston. Has a two car garage. Most likely a side view.</p>
I will have to get my postcard image out of storage this weekend titled Indian Players in “Hiawatha” at Fieldston…but attached is a NY Times notice
I have to be honest…..I was this coming right from the first article of the name Knickerbocker…But, I did enjoy how the marketing strategy was unfolding…wondering what the current reader thought about when reading the notices.
These first person account are always informative and enjoyable,,,I am always glad someone recored or wrote it down for us to enjoy
Tom Casey
Very interesting piece of history. If they only had this equipment at the turn of the last century. At least 100 years from now, Bronxites will have something special.
Dear Alan,
Thank you for posting these wonderful images of Riverdale/Spuyten Duyvil. They really show what life was like just a short time ago in the NW Bronx.
Tom Casey
<p style=”text-align: right;”>I think it looks like the start of construction for an over pass for the Henry Hudson Parkway which would radically change and impact the Riverdale community during construction and years to come. I guess it was a response to Robert Moses gift to Riverdale, starting around the Christmas Season</p>
<p style=”text-align: right;”>F</p>Nick,
My memory is shot but I do remember someone who owned this Pharmacy had a child who became famous, Maybe as a radio or tv announcer ?
Isaac Gale Johnson’s five sons — Isaac Mattison, Isaac Bradley, Gilbert Henry, Arthur Gale and James Wagner — entered the business in their youth after the plant was opened. These sons were to be known by their initials — I.B., I.M., and so on. In spite of the differences in age, all of the brothers got along harmoniously. They lived near each other on Spuyten Duyvil Hill. His spouse was Jane Eliza Bradley Johnson, BIRTH 22 Jul 1832 Sunderland, Bennington County, Vermont, Died 7 May 1906 (aged 73)Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx County, New York. It would appear that the steps were named for their mother’s maiden name “Bradley”
Nick,
Not to be picky, but the Macombs dam bridge crossed over to Manhattan in 1814 in 1861 it was replaced by a wooden swing bridge called the Central Bridge
Nick,
This has got to be the best scholarly research I have ever read about the Bronx. I have always been focused on the Mosholu Parkway South section from Gun Hill to Webster Avenue. I knew that the road was called Middle Brook Road, since the stream that was there , know as the Mill Brook, was often called Middle Brook. Since the Boston Post Road crossed this stream at Van Cortlandt East, I just assumed the Indian name of the Mill Brook was “Mosholu”. I was not aware that Tibbetts Brook was called “Mosholu” at any time, since George Tibbetts acquired his property in 1668. Just thought “Tibbetts Brook” was the original name. I believe you have it correct, 100 %.
Now I can not wait for Kappock Street and Katonah Avenue!
After further review…….it looks like a Bronx reception. From this old map, the building is in the Bronx
PS – I also like the view of the former Roman Catholic Orphanage which later became the Veterans Hospital off in the distance.
3893 Waldo Avenue – Designed by Kutnicki Bernstein Architects, is located in the Riverdale section of The Bronx at 3893 Waldo Avenue. The structure will rise five stories above ground and measure 41,177 square feet with 29 rental units. A small portion of the property will support unspecified community facility space.The building features a simple red brick façade that is set above light-colored masonry at the ground floor.
<p style=”text-align: center;”>According to John McNamara in his great work, “History in Asphalt”, Bradley Terrace received it’s name in 1927. The NYC engineering department had no information why that name was given.</p>
Peter is correct about the Arrowhead inn. From my Book “Northwest Bronx” Thomas X. Casey and Bill Twomey
Ben Riley’s Arrowhead Inn was built on a 17-acre site and opened in April 1924 at 246th Street
and Riverdale Avenue. It was designed by Dwight J. Baum. Ben Riley’s establishment closed in
1941 and was transformed for services by Rabbi Charles E. Shulman of the Riverdale Temple
from 1947 to October 1952. The Briar Oak housing complex was then built on the site, and a
new Riverdale Temple was dedicated on September 17, 1954. see my postcard image ( there are about 16 )
The Dwight James Baum Papers,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries does not have a file on the Riverdale Monument.My old friend Bill Twomey of the Bronx did an article on Baum that was recently republished
