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Since I am now a board member of the St. Augustine Jazz Society & Kingsbridge Historical Society this is a great find. I recently enjoyed a film documentary about Bill Evans, a composer and jazz pianist (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980). He recorded many records with Miles Davis and Tony Bennett . It was a 90 min film and well documented. Maybe the best part was when I viewed a high rise along Riverdale Ave where he lived for a few years with Ellaine Schultz. This relationship ended tragically for her, after his breakup and he moved to NJ
6/1/63 it was raised to .50
March 1 1982 60 cents to $1 on the Henry Hudson Bridge
August 6, 2023, drivers pay $8.25 per car
John McNamara stated in his book, History in Asphalt ” that The Park, Riverdale was originally planned in 1856 as the centerpiece or an idealized neighborhood, but this never developed beyond the planning stages. In 1868, it was a small neighborhood park consisting mainly of the South End. The other areas were owned by the Delafield, Dodge, Douglas, and Perkins families, who donated the land to the New York City in the 1940s with the provision that it be kept in its natural state. In 1886, John Thomas Scharf in his ” History of Westchester County: New York, Including Kingsbridge etc. states also that in 1853, the Village of Riverdale was laid out.
A 19th century mansion was built upon the ruins of Fort. No. 3.4 In 1887, Thomas Henry Edsall wrote that “Number Three stood where Warren Bishop Sage’s house now stands, on the easterly brow of Spuyten Duyvil Hill.”5 The Sage mansion would become the Edgehill Inn. ( Georeferencing Spuyten Duyvil’s Hilltop Forts KHS )
This is a 1906 view of the Edgehill Inn located at Edgehill Avenue north of West 227th Street in Spuyten Duyvil. The former Sage Mansion was constructed before the Civil War and became a well-known inn and wedding banquet hall. In 1912, suites with a private bath were available for $12 per week. The inn closed in December 1952.
I do not know when that building became Paulian Hall, but it was a pool hall downstairs and I was in a Bowling League upstairs from about 1969 – 1974.
