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I am glad you got the postcard. I generally do not buy Bronx Postcards anymore, since I donated my 6,600 different postcards to the Huntington Free Library. A little more about the image. Berenice Abbott
OUTER BOROUGHS: Country Store: Interior, “Ye Olde Country Store”, 2553 Sage Place, Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx, NY, October 11, 1935
Silver gelatin print. Vintage
10 x 8 inches
Image: 9 1/2 x 7 9/16 inches
Paper: 9 15/16 x 8 inches
Titled, and dated with annotations in pencil, and Federal Arts Project ‘Changing New York’ photographs by Berenice Abbott stamp verso. The name “Sage Place” came from the Warren B. Sage estate. His mansion became the Edgehill Inn, which was near Fort #2
Francis H. Leggett & Company , a wholly – owned subsidiary of Seeman Brothers , Inc. , a New York corporation ( hereinafter called Seeman ) . Seeman and said subsidiary share an office at 40 West 225th … The directors of Seeman Brothers, Inc., and of the Seabrook Farms Company have approved an agreement providing for the merger of Seabrook into Seeman – NY Times 8/30/1960
Back at you. ( ps The Unions of Morrisania, Bronx NY were 1867 World Champions )
September 27, 1914
Civil war between Manhattan and Brooklyn is impending as a consequence of the baseball game played yesterday afternoon at Hedley Field, at the 242d Street end of the Subway, between the Car Shops team, champions of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company’s League, and a picked team from the league of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company.
The Russians expected to spy on the US and the various UN embassies from this elevated location in Riverdale. What the Russians did not realize is that the FBI setup in an apartment at Skyview apartments on west 259th & Arlington Ave for a direct line to the Russian Mission to spy on them !
This map from 1896 may help –Plate 279 ( Bronx, V. 12, Plate No. 279 [Map bounded by Broadway, W., 236th St., Fieldston Rd.] )
Specifically –
Nick, I also think that the disappearance of the structures next to the Van Cortlandt Mansion is extremely important evidence. I wish we could identify many more of the local owners during 1776
This map shows a few houses along the Old Boston Post Road, below Fort Independence, Leading down Kingsbridge Terrance to
Albany Crescent.This is an other map that has the Forts. ( #4 is placed at Sedwick Ave and Reservoir Ave with a Plaque)
of Sage Place 1927
