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(Top) BronxNet studios at BronxNet trainer/production manager Michael Leon instructs students. (Above left, l-r) Kathy Bines, Keena Laster, and Brianna Bines in the BronxNet Journalists & Educators Magnet Workshop. (Above right) BronxNet hurricane relief updates from Puerto Rico: producer/reporter Yeila Lluberes interviews actor/producer Lin Manuel Miranda. See story of page 7. Photos by Michael Palma MVP ROOKIE

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6. Business Improvement Districts he staff of the Bronx Times hopes you enjoy its latest 7. History of BronxNet popular, end-of-year annual compilation - Bronx Stats. T In this publication you will learn information about 10. Police Precincts the borough’s movers and shakers, its institutions and the many 12. Community Boards opportunities available to Bronxites. 16. Elected Offi cials/Council Members Our lead story will focus on our borough’s public access ca- ble network that will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2018. 18. Elected Offi cials/Senators How time fl ies! 18. Elected Offi cials/Congress Members “Is everyone ready,” the master control operator inquires, 20. Elected Offi cials/Assembly Members adding “Please check video and audio.” “Mic 1and 2 are ready,” a BronxNet production manager confi rms and 15 minutes later 22. Cultural Institutions the cable station, with studios at Lehman and Mercy colleges, 24. Geography is ready to broadcast another live show. 26. Bronx County Historical Society Since its inception in 1993, BronxNet has been offering a variety of media services to Bronx residents, addressing public 26. Bronx Arts Enxemble affairs and arts programming that keeps viewers in touch with 28. Post Offi ces/Postal Providers the issues and decision makers, hands-on internships for high 30. Cemeteries school and college students, and television training for those 32. Parks, Playgrounds and Park Facilities with access to the studios, equipment, and broadcast channels after completing training. 36. Greenstreets, Gardens and Strips BronxNet’s signature programs, Dialogo Abierto and Bronx 38. Step Streets Buzz help students identify career possibilities by serving as 40. Hospitals a training ground for the students who get to work alongside professional hosts and program producers. 41. Large Housing Developments In addition to broadcast channels, the BronxNet website 42. Made in the Bronx serves the Bronx and the world with Bronx-centric streaming 46. Universities and Colleges and archived content. Bronx Stats 2017 places all this information at your fi nger- 48. tips. Use it to discover the enormous wealth of opportunities 50. Major Bridges the Bronx has to offer. 50. Firehouses We hope you enjoy this year’s edition of Bronx Stats. If you have any information or wish to comment on the in- 54. Catholic and Private High Schools formation contained herein, please e-mail bronxtimes@aol. 56. Famed Bronx Sculptures com. 58. BronxNet/Media Center 60. Senior Centers 62. Shopping Centers 64. Yough Athletic Programs 66. Passenger Railroad Lines 67. Subway Lines 68. Family Programs CEO...... Les Goodstein 70 Bronx Infl uential Women President and Publisher...... Jennifer Goodstein 71. Walk of Fame Bronx Times Reporter Publisher ...... Laura Guerriero 72. Golf Courses Editor...... John Collazzi 74. Major Landmarks Production...... Mauro DeLuca 75. Bronx Landmarks Account Reps...... Lenny Vigliotti, Donna Marzi 76. Footprints

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BTR BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29, 2017 5 BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS

WHITE PLAINS ROAD ervation Corporation since 1996, and the commer- sanitation through increased trash some of ’s immortals. The Department of Small Busi- the Jerome-Gun Hill Business Im- cial areas on select side streets, receptacles and street sweepers; Belmont: The district is located ness Services defi nes a Business provement District gives support to was established in December security with the proposed instal- in the area generally known as Improvement District as “a formal over 200 businesses along Jerome 2004. The BID is responsible for lation of security cameras; beauti- Little in the Bronx. The BID organization made up of property Avenue between 300 businesses, ranging from na- fi cation through the installation and extends from East Fordham Road owners and commercial tenants and E. and E. Gun Hill tionwide chains to locally-owned replenishment of tree pits along the to East 183rd Street along Arthur who are dedicated to promoting Road between Jerome and Webster independent shops. boulevard and the power washing business development and im- avenues. 2488 , Room 413 of pedestrian walkways; and ad- BELMONT proving an area’s quality of life.” 3400 Reservoir Oval East Room 411 vocacy to its members in matters This partnership between Phone Number: (718) 324-4946 Phone Number: (718) 562-2104 related to the Department of Build- property owners and their ten- Fax: 718-324-4946 BID Hotline: (718) 562-1269 ings, NYPD, Department of Small ants pays the city a yearly tax as- Email: jcorbett@montefi ore.org Fax: (718) 562-6225 Business Services, Department sessment, every last bit of which Web:http://jeromegunhillbid.org Email: fordhamroadbid@optimum. of Transportation, Environmental is returned to better the BID Services:The Jerome-E. Gun Hill net Control Board, and other local gov- through supplemental services, Road BID provides additional sani- Web: www.fordhamroadbid.org ernment entities.. including sanitation and mainte- tation services to keep the local Services: Led by executive direc- Established on April 28, 2005, the nance, public safety, marketing streets clean and attractive. The BID tor Wilma Alonso, the Fordham BID faced immediate and promotional programs, capi- also organizes the Annual Jerome BID enjoys the borough’s larg- struggles as its leadership faltered tal improvements, and beautifi - Gun Hill BID festival, which attracts est budget with money going and property owners waffl ed, but cation. JOE THOMPSON residents for all over the borough. In toward seven-day sanitation and with the excitement of the new The Bronx has nine Business addition, the organization removes new trash cans, graffi ti removal, Improvement Districts with bud- The BID was established in May 1994 by then-executive director graffi ti from fi re hydrants, parking merchant-city mediation, and a 161ST STREET gets ranging from $110,000 to meters and street signs, as well as renaissance festival that lured $500,000 Larry Prospect, as a not-for-profi t community economic develop- commercial buildings and roll-down more than 15,000 people to Ford- HUB–3RD AVENUE ment organization with a mission gates along the BIG. The organiza- ham Road. The BID’s Streetscape to maintain and enhance business tion also provides seasonal street Master Plan provides an in-depth conditions in a four-block area of banners and trash receptacles. Dur- analysis on the current conditions the Bronx with over 100 stores. The ing the holiday season, it illuminates of Fordham Road’s streetscape, area extends from Bolton Street the BID with festive lights. Moreover, highlighting both the assets and east along South the BID gets the word out about its obstacles, while providing a co- PHIL MARINO to and south for businesses via the annual store and hesive array of short and long- three blocks to Brady Avenue. After local attractions guide. term streetscape improvement the passing of its founder, Joseph After more than fi ve years in the projects. In addition, a renovation Avenue and also includes East Thompson has taken over the reins of Bryan Park (at the intersection Fordham Rd. and E. 187th Street as executive director of the BID, an KINGSBRIDGE of East Fordham and East Kings- from Lorillard Place to South- act made offi cial through a vote by bridge Roads) is expected to bring ern Boulevard. The district is the organization’s general board. color and beauty to the commu- comprised of 352 businesses in 2300 Olinville Avenue nity. The BID beautifi cation effort more than 260 properties, most Phone/Fax: (718) 881-3086 has also included the installation of which are mixed-use buildings Email:wprbid@pelhamparkway. of historic “M” pole street lights consisting of commercial use on along Fordham Road. A BID ad- the ground fl oor and residential com DR. CARY GOODMAN Web: www.pelhamparkway.com vantage program also provides units above. MICHAEL BRADY Services: The BID provides a street store discounts for Fordham Uni- 2369 versity students, faculty and staff. Yankee Stadium and 161st Street Phone Number: (718) 294-8259 The Business Im- cleaner who sweeps the side- rezone, the BID was launched in walks and the curbs and empties Other services include a holiday Web: www.bronxlittleitaly.com provement District (BID), es- tree lighting, a neighborhood July 2009 with Dr. Cary Goodman tablished in 1988, promotes the the waste baskets several days a at the helm. The reincarnated week to rid the community of litter. hotline, promotions and a shop- growth, vitality and visibility of per’s guide. BID is located in the Concourse WESTCHESTER the Bronx’s most traffi cked com- The BID also contracts with a graf- Village section and extends along fi ti removal fi rm to remove unsightly The Business Improvement District SQUARE mercial corridor. The organization KATHERINE BROIHIER serves 134 businesses within the 161st Street and is generally is the Bronx’s oldest business graffi ti when needed. A new plan bounded by River Avenue on the aims to clean several of the awnings boundaries of 163rd Street and improvement district and serves planning, the Kingsbridge Business 167th Street on Southern Boulevard west and Morris Avenue on the over 200,000 individuals daily. that have picked up dirt over the east. The BID includes the newly years. Plans also call to improve the Improvement District fi nally opened The BID’s purpose is to keep its doors in November 2001, serving SOUTHERN constructed Yankee Stadium and one of NYC’s most traffi cked fi re safety of the strip’s dozens of could include new high-rises, businesses. The BID is also working 200 merchants along and shopping districts clean, safe, W. 231st St. BOULEVARD professional offi ces and a hotel and attractive to businesses, on plans to root out panhandling and after a recent rezoning of the area street vendors. The BID will continue 3109 Kingsbridge Ave, 2nd Fl workers, community residents, Phone 718-432-6935 by the City Council. and visitors while leading a to expand its presence by advertis- 900 Grand Concourse ing in various newspapers and on Fax 718-432-6937 mission-driven campaign to de- E-mail: katherine.broihier@gmail. Ground Floor mand equity for the . television. The BID has branded its Phone Number: (718) 590-5433 image with banners displaying its com Organizational programs include Web: http://kingsbridgebidnyc.org Email: [email protected] economic development, real es- logo on banners, matching garbage Web: http://161bid.org pails and street cleaner uniforms. Services: Shopping Map, yearly tate advisory and retail services, calendars, street banners, sidewalk Services: The 161st Street BID sanitation and security depart- Street fairs are also expected to was actively taking part in the boost the area’s businesses. During benches, holiday lighting and land- ments that augment the city’s scaping. Street sanitation is provided rezoning efforts around Yankee LISA SORIN own services, small business de- the holidays, the BID lights up the Stadium to help transform the community and welcomes Santa every day by three workmen. Graffi ti velopment services, streetscape removal is done monthly. area into a sensible neighbor- Services: renovated the Owen and open space improvements, Claus for the boys and girls. hood for young professionals Dolen Recreation Center, which Managed by the Mosholu Pres- The BID, which extends from Third horticulture installations, robust Avenue to along with appropriate businesses. A serve as a centerpiece of the public programming, event plan- Youth Ambassadors program BID’s efforts to spur the econom- ning, and visitor services. JEROME- FORDHAM ROAD was also introduced to provide ic engine of the shopping district The catchment area includes E. GUN HILL ROAD high school age youth with ex- by having weekend events fea- over 200 businesses, expected to posure to international issues, turing performing arts and mu- grow to 900 businesses by 2019, personalities and perspectives. sic. Greenstreets have also been Roberto Clemente Plaza, Triangle MARQUES PAYNE Other enhancements planned for installed as part of a beautifi ca- Equity Plaza, the HUB Transporta- the area include: improved light- tion effort. The Westchester tion Center, Lincoln Hospital, Met- and between ing, sanitation, security, facades Square BID provides sanitation, ropolitan College of New York, and Fox and Hoe Streets. and storefronts, green spaces, uniformed street cleaners, snow several arts and cultural institu- 1029 E. 163rd Street streetscapes and parking. Tak- removal, security cameras, mar- tions. The Third Avenue Business Suite 201 ing advantage of its proximity to keting and promotion for the Improvement District also admin- Phone Number: (718) 974-2990 Yankee Stadium, the organiza- area, along with special events isters merchant organizations in Fax: (347) 584-2068 tion also sponsors events around aimed at attracting guests to the Port Morris along Bruckner Boule- Email: [email protected] Yankee Cap giveaways and even shopping corridor. vard to 138th Street. Web: http://www.southernblvdbid. a Jeter Meter that allowed fans to 25 Westchester Square 384 E. 149 Stree, Suite 400t org/ send messages of good luck and Phone Number: (718) 597-4629 Phone Number: (718) 665-3983 Services: Advertising through televi- best wishes to the Yankee captain Web: http://wsbid.org Email: [email protected] WILMA ALONSO sion, print ads, handbills, and more; as he approaches the hit totals of Email: [email protected] Web: www.shopthehub.com JENNIFER TAUSIG 6 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29, 2017 BTR HISTORY OF BronxNet nears 25th year of informing the borough

Gary Axelbank (l) interviewed Diaz for an exciting edition of ‘BronxTalk’. Photo courtesy of Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr.’s Offi ce

On a recent Monday man Sambo spoke into tow n at t he Bron x Net st u- Michael Leon answered swered Rahman. cussion on the pipe bomb at BronxNet’s Network the intercom system. dio at Mercy College in back: “Mic one and mic Connecting from the terror attack that hap- Operations facility at Le- “Is everyone ready,” he the , Dialogo two are good. How long west to the east Bronx, pened in the Port Au- hman College, Master inquired. “Please check Abierto Director/Bronx- do we have till show?” Producer Yeila Lluberes thority Terminal near Control Operator Rah- video and audio.” Across Net Production Manager “Fifteen minutes,” an- and the team produced that day. and broadcast a live epi- Later that same day, sode of BronxNet’s Span- in the BronxNet Net- ish language program work Operations stu- Dialogo Abierto, that in- dio at Lehman College, cluded a discussion with Bronx resident and inde- Bronx fi nancial advi- pendent access producer sor Jonathan Ortiz on Zenon Valentine worked President Trump’s pro- with his crew of fi ve to posed Taxation Reform produce his long-run- Law and a phone inter- ning, popular live call- view with the rector of in show Honduras New the Puerto Rico Music York. Conservatory regarding As the signature pro- an initiative that links gram crew at the Bronx- the Bronx with classical Net at Mercy College music and a special con- studios wrapped up, a cert to help the school number of Bronx resi- recover from Hurricane dents entered for their Maria. Immediately fol- fi nal class of an eight- lowing that production, week, hands-on Bronx- the team remained to Net television fi eld pro- produce an episode of duction certifi cation Bronx Buzz, where the workshop. originally scheduled dis- Since its inception in cussion was preempted Bronx Buzz featured Bronx Times Reporter Steven Goodstein. and replaced with a dis- Continued on next page BTR BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29, 2017 7 HISTORY OF

Host David Lesch (l) interviewed Assemblyman Benedetto for a recent edition of ‘In the District.’ Photo courtesy of BronxNet

From previous page changing content to hun- what’s happening in the communities, institu- putting out. When big of interest to all Bronx- 1993, BronxNet has been dreds of thousands over nation’s capitol, Federal tions, leaders and re- things happen, like the ites,” said Producer Yeila offering a variety of me- the years,” said Bronx- tax reform is a broad and sources in Puerto Rico hurricane in Puerto Rico Lluberes. dia services to Bronx Net Executive Director complicated subject that with people in the Bronx. or the attempted terror- BronxNet signa- residents, including sig- Michael Knobbe. will eventually have a This is ensuring that ist attack in the subway, ture programs also help nature public affairs and BronxNet signature domino effect that will both information and we try to focus on those high school and college arts programs that keep programs like OPEN, be strongly felt across much needed aid, move issues and present spe- student identify career viewers in touch with hosted on Mondays by our borough. We are quickly forward. I thank cial programs to keep possibilities and build the issues and decision Bob Lee, on Wednesdays proud to provide Bronx- BronxNet for producing Bronxites on the cutting careers by serving as makers, hands-on in- by Daren Jaime and Fri- Net viewers with the segments that assist our edge of information,” training grounds for the ternships for high school days by Rhina Valentin, facts, with an analysis of beloved music school. shared Bronx Buzz and students who work in- and college students, along with signature how decisions affect our In this time of need, we BronxTalk Host Gary tensively with the pro- and television produc- programs Bronx Buzz communities at the hy- thank BronxNet for get- Axelbank. fessional hosts and pro- tion training for Bronx hosted by Ga r y A xelba n k per-local level,” said Dia- ting the word out in the “Producing shows ducer of the programs residents with access to and Dialogo Abierto logo Abierto Host Javier borough that has one of such as a Dialogo Abi- to produce the nearly studios, equipment and hosted by Javier Gomez, Gomez. the largest populations erto and Bronx Buzz at one dozen programs for broadcast channels after have demonstrated im- Dialogo Abierto guest of Puerto Ricans outside BronxNet, gives us an weekly broadcast. training. pact on the people of the Pedro I. Segarra, Rector of Puerto Rico.” opportunity to reach out Justin Rodriguez “We are proud that Bronx and the organiza- of the Puerto Rico Mu- “Each week the Bronx to the community with represents one of many we have been able to pro- tions that serve them. sic Conservatory stated: Buzz presents interviews information about ser- BronxNet trained in- vide media production “BronxNet’s Dialogo “During the Hurricane with Bronx journalists vices, resources, arts terns who launched suc- instruction and tools to Abierto is at the fore- Maria crisis, BronxNet and news photographers events and the latest cessful media careers thousands of Bronxites front of keeping Bronx- has served as a strong who share the inside news. Both shows are de- through BronxNet. Af- and informative, life- ites informed about platform, connecting story on what they’re signed to include content ter beginning his intern- 8 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29, 2017 BTR HISTORY OF

ship as a high school student, Justin duce and broadcast their content, they quickly rose through the ranks to be- have the opportunity to participate in come Production Coordinator. Before specialized workshops to help them departing BronxNet in November 2017 build their skills and enhance their in- to work at a mainstream production dependent programs. One such work- company, Justin shared his views on shop was a recent lighting workshop BronxNet. “BronxNet has given me taught by noted commercial director/ the opportunity to learn, grow, and cinematographer Damien Michael reach for my goals in broadcast jour- Drake. nalism and life. Thanks to the hands- “I am a sports broadcaster, who on experience I gained at BronxNet, I stumbled on Bronxnet, and it has been was able to obtain my new position at a blessing ever since. The classes are a noted production company, where I amazing. Two things out of many will produce video segments for major that I appreciate are the hands-on na- league sports. BronxNet has made this ture of the training, and the fact that and so much more possible,” he stated. the teachers are very detailed when it Hands-on production training comes to explaining everything you which prepare participants to become need to know about operating cameras independent access producers is avail- and producing your show. They really able to all Bronx residents age eighteen want to see you succeed and that in and over. After completing a fi eld or itself is rewarding,” said Tajay Ash- studio-based certifi cation workshop, meade, a recent graduate of a Bronx- participants are given certifi ed access Net fi eld production class and current producer status, an entryway to utiliz- participant in the BronxNet Journal- ing BronxNet cameras, studios, graph- ists and Educators Magnet Workshop, ics generators, editing systems and a special class designed to generate more, to create regularly broadcast in- content from professional journalists dependent programs of their choice. and educators. Access producer Zenon Valentine Similarly, an Artists Magnet Work- commented, “BronxNet has helped me shop attracts content from professional and my entire Centro America com- artists to the channels. Poet Mariposa munity. Thanks to the station, I have Fernandez who is producing her inde- become a TV producer. For twenty two pendent program Downstream Bou- years, BronxNet has been helping me levard after completing the Artists to share Garifuna culture, language, Magnet Workshop and the lighting and issues with New Yorkers. I thank class commented: “The Artists Mag- you on behalf of my Honduran and net Workshop gave me the basic tools Central American community.” I need to produce my program in the As certifi ed access producers pro- studio and fi eld. I was also fortunate to participate in lighting workshops with Damien Michael Drake, a professional commercial director/cinematographer BronxNet’s and Clint Byrne, a professional light- ing designer. The workshop opened State-Of-The-Art my eyes about how lighting changes can create special moods. This special Production Resources class gave me a boost in confi dence as I took video equipment out to shoot BronxNet provides state-of-the- scenes the following week. “ In addition to broadcast chan- art media facilities for the bor- nels, the BronxNet website serves the ough. Professional media produc- Bronx and the world with Bronx-cen- tric streaming and archived content. tion tools and related training are A revamped website and increased so- available at your BronxNet stu- cial media provide further ways that dios at our Network Operations BronxNet facilitates media communi- Poet Mariposa Fernandez is producing Downstream Boulevard. cation. at Lehman College and BronxNet “BronxNet is continually working East at Mercy College… to help Bronxites share their voices broadcasting four hours per day of Bronxites have been served with pro- and highlight our great borough content on four channels, to twenty- duction training, internships, produc- • Digital cameras through Bronx media that works for four hours per day on twelve channels tion equipment access and broadcast- • Switchers the people of the Bronx and beyond,” on the Optimum and Verizon Fios sys- ing services at our existing locations said Executive Director Michael Max tems. Equipment has been continually and many more will be served at the • Audio boards Knobbe. upgraded, keeping pace with technol- new upcoming studios. Planned ren- • Character generators The BronxNet board of directors, ogy, and BronxNet has expanded geo- ovations at our Network Operations • Three-point lighting kits working with staff, the borough’s lead- graphically with an east Bronx facility facility at Lehman College, made pos- ers and a host of supporters, has helped developed at Mercy College in 2015, as sible by Bronx Borough President Ru- • Skype BronxNet to grow at an amazing pace a satellite to our original Network Op- ben Diaz Jr., Depart- • Final Cut editing since the media center’s inception and erations site at Lehman College. In the ment of Cultural Affairs and the New on-air debut in 1993. Under the leader- near future, BronxNet services will York City Council will further en- • And More ship of Chairman of the Board Paul also be available at a brand new loca- hance BronxNet’s community media T. Gentile, BronxNet has gone from tion in the south Bronx. Thousands of offerings. BTR BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29, 2017 9 POLICE PRECINCTS

40TH PRECINCT Contact Information: 2794 Randall Avenue Deputy Inspector: Brian C. Hennessy Precinct: (718) 590-5511 Contact Information: 257 Alexander Avenue Community Affairs: (718) 590-5524 Phone Number: (718) 409-1505 Contact Numbers: Crime Prevention: (718) 590-5568 Community Affairs: (718) 409-5743 Precinct: (718) 402-2270 Domestic Violence: (718) 590-5565 Crime Prevention: (718) 409-1505 Community Affairs: (718) 402-3362 Youth Offi cer: (718) 590-5526 Domestic Violence: (718) 409-1708 Crime Prevention: (718) 402-3036 Auxiliary Coordinator: (718) 590-5560 Youth Offi cer: (718) 409-6215 Domestic Violence: (718) 402-3802 Detective Squad: (718) 590-5537 Auxiliary Coordinator: (718) 409-3801 Youth Offi cer: (718) 402-2050 Community Council: Jurisdiction: Auxiliary Coordinator: (718) 402-3035 President: Betty Crawford The PSA8 patrols the New York City Detective Squad: (718) 402-2555 Meetings: Every second Wednesday of Housinng Developments in the confi nes Community Council: the month at 1072 Grand Concourse at of the 43rd and 45th New York City Police President: Gabriel DeJesus 7:00 p.m. Precincts. Meetings: The fi rst Wednesday of each 45TH PRECINCT Community Council: month at Lincoln Hospital at 6:30 p.m. Captain: Carlos Ghonz President: Loretta Masterson 41ST PRECINCT 2877 Barkley Avenue Meetings:The Council meets on the 2nd Captain: Louis M. Deceglie Contact Information: Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m. 1035 Longwood Avenue Precinct: (718) 822-5411 Contact Information: Community Affairs: (718) 822-5449 TRANSIT BUREAU - DISTRICT 11 Precinct: (718) 542-4771 Crime Prevention: (718) 822-5487 Deputy Inspector: Zaheer Azeez Community Affairs: (718) 542-7964 Domestic Violence: (718) 822-5294 161st Street Station & River Avenue Community Policing: (718) 542-4435 Youth Offi cer: (718) 822-5408 Contact Information: Crime Prevention: (718) 542-4798 Auxiliary Coordinator: (718) 822-5400 Phone Number: (718) 292-8311 Detective Squad: (718) 822-5414 Domestic Violence: (718) 542-7960 Jurisdiction: Youth Offi cer: (718) 542-5359 Community Council: The Woodlawn Line (No. 4 Train): 161st Auxiliary Coordinator: (718) 542-7105 President: Robert Bieder 52nd Precinct Detective Squad: (718) 542-5313/14 Street/Yankee Stadium, 167th Street, Meetings: The council meets the fi rst Domestic Violence: (718) 299-4755 House located at 3450 Kingsbridge Ave. 170th Street, Mount Eden Avenue, 176th Community Council: Thursday of every month at the 45th Youth Offi cer: (718) 299-4121 at 7 :30 PM. Street, Burnside Avenue, 183rd Street, President: Paula Fields Precinct, at 7:30 PM. Auxiliary Coordinator: (718) 299-3921 52ND PRECINCT Fordham Road, Kingsbridge Road, Bedford Meetings: Every fi rst Thursday of each 46TH PRECINCT Detective Squad: (718) 299-4119 Deputy Inspector: Peter A. Fiorillo Park Boulevard, Moshulu Parkway, Wood- month at the 41st Precinct Station House Captain: Wilson Aramboles Community Council: 3016 lawn terminal. at 6:30 p.m. 2120 Ryer Avenue President: Aida I Haddock Contact Information: The Bedford park/205th Street Line (C & D 42ND PRECINCT Contact Information: Train): 161st Street/Yankee Stadium, 167th Meetings: Every last Tuesday of each Precinct: (718) 220-5811 Street, 170th Street, 174-175th Streets, Deputy Inspector: Ernest Morales III Precinct: (718) 220-5211 month at the 48th Precinct, at 7:00 p.m. Community Affairs: (718) 220-5824 830 Washington Avenue , 182-183rd Streets, Ford- Community Affairs: (718) 220-5234 49TH PRECINCT Community Policing: (718) 220-5807 ham Road, Kingsbridge Road, Bedford Park Contact Information: Crime Prevention: (718) 220-5240 Captain: Thomas Alps Crime Prevention: (718) 220-5818 Boulevard, 205th Street terminal. Domestic Violence: (718) 220-5254 Domestic Violence: (718) 220-5857 Precinct: (718) 402-3887 2121 Eastchester Road TRANSIT BUREAU - DISTRICT 12 Community Affairs: (718) 402-5527 Youth Offi cer: (718) 220-5224 Youth Offi cer: (718) 220-5822 Auxiliary Coordinator: (718) 220-7801 Contact Information: Auxiliary Coordinator: (718) 220-5818 Deputy Inspector: Joyce Williams Crime Prevention: (718) 402-4579 460 Morris Domestic Violence: (718) 402-5301 Detective Squad: (718) 220-5216 Precinct: (718) 918-2000 Detective Squad: (718) 220-5819 Youth Offi cer: (718) 402-4580 Community Council: 3 Community Affairs: (718) 918-20322025 Community Council: Contact Information: Community Policing: (718) 918-2029 Phone Number: (718) 794-2300 Auxiliary Coordinator: (718) 402-7199 President: Basil Moore President: Brenda Caldwell-Paris Detective Squad: (718) 402-5262 Crime Prevention: (718) 918-2026 Jurisdiction: Meetings: Every third Tuesday of each Domestic Violence: (718) 918-2030 Meetings: The precinct community council Community Council: month at the 46th Precinct, at 7:00 p.m. Youth Offi cer: (718) 918-2046 meetings are held at 7 p.m., the fourth The 241st Street/Dyre Avenue Line (No. 2 & 5 Train): 149th Street/Grand Concourse, President: Carlos Ruiz 47TH PRECINCT Auxiliary Coordinator: (718) 918-0082 Thursday at 2040 W. Mosholu Parkway. Detective Squad: (718) 918-2034 3rd Avenue/149th Street, Jackson Avenue, Meetings: The Community Council meet- Deputy Inspector: Ruel Stephenson MORE POLICE NUMBERS Prospect Avenue, Intervale Avenue/163rd ings are held on the fourth Thursday of 4111 Laconia Avenue Community Council: HOUSING PSA 7 Street, Simpson Street, Freeman Street, the month in the Precinct Sitting Room at Contact Information: President: Joseph Thompson Captain: Robert Gallitelli 174th Street, East Tremont Avenue/West 7:00 p.m. Precinct: (718) 920-1211 Meetings: Precinct community council 737 Melrose Ave Farms Square, East 180th Street, Bronx 43RD PRECINCT Community Affairs: (718) 920-1202 meetings are held every last Tuesday of Contact Information: Park East, Pelham Parkway, Allerton Av- Inspector: Fausto Pichardo Community Policing: (718) 920-1204 the month at 7:30 p.m. at 1913 Bronxdale Phone Number: (718) 292-6161 enue, Burke Avenue, Gun Hill Road, 219th 900 Fteley Avenue Crime Prevention: (718) 920-1238 Avenue. Community Affairs: (718) 292-2042 Street, 225th Street, 233rd Street, 238th Street/Nereid Avenue, 241st Street ter- Contact Information: Domestic Violence: (718) 920-1205 50TH PRECINCT Complaint Room: (718) 292-1153 minal, Morris Park, Pelham Parkway, Gun Precinct: (718) 542-0888 Youth Offi cer: (718) 920-1201 Deputy Inspector: Terrence O’Toole Crime Prevention: (718) 292-2042 Hill Road, Baychester Avenue, Dyre Avenue Community Affairs: (718) 542-6325 Auxiliary Coordinator: (718) 920-1244 3450 Kingsbridge Avenue Domestic Violence: (718) 292-3909/3603 Detective Squad: (718) 920-1214/15 Youth Offi cer: (718) 402-2042 terminal. Crime Prevention: (718) 542-2350 Contact Information: Domestic Violence: (718) 542-2422 Community Council: Auxiliary Coordinator: (718) 292-7287 The Line (No. 6 Train): Precinct: (718) 543-5700 138th Street/3rd Avenue, Brook Avenue, Youth Offi cer: (718) 542-5341 President: Elizabeth Gill Jurisdiction: Community Affairs: (718) 543-5978 Cypress Avenue, East 143rd Street/St. Auxiliary Coordinator: (718) 542-5571 The PSA patrols the New York City Meetings: Meetings are scheduled for Community Policing: (718) 796-3867 Mary’s Street, East 149th Street, Longwood Detective Squad: (718) 542-5530 Housinng Developments in the confi nes of 7:30 P.M. every second Wednesday of each Crime Prevention: (718) 543-3816 Avenue, Hunts Point Avenue, Whitlock Av- Community Council: the 40th and 42nd New York City Police month at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. Domestic Violence: (718) 543-6072 enue, Elder Avenue, Morrison/Sound View Precincts. President: Aurora Carrion 48TH PRECINCT Youth Offi cer: (718) 543-5920 Avenues, St. Lawrence Avenue, East 177th Meetings: The Community Council meets Captain: Andre Mibrown Auxiliary Coordinator: (718) 543-7341 Community Council: Street/Parkchester, Castle Hill Avenue, the fi rst Wednesday every month at the 450 Detective Squad: (718) 543-6121 President: Barbara Holmes Westchester Square/East Tremont Avenue, Middletown Road, Buhre Avenue, Pelham 43rd Precinct Station House at 7:00 p.m. Contact Information: Community Council: Meetings:The Council meets on the 2nd Bay Park terminal. 44TH PRECINCT Precinct: (718) 299-3900 President: Paulette Schomo Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. Deuty Inspector: Martine Materasso Community Affairs: (718) 299-4522 Meetings: Held every second Thursday of HOUSING PSA 8 2 East 169th Street Crime Prevention: (718) 299-4522 every month at the 50th Precinct Station Captain: Julie Morrill

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COMMUNITY BOARD 1 COMMUNITY BOARD 2

Chair: Chair: George Rodriguez Roberto Crespo District Manager: District Manager: Cedric Loftin Ralph Acevedo 3024 Third Avenue Address: 1029 E. 163rd Street, Phone: (718) 585-7117 Suite 202 Fax: (718) 292-0558 Phone: (718) 328-9125/6 [email protected] Fax: (718) 991-4974 Website: www.bronxcb2.org Boundaries: North: Boundaries: North: East 169th 145th Street Bridge, East 149th Street, East 167th Street, St, Park Ave, East 159th Street, Westchester Ave. Third Avenue, East 161st St. East: East: Prospect Avenue, East South: (includes 149th Street, East River North Brother , Brother South: East ) West: West: East 149th Street, Pros- Neighborhoods: pect Avenue Mott Haven, Port Morris, Mel- Neighborhoods: rose Hunts Point, Longwood, Mor- Population (According to the risania 2010 Census): 82,159 Population (According to the Board Meeting: Last Thursday 2010 Census): 46,824 of the month, 6:00pm Board Meeting: Members: George Rodriguez, Clarisa Alayeto, George Alvarez, Ngande Ambroise, Maria Garcia Baltazar, Last Wednesday of the month, Daniel Barber, Stevin Benedith, Carol Boddie, Betty Bryant-Brown, Passyna Bula-Bula, Josephine Fernandez 6:00pm Byrne, Carolyn Chamorro, Maura Cosme, Linda Duke, Isabel Figueroa, Lynda Gaines, Brenda Goodwin, Lucas Members: Julia Cruz, Maria Torres, Paula Fields-Conyers, Larry Robinson, Peter Rosado, Marta Rivera, Luis Marrero, Henriquez, Richard Iyasere, John Johnson, John Lemon, Aracelis Lucero, Nellie McKay, Addie Marrow, Idelsa Cedric McClester, Roland Lopez, Nicholas Madio, Evelyn Arauz, Lashawn Coleman, Altagracia Cruz, John DeRiggs, Mendez, Jennifer Montano, Mohammed Mutawakil, Walter C. Nash, Arline Parks, Freddy Perez, Jr., Andreas Kevin Ellison, Sonya Ferguson, Jazmine T. Goodwin, Alexandra Guadalupe, Yvonne Guillen, Jesse C. Harris, James Rodriguez, Jr., Brenda Rodriguez, Ricardo Cosme Ruiz, Carmen Santos, Mohammed Sheikh, Alice Simmons, Hernandez, Shaquan Huntt, Barbara Lopez, Lina Lopez, Dondi McKeller, Rev. Moses Oladosu, Dr. Francis Onukwue, Sandra Stone, Nicole Taylor, Ceasar Vasquez, Tracy Alecia Woodall, Delores Waller Worrell, Hakiem A. Yahmadi, Maggie Ortiz, Felicia Portuondo, Sandra Reyes-Collazo, Israel Rodriguez, Olga Rosario, Glendalys Salgado, Richard Cesar Yoc... Sherman, Rev. John Udo-Okon, Marylean Wrotten.

COMMUNITY BOARD 3 COMMUNITY BOARD 4

Chair: Gloria S. Alston District Manager: Chair: John Dudley Kathleen Saunders Address: 1426 Boston Road District Manager: Phone: (718) 378-8054 Paul A. Philps Fax: (718) 378-8150 Address: 1650 Selwyn Avenue, [email protected] #11A Boundaries: North: Cross Bronx Phone: (718) 299-0800 Expwy., Park Ave, East 174th St., Fax: (718) 294-7870 Washington Avenue, Cross Bronx Email: [email protected] Expwy, Arthur Ave, Boundaries: North, E. 175th Street, Southern Boulevard, Cross Bronx Expwy. North: , Cross East: Sheridan Expressway Bronx Expressway South: Westchester Avenue, East: Webster Avenue, Park Av- East 167th Street, East 169th enue Street, Prospect Ave, East 161st South: East 149th Street, East St., Third Ave., East 159th St. 145th Street Bridge West: Park Ave., Webster Ave. West: Harlem River Neighborhoods: Crotona Neighborhoods: Highbridge, Park, Claremont Village, Concourse Village, Woodstock, Morrisania Concourse, Mount Eden, and Population (According to the 2010 Census): 68,574 Concourse Village Board Meeting: Second Tuesday of the month, 6:00pm • Population (According to the 2010 Census): 139,563 Board Meeting: Fourth Tuesday of the month, 6:00pm Members: Kolaco Acqui, Gloria Alston, Xiomara Arriola, Winifred Bama, Joetta Brown, Dawn Cart- er, Gilberto Constantinez, Rev. Frederick Crawford, Randy Dillard, Francis Dsouza, Evang. Patricia Members: Kathleen Saunders, Robert Garmendiz, Mildred James , Barry Nissen, Lilliam Rosa, Beverly Dyson-Johnson, Wanda Ellis, Eric Henry, Abdul Johnson, Kathy Johnson-Morris, Marilyn Johnson, Bond, Martha Reyes, Bishop Earl McKay, Zonia Ortiz, John Howard Algarin, Gregory A. Delts, Ramatu Ahmed, Abraham Jones, Rita Jones, Linda Kemp, Una Lawrence, Wilbert Tee Lawton, Elizabeth Luciany, Marie McCullough, Rolando Aviles, Leandro Monzon, Naimah Bilal , Connie Morales, Napoleon Black, Jodi Marlon Molina, Robin Morgan, Rev. Idus A. Nunn, Jr., Judith Ojo, Laila Patino, Anddy Perdomo, Morales, Jason Caraballo, Ebrahim Dwada Ndure, Maynard Charles, Sherrise Palomino, Rossmery Dais, Jamal Patrick, Brenda Dawson, Yohanny Rincon, Spencer Edwards, Jimmy Rivera, John Fielder, George T. Alberto Pimentel, Terrence Podolsky, Edna Quinones, Rev. Dr. Bruce Rivera, Lanet Rivera, Cas- Robinson, Sr., Ariane Garcia, Genny Sanchez, Walter Harris, Avery Smith, Frances Hudson-Marrow, Jackson sandra Saunders, Olympia Jay Striplin, D’Andra Van Heusen, Saadia Walters, Patrick Willis, John Strong, Marissa Jackson, Teresa Wright, Nurys Laureano,Grace Zarate, Mohammed Mardah, Wilson III.

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COMMUNITY BOARD 5 COMMUNITY BOARD 6

Chair: Chair: Dr. Bola Omotosho Wendy Rodriguez District Manager: District Manager: Ken Brown John Sanchez Address: BCC Campus, Mc- Address: 1932 Arthur Avenue, Cracken Hall, Room 12/13, W. Rm. 709 181st Street Phone: (718) 579-6990 Phone: (718) 364-2030 Fax: (718) 579-6875 Fax: (718) 220-8426 [email protected] [email protected] Boundaries: Boundaries North: Bedford Park Boule- North: Western Prolongation to vard Harlem River of Hall of Fame Ter- East: Western and Southern race, Hall of Fame Terrace, Uni- Boundary of , Bronx versity Ave, West 183rd Street, River Parkway Jerome Avenue, East Fordham South: Cross Bronx Expwy, Road Southern Blvd, East 175th East: Webster Avenue St., Crotona Park North, Ar- South: Cross Bronx Expressway, thur Ave., Cross Bronx Expwy, Washington Bridge Washington Ave, E. 174th St., West: Harlem River Park Ave, Cross Bronx Expwy : Webster Avenue Neighborhoods: Fordham, Uni- West versity Heights, Morris Heights, Neighborhoods: Bathgate, and Mount Hope Belmont, Bathgate, West Farms, East Tremont, and Bronx Park South Population (According to the 2010 Census): 128,313 Population (According to the 2010 Census): 75,688 Board Meeting: Third Wednesday of the Month at 6 p.m. Board Meeting: Second Wednesday of the month, 6:30pm Members: Ernest Acosta, Patricia Almonte, Frank Amato, Juvanee Bedminster, Pablo Blanco, Dr. Mar- cia Brown, Thomasina Bushby, Angel Caballero, Matthew Caruso, Jaqua Curiel, Jason Garcia, Nero Members: Stephannie Addo-Zuniga, Jannie Armstrong, Virginia Bird, Irene Bergen, Glenda Bond, Evonne Graham, Jr., Michele Heath, Pastor Ester Henry, Martha Hunter, Kinsely Jabouin, Belinda Lawrence, Capers, Alice Charles, Nelson Chimilio, Claudette Coles, Diana Diaz, Margarita Espinosa, Kia Ferguson, Tara Leach, Suzanne Markland-Suwareh, Theresa Mims, Basil Moore, Reverend Benjamin Nnaji, Frank Franz, Maria Garcia, Lanell Gardenhire, Audrey Harden, Jerry Jackson, Laura James, Frank Kolovic, Linda Pedrosa, Denise Perry, Felix Guareno Ramos, Owusu Raynold, Jhenelle Robinson, Marsha Rod- Maria Latimer, Octavia Lewis, Michael Nelson, Sara Nunez-Mejia, Floretta O’Brien, Marie Louise Ocran, gers, Carlos Rosario, Shenia Rudolph, Justin Sanchez, Pierina Sanchez, Russell Wasden, Robert L. Victoria Pamias, Rosa Pereza, Paul Ramirez, Hiriam Ratliff, Wendy Rodriguez, Moussa Siby, Gil Simmons, Whetstone.e Carrie Taft, Jacquetta Whaley, Michael Yu.

COMMUNITY BOARD 7 COMMUNITY BOARD 8

Chair: Adaline Walker-Santiago Chair: District Mgr.: Vacant Rosemary Ginty Address: 229A E. 204th St. District Manager: Phone: (718) 933-5650 Vacant Fax: (718) 933-1829 Address: 5676 Riverdale Avenue [email protected] Phone: (718) 884-3959 Boundaries: Fax: (718) 796-2763 www.nyc.gov/bronxcb8 North: Southern , Bainbridge Ave, E. 211th St., Boundaries Prolongation of E. 211th St. North: City Line East: NYk-New Haven Railroad, East: Western and Southern Bedford Park Blvd, Webster Ave Boundary of Van Cortlandt Park, South: E. Fordham Rd, Jerome Mosholu Parkway, Goulden Av- Ave, W. 183rd St., University Ave., enue, Reservoir Avenue Hall of Fame Terrace, W. Prolon- South: West Kingsbridge Road, gation of Hall of Fame Terrace to West 225th Street, Broadway, Harlem River Harlem River West: Harlem River, Broadway, W. West: 225th St., W. Kingsbridge Rd, Res- Neighborhoods: Fieldston, ervoir Ave, Goulden Ave, Mosholu Kingsbridge, Kingsbridge Heights, Pkwy Marble Hill, Riverdale, Spuyten Neighborhoods: Norwood, Duyvil, University Heights, Jerome Park, Population (According to the Bedford Park, Fordham, Kingsbridge Heights 2010 Census): 101,332 Population (According to the 2010 Census): 141,411 Board Meeting: Second Tuesday of the month, 7:30pm • Cabinet Meeting: First Tuesday of the month, Board Meeting: Third Tuesdays of the Month at 6:30 p.m. 9:30am Members: Adaline Walker Santiago, Alfred Grant, Andrew Laiosa, Anthony Perez, Barbara Stroncze, Betty Arce, Members: Alexander, Eric Bell, Robert Bender, Lisa Daub, , Margaret Donato, Paul Carmen Miranda, Chad Royer, Cole Hawkins, Cristina Contreras, Cynthia O’Neal-Riley, Dilletta Pina, Edgar Ramos, Ellis, Diomarys Escano, Robert Fanuzzi, Steven Froot, Daniella Fuchs, David Gellman, Rosemary Ginty, Emmanuel Martinez, Gloria Bent, Gloria Dapaah, Gwendolyn Thomas-Steed, Helene Hartman-Kutnowsky, ean Martin Gluck, Julia Gomez, Marvin Goodman, Daris B. Jackson, Myra Joyce, Irving Ladimer, Rita Pochter Hill, Jeffrey Hunter, John Snider, Joseph Nieves, Lorita Watson, Lowell Green, Marcos Sierra, Monique Weston, Lowe, Demetrius McCord, Charles G. Moerdler, Land Use, Tao Moran, Omar Murray, Daniel Padernacht, Monjur Choudhury, Myrna Calderon, Nora Feury, Oswald Felix, Ralph Beck, Rev. Ritchie Ramos, Robyn L. Saun- Lamont Parker, Karen Pesce, Julie M. Reyes, Amy Joy Robateau, Diego Santiago, Georgia Santiago, James ders, Ruth Santana, Sandra Erickson, SM Shah Mahmood, Stanley Richards, Tiffany Wheatland-Disu, Vishes Santiago, Steven Sarao, Laura Spalter, William Stone, Jyll Townes, Sergio Villaverde, Martin Wolpoff, Mary Mehta, Yajaira Aria, Yini Rodriguez.. Yamagata, Rosalind Zavras, Herbert Young.

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COMMUNITY BOARD 9 COMMUNITY BOARD 10

Chair: Chair: Nicholas Himidian, Jr. Peter Sullivan District Manager: District Manager: William Rivera Matthew Cruz Address: 1967 Turnbull Avenue, 3165 E. Tremont Avenue Rm. 7 Phone: (718) 892-1161 Phone: (718) 823-3034 Fax: (718) 863-6860 Fax: (718) 823-6461 Email: [email protected] [email protected] Boundaries: North: N.England Boundaries Thruway, E. Prolongation of Park North: Cross Bronx Expwy, Drive, Park Drive, L.I. Sound, City Bronx River Pkwy, E. Tremont Line. East: W. Boundary of Pel- Ave. ham Bay Pk., , East: North Prolongation of L.I. Sound to East South: East River. West: Tremont Ave., Westchester Westchester Creek, Northern Creek Prolongation of Westchester South: East River Creek to E. Tremont Ave, East West: Bronx River, Westchester Tremont Avenue Avenue, Sheridan Expressway Pkwy, New England Thruway Neighborhoods: Parkchester, Neighborhoods: Unionport, Soundview, Castle Co-op City, City Island, Spencer Estates, Throggs Neck, Country Club, Zerega, Westchester Square, Pelham Bay, Hill, Bruckner, Harding Park, Eastchester Bay, Schuylerville, Edgewater, Locust Point, Silver Beach Bronx River and Clason Point Population (According to the 2010 Census): 115,948 Population (According to the 2010 Census): 167,859 Board Meeting: Third Thursday of the month, 6:30pm Board Meeting: Third Thursday of the month, 7:00pm • Cabinet Meeting: Third Tuesday of the month, Members: Hannah Acampora, Thomas Accomando, Raquel Baez, Robert Barbarelli, Bob Bieder, Joe Boiko, 1:00pm Peter Cantillo, Taisha Chambers, Col. William Chin, Andrew Chirico, Lauren Council, Grace Mary Curbelo, Michele Members: Mohammad N. Mujumder, Brandon Ganaishlal, Justin Westbrook-Lowery, Nicole D. Davila, Terence Franklin, Irene Guanill-Elukowich, Deborah Hunt, Monique Johnson, Dorothy Krynicki, Cirino Washington, Abunoman Rahman, Angel Martinez, Benigno E. Cuevas, Carla Singleton, Cleneth Dais, Lotta, Kevin Lynch, John Marano, Brian Martinez, Brendan McCarrick, James McQuade, Julian Misiurski, Martin Cruz Garcia, Daniel Porro, Felipa Manaiza, Hannia Godinez, Harry Dunlap, Henry Pelayo Jr., Isabelo Morris, Mary Jane Musano, Denise Noble, Joseph Onwu, Jesalyn Ortiz, Christos Papastefanou , Alvin Ponder, Adames, Jaime Feliberty, James Tynan, Jennifer Ellison Lackard, Juan Torres, Kadesha Washington, Louis Popovic, Martin Prince, John Robert, Ruben Rodriguez, Nancy Rosario, Joseph Russo, Nicholas Sala, Tony Linda Brown, Lisa Diaz, Loretta Masterson, Nelson Peralta, Rosemary Ordonez-Jenkins, Sarwar Ja- Salimbene, Reginald Sawyer, Naita Semaj-Williams, Peter Sullivan, Marjorie Velazquez, Stephanie Woods. han, Sharan Fernandez, Venus Williams.

COMMUNITY BOARD 11 COMMUNITY BOARD 12

Chair: Chair: Anthony Vitaliano William Hall District Manager: District Mgr.: George Torres Jeremy Warneke 4101 White Plains Road Address: 1741 Colden Ave. Phone: (718) 994-3300 Phone: (718) 892-6262 Fax: (718) 994-3310 Fax: (718) 892-1861 [email protected] Email: [email protected] Boundaries: North: City Line Boundaries: East: Sound, Park Drive, W. Prolongation of Park North: Adee Avenue, Boston Drive, New England Thruway Road, East Gun Hill Road South: East Gun Hill Road, Bos- East: Hutchinson River Pkwy. ton Road, Adee Avenue South: East Tremont Avenue West: E. & N. Boundary of Bronx West: , East- Pk, NY-New Haven RR, E. 211th ern Boundary of Bronx Pk. St, Bainbridge Ave, Jerome Ave, Neighborhoods: Morris Park, E. 233rd St, Van Cortlandt Pk. E. Pelham Parkway, Pelham Gar- Neighborhoods: Edenwald, dens, Allerton, Bronxdale, Laco- Wakefi eld, Williamsbridge, nia, and Van Nest Woodlawn, Fish Bay, East- Population (According to the chester, Olinville, and Bay- 2010 Census): 110,706 chester Board Meeting: Fourth Thursday Population (According to the of the month, 7:00pm 2010 Census): 149,077 Cabinet Meeting: Fourth Wednesday of the month, 10:00am Board Meeting: Fourth Thurs- day of the month, 7:30pm • Members: Anthony Vitaliano, Albert D’Angelo, Joanne Russo-Rubino, Silvio Mazzella, David Leavitt, Frano Za- Cabinet Meeting: Third Thursday of the month, 9:30am greda, Tasneem Aljayyousi, Joseph Bacote, Edith Blitzer, Ruth Burko, Junior Campbell, Veronica Castro, Patricia Members: Franklin Allakpo, Judith Benitez, Egeria Bennett, Hazel Berry, Hillary Bloomfi eld, Ivan Anthony Borras, A. Charles, Sal Conforto, Arlene Drayton, Bernadette Ferrara, Estella Foley, Avril Francis, Rabbi Moshe Fuchs, Carla Borsotti, Marlene Brown-Allen, Victor Brown, Deacon Edward Browne, Dr. Lagree Burke, Norbet Bryan, Sadie Kenneth Gelnick, Marcy S. Gross, Sofi a Lugo, Joseph A. McManus, Joseph A. Menta, Danny Monti, Kelly Mur- Campbell, Evelyn Christian, Gail Clark, Joan Clodd, Bernisha Coleman, Robert Cumberbatch, Tollyne Dickerson, Laura phy, Gabriella Musto, Diane Norris, Yahay Obeid, Dr. Mahendra Patel, Shradhanand Pirtam, Vincent Prezioso, Eastmond, Raymond Evans, Alfredo Figueroa, Johnnie Goff, Robert Hall, William Hall, Lisa Hayes, April Horton, John Keith Ramsey, Daisy Rodriguez, Eliezer Rodriguez, Marnie Rodriguez, Martin Sacewicz, Dominick Schiano, Oral Isaac, Theodore James, Carl Lanzano, Barbara LaGrant, Mary McCloud, Angela Moore, Lucille Martin, Walter McNeil, A. Selkridge, Andrea Siegel, Tony Signorile, Lisa Soto, John Squitieri, Joann Terrelonge, Joseph A. Thompson, Clinton Myke, Carmen Ortiz, Frank Porter, Claudia Powell, Anthony Reid, Felix Roldan, Dr. Dena Robins, Icy Mae T. Sandra Unger, Janice Walcott, Linda White. Salkey, Karl Stricker, Nicole Weir, Norma Wiles.

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MAYOR CITY COMPTROLLER PUBLIC ADVOCATE BOROUGH PRESIDENT DISTRICT ATTORNEY RUBEN DIAZ, JR. DARCEL CLARK Address: 1 Centre Street Address: 1 Centre Street, 15th Fl. Address: 851 Grand Concourse Address: 198 East 161st Street Address: City Hall New York, NY 10007 New York, NY 10007 Bronx, NY 10451 Bronx, NY 10451 New York, NY 10007 Phone: (212) 669-3500 Phone: (212) 669-7200 Phone: (718) 590-3500 Phone: 718-590-2000 Phone: 311 Fax: (212) 669-2707 Fax: (212) 669-4701 Website: Website: Fax: (212) 312-0700 Website: www.comptroller.nyc.gov Website: http://pubadvocate.nyc.gov/ http://bronxboropres.nyc.gov/ http://bronxda.nyc.gov/ CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS - BRONX

RAPHAEL SALAMANCA ANDREW COHEN 17th District 11th District 1070 Southern Boulebard Phone 277 W. 231st Street RITCHIE TORRES Phone: (718) 402-6130 Phone (718) 549-7300 15th District Fax (718) 402-0539 Fax (718) 549-9945 Councilman Elect 1901 Southern Blvd [email protected] 13th District Phone (718) 842-8100 Represents: Melrose, Hunts Point, Longwood, Port Morris, Mott Haven, Represents: Kingsbridge, Riverdale, Represents: Pelham Parkway North Fax (718) 842-6280 Morrisania, Soundview, High Bridge, Woodlawn, Norwood, parts of Bed- and South, Pelham Bay, Country [email protected] Crotona ford Park, Wakefi eld and Bronx Park Club, City Island, Throggs Neck, Represents: Bathgate, Belmont, Cro- East. Allerton, Morris Park tona, Fordham, East Tremont, West Farms, Van Nest, West Farms

ANDY KING FERNANDO 12th District CABRERA 938 East Gun Hill Road 14th District 16th District REVEREND Phone (718) 684-5509 107 E. Burnside Ave. (l-r) Councilman Ritchie Torres; Councilman Andrew Cohen; 1377 Jerome Ave RUBEN DIAZ SR. Fax (718) 684-5510 Phone (347) 590-2874 Senator Bailey, Natalia Fernandez; Michael Landau repre- Phone: (718) 588-7500 Councilman Elect council.nyc.gov/d12/html/mem- Fax Fax: (718) 588-7790 18th District senting Comptroller Scott Stringer; Councilman King; Coun- bers/home.shtml (347) 590-2878 [email protected] cil Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito; Alex Wint representing Represents: Edenwald, Co-Op City, [email protected] Represents: Parkchester, Soundview, Wakefi eld, Williamsbridge, Bay- Represents: Fordham, Kingsbridge, Represents: W. Bronx, Morrisania, Castle Hill, Classon Point, Harding Assembly Speaker ; Maxine Sullivan and Joshua chester Morris Heights, South Bronx, Highbridge, Melrose Park Adams representing Assemblyman . 16 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29, 2017 BTR BTR BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29, 2017 17 BRONX STATE SENATORS

Fax: (718) 933-2825 Website: http://www.nysenate. gov/senator/gustavo-rivera [email protected] Represents: Kingsbridge Heights, East Tremont, Crotona Park, Ford- ham, Bedford Park and parts of Riverdale.

JOSE M. SERRANO 28th District Address: 157 East 104th St. Phone: (212) 828-5829 Fax: (212) 828-2420 Website: http://www.nysenate.gov/ senator/jose-m-serrano Represents: Mott Haven, Melrose, Highbridge, Morris Heights

JEFFREY KLEIN 34th District Address: 1250 Waters Place, Suite 1202 Phone: (718) 822-2049 Fax: (518) 822-2321 Website: http://www.nysenate. gov/senator/jeffrey-d-klein [email protected] Represents: Morris Park; Throggs Neck; Pelham Bay; City Island; Riv- erdale; Van Cortlandt; Woodlawn; Hunts Point; Pelham; Fleetwood

VACANT BRONX CONGRESS MEMBERS 32nd District Represents: Castle Hill, Clason Point, Hunts Point, Longwood, Melrose, Morrisania, Parkchester, Pelham Parkway, Soundview, and Union Port

Jamaal Bailey 36th District Address: 959 E. 233rd Street Phone: (718) 547-8854 Fax: (718) 515-2718. infoatbailey2016.net Represents: Morrisania, West JOSEPH CROWLEY JOSE E. SERRANO Farms, Williamsbridge, Co-op City, 7th District 15th District Wakefi eld, and Baychester Address 3219 E. Tremont Ave. Address: 1231 Lafayette Ave. 2nd fl oor Phone: (718) 620-0084 Phone (718) 931-1400 Website: http://serrano.house.gov/ Website: http://crowley.house.gov/ Address: 177 Dreiser Loop Represents: Mott Haven, Hunts ELIOT L. ENGEL ADRIANO ESPAILLAT Phone: (718) 320-2314 Point, Melrose, High Bridge, Mor- 17th District 31st District risania, East Tremont, Tremont, Address: 3655 Johnson Ave. Address: 5030 Broadway Morris Heights, University Heights, Represents: Soundview, Pelham Phone: (718) 796-9700 New York, NY 10034 GUSTAVO RIVERA Belmont, Fordham, Bedford Park, Parkway, Morris Park, Van Nest, Al- Website: http://engel.house.gov/ Number: (212) 544-0173 33rd District lerton, Parkchester, Throggs Neck, West Farms, the Longwood Avenue Website: http://www.nysenate.gov/ 2432 Grand Concourse City Island, Silver Beach, and Co-op Historic District, and parts of Sound- Represents: Riverdale, Woodlawn, senator/adriano espaillat Phone: (718) 933-2034 City view. Norwood and Wakefi eld Represents: Riverdale/Marbile Hill

18 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29, 2017 BTR 2 5 White Plains Road Business Improvement District 4)015)&4503&4 "51&-)".1"3,8":8)*5&1-"*/430"% Small Town Shopping Atmosphere

Walking distance to Easy To Reach By #2 And Diner, Fast Food Restaurants. The and #5 Train With Bus Service Sit Down Pizza Parlor, Family Botanical Gardens And Street Taxi Stand Sized Restaurants

Children and adult clothing All major Cell Phone Major size Health Food stores. CVS and Rite Aid stores and much, Store. BX Sport Store department stores much more

White Plains Road BID Is Conveniently Located On White Plains Road Between Pelham Parkway And Brady Avenue And Is Easily Reached By Bus And The #2 And #5 IRT Train

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Represents: Co-op City, Throggs Neck, City Island, Locust Point, , parts of Castle Hill, Westchester Square, Zerega.

LOUIS SEPULVEDA 87th District 85th District Address: VICTOR PICHARDO 77th District Address: 1163 Manor Avenue, 1973 Westchester Ave. 86th District Phone: (718) 893-0202 Address: 2175C Jerome Ave. Address: 250 Broadway, Ste. 2208 Phone: (718) 931-2620 Represents: Bronx River, Harding Represents: Van Nest, West Farms, Phone: (718) 933-6909 Phone: (212) 312-1498 VACANT 80th District Park, Clason Point, Hunts Point and Parkchester and Castle Hill, Union- Represents: University Heights, Represents: Highbridge, Morrisania, Represents: Pelham Parkway, Mor- Soundview port, Bruckner Boulevard Tremont, and Morris Heights Morris Heights ris Park, Van Nest, Pelham Bay, Van Cortlandt Village, Norwood, Bedford CARL E. HEASTIE Pk. Assembly Speaker 83rd District Address: 1351 E. Gun Hill Rd. NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY DISTRICTS Phone: (718) 654-6539 Represents: Olinville, Williamsbridge, Wakefi eld, Edenwald, Eastchester, Fish Bay, Baychester.

JOSE RIVERA 78th District 81st District Address: One Fordham Address: Plaza, Suite 1008, 10th Floor 3107 Kingsbridge Avenue Phone: (718) 933-2204 Phone: (718) 796-5345 Represents: Bronx Park South, Bel- Represents: Riverdale, Kingsbridge, mont, Fordham, Bedford Park, South Kingsbridge Heights, Van Cortlandt CARMEN E. ARROYO Riverdale, Van Cortland Village, Village, Marble Hill, Norwood, Wood- 84th District Marble Hill lawn, Wakefi eld. Address: 384 East 149 Street, Phone: (718) 292-2901 Represents: Highbridge, Melrose, Longwood, Mott Haven, Port Morris, Hunts Point

MICHAEL BLAKE 79th District MICHAEL BENDETTO Address: S. 80 Concord Village W. 82nd District Phone: (718) 842-3829 Address: 177 Dreiser Loop, Rm. 12 Represents: Morriasnia, Claremont, Phone: (718) 320-2220 Crotona-Mapes, Longwood, Char- Address: 3602 E. Tremont Avenue lotte Gardens, and Belmont area. Phone: (718) 892-2235 20 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29, 2017 BTR jeromegunhillbid.org @jeromegunhillbid @jghbid

The Jerome-Gun Hill BID serves over 250 businesses in the Norwood section of the Bronx. Managed by the Mosholu Preservation Corporation (MPC), a support corporation of Montefiore Medical Center, the BID office is located in the heart of Norwood, along the Williams Bridge Oval Park. Surrounded by the Montefiore Medical Center and North Central Bronx Hospital, the BID’s catchment area includes Jerome Avenue between Mosholu Parkway N and East Gun Hill Road, and East Gun Hill Road between Jerome and Webster Avenues. One of 74 BIDS in NYC and one of 9 in the Bronx, the Jerome-Gun Hill BID works to: support small businesses and local shoppers by working constantly to keep the area inviting through rigorous sanitation, streetscape improvements, marketing, and events. Hosting annual programs like the Fall Festival and Holiday Tree Lighting, as well as community health fairs, sidewalk sales, and business development events. Jerome Avenue between E Gun Hill Road and Mosholu Parkway N, E Gun Hill Road between Jerome Ave and Webster Avenue

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LEHMAN CENTER FOR of Birds, African Plains, Baboon distinguished trees; many more views, and to explore human built detailed scale models of and environmental experiences. THE PERFORMING ARTS Reserve, the World of Reptiles, than 200 years old, include ma- connections to the natural world cargo, passenger and naval Programs are designed to en- 250 Bedford Park Blvd. and the recently opened Mada- jor collections of oaks, maples, through programs in horticul- ships, an eight foot by six foot courage residents to engage in (718) 960-8833 gascar. Through these exhib- legumes, magnolias, cherries, ture, education and the arts. scale model of the Port Author- creative activism towards the Email: www.lehmancenter.org its – many of which have been crabapples, and an exceptional There are many ways to enjoy ity’s Port Newark Port Eliza- revitalization and future of their beth Marine Terminal and an Box Offi ce Hours: named Exhibit of the Year by range of notable individual , including a gallery neighborhood. Mon-Fri: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. the American Zoo and Aquarium underwater exhibit of artifacts specimens. In addition, the of contemporary art inspired Fee-based youth programs Since 1980, the Lehman Association -- visitors can learn recovered from sunken vessels NYBG Home Gardening Center is by nature, , guided garden and are offered throughout the Center for the Performing Arts about rare and endangered spe- an active outdoor classroom and gallery tours, birding walks, in- in the surrounding waters of summer with classes taught by has been presenting perfor- cies and their ecosystems. Over information resource with gar- door and outdoor concerts, na- . professional artists, on painting, mances from around the world two million visitors visit the New dens and demonstration areas. ture programs, romantic Sunset BARTOW-PELL drawing, cartooning, ceramics, in its 2,300-seat concert hall York City landmark each year. Reaching even more people, the Wednesdays each summer and MANSION MUSEUM located on the Lehman College Bronx Green-Up, an outreach workshops in painting, photog- and more. BRAC also offers a NEW YORK 895 Shore Road campus. Events in its 32nd program, has created more than raphy, gardening, woodworking, free Art and Environmental Stud- Bronx, New York 10464 Season, including performances 300 community and school gar- wellness and more. The Shop at ies Teen Institute as well. Fee- 2900 Southern Boulevard (718) 885-1461 from Jerry Seinfeld, Colin Quinn, dens throughout the Bronx and Wave Hill offers guests a unique based classes for adults are also Bronx, NY 10458 Mansion: Wednesday, Saturday Patti LaBelle, Paul Rodriguez, provides ongoing horticultural selection of naturally inspired available, as well as workshops (718) 817-8700 & Sunday: 12 noon – 4 p.m. Fiddler on the Roof, A Chorus and technical advice. gift opportunities. Wave Hill re- www.nybg.org Admission: $5 adults for schools and community- Line, Stars of the Russian Ballet, ceives approximately 166,000 $3 for seniors & students Hours of Operation: WAVE HILL based organizations. DanceBrazil, the China National visitors each year. Free for children under 6 Tuesday to Sunday: 10 a.m.- 6 Front Gate: The BRAC exhibition pro- Symphony Orchestra, the Shao- Carriage House: April through p.m. Open select Mondays West 249th Street MARITIME INDUSTRY MUSEUM gram provides a resource for lin Warriors, Jerry Rivera and October artists and guest curators, by Tito Nieves, Dennis Edwards & Admission Fees: Grounds-Only and Independence Avenue AT FORT SCHUYLER Gardens/Grounds: open daily giving them a platform inside The Temptations Review, Salsa Pass: Adults: 10; Seniors: $5; 675 West 252nd Street State University of New York Palooza, The National Circus of Students (with valid ID): $5; (718) 549-3200 Maritime College Campus from 8:30 a.m. to dusk, free. a reality that has not been fully the People’s Republic of China, Children (2–12 years): $2; www.wavehill.org 6 Pennyfi eld Ave. Built between 1836 and acknowledged by academia or and Ultimate Doo Wop, among Children under 2: Free Wave Hill Grounds (718) 409-7218 1842, the Bartow-Pell Mansion traditional institutions and opens other performers, are supported Grounds admission is free to Tuesday – Sunday (March 15 to Email: www.sunymaritime.edu/ Museum exemplifi es a type of up the community to new art- with public funds from the New everyone all day on Wednes- October 31): 9 a.m. Maritime Museum/index.aspx country living that existed in ists and art forms. The cultural the Pelham Bay Park area in York City Department of Cultural days and from 10 a.m. to 11 to 5:30 p.m. Hours of operation: institution’s year-round perform- the early 19th Century. Offi cially Affairs in partnership with the a.m. on Saturdays. Some Tuesday – Sunday (November 1 Monday through Saturday 9:00 ing arts productions offer the restrictions apply. open as a museum since , Offi ce to March 14): 9 a.m a.m. to 4:00 p.m. local West Farms community an All-Garden Pass: Adults: 20; to 4:30 p.m. Admission: Free 1946, Bartow-Pell Mansion of the Bronx Borough President eclectic mix of cutting-edge tal- Seniors/Students (w/valid Closed Mondays except The museum was established Museum’s mansion, gardens and a number of elected offi - ent from the Bronx and beyond. ID): $18; Children (2–12): $8; Memorial Day, Labor Day, and in 1986 when Capt. Jeffrey and landscape offer visitors a cials, businesses and art insti- source of serenity in the urban This series of interdisciplinary tutions. Children (under 2): Free; Columbus Day Monroe, a former Associate Members: Free On select summer Professor of Transportation at landscape. Many city children performances embraces popu- BRONX ZOO The New York Botanical Garden Wednesdays, Wave Hill is open the Maritime College, with the and their teachers participate lar, contemporary, experimental, in education programs and The Wildlife Conservation was established on April 18, until sunset help of Jack Hayes, a 1947 en- and classically-inspired music, Society 1891, and each year 750,000 gineer graduate of the college. connect to the history of the site. dance, performance art, and Greenhouses: 10 a.m. to Noon, Mansion tours, public programs 2300 Southern Boulevard visitors enjoy its historic land- Since then, steamship lines, poetry. 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and classes allow children and (718) 220-5100 scapes, collections, and gar- Glyndor Gallery: related companies in the mari- The BRAC exhibition space time industry, and merchant adults to expand their horizons www.bronxzoo.com dens as well as the scope of 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. is currently undergoing an ap- marine history buffs have in an exceptional setting. Enjoy Hours of Operation: its programs in horticulture, The Shop at Wave Hill: 10 a.m. exhibits, movie screenings, proximately two-year, $7 million M-F: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. education, and science. The to 4:30 p.m. donated objects and artifacts to supplement the museum old-time baseball games, star renovation. During the construc- Weekends and Holidays: 10 Botanical Garden’s curated liv- The Cafe at Wave Hill: 10 a.m. gazing opportunities, and much tion period, the organization is a.m. to 5:30 p.m. ing collections contain more collection. The Museum is to 4:30 p.m. funded, staffed, operated and more. maintaining its programming General Admission than one million plants. The Admission: Adults: $8; maintained strictly through and presence in West Farms Tickets:Adult $16.95; Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, the Students and Seniors 65+: $4; BRONX RIVER ART CENTER volunteer support and mon- 2064 Boston Road through the “BRAC on the Block” Child (Ages 3–12) $11.95; nation’s preeminent Victorian- Children 6+: $2 etary contributions. As a re- Senior (65+) $14.95 style glasshouse, offers an Children Under 6: Free Bronx, NY 10460 initiative. The program allows sult, the Museum is now home (718) 589-5819 BRAC to continue offering edu- - Wednesday admission is a eco-tour of the world, including Free admission to the grounds: to over 700 ship models and suggested donation day. tropical rain forests, deserts of Tuesdays & Saturdays, 9 a.m. www.bronxriverart.org cation and art space in the com- exquisite maritime art, photos, New Gallery Location (During - Special Rides and Attractions the Americas and Africa, car- to noon all year long and artifacts. Included among munity through several satellite Renovation): are additional costs nivorous plants, sub-tropicals, Tours available: Call Wave Hill its major exhibits is that of the locations. - Membership and Total Experi- and aquatic plants in temperate for information Port Authority of New York and BRAC on the Block @ Bronx Art Space THE BRONX COUNCIL ence tickets are also available. and tropical pools. The 37-acre Open year-round, Wave Hill is a New Jersey, which presents a ON THE ARTS 305 E. 140th Street, #1A The Bronx Zoo opened to the Arthur and Janet Ross Coni- 28-acre public garden and cul- pictorial overview of the role of Main Offi ce: Bronx, NY 10454 public in 1899 and serves as fer Arboretum contains 1,500 tural center in the Bronx over- the Port of New York and New 1738 Hone Avenue www.bronxriverart.org an international center for en- trees, featuring more than 300 looking the Hudson River and Jersey in the bi-state region’s Bronx, NY 10461 Gallery Hours (Only in Effect vironmental education, and a mature specimens of fi rs, pines, Palisades. Over a century old, maritime industry, specifi cally, Phone: (718) 931-9550 During Exhibition Dates): facility for perpetuating rare and spruces planted in the early the Wave Hill estate property and economic development, Fax: (718) 409-6445 Wednesday – Friday: 3 – 6:30 and endangered species (over 20th century. The 15-acre Ben- was fi rst developed by William generally. There are also cor- Email: www.bronxarts.org p.m.; Saturday: 12 – 5 p.m. 4,000 animals total), wildlife enson Ornamental Conifers, the Lewis Morris, who named the es- porate exhibits featuring Moran Normal Business Hours: Mon- Offi ce & Center Hours: Monday health sciences and conserva- largest landscape restoration tate Wave Hill and resided there Towing & Transportation Co., Fri: 9am–5pm; Sat-Sun: Closed Inc., Exxon Corporation, Co- – Thursday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; tion. The 265 acres of park- project ever undertaken at the from 1843 to 1852. The estate Founded in the early 1960s, lumbus Line, Itel and memora- lands and naturalistic habitats Garden includes among its 500 passed to William H. Appleton in Saturday: 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. the Bronx Council on the Arts is bilia gathered from prominent, are home to such iconic animals conifers, outstanding new cul- 1865. and some of the tenants Bronx River Art Center (BRAC) celebrating almost 50 years as but now defunct steamship as lowland gorillas, snow leop- tivars, as well as rare mature that stayed there included Mark was founded in 1987 to bring a private, non-profi t member- companies such as United Fruit ards, Asian elephants, American specimens planted in the 1940s. Twain and . professional arts programming ship organization that is the Company, Isthmian Steamship bison, among other mammals, The 2.5-acre Rock Garden, Appleton would sell the property to a culturally underserved pop- offi cial cultural agency of Bronx Company, Lines, birds, reptiles and amphibians one of the largest in the world, ulation. For more than 20 years County. The organization’s mis- in 1903 to George W. Perkins, and Grace Line. The Muse- featured in innovative exhibits. displays thousands of colorful (including several years of arts sion is to encourage and in- whose family made the decision um’s collections are constantly Exhibits, which recreate a wide crease the public’s awareness alpine fl owers and plants from to donate the estate to the City. being enhanced by keeping its programming under the umbrel- and participation in the arts. variety of habitats, include Tiger all continents except Antarctica. Today, Wave Hill’s mission is to exhibits current and by the ad- la of the fi rst Bronx River Res- BCA provides an array of ser- Mountain, Congo Gorilla Forest, The Garden’s orchid collec- celebrate the artistry and legacy dition of new exhibits. These toration project), this multi-arts vices to 5,000 artists and more Wild Asia, JungleWorld, Hima- tion features 8,125 plants. The of its gardens and landscapes, include the Frank Cronican center has fi lled the West Farms than 250 arts and community- layan Highlands Habitat, World Garden is also home to 30,000 to preserve its magnifi cent collection of over 180 scratch community of the Bronx with art based organizations.

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In addition, the BCA provides (appointment only) 1812 that once commanded un- Membership: Members help sup- cutting edge programming in arts The Valentine-Varian House: Sat. obstructed vistas over the rolling port the education and cultural strategies to – 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. / Sun. – 1 to Bronx hills to the shores of Long and its daily costs of operation. help revitalize local communities, 5 p.m. Island. The house was where Edgar Purchasing membership provides including the Bronx Culture Trolley. The Edgar Allan Poe Cottage: Allen Poe penned many of his most supporters with invitations to spe- BCA also designs and implements Sat. – 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. / Sun. – 1 enduring poetical works, including cial events, performances, exhibi- programs that focus attention on is- to 5 p.m. “Annabel Lee,” “The Bells” and tion tours, and preview receptions sues of concern to Bronx residents The Bronx County Historical “Eureka.” He would spend the last of major exhibitions. For further including: job training, fi nancial sta- Society was founded in 1955 to years of his life there, from 1846 to details on the different types of bilization, independent contracting, preserve the heritage of the thriving 1894. The Bronx County Historical membership options, call (718) business startups, environmental community. The Society adminis- Society has overseen the property 682-6000 ext. 136. concerns, and health related issues. ters the colonial era Valentine-Var- since 1975. Poe Cottage has since Admission: Free for the 40th Anni- It also awards promising artists ian House, which serves as the Mu- been restored to its original appear- versary season. through its BRIO Awards grant pro- seum of Bronx History; The Bronx ance, with authentic period furnish- Basic Information: gram. Arts and education services County Archives; an extensive ings. A fi lm presentation and guided The Bronx Museum of the and programs, such as the Bronx Research Library; and Poe Cottage, tour help bring Poe Cottage to life. Arts is the fl agship cultural institu- WritersCorp, are also available for the fi nal home of America’s great Visitors can see the bed in which tion of the Bronx and was founded children enrolled in Bronx public 19th century poet and author, Ed- Virginia died and the rocking chair in 1971. The museum’s current schools. gar Allan Poe. The Valentine-Varian Poe used. In the kitchen, the dishes home on the Grand Concourse is In the future, BCA will move into House, at 3266 Bainbridge Avenue, on the table appear as if the great itself, a distinctive contemporary the former Washington Mutual Bank and Poe Cottage, at 2640 Grand author had just stepped out for air. landmark designed by the interna- Branch at 2700 E. Tremont Avenue in Concourse at East Kingsbridge The Society is not only dedi- tionally-renowned fi rm Arquitec- the Westchester Square community. Road, are listed in the National Reg- cated to preserving Bronx history. tonica. Inside, the cultural mainstay The former bank branch was gifted ister of Historic Places. It also offers a variety of programs focuses on 20th and 21st century to the cultural institution by the JP- The Valentine-Varian House, for the casual visitor, tourist, busi- contemporary art, while serving Morgan Chase Foundation and will the site of six skirmishes between ness person, student, or researcher the culturally diverse populations of become the BCA’s new headquarters American troops and British forces, interested in learning more about the Bronx and the greater New York and permanent home, consolidating was built in 1758 by Blacksmith contemporary life in The Bronx. metropolitan area through its per- its programs into one estimated Isaac Valentine to include a black- Tours of the borough are conducted manent collections, special exhibi- 5,200 square-foot building. smith shop and farmland. When the by The Society’s staff and volun- tions and education programs. Valentines fell on hard times after teers, while special publications, BRONX COUNTY Refl ecting the borough’s dy- the Revolutionary War, the house radio and cable T.V programs, HISTORICAL SOCIETY namic communities, the Museum is passed into the hands of the Varian concerts, educational programs, Main Location: the crossroad where artists, local family. The property was eventu- exhibitions, art shows and lecture 3309 Bainbridge Avenue residents, national and international ally sold to the Society in 1965 and series highlight today’s Bronx as The Bronx, NY 10467 visitors meet. The Bronx Museum would open to the public as the Mu- well as the borough’s heritage. Phone: (718) 881-8900 of the Arts maintains a permanent seum of Bronx History in 1968. Visi- Fax: (718) 881-4827 THE BRONX MUSEUM collection of works by artists of tors today can touch the fi eldstones E-mail: administration@bronxhis- OF THE ARTS African, Asian, and Latin American Isaac Valentine used to construct toricalsociety.org 1040 Grand Concourse ancestry. Additionally, the Museum the house and walk on the oak and Web: www.bronxhistoricalsociety. Bronx, NY 10456 collects works by artists for whom pine fl oorboards he fashioned. The org (718) 681-6000 the Bronx has been critical to their main level contains three galleries Hours of Operation: Fax: (718) 681-6181 artistic practice and development. that feature rich rotating bi-annual Research Library: Tuesday to [email protected] The Museum’s educational offer- exhibitions, and the museum gift Thursday – 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (ap- www.bronxmuseum.org ings spring from these central pro- store. The upper levels are not open pointment only) Hours of Operation: M-W: Closed; grams with outreach to children and to the public. The Bronx County Archives: Thurs., Sat. & Sun: 11:00am families as well as adult audiences. Poe Cottage is a small Monday to Friday - 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. - 6:00pm; Fri. 11:00am - 8:00pm wooden farmhouse built around History:

New York Botanical Garden

In its fi rst decade, The Bronx 2006, featuring a major gallery, Museum of the Arts was housed fl exible events / program spaces, an in the public rotunda of the Bronx outdoor terrace, and an entire fl oor County Courthouse located on dedicated to education programs Grand Concourse and 161st Street. and classrooms. In 1982, it moved fi ve blocks north Continuing its expansion ef- on the Concourse to 165th street forts, the Museum has plans un- into a former synagogue purchased derway to build a second structure and donated by New York City. on the existing site along with a After making a success- moderate-income residential co-op ful impact in the community, the tower (approximately 189 units). It Bronx Museum of the Arts made is the Museum’s hope to serve as a decision to expand the scope of a cultural leader in the South Bronx its programs and embarked on an and as a catalyst for economic de- ambitious capital project to en- velopment within the surrounding hance its facility. In February 2004, communities. The Museum began construction The 40th Anniversary Plans: on a 16,000 square-foot building In celebration of its 40-year to the north of the existing facility. milestone, the Bronx Museum of The Bronx Museum of the Arts was the Arts has launched three key awarded the “Excellence in Design” initiatives that refl ect the pillars on prize by The Art Commission of the which the facility was founded - its City of New York in 2003. The $19 commitment to our community, to million space opened in October Bronx Zoo Continued on Page 24 BTR BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29, 2017 23 BRONX GEOGRAPHY

RIVERS the Bronx from Marble Hill, a neighbor- The Bronx River fl ows south from Westchester hood. The creek was later fi lled in. More than 25 County and empties into the East River; it is the percent of the Bronx is water. Its shoreline extends largest freshwater river in New York City. The 75 miles. Hutchinson River passes through the east Bronx LONGEST ROAD and empties into Eastchester Bay. White Plains Road runs about eight miles from the ROADS tip of Clason Point north to Westchester County. The southernmost numbered street in the Bronx LAND AREA is East 132nd Street in Port Morris. The north- 42 square miles ernmost numbered street is E. 263rd Street in CLIMATE Riverdale. Major north-south roads include Third Avenue, Park Avenue, Broadway, the Grand In summer, temperatures in the Bronx range from Concourse, Jerome Avenue, , 60 degrees to 105 degrees, with a July average of Webster Avenue and White Plains Road. Major 83 degrees. In the winter, temperatures range from east-west roads include Mosholu Parkway, Gun 0 degrees to 70 degrees, with a January average Hill Road, Fordham Road, Pelham Parkway and of 27 degrees. The Bronx averages 42 inches of Tremont Avenue. Boston Road runs east-west and rainfall and 18 inches of snowfall annually. It rains northeast-southwest. or snows, on average, 118 day a year. Highways include the Bronx River Parkway, the FAULTS Bruckner Expressway, the Cross-Bronx Express- Cameron’s Line runs from Mott Haven north be- way, the New England Thruway, the Henry Hudson tween the Bronx Zoo and the New York Botanical Parkway, the Hutchison River Parkway and the Garden, then under the Bronx River. First identi- Major Deegan Expressway. fi ed by Eugene F. Cameron in the 1950s, the fault HIGHEST POINT separates the prehistoric North American conti- The highest point in the Bronx, at 280 feet above nent from the oceanic plate that smashed against sea level, is west of Van Cortlandt Park, in River- it 450 million years ago. The collision forced the dale, near the Riverdale County School. oceanic plate underground, where heat and pres- sure changed the material into Manhattan schist, Bronx River LOWEST POINTS Fordham gneiss and Inwood marble. Four low peninsulas are located on the East River: a series of folds associated with Cameron’s Line. COORDINATES GEOGRAPHICAL CENTER Hunts Point, Clason Point, Castle Hill Point and The general shape of the Bronx is related to the 40 degrees 50-14 N / 73 degrees 53-10 W Bronx Park Throggs Neck. Another low peninsula, Rodman’s erosion of river valleys before and between peri- LAY OF THE LAND Neck, is located between Pelham Bay Park and GEOLOGY ods of glaciation. The Bronx is divided by the Bronx River into a hillier City Island. The Grand Concourse north to the Cross-Bronx LOCATION west Bronx and a fl atter east Bronx. It is situated WATER Expressway is Manhattan schist. Much of the Northeast of Manhattan / South of Westchester almost entirely on the American mainland; several The Hudson River separates the Bronx from New south Bronx is Inwood Marble. The west and County / North of / West of Bergen County small in the East River and Long Island Jersey; the Harlem River separates it from Man- northwest Bronx are Fordham Gneiss. Hunts Point, (New Jersey) Sound belong to the Bronx, including City Island, Longwood, Morris Park, Castle Hill, Throggs Neck, hattan; the East River separates it from Queens; POPULATION , , Rat Island and Rikers Pelham Bay and the are oceanic crust. the separates it from Nassau 1,392,002 (2011 Census Estimate) Island. County. used to separate The complexity of Bronx geology is the result of

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from Page 23 signifi cant works of art to its collection to with the goal to foster visual literacy and to urban youth. Teen Council is structured Museum to select 36 artists to participate local youth and learning through the arts, enhance the interpretation of these works critical thinking. around the production of MuseCasts, vid- in the program. Comprised of a series of and to the scholarly appreciation and in- and share those with audiences Citywide. Museum tours combine thematic eos available on www.youtube.com/bronx- 13 weekly seminars, held in the winter terpretation of contemporary art through Other Cultural Programs discussions of artworks on view with teencouncil, and MuseZines, a graphic (January through March) and the spring an increased permanent collection. The Bronx Museum of the Arts holds hands-on activities, which may include publication of original work and commen- (April through June), the program ad- a number of special events throughout the sketching, writing and theatre exercises. tary by a small group of high school stu- dresses areas of practical concern to Commitment to the Community: The year. One such series of events is First Group discussions led by experienced Mu- dents working closely with instructors in artists including: career management economy has become a barrier to those Fridays, which allows visitors from the the Media Lab. In addition, Teen Council seum instructors introduce participants to and gallery representation; exhibition and interested in the arts, but while many community and beyond to enjoy a girm, participates in the Museum’s ongoing DVD public art opportunities; grant writing, contemporary art while enhancing critical museums are raising their prices, the art performance, music and other pro- series of interviews with contemporary copyright law, and marketing. Participat- thinking and communications skills. Bronx Museum is offering free admission grams on the fi rst Friday of each month. artists and a teen-focused exhibi- ing artists are encouraged to build their In addition to a guided tour, the to everyone, any day, allowing anyone, Education Initiatives tion. Held in conjunction with the school networks through the program’s collab- By providing an open forum for Museum offers a studio component where year, this program provides teens with an orative structure. AIM culminates with a regardless of their economic standing to students work with instructors exploring embrace the arts. discussion and experimentation, the Edu- open forum for the expression of ideas biannual exhibition organized by a team cation Department at the Bronx Museum a variety of techniques including painting, and dialogue on issues affecting young of guest curators, and an accompanying Commitment to Local Youth and works as a catalyst for ideas and dialogue. drawing, photography, and mixed media. people, and the promotion of the Bronx as catalogue. Learning: With the belief that arts educa- The museum promotes engaging and By emphasizing concept, artistic experi- an important cultural, political and artistic The Museum Shop tion has the power to transform lives, the transformational art experiences with the mentation and creative decision-making, force. Student must apply to the program The Museum Shop allows visitors Bronx Museum of the Arts is providing 40 goal of connecting the viewer’s personal these studio sessions introduce partici- between April 1 and June 30. to purchase their favorite Museum-related local public schools that currently have no experience with relevant areas in contem- pants to basic elements of the artistic pro- Networking Opportunities items. The store features the latest cata- access to the arts, with free art program- porary culture. cess through engaging exhibition-related Artist in the Marketplace logues, exhibition and program-related ming at the Museum led by its seasoned The Group Visits Program: projects. Established in 1980, Artist in the items including CDs and DVDs. Some fea- teaching artists. This initiative is expected The Group Visits Program is the These programs do have a fee. Marketplace aims to provide networking tured items include the catalogue for the to impact 10,000 public school students. Bronx Museum’s main service to schools Please call the Bronx Museum of the Arts opportunities for emerging artists resid- Street Art, Street Life Exhibition, a Bronx Commitment to Scholarly Apprecia- and community groups, providing both for more information. ing in the New York metropolitan area Museum Façade Tie and or scarf, a book tion and Interpretation of Contemporary inquiry-based and hands-on participatory Teen Council: and of introducing their work to a greater titled Graffi ti Women, a Street Art color- Arts: The Museum will enhance its per- experiences with contemporary art. Ses- Teen Council was created in 2005 to make audience. Every year a panel of fi ve arts ing book and a DVD on Afrika Bambaataa, manent collection holdings by adding 40 sions are based on viewer participation contemporary art and culture accessible professionals is assembled by the Bronx among other items for sale.

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“You can only get out of a community, that which you put into it.” – Mark Gjonaj

New York State Assembly Mark Gjonaj 80th Assembly District

1126 Pelham Parkway South Bronx, NY 10461 [email protected] (718) 409-0109

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BRONX COUNTY BUILDINGS which the great writer penned many hard times and the Dutch Reformed Ultan puts together a one volume Chief Justices of The U.S. HISTORICAL SOCIETY Research Library of his most enduring poetical works, Church seized the property. In 1791, work of Bronx history since the Supreme Court by George Lankevich: 3309 Bainbridge Avenue including “Annabel Lee,” “The Bells” the house passed into the hands of prehistoric era until the present Touching essays of sixteen of our Address: 3309 Bainbridge The Bronx, NY 10467 and “Eureka.” the Varian family. In 1905, William F. time. It is a book all Bronxites must nation’s highest judicial post. This Avenue Hours: Tuesday - Thursday 9 a.m. Administered by The Bronx County Beller purchased it. In 1965, his son, have in their collection. work also includes sections on The Bronx, NY 10467 to 5 p.m. by Appointment Only Historical Society since 1975, the William C. Beller, generously donated The South Bronx and the the origin of the Court and judicial Phone: (718) 881-8900 Contact: (718) 881- cottage is restored to its original the historic house to The Society to Founding of America: The South review. 127 pages. Fax: (718) 881-4827 8900 or librarian@ appearance, with authentic period be used as a museum. Bronx and the Founding of America Legacy of The Revolution. By E-mail: administration@ bronxhistoricalsociety.org furnishings. A fi lm presentation and In 1968, the restored house was - An Activity Book for Teachers and : A concise history of the bronxhistoricalsociety.org The Bronx County Archives guided tour help bring Poe Cottage to opened to the public as the Museum Students Valentine-Varian House and its role Web: www.bronxhistoricalsociety. 3313 Bainbridge Avenue life. Visitors can see the bed in which of Bronx History. Visitors today can Yankee Stadium 1923-2008: in the American Revolution. 130 org Bronx, NY 10467 Virginia died and the rocking chair Poe touch the fi eldstones Isaac Valentine This is a great book about the pages About: The Bronx County Historical Hours: Monday – Friday 9 a.m. to used. In the kitchen, the dishes on the used to construct the house and walk rise of Yankee Stadium during the McNamara’s Old Bronx. by John Society was founded in 1955 to 5 p.m. by Appointment Only table appear as if the great author had on the oak and pine fl oorboards he early 1920s until the present. This McNamara: John McNamara’s preserve the heritage of the thriving Contact: archivist@ just stepped out for air. fashioned. The main level contains book consist of great images of articles from his “Bronx in History” community. The Society administers bronxhistoricalsociety.org VALENTINE VARIAN HOUSE/ three galleries that feature rich memorable baseball moments with column in “The Bronx Press Review” the colonial era Valentine-Varian EDGAR ALLEN POE COTTAGE MUSEUM OF BRONX HISTORY rotating bi-annual exhibitions, and excellent descriptions. that span the centuries with Bronx House, which serves as the Museum Address: Address: the museum gift store. The upper Bronx Accent by Lloyd Ultan and history. 254 pages of Bronx History; The Bronx County 2640 Grand Concourse at East 3266 Bainbridge Avenue levels are not open to the public. Barbara Unger: This work takes a Morris High School: The story Archives; an extensive Research Kingsbridge Road The Bronx, NY 10467 Books about the Bronx sold at the look at The Bronx’s relationship of the extraordinary educational Library; and Poe Cottage, the fi nal The Bronx, NY 10458 Hours: Saturday 10:00 AM - 4:00 Bronx Museum Shop: to writers over the years and reforms of the 1890s that led to home of America’s great 19th Hours: The Cottage is undergoing PM; Sunday 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Annotated Primary Sources: provides historical context and the opening of Morris High School century poet and author, Edgar Allan a major renovation and restoration. Group and school tours are only From the Collections of The Society: documentation to important literary and the creation of the Public High Poe. Both historic houses are listed Guided tours for groups and by appointment during the week. Colorful, lively historical documents works. It is perfect for the coffee School System. by Gary Hermalyn in the National Register of Historic individuals will be suspended until Contact: education@ contextualized by annotations table! 310 pages 247 pages Places. further notice. bronxhistoricalsociety.org and classroom implementation Bronx Views: Postcards of The The Beautiful Bronx: 1920-1950: The Society is not only dedicated Contact: (718) 881-8900 or Admission: $5 per adult, $3 for questions. Bronx: Wonderful images of The Memories of an exciting time in The to preserving Bronx history. It also [email protected] students, children and seniors. History in Asphalt: The Origin of Bronx with an essay on the origin Bronx. 192 pages offers a variety of programs for Admission: $5 per adult, $3 for About: Blacksmith Isaac Valentine Bronx Street & Place Names: Did you of post cards. The Birth of The Bronx: 1609- the casual visitor, tourist, business students, children and seniors. built this four-level fi eldstone ever wonder how your street got its By The El: Third Avenue and 1900: Accounts from diaries, letters person, student, or researcher About: Edgar Allan Poe spent the farmhouse in 1758 near the Boston name? This fascinating book describes Its El at Mid-Century: Author and notes describing The Bronx as it interested in learning more about last years of his life, from 1846 to Post Road. His property included the history of Bronx names. Lawrence Stelter takes a look into began and developed, accompanied contemporary life in The Bronx. Tours 1849, in The Bronx at Poe Cottage, a blacksmith shop, outhouses, The Bronx: Then & Now: The the past and remembers one of the by rare illustrations. 182 pages of the borough are conducted by The now located at Kingsbridge Road farmland, and a number of slaves. Bronx: Then and Now book highlights fi xtures that connected Manhattan The Bronx In the Innocent Years: Society’s staff and volunteers, while and the Grand Concourse. A small His homestead was later the site of the major transition The Bronx has to The Bronx. Although it has 1890-1925: Colorful fi rst-person special publications, radio and cable wooden farmhouse built about six skirmishes between American gone through over the years with been gone for decades, the Third reminiscences and rare historical T.V programs, concerts, educational 1812, the cottage once commanded troops and British forces, who fascinating images. Avenue El was very important to photographs provide a nostalgic programs, expeditions, art shows and unobstructed vistas over the rolling occupied the house for most of The Northern Borough: A History the development of The Bronx glimpse into the past. 164 pages lecture series highlight today’s Bronx Bronx hills to the shores of Long the Revolutionary War. After the Of The Bronx: This book is an and lives in many New Yorker’s as well as the borough’s heritage. Island. It was a bucolic setting in Revolution, the Valentines fell on updated history of the Bronx. Lloyd memories. 132 pages. BRONX ARTS ENSEMBLE

Bronx Arts Ensemble notable stories, like the Three and other cultures. In addition to University Church; annual Christmas Address: 80 Van Cortlandt Park South Little Pigs, Hansel and Gretel, The education students about music and and Spring concerts with Fordham Suite 7D-1 Emperor’s New Clothes, and Beauty boosting their self-esteem through University Concert Choir, conducted Bronx, NY 10463 and the Beast, and are geared toward the arts, the program serves State by Robert Minotti; and an annual Phone Number: (718) 601-7399 children. Programs are taken to areas Learning Standards and helps to music competition for Fordham Fax: (718) 549-4008 free of charge or at low admission improve reading and writing skills as students, the winner of which Email: [email protected] so that our cultural outreach is well as English comprehension. Their performs with the organization. Website: http://bronxartsensemble.org/ accessible to all. projects involve the interdisciplinary Competitions The Bronx Arts Ensemble is a The organization commands learning of English, history and social In addition, the organization not-for-profi t organization founded the respect of the music world for studies, as well as art and music. has hosted its Young Bronx Artist in 1972 to enrich the cultural its high artistic standards, innovative Auditorium Programs Contest since. The competition is environment of the Bronx with a programming and acclaimed As an extension of its open to music students between year-round schedule of concerts and recordings, as well as its demonstrated educational programs, the Bronx Arts ages 14 and 20 who either live special programs for families and service and commitment to the Bronx Ensemble makes it easy for students in or at least go to school in the a full music and arts-in-education community. The Bronx Arts Ensemble to enjoy shows at either the Lovinger Bronx. Whether the applicant is program for schools. engages some of New York’s fi nest Theatre or Hostos Center for the Arts a instrumentalist or vocalist, the The Bronx Arts Ensemble freelance musicians who perform on Bronx Arts Ensemble & Culture. Through BAE, schools may competition affords talented students serves its diverse community with a regular basis. The cultural institution book groups to attend professional with valuable public performance a repertoire of many cultures, also comprises all instruments of the The Bronx Arts Ensemble School and University Heights High performances each fall and spring. experience. Many have gone on to educational services for children and standard orchestra, performing as a has displayed a commitment to School. The 45-minute shows are performed have professional solo or orchestra adults and concerts. The concerts small group or full symphony. They enriching the lives of students BAE Arts in Education programs in the morning and are geared for careers. This year, Madeleine feature guest artists and conductors present over 100 concerts each through performance programs and combine a workable balance both younger and older students. Manasse, a violinist and sophomore of varied backgrounds, including season, reaching an audience of curriculum-related arts projects. Its of hands-on teaching, student All programs offer teachers’ guides, at Bronx High School of Science, Willie Rodriguez, the Valerie Capers over 50,000 annually at such Bronx programs take place throughout the participation in interdisciplinary introduce the instruments with was awarded fi rst prize in the Quartet, Kelly Hall-Tompkins, Jay Lee, institutions as The New York Botanical Bronx as well as in other boroughs projects, teacher training and musical examples and invite student competition and was awarded $500 Christine Dookie, Marina Piccinini, Garden, , Lehman and Westchester County. Teaching professional performances, which participation. and a solo performance with the and Stewart Goodyear, among others. Stages, Lehman Center for the artists work with school faculty in are acclaimed throughout the New Residency Program Bronx Arts Ensemble that will take Genres featured include chamber Performing Arts, Hostos Community developing programs to enhance York City region. The Bronx Arts Ensemble place during one of its subscription music, jazz, Latin music, and classical College, Bartow-Pell Mansion their teaching curriculum. Some of BAE’s programs are praised has had a Residency at Fordham concerts during the upcoming 2012- music. These concerts frequently Museum, Philipse Manor Hall and the schools that have worked with for directly involving children in the University since 1979 which include 13 season. Runner-ups were also include new works or commissions or numerous Bronx school districts. BAE include P.S. 126, P.S. 64, P.S. creative process, making them aware a free summer concert series; free awarded. rarely performed music of all periods. Youth and Education 58, Bronx International High School, of the arts’ importance and exposing chamber music programs for both Some performances accompany Programs: Bronx International Community High them to great music of both Western University and general community at

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Bronx Post Offi ces (www.usps.com) – M-Sat: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. 3630 E. Tremont Avenue 10473 †No Longer Slated for Possible Closure (800) ASK-USPS Business Hours 10475 Botanical Post Offi ce M-F: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sat: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cornell Post Offi ce 10451 2963 Webster Avenue 1950 Lafayette Avenue Dreiser Loop Post Offi ce Business Hours: 10466 Business Hours 179 Dreiser Loop Bronx Post Offi ce M-F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. M-F: 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sat: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Business Hours 558 Grand Concourse *Slated for Possible Closure Wakefi eld Post Offi ce *Slated for Possible Closure M-F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Business Hours: 4165 White Plains Road *Slated for Possible Closure M-F: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Sat: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10459 Business Hours Clason Point Post Offi ce M-F: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sat: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 829 Soundview Avenue Co-op City Post Offi ce Melcourt Post Offi ce Boulevard Post Offi ce Business Hours: 3300 Conner Street 860 Melrose Avenue 1132 Southern Boulevard 10467 M-F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Business Hours: Business Hours: Business Hours M-F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sat: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. M-F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. M-F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sat: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Williamsbridge Post Offi ce 10474 †No Longer Slated for Possible Closure 711 E. 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Gun Hill Road Business Hours 1163 Castle Hill Avenue Walgreens – 2817 3rd Avenue CVS – 694 Burke Avenue M-F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sat: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Business Hours Hillside Post Offi ce 10458 Key Food – 4171 White Plains Road M-F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. 3482 Boston Road Staples – 2488 Grand Concourse Ridgewood Savings Bank – 711 Allerton 10456 †No Longer Slated for Possible Closure Business Hours: Walgreens – 400 E. Fordham Road Avenue Mon-Sat: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Ridgewood Savings Bank – 3824 White Herman Badillo Post Offi ce 10463 *Slated for Possible Closure 10459 Plains Road 442 E. 167th Street Duane Reade – 941 Southern Boulevard Ridgewood Savings Bank – 3445 Business Hours Kingsbridge Post Offi ce 10470 10461 Jerome Avenue M-F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sat: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. 5517 Broadway CVS – 3681 Bruckner Boulevard Ridgewood Savings Bank – 3824 White *Slated for Possible Closure Business Hours: Woodlawn Post Offi ce Mercy College Bronx Campus Plains Road M-F: 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sat: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 4364 Katonah Avenue Bookstore – 1200 Waters Place Walgreens – 2226 White Plains Road 10457 Business Hours: Key Food – 2722 E. Tremont Avenue 10468 Spuyten Duyvil Post Offi ce M-F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sat: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Ridgewood Savings Bank – 1134 Morris Tremont Post Offi ce 562 Kappock Street Duane Reade – 1 E. Kingsbridge Road Park Avenue 10469 575 E. 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BTR BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29, 2017 29 BRONX CEMETERIES

WOODLAWN CEMETERY In 1964, a portion of the St. Pe- Webster Avenue and E. 233rd ters Section was set aside for the Street burial of Priests of the Archdio- (718) 920-0500 cese of New York. There is also a (877) 496-6352 section for the Sisters of Charity who continue to serve the parish www.thewoodlawncemetery.org and a section for the Sisters of St. Information: Serving over 3,000 Ursula. families each year, the 400 acre OLD WEST FARMS Woodlawn Cemetery continues SOLDIERS CEMETERY to provide a full line of products Bryant Avenue and and services including private & E. 180th Street community mausoleums, crema- Information: he responsibility of tion service as well as in ground caring for the plot. burial options. Designated a Na- tional Historic Landmark in 2011, ST. ANNE’S CHURCH the historic site is known for the AND GRAVEYARD celebrated fi gures at rest, sig- 140th Street and nifi cant works of architecture and Brook Avenue the fi nest collection of memorial (718) 585-5632 art in the nation. Woodlawn was established in 1863 as a non- This designated Bronx landmark sectarian cemetery serving peo- has occupied the space at Bryant ple of all cultures, religions, races Avenue and E. 180th Street since and economic groups. Many 1815. There are 40 soldiers bur- of the “Builders of the Bronx” ied at the site. The fi rst soldier are memorialized at Woodlawn buried here was Sam Adams, a including Louis Haffen, the fi rst veteran of the War of 1812; the Borough President, Louis Risse, last, Valerino Tulosa, fought in designer of the Grand Concourse World War I. The cemetery was and who developed founded by John Butler and the much of 20th century New York. Butler family retained possession Internationally known entertain- until 1953. Since then, New York ers Celia Cruz, Duke Ellington and City has inherited the responsibil- Miles Davis are in Woodlawn’s ity of caring for the plot. care as well as author Herman Melville, suffragist Elizabeth HUNT FAMILY CEMETERY Cady Stanton, publisher Joseph (DRAKE CEMETERY) Pulitzer and retailer JC Penney. Drake Park on Hunts Point and Woodlawn Cemetery Outstanding monuments include Oak Point avenues. the memorial to Isidor and Ida included the college cemetery. Places in 1983. be found in the cemetery. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN Straus who lost their lives aboard This is on of the smallest cemeter- The property was taken by the CHURCH CEMETERY the Titanic, the elaborate mauso- ies in the Bronx. Drake Cemetery authority of the state 1884 New BERRIAN-BASHFORD CORSA FAMILY 3051 E. Tremont Avenue leum for members of the Belmont was named after Joseph Rodman Parks Law. Those acres later BURYING GROUND BURIAL GROUNDS (718) 829-5326 family and the Egyptian tomb of Drake, a poet who made a name became part of the New York East of Van Cortlandt Mansion Fordham University’s Rose Hill dime store magnate F.W. Wool- for himself in the 1800’s. When Botanical Garden. Thereafter and West of the lake in Van Campus The First Presbyterian Church worth). he died of tuberculosis at the age the cemetery could no longer Cortlandt Park of Throgg’s Neck was organized of 25, he requested to be laid to be used and so for a short time c/o Van Cortlandt House The circular garden behind in 1855 and the cemetery was ST. RAYMOND’S CEMETERY rest near the Bronx River. Since 3 Jesuits’ bodies were kept Museum St. John’s Hall is the spot of the used during the 19th Century. The 2600 Lafayette Avenue then, members of the prominent in a vault in the St. Raymond Van Cortlandt Park private burial ground of the Corsa church was destroyed in a fi re in (718) 792-1133 families of the era – the Hunts, cemetery. In January 1890, he Broadway and W. 246th Street family who owned the land that 1870. It is believed that church www.straymondparish.org/ Leggetts, etc. have been buried remains of 61 Jesuits), three (718) 543-3344 Fordham University now occupies. records may have been destroyed cemetery.html here. seminarians, nine college stu- The site was discovered in the in that fi re. A new church was dents, and two workmen were Members of the Ackerman, Ber- 1840’s when St. John’s Hall was built in 1883. The Cemetery of St. Raymond, FERRIS FAMILY PLOT transferred to the new cemetery rian, Bashford and Warner fami- under construction. the only Catholic cemetery in the Commerce Street near near the university church. lies are known to be buried at CEMETERIES NO LONGER Bronx, has been a part of the par- Westchester Avenue January 24, 1909, marked the this site, with gravestones dat- MOUNT SAINT IN EXISTENCE ish since 1842 and has expanded last burial in the Fordham cem- ing back to between 1794 and VINCENT CEMETERY from the original cemetery in Ferris Family Plot - Commerce etery: New York-born Fr. William 1807. Most graves were marked College of Mount Saint Vincent Bensionia (Morrisania) Cem- front of the church and on the site Street near Westchester Avenue O’B. Pardow, aged 62, formerly by rough fi eldstones. In some in Riverdale etery: This grave site was origi- of the elementary school to the – This cemetery originally be- Jesuit provincial superior and cases, the initials of the deceased This cemetery contains the re- nally an Indian Burial Ground and Old Cemetery on Tremont Avenue longed to the Ferris family, which famous preacher. In 1999, at a were engraved into stone, while mains of approximately 150 nuns. contained many prominent fami- to the new Cemetery and Mau- had large holdings in the area be- newly formed committee’s sug- formal monuments were erected lies. The graves were reinterred soleums at the Lafayette Avenue ginning in 1667. Benjamin Ferris gestion, the deteriorating tomb- for others. The New York City POTTER’S FIELD to Woodlawn and the former grave site. The Cemetery provides in- owned what is now Westchester stones were replaced by low and Northern Railroad was cut Hart Island site is now the home of P.S. 138 ground burials, in-ground crypt Square in 1839. Captain Watson granite markers. The cemetery through the northern end of the Old Berrian Cemetery – Locat- burials in the new Holy Cross Ferris sailed for California to fi nd and the markers were blessed plot around 1890, where African- The City purchased Hart Is- ed at Fordham Road and Sedgwick section, Mausoleum burials and gold in 1851 and died of yellow by the Rev. Gerald Blaszczak, American slaves are thought to land from the Hunter fam- Avenue, the site was once the fi nal niches for cremains and burials fever in Panama. His body was S.J., Rector of the Jesuit Com- be buried. ily for $75,000 in 1868 and resting place of the Berrian, Valen- in the base of the granite Cross placed in a barrel of rum and munity, in a well-attended cer- established the site as a public tine and Cromwell families. located in the Holy Cross section. is, according to Bronx historian emony. On April 5, 2000, a PELHAM CEMETERY cemetery for the burial of those Fordham Manor Dutch Re- The entire cemetery complex is John McNamara, interred in the permanent plaque was placed 73 Earley Street persons who died penniless or formed Church – Once located 180 acres and when fi lled (almost “family vault behind Westchester beside the cemetery to bear wit- (718) 885-3036 whose bodies went unclaimed. on Kingsbridge Road, the remains 4,000 burials are held each year) Square,” where the Ferris Family ness to those interred in “God’s In the fi rst year, 1,875 burials were eventually reinterred in Ken- will be a holy and prayerful burial Plot is said to be. Holy Acre.” Pelham Cemetery is so named were performed. Potter’s Field sico Cemetery in Westchester. site for more than half a million because City Island was still a has been used by a variety of West Farms Dutch Reformed people. Buried in the cemetery JESUIT CEMETERY ST. PETER’S CHURCHYARD part of the Westchester town agencies over the years, includ- Church – Most of the interments are Dr. L.Sullivan Ives, founder of Fordham University, Westchester Avenue when the cemetery was fi rst ing the Department of Correc- at this cemetery, once located at The Catholic Protectory (originally Rose Hill Campus While the current St. Peter’s Epis- placed here in the 1880s. It is tion. In 1948, at the behest of Boone Avenue and 172nd Street, an orphanage on the Parkchester copal Church was built in 1855, the only waterside cemetery in inmates, a 30-foot high monu- were removed to Woodlawn Cem- site); Bishop Pernicone, the fi rst July 11, 1847 marked the fi rst the parish grounds have actually the Five Boroughs and while it ment, located in the center of etery. Italian American Bishop of New burial in the old Fordham cem- existed since 1693 and contains was created in the 1880’s, there the burial site, pays tribute to Westchester Methodist Church York; Jazz singer Billie Holiday etery on a hillside, east part of many graves dating back to the are older gravestones within its the departed there. The DOC – Located at 2547 E. Tremont and Fr. Frank Duffy of the Fight- campus: Joseph Creeden, aged late 1690’s. St. Peter’s Church, grounds. The cemetery is fi lled still maintains and operates the Avenue, the cemetery here once ing 69th regiment, among other 26, Irish-born Jesuit novice Complex and Cemetery were with the gravestones of well- site. Burials continue to be per- contained members of the Fowler well known names. A special Brother. In April 1889, after pay- designated by the New York City known Pelham families and early formed there by inmate labor, family as well as church members Garden of Innocents is where ment of $93,966.25, New York Landmarks Preservation Com- settlers. In addition, the grave under supervision of Correction and townsmen. In 1940, the re- still-born and young babies are City took title to 26.845 acres of mission in 1976, and listed on sites of veterans of the Civil War staff. Hart Island is closed to mains were removed to a church- buried with dignity and solemnity. Fordham’s east campus, which the National Registry of Historic and virtually every war since may the public. yard in Jamaica, Queens.

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ROBERTO CLEMENTE STATE PARK widely known for its 3.3-acre lake. While turtles, ducks and fi sh enjoy the lake, Location: W. Tremont and Matthewson guests enjoy a 300 foot pool, the largest in Road the borough. Tennis fans test their skills Size: 25-acre on 20 hard courts, home of the annual Website: http://nysparks.state.ny.us/ Bronx Pro Tennis Classic, while baseball parks/140/details.aspx teams square off on Crotona Park’s fi ve Information: Roberto Clemente State diamonds. The park also includes 26 Park is a 25-acre waterfront park that handball courts, 11 playgrounds spread opened in 1973 along the Harlem throughout the park, four comfort stations, River. The park is named after Roberto and picnic and sitting areas for those just Clemente, the first Latino-American looking to enjoy the tranquility of nature. inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Crotona Park also hosts many special Each year, special events pay homage to programs throughout the year. Since the baseball legend. And each day, the 1984, the Bronx Urban Park Rangers have park offers a variety of recreational and organized walks and tours that use Indian cultural activities year-round for youth, Lake and the trees and fi elds around it as adults, senior citizens and the physically an outdoor learning laboratory. Visitors challenged. The facilities include a multi- explore pond ecology, bird-watching, Bronx purpose recreation building, an Olympic- history, and Bronx plant and animal life. size pool complex, ball fields, basketball CityParks Foundation also hosts a number courts, picnic areas, playgrounds and of free concerts and stage performances a waterfront promenade. During the throughout the summer months. summer, the park is home to numerous concerts and special events. There is Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum truly something for everyone at Roberto Clemente State Park. Location: Schley Avenue and the Long the City’s largest part property. The park Officially open as a museum since Island Sound between Westchester Creek was purchased by the City in 1888, and 1946, Bartow-Pell’s mansion, gardens Running Course opened, featuring both BRONX PARK and Balcom Avenue has since evolved from a natural woodland and landscape offer visitors a source of 5-mile and 3-mile loops. Van Cortlandt Size: 413.80 acres into an enhanced recreational facility serenity in the urban landscape. Many city Stadium opened in 1939. The horse Location: E. 180th Street between Dr. Website: www.nycgovparks.org/parks/ with playgrounds, comfort stations and children and their teachers participate in stables and adjoining bridle path opened Kazamiroff Boulevard, Southern Boulevard ferrypointpark other amenities. Among them, Pelham education programs and connect to the in 1955. Two nature trails added in the and Bronx Park East, Unionport Road Information: Ferry Point Park, which first Bay Park features two golf facilities – history of the site. Mansion tours, public 1980s offer hikers the opportunity to Size: 718.10 acres came under Parks jurisdiction in 1937, Pelham-Split Rock Golf Course and Turtle programs and classes allow children and explore the wetlands and forests in this Website: www.nycgovparks.org/parks/ is approximately half the size of Central Cove Golf Center. In addition, the park adults to expand their horizons in an park. The Cass Gallagher Nature Trail bronxpark Park, and is known for its spectacular includes baseball fi elds, basketball courts, exceptional setting. (1984) is dedicated to a longtime Bronx Information: Bronx Park, created in the views. Situated on one and a half miles bocce courts, football fi elds, kayak and resident and environmental activist, 1890’s, is one of the hidden gems of prime waterfront, Ferry Point Park canoe launch sites, dog runs, bicycling Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum: Built and the John Kieran Nature Trail (1988) of New York City, featuring a myriad was named for the ferries that traveled and greenways, a horseback riding trail, between 1836 and 1842, the Bartow-Pell commemorates a famed naturalist and of plants and animals that make their between the Bronx and Queens, from playgrounds, miles of bridle paths and Mansion Museum exemplifies a type of newspaperman. In 1997, the fi rst east- habitat along the Bronx River and in the Westchester Village to Whitestone and hiking trails, and a breathtaking 13-mile country living that existed in the Pelham west connector trail was established park’s forests, including one of the last from Clason Point to College Point. The saltwater shoreline that hugs Long Island Bay Park area in the early 19th Century. and named for renowned naturalist John surviving red maple-hardwood forests in park offers unparalleled views of the East Sound. Recently, the City renovated Officially open as a museum since Muir. The park also offers residents an the City. The Bronx River, which begins River, the Manhattan skyline, and of the the park’s track-and-fi eld, enjoyed by 1946, Bartow-Pell’s mansion, gardens opportunity to enjoy football, baseball, in North White Plains and fl ows into the Whitestone and Throgs Neck Bridges. hundreds of people who use the park each and landscape offer visitors a source of softball, soccer, cricket, tennis, golf, and East River at , offers nu- In addition to views, the parkland also day. Hundreds also come out to enjoy two serenity in the urban landscape. Many city swimming. well-known facilities that add to the park’s children and their teachers participate in merous scenic and recreational opportu- provides residents with a myriad of OTHER PARKS, PLAYGROUNDS notoriety – and Bartow- education programs and connect to the nities. While walking along the river, visi- sporting opportunities, including cricket, AND PARK FACILITIES tors can observe a unique habitat which soccer, football and basketball. And Pell Mansion Museum. history of the site. Mansion tours, public programs and classes allow children and hosts a diverse array of invertebrates, fi sh, there will be more to come. Ferry Abigail Playground (0.53 acres) – E. 156th Orchard Beach: The Bronx’s only adults to expand their horizons in an and birds. While the park is perhaps best Point Park has received great attention Street between Tinton and Union avenues known as the home of the Bronx Zoo and recently with the announcement that beach is an engineering marvel. While exceptional setting. Admiral Farragut Playground (1.36 acres) New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park the land will finally see the completion surrounded by acres of natural forest, – E. 176th Street between Crotona and also has many recreation areas. Park of a public world-class 18-hole golf marshlands and coastline, the beach is VAN CORTLANDT PARK course. In addition to the state-of-the- actually man-made, through the use of Prospect avenues visitors can take advantage of numerous Location: Westchester County Line, Van art golf course, Ferry Point Park recently landfill, and 1.2 million cubic yards of Agnes Haywood Playground (1.32 acres) playgrounds, bicycle paths, baseball dia- Cortlandt Park South between Broadway welcomed a Community Park with new sand, brought by barge. The beach, built – Barnes Avenue between E. 215th and monds, tennis and basketball courts, foot- and Jerome Avenue little league and junior baseball field, in 1936, covers a mile and 115 acres, 216th streets ball and soccer fi elds, a recently installed Size: 1,146.43 acres basketball courts, a play area for children was originally conceived as the “Riviera skate park, and a dog run. From zoos to Website: www.nycgovparks.org/parks/ Alexander’s Alley (0.11 acres) – E. 141st and a pedestrian trail. A separate 20- of New York,” and its promise is carried playgrounds to historical landmarks (the VanCortlandtPark Street between Alexander and Willis acre waterfront promenade will convert out in its promenade lined with shops, historic snuff mill once owned by the Information: Van Cortlandt Park is New avenues undeveloped parkland into a passive playgrounds, picnic areas, and more Lorillards still stands as part of the NYBG), York City’s fourth largest park. New York ecologically responsible park. Phase 1 than two dozen sports courts. On hot Allerton Playground (1.60 acres) – Allerton Bronx Park is an area for all to enjoy. City acquired the parkland in 1888, but it of the promenade project will include a days this beach draws tens of thousands Avenue between Throop and Bouck did not name it in honor of its long-time CROTONA PARK picnic area, comfort station and views of of families, swimmers, athletes, and avenues residents until 1913. Those residents the Long Island Sound, a multi-use path loungers. Thousands come out to enjoy Ambrosini Field (6.10 acres) – City Island Location: Crotona Park North to South and enjoy a plethora of activities at the park and the creation of a tidal wetland. the Bronx Fireworks Show each year. On Avenue at Centre Street Fulton Avenue to Southern Boulevard and cooler days, its shores make a perfect each year. The fi rst municipal golf course Aqueduct Walk (4.93 acres) – Aqueduct Crotona Park East setting for peaceful strolls, and its in the country opened here in 1895; a PELHAM BAY PARK Avenue between W. Fordham Road and W. Size: 127.50 acres basketball and volleyball courts and its second golf course, the Mosholu Golf Kingsbridge Road Website: www.nycgovparks.org/parks/ Location: Hutchinson River and the Long playgrounds continue to welcome all of Course, opened in 1914. In addition, the crotonapark Island Sound between the Bronx County its neighbors. Van Cortlandt Mansion was leased by Aqueduct Walk (8.61 acres) - Dr. MLK Jr. Information: Crotona Park, the largest Line and Middletown Road, Watt Avenue City of New York to the Society of Colonial Boulevard between W. Tremont Avenue park in the South Bronx, has served the Size: 2,771.75 acres Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum: Built Dames and the historic house opened as a and E. Fordham Road community steadily since its purchase by museum in 1897. The Parade Ground was Website: www.nycgovparks.org/parks/ between 1836 and 1842, the Bartow-Pell Arcilla Playground (1.38 acres) – E. the City from Andrew Bathgate in 1888. created in 1901, and National Guard used pelhambaypark Mansion Museum exemplifies a type of 164th Street between Teller and Clay The beauty of the park is highlighted it for training exercises until the end of Information: More than three times the country living that existed in the Pelham avenues at by the 28 variety of tree species, but is size of , Pelham Bay Park is Bay Park area in the early 19th Century. World War I. In 1913, the Cross-Country 32 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29, 2017 BTR PARKS, PLAYGROUNDS & PARK FACILITIES

Park Avenue 156th Street between Jackson and Forest avenues Avenue between St. Ann’s and Eagle Field of Dreams Park (0.17 acres) – E. Bailey Playground (3.53 acres) – Bailey avenues Dawson Playground (0.68 acres) – Rogers avenues 167th Street between Southern Boulevard Avenue between W. 234th and W. 237th St. Caserta Playground (1 acre) – St. Raymond Place at Dawson Street Eastchester Playground (1.02 acres) – and Simpson Street Barnhill Square (0.01 acre) – W. Kingsbridge Avenue between Purdy and Odell streets Derosa O’Boyle Triangle (0.02 acres) – Adee Avenue at Tenbroeck Avenue Flood Triangle (0.07 acres) – E. 188th Avenue at Reservoir Avenue Castle Hill Little League Field (1.71 acres) Dewey Avenue between E. Tremont and Echo Triangle (0.16 acres) – Echo Street at Third Avenue and Washington Avenue Barretto Park (0.12 acres) – Baretto Street – Zerega Avenue between Commerce and Edison avenues Place, E. Tremont Avenue and the Grand between Randall and Spoffard avenues Gleason avenues Devanney Triangle (0.12 acres) – E. Concourse Flynn Playground (0.82 acres) – Brook Castle Hill Park (8.83 acres) – Barrett Burnside Avenue between Creston Avenue Edenwald Playground (2.54 acres) - Avenue to Third Avenue between E. 157th (11.6 acres) – Viele and E. 158th streets Avenue between Tiffany and Barretto Avenue and Hart Street between Olmstead and Grand Concourse Schieffelin Avenue between E. 266th streets and Zerega avenues Devoe Park (5.44 acres) – W. Fordham Road Drive and E. 229 Street Fordham Landing Playground (3.90 Castle Hill Playground (1.37 acres) – Castle between Sedgwick and University avenues (0.90 acres) – Third acres) – Landing Road, Major Deegan Barry Plaza (0.09 acres) – E. 173rd Street Expressway and Bailey Avenue between Clay and Anthony avenues Hill Avenue, Parker Street Dred Scott Bird Sanctuary – Grant Avenue Avenue between E. 167th and E. 168th streets Fort Independence Playground (3.02 Bathgate Playground (2.50 acres) - Cedar Playground (1.80 acres) – W. 179th between E. 169th and E. 170th streets Street between Cedar and Sedgwick Ewen Park (7.84 acres) – Johnson Avenue, acres) – and Washington Avenue to Bathgate Avenue Drew Playground (0.94 acres) – Fulton Sedgwick Avenue between W. 181st Street and E. 183rd avenues Avenue between E. 169th and E. 170th W. 232nd Street, Riverdale Avenue Street Chief Dennis L. Devlin Park (0.52 acres) – streets Fairmount Playground (0.47 acres) - Fountain of Youth Playground (1.38 acres) Cross Bronx Expressway Road, Ellis and Prospect Avenue between N/B Cross – Union Avenue between E. 150th and E. Beanstalk Playground (0.27 acres) – Dunbar Playground (1.44 acres) – E. 161st 152nd streets Billingsley Terrace between Phelan Place Olmstead avenues Street, Trinity Avenue, E. 163rd Street, Bronx Expressway and Fairmount Place and Sedgwick Avenue Church Triangle (0.09 acres) – Cross Bronx Cauldwell Avenue Farm in the Bronx – E. 182nd Street Fox Playground (0.94 acres) – E. 156th Expressway Service Road and Castle Hill between Bassford and Washington Street between Fox Street and Southern Beatty Plaza (0.10 acres) – E. 169th Street Eae J. Mitchell Park (0.18 acres) – E. 174th Boulevard and Franklin Avenue and Watson avenues Street between Bryant and Longfellow avenues Ciccarone Park (0.55 acres) – E. 188th avenues Featherbed Triangle (0.17 acres) – Dr. Franz Sigel Park (15.99 acres) – Gerard and Behagen Playground (3.35 acres) – Tinton Walton avenues and Grand Concourse Avenue between E. 165th and E. 166th Street between Arthur and Hughes Eagles Slope (0.38 acres) – Westchester MLK Boulevard and Featherbed Lane Streets avenues Bell Tower Park (0.50 acres) – Riverdale City Island Wetlands (8.01 acres) – Bay and Avenue, and W. Tier streets and Eastchester Bay 239th Street Claremont Park (38.54 acres) – Clay and Belmont Playground (2.21 acres) – E. Anthony avenues between Mount Eden 182nd Street between Crotona and Belmont Parkway and E. 170th Street avenues Clark Playground (0.72 acres) – Third Benjamin Gladstone Square (0.20 acres) – Avenue between E. 144th and E. 145th Westchester and Hoe avenues, West Farms streets Road Cleopatra Playground (0.62 acres) – Bergen Triangle (0.21 acres) - E 181st Anthony Avenue between Prospect Place Street, Anthony Avenue, Grand Concourse and Ittner Place Bicentennial Veterans Memorial Park (9.39 Co-Op City Field (3.40 acres) – Co-op acres) – Throggs Neck Expressway at City Boulevard and the Hutchinson River Pennyfi eld and Elisworth avenues between Carver Loop and Bellamy Loop Blackrock Playground (0.32 acres) – Colgate Close (1.87 acres) – Bruckner Watson and Blackrock avenues between Expressway between Close and Colgate Virginia and Pugsley avenues avenues Boone Slope (0.03 acres) – Cross Bronx Colucci Playground (4 acres) – Hutchinson Expressway Exit Ramp between Boone River Parkway East between Wilkinson Avenue and West Farms Road Avenue and E. 197th Street (7.39 acres) – Bronx River between Westchester Avenue and Bridge Playground (0.61 acres) – Boscobel Bruckner Boulevard Place between Dr. MLK Boulevard and Undercliff Avenue Cooney Grauer Field (1.27 acres) – Bailey Avenue between W. 233rd and W. 234th Bronx River Parkway (205.65 acres) – streets Bronx River between Burke Avenue and the New York City - Westchester Line Cpl. Fischer Park (0.57 acres) – Nelson Avenue between W. 169th and W. 170th Brook Park (0.76 acres) – Brook Avenue streets between E. 140th to E. 141st streets Crescent Park (0.44 acres) – Albany Bruckner Playground (1.05 acres) – Crescent, W. 233rd Street, Major Deegan Brinsmade Avenue between Cross Bronx Expressway Service Road and Swinton Avenue Crotona Parkway Malls (8.75 acres) – Brust Park – (1.79 acres) – Manhattan Crotona Parkway between Bronx Park College Parkway, Dash Place and Greystone South & E. 175th Street Avenue D’auria Murphy Triangle (0.31 Street) – Bryan Park (0.15 acres) - E Kingsbridge Adams Place between Cresent Avenue and Road at E. Fordham Road E. 183rd Street Bryant Triangle (0.17 acres) – Longfellow, D’onofrio Square (0.38 acres) – White Bryant and Westchester avenues Plains Road between E. 213th and E. 215th Bufano Park (1.90 acres) – Bradford Avenue streets between La Salle and Waterbury avenues Daniel Boone Playground (1.20 acres) – Burns Playground (1.62 acres) – Mace Boone Avenue between West Farms Road Avenue between Lodovick and Gunther and Freeman Street avenues Davidson Playground (0.21 acres) – W. Owen-Dolan Park Captain Rivera Playground (0.99 acres) – E. 180th Street between Davidson and Grand

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between E. 151st, E. 153rd and E. 158th between Stratford and Morrison Avenue W. 230th streets streets I.S. 135 (0.70 acres) – Holland Avenue Martin Luther King Triangle (0.12 acres) Freeman Triangle (0.02 acres) - West Farms between Mace and Waring avenues – Shakespeare Avenue at W. 168th Street Road, Longfellow Ave. and Freeman Street I.S. 201/M.S. 424 (0.61 acres) – Spofford and Woodycrest avenues Galileo Playground (0.71 acres) – Macombs Avenue between Longfellow and Bryant Martin Luther King Triangle (0.16 acres) - Road between W, 175th and W. 176th avenues Austin Place at E. 149th Street streets I.S. 391 (0.51 acres) – Folin Street between Matthews Muliner Playground (1.02 acres) Garrison Park (0.99 acres) – Edgewater E. 181st and 182nd Streets – Matthews Avenue between Morris Park Road between Garrison Avenue and Inwood Park (0.36 acres) – W. Mount Eden and Rhinelander avenues Bruckner Boulevard Avenue between Inwood and Jerome Mazzei Playground (1.59 acres) – Mace Garrison Playground (0.70 acres) – E. 146th avenues Avenue between Paulding Avenue and Street between Walton Avenue and Grand Jennie Jerome Playground (0.29 acres) – Williamsbridge Road Concourse Jerome Avenue between E. 174th Street McKinley Square (0.12 acres) – E. 169th (0.67 acres) – Major Deegan and the Cross Bronx Expressway Entrance Street, Boston Road, Clinton Avenue Expressway, W. Fordham Road, Cedar Jerome Park (4.36 acres) – Goulden Avenue Melrose Commons Ura Site 32 (1.07 acres) Avenue between W. 205th Street and Sedgwick – Melrose Avenue between E. 159th and E. Givan Square (1.82 acres) – E. Gun Hill Avenue 160th streets Road and Eastchester Road between Arnow Jerome Playground South (0.34 acres) Melrose Playground (1.00 acres) – and Adee avenues – Cross Bronx Expressway between Courtlandt Avenue between E. 154th & Givans Creek Woods Park (10.73 acres) – Townsend and Jerome avenues 155th streets New England Thruway between Co-op City Jerome Slope (0.76 acres) – Jerome Merriam Playground (2.94 acres) – W. Boulevard and Rombouts Avenue Avenue at E. 165th Street 168th Street between Dr. MLK Jr. Boulevard Goble Playground (0.38 acres) – Goble Joseph Rodman Drake Park (2.49 acres) – and Merriam Avenue Place between Inwood Avenue and Oak Point Avenue between Hunts Point and Michel Triangle (0.28 acres) – Clay Avenue Macombs Road Longfellow avenues between E. 171st Street and Claremont Gouverneur Morris Triangle (0.31 acres) - Joyce Kilmer Park (6.88 acres) – Grand Parkway Bruckner Boulevard, Jackson Avenue, E. Concourse to Walton Avenue between E. Miele Park (0.39 acres) – Bruckner 138 Street 161st and E. 164th streets Boulevard between Hollywood and Crosby Gouverneur Playground (0.98 acres) – Third Julio Carballo Field (3.43 acres) – Manida avenues Avenue between St. Paul’s Place and E. Street between Spofford and Lafayette – Major Deegan Expressway 170th Street avenues between E. 149th Street and E. 153rd Governor Smith Playground (3.56 acres) Keltch Park (0.29 acres) – Jerome Avenue Streets – Morris Avenue between E. 151st and E. between Macombs Road and Elliot Place Millbrook Playground (1.05 acres) – E. 153rd streets Kingsbridge Heights Community Center 135th Street between St. Ann’s and Cypress Graham Triangle (0.13 acres) – Lincoln and (0.33 acres) – Kingsbridge Terrace between avenues Third avenues between E. 137th and 138th Perot Street and Summit Place Mohegan Triangle (0.10 acres) – Mohegan streets Little Claremont Park (0.55 acres) – Avenue, Crotona Parkway, E. 179th Street Grand Playground (0.38 acres) – W. 181st Claremont Parkway between Park and Raul Del Valle Square (0.42 Street between Grand and Davidson Washington avenues acres) – E. 163rd Street, Bruckner avenues Locust Point Marina (22.07 acres) – Boulevard and Hunts Point Avenue Grant Park (3.85 acres) – E. 170th Street Longstreet Avenue between Harding Morgan Playground (0.78 acre) – E. 168th between Sheridan and Morris avenues Avenue and Giegerich Place Street between Park and Washington Grove Hill Playground (1.19 acres) – E. Loreto Playground (2.18 acres) – Morris avenues 158th Street between Eagle and Cauldwell Park Avenue between Haight and Tomlinson Morris Mesa (0.15 acres) – N/S Cross Bronx avenues Van Cortlandt Parkl avenues Expressway between Grand Concourse and Gun Hill Playground (0.72 acres) – Magenta Lozada Playground (1.05 acres) – E. Morris Avenue Street between Holland and Cruger Haviland Playground (0.84 acres) – Haviland streets 135th Street between Alexander and Willis Mosholu Parkway (80.94 acres) – Bronx avenues and Watson avenues between Virginia and Horseshoe Playground (0.43 acres) – E. avenues Park to Van Cortlandt Park H.S. 690/692 (0.43 acres) – Manor Avenue Pugsley avenues 165th Street and Rogers Place Lyons Square Playground (1.32 acres) Mosholu Playground (0.41 acres) – Mosholu between E. 172nd and 173rd streets Hawkins Park (0.14 acres) – City Island Hugh J Grant Circle (1.11 acres) – – Aldus Street to Bruckner Boulevard Parkway South between Bainbridge and Hackett Park (1 acre) – W. 254th Street, Avenue between Fordham and Hawkins Westchester Avenue between Virginia and between Bryant and Longfellow avenues Briggs avenues Riverdale Avenue, Henry Hudson Parkway streets Metropolitan avenues Maclaughlin Playground (0.30 acres) – Mott Playground (0.98 acres) – Morris Haffen Park (9.24 acres) – Hammersly Heath Triangle (0.11 acres) - Bailey Avenue Hunt’s Point Riverside Park (0.43 acres) – Greystone Avenue between W. 236th and Avenue between McClellan and E. 166th Avenue to Burke Avenue between Ely and at Heath Avenue Lafayette Avenue between Edgewater Road W. 240th streets streets Gunther avenues (8.97 acres) – Palisade and the Bronx River Park (44.17 acres) – River Mount Eden Malls (1.68 acres) – Mt. Eden Half-Nelson Playground (0.61 acres) – Avenue, Kappock Street and Independence Hunts Point Playground (0.72 acres) – Avenue to The Harlem River between E. Parkway between Walton and Weeks Nelson Avenue between Featherbed Lane Avenue Spofford Avenue between Faile Street and 157th, W. 161st and E. 164th streets avenues and W. 174th Street Henry Hudson Parkway (54.10 acres) – Hunts Point Avenue (1.21 acres) Olinville Mount Hope Playground (0.70 acres) – E. Harding Park (2.16 acres) – Bolton Avenue Harlem River to the Hutchinson River Parkway (229.14 acres) Avenue at Rosewood Street 177th Street at Walton Avenue between O’Brien and Gildersleeve avenues (0.82 acres) – Dr. MLK Jr. – Whitestone Bridge Approach to the NYC- Major General John R. Brown Triangle (0.14 Mullaly Park (15.05 acres) – Jerome Harding Park Beautifi cation Project (1.16 Boulevard at W. 170th Street Westchester County Line acres) – W. Kingsbridge Road and Sedgwick Avenue to River Avenue between E. 164th acres) – Bronx River Avenue between C Hilton White Playground (0.48 acres) – Hutton Triangle (0.10 acres) – E. 182nd Avenue Street and McClellan Street at Cromwell Street and Cornell Avenue Cauldwell Avenue between E. 161st and E. Street at Arthur Avenue and Quarry Road Mapes Ballfi elds (1.81 acres) – Mapes Avenue 163rd Streets Harris Park (15.32 acres) – Goulden Avenue, I-Am-Park (0.71 acres) – Jackson Avenue Avenue to Prospect Avenue between E. Muller Triangle (0.04 acres) – E. Fordham W. 205th Street, Paul Avenue, Bedford Park Hines Park (0.38 acres) – Fulton to Franklin between E. 147th and E. 145th streets 180th and 181st streets Road, Creston Avenue and E. 190th Street Boulevard avenues between E. 166th and E. 167th Mapes Pool (0.68 acres) – E. 180th Street Murphy Triangle (0.10 acres) – E. 181st St. streets I.S. 45 (0.12 acres) – E. Fordham Road and Havemeyer Playground (0.44 acres) – Hoffman Street between Mapes and Prospect avenues at Third Avenue and Quarry Road Cross Bronx Expressway Service Road and Hoe Avenue North Tot Lots (0.39 acres) – I.S. 123 (0.73 acres) – Watson Avenue Marble Hill Playground (1.65 acres) – Nelson Playground (1.22 acres) – W. 166th Havemeyer and Watson avenues Hoe Avenue between Home and Freeman Marble Hill Avenue between W. 228th and

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Street between Nelson and Woodycrest P.S. 306 (0.05 acres) – W. 177th Street between Castle Hill and Olmstead avenues avenues Van Cortlandt’s Trail (0.35 acres) – avenues between W. Tremont and Jerome avenues Raoul Wellenberg Forest (4.73 acres) – Soundview Park (205.31 acres) – Bronx Broadway between W. 239th Street and Noble Playground (3.21 acres) – Noble P.S. 340 (0.98 acres) – W. 195th Street and Palisade and Douglas avenues between W. River and Bronx River Avenue between Van Cortlandt Park South Avenue between Bronx River Avenue and Jerome Avenue 235th and W. 236th streets Lafayette Avenue and Surf Drive Van Nest Park (0.40 acres) – White Plains E. 177th Street Padre Plaza (0.37 acres) – E. 139th Street Rev J Polite Playground (1.81 acres) – Rev. South Brother Island (22.16 acres) – East Road, Unionport Road, Van Nest Avenue North Brother Island (30.39 acres) – East and St. Ann’s Avenue James Polite Avenue to Intervale Avenue, River Vidalia Park (2.14 acres) – E. 180th Street River Palmer Inlet (7.49 acres) – Outlook, Library between Home and 167th streets Space Time Playground (1.28 acres) – between Vyse and Daly avenues O’Brien Oval (0.35 acres) – E. Tremont and Griswold avenues and Lucerne Street Rev. Lena Irons Unity Park (0.34 acres) – Lafayette Avenue between Bolton and (3.50 acres) – W. Avenue at Valentine Avenue Parkside Playground (0.82 acres) – Arnow E. 168th Street between Washington and Underhill avenues 254th Street between Riverdale and O’Neill Triangle (0.59 acres) – Elton Avenue Avenue between Olinville Avenue and White Third avenues Spuyten Duyvil Playground (1.51 acres) – Mosholu avenues between E. 161st and E. 162nd streets Plains Road Richman (Echo) Park (4.38 acres) – Douglas Avenue between W. 235th and W. Virginia Park (0.92 acres) – White Plains Ogden Plimpton Playground (0.23 acres) – Patterson Playground (1.68 acres) – E. Valentine Avenue between E. Tremont and 236th streets Road, Westchester Avenue, Cross Bronx Ogden and Plimpton avenues and W. 170th 148th Street between Morris and College E. Burnside avenues Spuyten Duyvil Shorefront Park (6.60 acres) Expressway Street avenues Rienzi Playground (1.23 acres) – E. 226th – Palisade, Johnson and Edsall avenues Virginia Playground (0.46 acres) – McGraw Owen Dolen Park (1.40 acres) – E. Tremont, Peace Park (0.14 acres) – Cross Bronx Street between White Plains Road and St. James Park (11.39 acres) – Jerome Avenue between White Plains Road and Westchester and Lane avenues Expressway Service Road between Clay Barnes Avenue Avenue, E. 193rd Street, Creston Avenue, Virginia Avenue P. O. Serrano Playground (2.62 acres) – and Topping avenues Risse Street Park (0.81 acres) – E. Mosholu E. 191st Street Wakefi eld Playground (0.88 acres) – Matilda Olmstead Avenue between Turnbull and Pelham Bay Little League (1.26 acres) – Parkway, Jerome Avenue and Grand St. Lawrence Triangle (0.14 acres) – Cross Avenue to Carpenter Avenue between E. Lafayette avenues Westchester Avenue between Tan Place Concourse Bronx Expressway Service Road, St. 239th and E. 240th streets P.S. 3 (0.48 acres) – E. 181st Street between and Waters Avenue Rita Ley Triangle (0.12 acres) – E. 238th Lawrence Avenue and E. 174th Street Walton Park (0.34 acres) – E. 181st Street Arthur and La Fontaine avenues Pelham Parkway (108.91 acres) – Bronx Street, Onedia Avenue, Van Cortlandt Park E. St. Luke’s Park (0.44 acres) – E. 138th between Walton and Jerome avenues P.S. 7 (0.39 acres) – W. 232nd Street Park and Hutchinson River Parkway River Avenue Parks (0.67 acres) – E. 157th Street between Cypress and St. Ann’s Walton Slope (0.55 acres) – Walton Avenue, between Corlear and Kinsbridge avenues between Pelham Parkway North and South Street between Gerard and River avenues avenues E. 174th Street, below Grand Concourse P.S. 15 (0.47 acres) – Hall of Fame Terrace People’s Park (1.39 acres) – E. 141st Street Riverbend Playground (0.66 acres) – Bailey St. Mary’s Park (35.31 acres) – St. Mary’s Walton Walk (0.04 acres) – Cross Bronx between Andrews Avenue N. and Dr. MLK between Brook and St. Ann’s avenues Avenue between W. Kingsbridge Road and Street between St. Ann’s Avenue and Expressway between Townsend and Walton Blvd. Phyllis Post Goodman Park (0.50 acres) – W. 193rd Street Jackson Avenue avenues P.S. 29 Ball Field – E. 157th Street between Kappock Street at Henry Hudson Parkway Riverdale Park (97.19 acres) – Hudson (12.93 acres) – Sheridan Washington Park (0.52 acres) – E. 183rd Melrose and Cortlandt avenues (1.79 acres) – Kelly Street River, W. 254th Street, Palisade Avenue, W. Expressway between E. 172nd, 174th and Street between Washington and Park 232nd Street Jennings streets avenues P.S. 36 (0.78 acres) – Castle Hill, Blackrock between Avenue St. John and Leggett and Watson avenues Avenue Riverdale Playground (2.58 acres) – Hudson Stars & Stripes Playground (2.65 acres) – Washington’s Walk (4.64 acres) – Reservoir Playground One Thirty-Four – (2.00 acres) Manor Terrace between 236th and 237th Crawford Avenue at Baychester Avenue Avenue between Sedgwick and Goulden P.S. 47 (0.28 acres) – St. Lawrence Avenue streets avenues between E. 172nd Street and Westchester – E. and Bruckner Boulevard Stebbins Playground (0.83 acres) – Rev. Avenue between St. Ann’s Place and Cypress Rock Garden Park (0.92 acres) – Longfellow James Polite Avenue between E. 163rd and Watson Gleason Playground (3.30 acres) Avenue Avenue between E. 173rd and E. 174th E. 164th streets – Gleason and Watson Avenue between P.S. 64 (0.73 acres) – Townsend Avenue streets Noble and Rosedale avenues between E. 170th and E. 171st streets Playground 174 (1 acre) – E. 174th Street Stop & Go Playground (0.32 acres) – W. between Bronx River Avenue and E. 173rd Rose Hill Park (0.83 acres) – Webster 175th Street between Washington and Webster Playground (0.74 acres) – E. 188th P.S. 66 (0.61 acres) – 1001 Jennings Street Avenue between E. Fordham Road and E. Bathgate avenues Street between Webster and Park avenues Street Plimpton Playground (1 acre) – Plimpton Bronx Story Playground (2.08 acres) – Story Avenue West Bronx Recreation Center (1.88 acres) P.S. 68 (0.57 acres) – Monticello, Hill and Avenue between W. 172nd Street and Ryan Triangle (0.22 acres) – E. 143rd, E. between Taylor and Thieriot avenues – Jesup Avenue between W. 172nd Street Strang avenues Edward L. Grant Highway 144th and Morris avenues (0.49 acres) – W. and Cross Bronx Expressway P.S. 76 (0.80 acres) – Bronxwood to Poe Park (2.33 acres) – Grand Concourse Samuel H Young Park (1.28 acres) – 164th Street and Nelson Avenue between West Farms Rapids (0.81 acres) – Bronx Radcliffe avenues between Adee and between E. Kingsbridge Road and E. 192nd Westchester Avenue between Waters and Woodycrest and Ogden avenues River between E. 180th Street and E. Arnow avenues Street E. Tremont avenues Taylor Playground (1.58 acres) – Guerlain Tremont Avenue P.S. 78 (0.52 acres) – Fish Avenue between Pontiac Playground (0.91 acres) – Jackson Saw Mill Playground (0.92 acres) – E. 139th Street between Taylor and Theriot avenues Whalen Grove (0.13 acres) - Crotona Needham Avenue and Hicks Street Avenue between E. 149th and E. 151st Street between Brook and Willis avenues The Pearly Gates (0.66 acres) – St. Peter’s Avenue at Garden and Grote streets P.S. 87 (1.12 acres) – Pitman Avenue streets Schneider-Sampson Square (0.09 acres) – Avenue at Tratman Avenue Whalen Park (0.33 acres) – Perry Avenue between Grace and Edson avenues Printer’s Park (1.34 acres) – Hoe Avenue Baisley Avenue between Hollywood Avenue Thorpe Family Playground (0.20 acres) – E. between E. 205th and E. 208th streets P.S. 93 (1.36 acres) – Boynton Avenue between Aldus Street and Westchester and Bruckner Boulevard 183rd Street between Park and Webster (19.75 acres) – Van between Bruckner Boulevard and Story Avenue Seabury Park (0.19 acres) – Southern avenues Cortlandt Avenue, E. Bainbridge Avenue, Avenue Prospect Playground (1.44 acres) – Boulevard between E. 173rd and E. 174th Throgs Neck Park (0.44 acres) – Meyers Reservoir Oval P.S. 97 (1.16 acres) – Fish, Mace and Fairmount Place between Clinton and streets Street, between Haskin Street and Bruckner Williamsbridge Square (1.40 acres) – White Seymour avenues Prospect avenues Sedgwick Playground – (1.05 acres) Boulevard Plains Road between E. 212th Street and P.S. 103 (0.63 acres) – Bronx Blvd., E. 229th Pugsley Creek Park (83.61 acres) – Randall, – Cross Bronx Expressway Sr. Ramp Tiffany Playground (1.21 acres) – Fox Magenta Street Street and Carpenter Avenue Lacombe and Soundview avenues between between Undercliff Avenue and Dr. MLK Jr. Street to Tiffany Street between E. 165th Willis Playground (1.88 acres) – E. 140th P.S. 130 (0.65 acres) – Macy Place between White Plains Road and Olmstead Avenue Boulevard and E. 167th streets Street to E. 141st Street between Willis and Hewitt Place and Prospect Avenue Pulaski Park (1.45 acres) – Bruckner (35.77 acres) – E. 233rd Tiffany Street Pier (4.23 acres) – Tiffany Alexander avenues P.S. 138 (0.51 acres) – Lafayette Avenue, Boulevard between Willis Avenue and Street between Seton and Baychester Street at Viele Avenue Wood Park (0.19 acres) - Cross Bronx Brown Place avenues Virgil Place, Olmstead Avenue and Pugsley Townsend Walk (0.04 acres) – Cross Expressway Service Road and Theriot and Avenue Quarry Ballfi elds (4.42 acres) – E. 181st Seton Park (11.69 acres) W. 232nd Street, Bronx Expressway between Jerome and Wood avenues P.S. 186 Day Treatment Program (0.07 Street and Oak Tree Place between Quarry Independence Avenue, W. 235th Street, Townsend avenues Woodrow Wilson Triangle (0.10 acres) Road and Hughes Avenue acres) – Jennings Street between Union Sgt. Johnson Triangle (0.74 acres) – Dr. Tremont Park (15 acres) – E. 175th Street - Soundview, Underhill, and Patterson and Prospect avenues Railroad Park (0.73 acres) – Courtlandt Kazimiroff Blvd and Crotona Avenue at E. to E. Tremont Avenue between Third and avenues P.S./I.S 194 (0.06) – End of Parker Street at Avenue between E. 161st and E. 162nd Fordham Road Arthur avenues Young Park (0.44 acres) – Van Nest Avenue streets Westchester Avenue Sheridan Triangle (0.06 acres) - Mosholu University Malls (0.74 acres) - University at E. 180th Street and E. Tremont Avenue P.S. 195 (0.35 acres) – E. 172nd Street Rainey Park (7.74 acres) – Beck Street Avenue, Broadway, David Sheridan Plaza Avenue, between 174th Street and W. Youth Village (0.27 acres) – Home Street between Manor and Ward avenues between Interval and Longwood avenues Siren Slope (0.28 acres) – W. 230th Street, Tremont Avenue between Boston Road and Jackson Avenue P.S. 279 (0.60 acres) – Morris Avenue Ranaqua Park (0.97 acres) – E. 136th Street Bailey Avenue, Major Deegan Expressway (3.31 acres) – Cedar and Zimmerman Playground (0.97 acres) – between E. 181st Street and W. Burnside between Brown Place and Willis Avenue Slattery Playground (0.91 acres) – E. Sedgwick avenues between Hall of Fame Britton Street between Olinville and Barker Avenue Randall Playground (1.00 acres) – Randall 183rd Street between Valentine and Ryer Terrace and W. 180th Street avenues

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COMMUNITY GARDENS acres) – E. 158th Street between Place Expressway, Pennyfi eld Avenue, Park Strip (0.09 acres) – Major Melrose and Elton avenues GREENSTREETS Miles Avenue Deegan Expressway between 176th Street Community Garden Model T. Senior Citizen’s Garden AND STRIPS W. 238th Street and Van (0.21 acres) – E. 176th Street Franklin Memorial Garden (0.12 (0.27 acres) – Rev. James A. Greenstreet - Powell Avenue and Cortlandt Park South between Walton and Morris acres) – Cauldwell Avenue Polite Avenue between Bristow Greenstreet (0.12 acres) – 3rd Olmstead Avenue avenues between E. 165th and E. 166th Street and Intervale Avenue Avenue and Franklin Avenue Park Strip (0.01 acres) – Tierney streets Greenstreet (0.02 acres) - Place at Locust Point Drive 811 Family and Friends Garden Morris Garden (0.44 acres) – E. Greenstreet (0.5 acres) – W. Longfellow Avenue, between (0.06 acres) – Courtlandt Avenue Garden of Eden (0.21 acres) – E. 181st Street between Morris and 230th – 231st Streets and Henry Hunts Point and Randall avenues Park Strip (0.01 acres) – N/B between E. 158th and 159th 173rd Street between Monroe Creston avenues Hudson Parkway and S/B Bruckner Boulevard streets and Weeks avenues Greenstreet (0.01 acres) - Clay between Brinsmade and Mosaic Success Garden (0.29 Greenstreet (0.23 acres) - Avenue and 170th Street Swinton avenues A. Badillo Community Rose Garden of Happiness (0.33 acres) acres) – Ogden Avenue between Sedgwick Avenue and Mosholu Garden (0.27 acres) – Melrose – Prospect Avenue between E. W. 169th W. 170th streets Parkway and W. Gun Hill Road Greenstreet - Throggs Neck Park Strip (0.02 acres) – Cross Avenue between E. 162nd and E. 181st and E. 182nd streets Expressway, Ellsworth Avenue, Bronx Expressway between 163rd streets Mt. Hope Garden (0.28 acres) Greenstreet – E. 164th Street, Schley Avenue Anthony and Carter avenues Garden of Life (0.18 acres) – E. – Creston Avenue between E. Boston Road and Third Avenue Angie Lee Gonzales Garden (0.13 173rd Street between Weeks Burnside Avenue and E. Bronx Greenstreet (0.03 acres) - Park Strip (0.15 acres) - Cross acres) – Bryant Avenue at E. and Eastburn avenues Greenstreet (0.06 acres) - Sedgwick and W. Tremont Bronx Expressway, Jesup 174th Street Rainbow Garden (0.17 acres) – Broadway & Avenues Avenue, Macombs Road Genesis Park Community Garden E. 159th Street between Melrose Parkway Boston Garden (0.02 acres) – (0.05 acres) – Franklin Avenue and Courtlandt avenues Greenstreet (0.10 acres) - Park Strip (0.04 acres) – Cross Boston Road, Bronxwood and between E. 167th and E. 168th Greenstreet (0.10 acres) - Grand Tremont and Blondell avenues Bronx Expressway between Allerton avenues streets River Garden (0.44 acres) – E. Concourse & Mosholu Parkway Belmont and Arthur avenues 180th Street between Bronx Greenstreet (0.12 acres) - Bryant Hill Garden (0.34 acres) – Hoe Garden (0.23 acres) – Hoe River and Devoe Avenue Greenstreet (0.03 acres) - Mosholu Parkway and Sedgwick Park Strip (0.10 acres) – Bryant Avenue between Seneca Avenue between Bruckner Pelham Bay Parkway, between Avenue Bruckner Expressway West of and Garrison avenues Boulevard and Aldus Street Schomberg Academy Garden Hutchinson Parkway Entrance Morrison Avenue (0.03 acres) – Rev. James Polite and I-95 North Greenstreet (0.02 acres) - Charles W. Cooke Farm Garden Isla Verde Garden (0.16 acres) – Avenue between E. 164th and Cambreleng and Crescent Park Strip (0.08 acres) – E. – Bathgate Avenue between E. E. 151st Street between Concord 165th streets Greenstreet (0.03 acres) - Bronx avenues 177th Street and Devoe 181st and 182nd streets and Wales avenues River Parkway & Ranaqua Exit Avenue St. Ann’s Block Association Ramp Greenstreet - Hugh J Grant Circle Charlton Garden (0.49 acres) – E. Jackson-Forest Community Garden (0.03 acres) – St. Ann’s and Weschester Avenue Park Strip (0.03 acres) – 164th Street between Cauldwell Garden (0.18 acres) – Home Avenue at Rae Street Greenstreet (0.05 acres) - Henry Nelson Avenue between W. Avenue and Boston Road Street between Jackson and Hudson and 246th Street Greenstreet - Bruckner Boulevard 172nd Street and Cross Bronx Forest avenues Sunfl ower Garden (0.07 acres) and E. 133rd Street Expressway Claremont Neighborhood Garden – E. 137th Street between St. Greenstreet (0.18 acres) - (0.19 acres) – E. 169th Street Jardin De La Familia (0.32 acres) Ann’s and Cypress avenues Broadway and Van Cortlandt Greenstreet - Macombs Road Park Strip (0.29 acres) - between Teller and Clay avenues – E. 171st Street at Washington Park South (Twin Oaks Triangle) and Featherbed Lane Cross Bronx Expressway, and Avenue Taylor-Soundview Block Plimpton and Nelson avenues Courtlandt Avenue Association Association Garden (0.13 acres) Greenstreet (0.05 acres) – W. Greenstreet - Grand Concourse Garden (0.17 acres) – E. 158th Jardin De La Roca (0.23 acres) – – Randall Avenue between Fordham Road and Webster (Western Side), between E. Park Strip (0.01 acres) – North Street between Melrose and Elton Avenue at E. 160th Street Soundview and Thieriot avenues Avenue 178th and E. 179th streets and South of the Bruckner Courtlandt avenues Expressway at Pugsley Avenue Jardin De Las Rosas (0.06 acres) Townsend Garden (0.15 acres) – Greenstreet (0.07 acres) – Dr. Greenstreet - Lamport Place and C.S. 134 Community Improvement – Buchanan Place between E. 175th Street at Walton Avenue Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard Revere Avenue Park Strip (0.02 acres) - Cross Garden (0.16 acres) – Bristow Jerome and Davidson avenues and Macombs Road Bronx Expressway between Street between Jennings and United We Stand Garden (0.26 Greenstreet - Throggs Neck Crotona Parkway and Daly Freeman streets Krystal Garden Group (0.61 acres) - E. 137th Street between Greenstreet - Grand Concourse Expressway and Ellsworth Avenue acres) – E. 180th Street between Cypress and St. Ann’s avenues (Western Side) Between E. 180 Avenue Daly Avenue Garden (0.17 acres) Vyse and Daly avenues Street and Burnside Avenue Park Strip (0.03) – Cross Bronx – E. 179th Street and Honeywell Victory Garden – Crotona Park Greenstreet - Cross Bronx Expressway Service Road Avenue La Finca del Sur Community South between Fulton and Greenstreet - Southeast Corner Expressway and Fulton Avenue between Bryant and Boston (0.26 acres) – E. 138th Street at Crotona avenues of Claremont Parkway and Fulton avenues Davidson Ave Community Grand Concourse Avenue Greenstreet (0.01 acres) - Gardeners Group (0.12 acres) Vogue Garden (0.05 acres) – Needham Avenue and E. 222nd Park Strip (0.03 acres) - Cross - Davidson Avenue at W. 190th La Isla Garden (0.11 acres) – W. Elton Avenue at E. 156th Street Greenstreet - Northeast Corner Street Bronx Expressway between Street 163rd Street between Ogden and of Claremont Parkway and Fulton Marimon Avenue and Crotona Woodycrest avenues Volky Garden & Flowers (0.11 Avenue Greenstreet (0.02 acres) - Tinton Parkway Demera/Santiago Garden – acres) – Hornaday Place between Avenue and Southern Boulevard Avenue St. John at Kelly Street Las Casitas Community Garden Crotona Parkway and Mohegan Greenstreet (0.09 acres) - Park Strip (0.02 acres) – (0.19 acres) – Woody Crest Avenue Tremont Avenue, between Greenstreet - Intervale Avenue, Marimon Avenue between N/B Edith Garden (0.12 acres) – Elton Avenue between W. 166th and Valentine and Webster avenues between Louis Nine Boulevard Cross Bronx Expressway and Avenue between E. 159th and E. W. 167th streets Wanaqua Garden – E. 136th and Freeman Street Fairmount Place 160th streets Street between Brown Place and Greenstreet (0.08 acres) - Clay Latinos Unidos Garden (0.12 Willis Avenue Avenue and Webster Avenue Greenstreet (0.05 acres) - Park Strip (0.03 acres) Cross El Batey Borincano Garden (0.17 acres) – E. 157th Street between Bruckner Boulevard, between Bronx Expressway, and Belmont acres) – Eagle Avenue between Melrose and Elton avenues Waterfront Garden (0.27 acres) Greenstreet (0.03 acres) - West Wilkinson Avenue and and Crotona avenues E. 158th and E. 159th Streets – Gildersleeve Avenue between 253rd Street and Henry Hudson Westchester Avenue Leave it Better Kids’ Garden Hudson and Betts avenues Parkway North Entrance Park Strip (0.05 acres) Cross El Batey De Dona Provi Garden (.24 acres) – E. Tremont Avenue Greenstreet (0.01 acres) - Coster Bronx Expressway between (0.13 acres) – E. 178th Street between Grant and Davidson Wishing Well Garden – Reverend Greenstreet (0.01 acre) - and Hunts Point avenues Arthur and Crotona avenues between Bathgate and Third avenues James A. Polite Avenue between Fieldston Road Overpass Near avenues Dawson Street and Westchester W. 254th Street Greenstreet (0.03 acres) - Victor Park Strip (0.15 acres) – Cross Longfellow Garden (0.37 acres) Avenue Street and Unionport Road Bronx Expressway, Jesup El Flamboyan Garden (0.40 – Longfellow Avenue, Lowell Greenstreet (0.05 acres) – E. Avenue and Macombs Road acres) – Tinton Avenue, E. 150th Street, E. 165th Street Woodycrest Community Garden 163rd Street, and Washington Park Strip (0.22 acres) – Street and Union Avenue Miracle Garden (0.11 acres) (0.01 acres) – W. 162nd Street and Brook avenues Chatterton Avenue at Zerega Park Strip (0.03 acres) – Cross – Marmion Avenue between between Woodycrest and Ogden Avenue Bronx Expressway, Featherbed Family Group Garden (0.10 Elsemere Place and Fairmount avenues Greenstreet - Throggs Neck Lane and Inwood Avenue

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MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER Campus of Montefi ore. and an expanded 11 station www.montefi ore.org Additional services are renal dialysis unit. In addition, Main Locations: being offered at the newly created Lincoln Hospital is known for its Moses Division Hutchinson Campus. There are also innovative programs, emphasizing 111 East 210th Street more than 350 physicians practicing primary care and specialty Bronx NY 10467 medicine in 22 community-based medicine while using the latest (718) 920-4321 locations throughout the Bronx advances in medical science. The The Children’s Hospital at and Westchester that comprise the New York State Department of Montefi ore Montefi ore Medical Group. Health has also selected Lincoln www.cham.org as the first hospital in the South 3415 Bainbridge Avenue JACOBI MEDICAL CENTER Bronx to receive designation Bronx, NY 10467 1400 Pelham Parkway South as an official Stroke Center, a (718) 741-2426 Bronx, New York 10461 designation ensuring that stroke Einstein Division (718) 918-5000 victims will be seen quickly and 1825 Eastchester Road Website: www.nyc.gov/html/hhc/ receive the specific treatment that Bronx, NY 10461 jacobi is critical to preventing permanent (718) 904-2000 Jacobi was founded in 1955 disability or death. As a result, in Wakefi eld Campus and named in honor of Dr. Abraham 2011, Lincoln Hospital received 600 East 233rd Street Jacobi, known as the father of the Gold Plus Quality Achievement Bronx, NY 10466 American pediatrics. It is a member of Award from the American Heart (718) 920-9000 the New York City Health and Hospitals Association. Hutchinson Campus Corporation, and a partner in the North 1200 Water Place Bronx Healthcare Network. With over SBH HEALTH SYSTEM Bronx, NY 10461 470 beds in its main building, Jacobi ST. BARNABAS HOSPITAL is one of the largest public hospitals 4422 Third Avenue Montefi ore Medical Center in the Bronx, providing quality care for Bronx, NY 10457 is the University Hospital of Albert over 1.2 million Bronx and New York (718) 960-9000 Einstein College of Medicine. It was area residents. The hospital offers a Website: www.stbarnabashospital. founded in 1884 “by leaders of New complete range of acute, specialty, org York’s Jewish community” as the general and psychiatric services. St. Barnabas Hospital is a 461- Home for Chronic Invalids, housing Jacobi also operates community- Jacobi Medical Center bed, not-for-profi t, nonsectarian, mainly tuberculosis patients. It based health care centers that acute care, 911-receiving hospital is currently celebrating its 100th provide general adult and pediatric Network of 70 medical practices, also among the largest employers for the mentally ill which provides that holds state designations as Anniversary in the Bronx, having examinations and health screenings including the Dr. Martin Luther King, in the borough, with more than daily therapeutic intervention while a regional trauma center, stroke moved to its current location in for a variety of concerns, including Jr. Health Center, as well as a 51-unit 4,000 employees, in the South allowing patients to live at home.) center and AIDS center. We provide 1912. It has since been a fi xture hypertension, diabetes, breast cancer housing facility for seniors and low and Central Bronx. NCBH’s Sexual Assault Response the Bronx community with quality in the Bronx community, treating a and prostate cancer. Its newest $173 income residents. Team delivers prompt, state-of-the- inpatient and outpatient medical, myriad of conditions in the borough million inpatient facility, designed for Recently, the hospital NORTH-CENTRAL BRONX art forensic and counseling services to surgical, emergency, dental, and beyond. patient comfort as well as the latest celebrated the creation of a HOSPITAL sexual assault victims. NCBH was the and mental healthcare services. Montefi ore prides itself on in medical technology, includes 344 new state-of-the-art children 3424 Kossuth Avenue fi rst NYC hospital to receive a SAFE Sensitive to the needs of our diverse being at the forefront of medical care, inpatient beds placed in beautiful and and family-friendly Pavilion for Bronx, New York 10467 (Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner) patient population, we offer access achieving a number of milestones in spacious private and semi-private its Pediatric Services. Bronx- (718) 519-5000 Center of Excellence designation by to interpreting services in 157 health care, surgery and community rooms. Large, modern Adult and Lebanon also completed a major Website: www.nyc.gov/html/hhc/ the NYS Department of Health. languages as well as WiFi-capable medicine. The medical center has Pediatric Emergency Departments ER modernization, including 17 ncbh/home.html The Center also offers a broad rolling video monitors for the deaf created Centers of Excellence are specially equipped to handle additional exam/treatment rooms North Central Bronx Hospital range of wellness programs, which and hard-of-hearing. around cancer care, cardiovascular trauma, critical illness, injury, or and expanded waiting areas to is a member of the New York City include stress and pain management, Included in the St. Barnabas services, transplantation and mass casualty incidents. A dedicated address high utilization levels and Health and Hospitals Corporation, weight loss, smoking cessation and Healthcare Network are St. children’s health. The institution Radiology Center offers state of the expedite the fl ow of admissions. and a partner in the North Bronx cardiovascular risk reduction. Barnabas Rehabilitation and would also go on to establish art diagnostic equipment. A large Last year, the hospital began Healthcare Network. Opened Continuing Care Center, Fordham- the United States’ fi rst hospital Operating Suite is equipped with construction of a new 56,000 in 1976, North Central Bronx LINCOLN MEDICAL AND MENTAL Tremont Community Mental departments of social medicine the latest innovations in surgical square foot Life Recovery Center Hospital is a major provider of HEALTH CENTER Health Center, and Southern and home health care. Montefi ore and laparoscopic equipment. In the for the treatment of substance comprehensive health care in one 234 E. 149th Street Medical Group. Together, these Medical Center has a long history summer of 2008, Jacobi welcomed abuse and chemical dependency. of New York City’s most ethnically Bronx, NY 10451 facilities play a vital role in the of responding to community health the addition of a state of the art This year, the hospital plans to open diverse service areas. It has Phone: (718) 579-5000 provision of quality healthcare for crises, including lead poisoning and Ambulatory Care Center. Medical, its new 9-story Ambulatory Care become a fi xture in the Norwood Fax: (718) 579-4836 the Bronx. AIDS. It also ranks among the top surgical, cardiac, pediatric and burn Facility to accommodate continued community, with 9,203 admissions, Website: http://www.nyc.gov/html/ The St. Barnabas Ambulatory hospitals nationally and regionally intensive care units are outfi tted with increases in outpatient visits. In the more than 196,000 outpatient visits, hhc/lincoln/html/home/home.shtml Care Center holds a level 3 by U.S. News & World Report and every amenity for cutting edge critical future, Bronx-Lebanon looks to offer 61,000 emergency visits and 1,600 Lincoln Medical and Mental certifi cation as a Patient-Centered has been recognized for its quality care. additional increases in intensive deliveries annually. NCBH offers Health Center, founded in 1839, Medical Home, the highest safety standards and its efforts to care, cardiology, medical/surgical, a wide range of primary, medical, is tightly woven into the fabric designation from the National embrace technology. BRONX- LEBANON HOSPITAL and psychiatric beds to meet surgical, obstetrical/gynecological, of community life in the South Committee on Quality Assurance. The Moses Campus is located Main Locations: the growing needs of the Bronx behavioral health services and Bronx, aggressively tackling many Stay up-to-date on everything in the Norwood community and Concourse Division community. state-of-the-art inpatient care. The important community health that’s happening at St. Barnabas includes the Children’s Hospital at 1650 Grand Concourse Bronx-Lebanon has a lot Emergency Room, open 24 hours a issues such as asthma, obesity, Hospital by visiting our website Montefi ore (created in 2001), which Bronx, NY 10457 to celebrate. Among its many day, seven days a week, provides cancer, diabetes and tuberculosis. at www.sbhny.org. You can also was recognized as one of “America’s (718) 590-1800 accomplishments, its 911 both medical and psychiatric Today, Lincoln stands as the connect with us through social Best Children’s Hospitals in U.S. Fulton Division designated Stroke Center in the emergency services. The hospital’s vital core of medical care for the media by liking us on Facebook News & World Report. Located 1276 Fulton Avenue ER has been the recipient of the midwifery service has received Downtown Bronx community. at facebook.com/sbhbronx and nearby is the Greene Medical Arts Bronx, NY 10456 American Heart Association’s national recognition for its family- Lincoln Medical and Mental Health following @SBHBronx on Twitter. Pavilion, an outpatient care and (718) 901-8800 Silver Medal. It has also been friendly approach. Center is a full service acute care diagnostic testing facility. Websites: www.bronx-leb.org the recipient of more than $19 Among NCBH’s newest hospital and one of the Premier NEW YORK WESTCHESTER The Jack D. Weiler Hospital www.bronxcare.org million in grant awards. In renovations are a self-contained Trauma Centers in the country. CALVARY HOSPITAL is also operated by Montefi ore and Bronx-Lebanon Hospital has addition, at some point this year, Ambulatory Surgery Suite, an The hospital offers comprehensive 1740 Eastchester Road is located adjacent to the Albert over 100 years of history taking care Bronx-Lebanon expects to be inpatient Geriatric Medicine Unit, an primary, secondary, preventive and Bronx, NY 10461 Einstein College of Medicine in of the Bronx. Lebanon Hospital was fully computerized. With all its inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry Unit, specialty care services. Our Level (718) 518-2000 Morris Park. Nearby is Montefi ore incorporated in 1889 and the Bronx accolades, the hospital has been acquisition of one of the largest and 1 Trauma Center is the busiest Email: bnitzberg@calvaryhospital. most successful in providing quietest MRI units on the market in the northeast region and the Medical Park, an ambulatory care Hospital incorporated in 1909. The org facility that contains offi ces for two merged in 1962 and has since quality health care to those in today and acquisition of a new third busiest in the country. The need, regardless of their ability digital mammography unit. Services Hospital is staffed by a team of Website: www.calvaryhospital.org outpatient visits, full-time clinical become the largest voluntary, not- From its inception in 1899, practices and administrative offi ces for-profi t health care system, serving to pay. Bronx-Lebanon regularly have been expanded to offer a host more than 300 physicians and has Calvary Hospital has been faithfully for clinical departments. the South and Central Bronx, with 970 provides free check-ups and of medical programs tailored to an inpatient capacity of 347 beds, In 2008, Montefi ore acquired beds at two major hospital divisions; screenings at schools, shelters, the needs of geriatric patients, a including 20 neonatal intensive devoted to providing palliative care Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center, a a major psychiatric facility; two nursing homes, senior citizen successful Hospitalist program and care beds, 10 surgical intensive to adult patients in the advanced Roman Catholic hospital in the north specialized long term care facilities; centers, churches, and many other the Partial Hospitalization program care beds, 8 pediatric intensive stages of cancer, addressing the Bronx, which is now the Wakefi eld and an extensive “BronxCare” community organizations. It is (an alternative approach to services care beds, 7 coronary care beds, symptoms of the disease, not its

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cure. A voluntary, not-for-profi t refuge for these men and women Fax: (718) 826-4879 full-time, round-the-clock house relieves pressure and prevents skin York for use by the U.S. Public Health hospital, operated in connection offering nutritious food, quality Email: [email protected] staff of physicians, skilled nurses, breakdown. Enhanced short- and Service as a hospital for ex-service with the Archdiocese of New York, recreation and the best nursing care Bronx Psychiatric Center is and a large staff of attending long-term rehabilitative services patients suffering from mental and Calvary is the only fully accredited available. a 360-bed facility located in the physicians in all major specialties include physical, occupational and nervous disorders. The purchase acute care specialty hospital Today, CenterLight Health Northeast Bronx. It is accredited by and sub-specialties. Services speech/audiology therapies. Highly was turned over to the newly formed exclusively providing palliative care System ranks among the nation’s the Joint Commission on Healthcare include the nationally acclaimed Saul trained, specialized screening team U.S. Veterans’ Bureau by Executive for advanced cancer patients in the leading resources for long-term Organizations and is affi liated Alzheimer’s Disease Special Care conducts on-site assessment of Order on April 20, 1922. United States. With 225 beds in the residential and community-based with the Albert Einstein College Unit; adult day health care programs; patients for immediate approval Today the James J. Peters Bronx and and more than health care. The voluntary, nonprofi t of Medicine. Bronx Psychiatric in-house hemodialysis treatment; and placement. In 2004, Kings VAMC has 311 authorized hospital 950 employees, Calvary serves organization with over 4,500 Center has three inpatient services long-term home health care; short- Harbor opened its hemodialysis beds and 120 nursing home beds. more than 5,500 patients annually. employees serves more than 10,000 and a comprehensive outpatient stay rehabilitation and subacute care; center under the medical direction The VAMC is a tertiary care facility Programs include inpatient care, individuals each day in over 40 program. A full range of inpatient occupational, speech and physical of the Montefi ore Medical Center/ classifi ed as a Clinical Referral Level case management, outpatient care, locations. CenterLight offers home services are provided to the persons therapy; on-site medical and health Albert Einstein College of Medicine 1 Facility. It is a teaching hospital, hospice, home care and support and adult day care, primary care, with mental illness and substance care treating conditions such as eliminating the need for travel to an providing a full range of patient programs for families and friends. emergency care, nursing, social abuse disorders. Bilingual services, depression, dysphagia, aphasia; and outside center. care services, with state-of-the-art work, physical, occupational and intensive treatment stabilization unit, a computerized pharmacy. technology as well as education CENTERLIGHT HEALTH SYSTEMS speech therapy, medical supplies intensive diagnostic and treatment JAMES J. PETERS and research. Comprehensive health (Formerly Beth Abraham Family Of and equipment, transportation and unit, community skills services, KINGS HARBOR MULTICARE VETERANS AFFAIRS care is provided through primary Health Service ) in-patient services. In 1995, the drop-in center and Ginsburg CENTER Medical Center care, tertiary care, and long-term 1250 Waters Place Institute for Music and Neurologic outpatient clinic are the facilities at 2000 East Gun Hill Road 130 W. Kingsbridge Road care in areas of medicine, surgery, Bronx, NY 10461 Function was created to help to the hospital. Bronx, New York 10469 Bronx NY 10468 psychiatry, physical medicine and 1-888-238-4223 spark greater collaborations among (718) 320-0400 (718) 584-9000 rehabilitation, neurology, oncology, Website: www.centerlight.org music therapists and neuroscientists JEWISH HOME LIFECARE E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.bronx.va.gov dentistry, geriatrics, and extended CenterLight Health System, around the world. The IMNF is the 100 West Kingsbridge Road Website: www.kingsharbor.com The James J. Peters Veterans care. The James J. Peters VAMC formerly Beth Abraham Family only one of its kind in the U.S., is Bronx, New York 10468 Kings Harbor Multicare Center Affairs Medical Center is the second also provides a broad range of of Health Services, is celebrating expanding therapeutic modalities (718) 410-1330 provides long-term and short-term largest VA facility in the nation and is inpatient and outpatient health care more than 90 Years of service to for treating patients with strokes Fax: (718) 862-4879 skilled nursing care for more than the oldest VA facility in New York City, services and also operates a Bronx the community. It fi rst opened its and other neurological conditions. Email: Bronx_Admissions@ 700 residents. A three-building celebrating over 75 years service Community Clinic at 953 Southern doors to the poor, chronically ill and It is also a major training center for jewishhome.org campus facility that ensures patients to veterans. Named after James J. Boulevard. disabled just after the First World War. music therapists and a resource for Website: www.jewishhome.org with similar capabilities are grouped Peters, who served over 30 years Additionally, the James J. Originally named for the Talmudic new collaborations in music-brain As the result of a recent together. A full-time medical director as Executive Director of the Eastern Peters VAMC serves as home to scholar Rabbi Abraham Alperstein, research. In 2008, CenterLight’s $50 million modernization and and physicians are available 24 hours Paralyzed Veterans Association the Network 3 Telephone Triage Beth Abraham was founded by Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation refurbishment, Jewish Home a day, 7 days a week. An Alzheimer’s/ (now United Spinal Association), service. This system, staffed by his socially conscious wife Bertha became the fi rst facility in New Lifecare’s Bronx Division, Harry Dementia Program is designed to the Medical Center is situated on Registered Nurses and available Alperstein. From her vision, a simple York City to implement virtual and Jeanette Weinberg Campus is provide residents an environment a historic site in the borough of 24-hours a day, provides telephone wood-frame house was erected as a rehabilitation truly one of the most modern long that maintains and enhances dignity the Bronx. Located on the highest helpline service for veteran patients safe haven for indigent Jews once term care facilities in New York. The while providing safety. A Hospice/ point in New York City, it served as of 36 VA medical centers in VISN’s 3, confi ned to New York City’s hospital BRONX PSYCHIATRIC CENTER 816-bed Bronx Division long term Pain Management Program provides a strategic vantage point during the 4, 6, 19 and 8 (for emergency back on Blackwell Island (now Roosevelt 1500 Waters Place care and skilled nursing care facility comfort and relief to residents Revolutionary War. In 1921, the up only). This is the only VA telephone Island). With the help of a handful Bronx, NY 10461 occupies a 4.5 acre site between with advanced illness. A Wound Treasury Department purchased the care program that is nationally of determined women, she created a Phone: (718) 931-0600 University and Webb Avenues with Healing Program promotes healing, property from the Archdiocese of New accredited.

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CO-OP CITY 15 houses of worship strewn throughout toddlers through a Naturally Occurring East Quadrant, West Quadrant and the development. Co-op City also Retirement Community Program for South Quadrants. Parkchester North Located in Baychester at the features four basketball courts and five seniors. Some programs include a visual Condominiums consist mostly of the intersection of Interstate 95 and the baseball diamonds. arts committee, wood shop, fitness owned units/condominiums and are Hutchinson River Parkway and part In addition to being policed by the club, photography club and a writer’s managed by an independent real of Community Board 10, Co-op City 45th Precinct, Co-op City also has its workshop, among others. Community estate management firm, Grenadier is arguably the largest cooperative own Public Safety Department, made News, detailing some of these activities, Management. housing development in the world. To up of more than 100 sworn officers, that has also been published regularly since Some of the owned units in fully understand the size of Co-op City, if help keep the entire cooperative and its 1929. Parkchester North Condominium have it truly was its own city, it would be the residents safe from crime. A 24-hour security force, serves since been rented or sold by their 10th largest municipality in New York as a link between the 50th Precinct, the original owners. PSC consists mostly State. RiverBay Corporation, led by a AMALGAMATED HOUSES Fire Department and EMS services and of the rental units and are managed by 15-member elected board of directors, the co-op. In addition, a high-pressure Parkchester Preservation Management. manages Co-op City. Founded in 1927, Amalgamated steam facility owned and operated by Parkchester North Condominium, Construction on Co-op City began is the oldest limited equity housing the co-op provides heat and hot water Inc. and Parkchester South Condominium, in 1968 and was completed in 1971 with cooperative in the United States. The to the entire co-op, as well as central air Inc. are not-for-profit corporations and 15,372 residential units in 35 high-rise cooperative was sponsored by the cooling at Towers I and II. Power Plant condominium associations. Although buildings, ranging from 24-33 floors) Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union engineers and mechanics also maintain operating separately as two distinct and seven clusters of townhouses (236 under the leadership of Sidney Hillman. and repair the entire utility service organizations, the two condominiums total), each three stories in height; all It is the first co-op created by Founding infrastructure of the co-op. work cooperatively for the benefit of our upon 320 acres of land. The largest President and Manager Abraham community. development in the United States was E. Kazan, known as “The father of PARKCHESTER NORTH AND SOUTH Today, over 82,000 individuals live built on a landfill and the former site cooperative housing in the United CONDOMINIUM and work in the Parkchester community of the Freedomland amusement park. States.” of 112 residential buildings, 8,000 55,000 people call Co-op City home and On its first day of occupancy, Originally owned by the apartments and numerous commercial can afford living in the housing complex November 1, 1927, 303 residents moved Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, enterprises including major retailers, thanks to New York’s Mitchell-Lama into Amalgamated Houses. Today, 1482 the Parkchester housing development theaters, restaurants and small specialty Program, which subsidizes affordable families of moderate income live in was built from 1939-41 on the farmland shops. housing. eleven buildings, the oldest of which of the Catholic Protectory, a home for For these residents, the Parkchester In addition to the housing units, – Building 6 – is one of the original orphaned and troubled boys conducted Condominiums maintains public parks Co-op City also features eight parking buildings. The “newest” buildings are by the Brothers of the Christian Schools, and a variety of recreational services garages, three shopping centers (one two Towers which were completed which relocated to Lincolndale. In 1974, and events, including a summer concert of which – Bay Plaza, comes complete in 1968 and 1970, and replaced the one-third of the complex was converted series at The Oval, the Friendship Day with 13-screen multiplex movie theatre, original First Building. to condominiums, with the remaining and Kite Day festivals as well as a free department stores and a supermarket), Amalgamated has always provided portion converting in 1986. computer center with Internet access a 25-acre educational park that includes community as well as housing. There has The four quadrants of the and mini-library. T Truman High School (complete with been an Education Department almost development, located on 121 acres, were he Condominiums also offer arts planetarium), two middle schools and from inception. It is responsible for co- divided into two entities: Parkchester and crafts and game centers in the three grade schools, a power plant, op education and community activities. North Condominium comprising the South, West and East Quardrants for our 4-story air-conditioning generator, and a There are activities for cooperators of Co-op City North Quadrant and Parkchester younger residents as well as organized firehouse. There are also approximately all ages, from Playgroup and Nursery for South Condominium comprising the youth sporting leagues BTR BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29, 2017 41 MADE IN THE BRONX

Stella D’oro and Everlast may be (718) 589-6225 Manufactures: Appliances some household names who closed Email: [email protected] Details: Felix Storch, Inc. was founded up shop in the Bronx over the last few Website: http://www.bacoent.com in 1969 and has been a leading years, but that has not stopped other Manufactures: Bolts supplier of compact, specialty, com- businesses from realizing the potential Details: BACO Enterprises Inc. is a mercial, and medical refrigerators of owning and operating a business in fastener distributor located in the and freezers ever since. In its fi rst the borough. There are a number of Bronx. They are one of the leading dis- year, they trademarked the SUMMIT® products that many Bronxites have in tributors of A325 and A490 Structural brand name to guarantee quality at the their home that has been made right in Bolts in the Northeast. The company highest level. They began distribution their backyard. Bronx manufacturing inventories most every size imaginable in Long Island City, New York, before companies are producing everything and have the capability to manufacture moving to the Bronx in 1983, where from kitchen appliances to baked special sizes and lengths. their headquarters are now located. goods. The following is a list of some companies who have made it in the DW Haber & Sons GAL Manufacturing Bronx: (hollow-ware) (elevator control boards 825 E. 140th Street & internal parts) AA Air Filters Bronx, NY 10454 50 E 153rd St. 3633 Rombouts Ave. (718) 993-6405 Bronx, NY 10451 Port Morris Distillery celebrates its opening. Bronx, NY 10466 Email: [email protected] (718) 292-9000 (718) 994-4624 Website: http://www.habersilver.com Email: [email protected] Bronx, N. Y. to include Research and taste-tested. When perfection was ac- Website: http://www.aaairfi lters.com Manufactures: hollow-ware Website: www.gal.com Development and Manufacturing. complished the fi rm started marketing Manufacture: Air fi lters Details: D.W. Haber & Son started Manufactures: Elevator control boards its items to local food stores. During its Details: AA Air Filters, Inc. has been in 1902 as a silver repair company. and internal parts. 20 plus years in business the bakery a manufacturer and distributor of air Reconditioning silverware of other Details: Herbert Paul Glaser, an Precise Alloys (plumbing components) has expanded and moved to its pres- fi lters since its inception in 1965. The manufacturers taught them the weak industrious German emigrant, along 721 East 133rd Street ent 80,000 square foot facility in the company specializes in custom, “made points of hollowware. With four with his friends Jack Abramowitz, and Bronx, NY 10454 Zerega Industrial Park after outgrowing to order” sizes of industrial grade generations of experience in repairing Harold Leon, put their savings together (718) 402-1950 its West Farms production plant. fi berglass, synthetic, charcoal, and its competitors’ hollowware, they in 1927 and founded G.A.L. Electro Website: http://www.precisealloys. Today Sweet Sams sells dozens pleated panel type air fi lters. In addi- mastered the art of manufacturing Mechanical Services. Today, GAL Man- com of freshly baked goods to retailers tion, AA Air Filters stock a complete hollowware that remains in service, not ufacturing remains true to its name Manufactures: Plumbing components throughout the metropolitan area. line of standard size panel fi lters. They in the repair shop. in that the vast majority of products Details: Precise Alloys/New York Sweet Sams product line includes cof- are a major distributor for a variety offered are produced in-house. GAL’s Solder Mfg. Co. Inc., has been provid- fee cakes, pound cakes, dessert bars, of manufacturers and our products Easco Boiler Corp. manufacturing capability ranges from ing quality solder products for over cookies, small and large cupcakes, include all types of fi lters from HEPA to 1175 Leggett Avenue single spindle drill presses up to CNC 85 years. Founded in 1920 and later muffi ns, scones, croissants and whop- Bag and Box type fi lters. Bronx, NY 10474 machining and punching equipment. incorporated in 1928, New York Solder pie cookies. (718) 378-3000 They perform nearly every imaginable Mfg. Co. was a core solder manufac- Aggressive Glass Email: [email protected] metal machining, punching, forming, turer, supplying the automotive and Port Morris Distillery 697 East 132nd Street Website: http://www.easco.com/ welding, and fi nishing operation. electronic industries. Precise Alloys, 780 E. 133rd Street Bronx, New York 10454 Manufactures: Boilers primarily engaged in the manufacturing (718) 585-3192 (718) 402-4444 Details: A.L. Eastmond & Sons, Inc. Harry Brainum Jr., Inc. of bar solder, merged with NY Solder Website: www.portmorrisdistillery.com Email: [email protected] was founded by Arlington Eastmond 855 E 140th St. in 1987. Together, now diversifi ed The legacy of the Port Morris Distillery Website: http://www.aggressiveglass. in New York City in 1948 as a welding Bronx, NY 10454 in all aspects of manufacturing, the began in the lush mountains of com/ and boiler repairs specialists. Since (718) 389-4080 two companies combine many years Guayama, Puerto Rico. The distillery Manufacture: Custom glass then the company, under the leader- Email: [email protected] of family owned traditions with its produces Pitorro, Puerto Rican moon- Details: For three generations, Aggres- ship of Arlington Leon Eastmond Jr., Website: http://www.hbsteel.com/ multifaceted product lines. Precise shine, from family reciepes in a facility sive Shade, Glass and Mirror Company has grown into a multi-dimensional full Manufactures: Steel fabrication Alloys offers a full line of leaded and located near the RFK Bridge. has guaranteed workmanship and service leader in the HVAC industry. Details: Harry Brainum Jr., opened unleaded solders in bar form, as well It crafts several whiskies under its customer satisfaction. They pride shop in 1918. Originally involved in the as, solid, rosin, and acid core wires, for PMD label, including a nearly clear ver- themselves on the fact that no job is Felix Storch, Inc. scrap metal business, HB Steel quickly applications in the industries of plumb- sion and an 80 proof liquor that is aged too small or too large. Their profes- 770 Garrison Avenue turned into a jobber shop serving the ing, automotive, electrical, roofi ng, in wood barrels. sional team is fully insured for the Bronx, NY 10474 growing construction industry. The radiators and stained glass. They also Port Morris Distillery offers tasting protection of their customers. (718) 893-3900 company manufactures & distributes offer a complete line of sheet lead, lead hours. Email: [email protected] prime galvanized sheets and plates for bends, brazing rods and copper irons. BACO Enterprises, Inc. Website: http://www.fsiworldwide. the construction, roofi ng, manufactur- As the manufacturer, they are able to Golden Glow Cookie Company 1190 Longwood Avenue com/ or http://www.summitappliance. ing and HVAC industries. HB Steel offer you these products at excellent 1844 Givan Avenue Bronx, NY 10474 com supplies a variety of steel products that prices as well as help customers re- (718) 379-6223 can be used for various applications. duce their costs with prompt, effi cient Website:www.thecookiefactory.com service and high quality materials. Golden Glow was established in 1954 Polytex Industrial Inks by Rose Florio and her father. Four 820 East 140th Street generations later the Florio family Bronx, New York 10454 Sol Cocoa 780 E. 133rd Street continues to produce delicious cookies, (718) 402-2000 Website: www.solcocoa.com cakes and pastries. Email: [email protected] Three brothers, Dominic, Nicholas and The family pays close attention to Website: http://www.polytex.nl Daniel Mahoney, the co-owners of Sol detail and uses only high-quality Manufacture: Inks Cocoa, were encouraged to launch ingredients. Details: Polytex Environmental Inks, an artisan chocolate bar production Years of experience ensure that the ltd. was established in 1943 by facility in Port Morris, by their native baking and carmelization processes Joseph Landau to manufacture and Trinidad farming family. are followed exactly, producing a con- supply industrial coatings. Manage- They combine raw sugar cane and sistent quality for over six decades. ment of current business activities is cocoa nibs to produce three vegan From the traditional Italian Anisette conducted by members of the second single-origin chocolate bars duplicating Toast and crunchy Biscotti to crowd- generation. The growing concern over cocoa treats found in Peru, Ecuador pleasers like chocolate chip and air quality in the late 1960’s made and Madagascar. oatmeal raisin cookies, there is truly a industries turn their attention to new cookie for everyone. technologies. Passage of the Clean Air The home-style category offers 32 Act in 1970 in the U.S. accelerated the Sweet Sams 1261 Seabury Avenue different varieties and its Mama Rose need to develop inks and coating that (718) 822-0599 selection contains 21 delectable comply with changing environmental Website: www.sweetsams.com confectionery treats. standards. To effectively support the Sweet Sams started in an apartment Golden Glow also offers sugar-free and printing industry, a 80,000 square foot Mike Florio displayed some of his delicious treats at the ‘Golden Glow kitchen where baked goods, made a gluten-free cookies. plant was established in 1986 in the Cookies’ table at the Bronx YMCA’s Bon Apetite. from the fi nest ingredients, were 42 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29, 2017 BTR RN RN Supervisor Supervisor -- FullTime/PerFull Time/Per DiemDiem LPN'sLPN’s / -CNA's (1199 (1199 Union Union Benefi Benefits) ts) Full/Part/Per Full/Part/Per Diem Diem - New - New Graduates Graduates Welcome Welcome Apply:Apply: [email protected] [email protected]

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BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE THE COLLEGE OF MOUNT rich core curriculum that spans 2155 University Avenue SAINT VINCENT literature, history, science, Bronx, New York 10453 6301 Riverdale Avenue, theology, philosophy, and the arts. (718) 289-5100 Bronx, New York 10471 Gifted students with a passion Website: www.bcc.cuny.edu (718) 405-3267 for ideas may be invited to join President: Website: www.mountsaintvin- the College’s prestigious Honors Dr. Thomas Isekenegbe cent.edu Program. Students with interests President: Charles L. Flynn, Jr. in languages, international was affairs, or living and working established in 1957 after a de- Founded in 1847 by the Sisters of abroad can take advantage cade of effort by civic-minded Charity in New York, the Mount is of an extensive Study Abroad groups in the Bronx. Classes dedicated to providing an excel- program. The Service Learning began with 125 students on lent values-oriented education program provides opportunities February 2, 1959 at the former rooted in its Catholic heritage. In to integrate academic study with site of the Bronx High School of the decades before colleges and work in the community. A range of Science at Creston Avenue and universities were open to wom- accelerated and pre-professional 184th Street. In 1973, the New en, the Academy offered higher programs allow students to tailor York State Dormitory Authority education for women. Now, on a their Fordham College experience acquired the New York Univer- 70-acre campus of rolling lawns to their interests and goals. sity Heights Campus for the use and wooded hills overlooking of Bronx Community College and the Hudson River, the College Fordham sponsors 23 men’s operations were moved soon af- of Mount Saint Vincent offers and women’s varsity sports ter to the present 43-acre site excellent academic and profes- teams. The Fordham Rams are overlooking the Harlem River. sional programs to more than members of the NCAA Division 1,800 undergraduate and grad- I and compete in the Atlantic The campus, complete with uate students from throughout 10 Conference in baseball, grassy knolls, tree-lined walk- the country and the entire world. basketball, cross country, ways and stunning architecture, Students take advantage of the golf, indoor and outdoor track, include modern exercise equip- school’s many offerings, includ- rowing, soccer, softball, squash, ment, an Olympic style swim- ing 31 undergraduate majors swimming and diving, tennis, ming pool, a television studio, and minors; and four graduate volleyball, and water polo, and in major meeting and performance programs, along with a number the Patriot League (Division I-AA) spaces and a modern student of pre-professional programs, for football. center with space for student interdisciplinary studies and organizations and a conference adult programs. Students are MANHATTAN COLLEGE area. The campus is also the also prepared for the future with 4513 Manhattan College Pkwy site of the Hall of Fame for Great a wide choice of internships — Bronx, NY 10471 Americans honoring prominent from MTV to New Jersey Pedi- (718) 862-8000 Americans who have had a sig- atric Neurosurgery Associates, Email: [email protected] nifi cant impact on the nation’s and from Sirius Satellite Radio to Website: www.manhattan.edu history. Penn Mutual Life Insurance. Di- President: Brennan O’Donnell vision III sports are also offered Facilities have been consistently with eight men’s teams, includ- Established in 1853, the school Fordham University renovated to accommodate the ing baseball and basketball, and fi rst started using the name increased demand for class- seven women’s teams, including Manhattan College in 1861. with professional programs in their program of choice to ensure room and laboratory space. The lacrosse and softball. Manhattan College identifi es engineering, business, science a well rounded, comprehensive liberal arts in Colston Hall and itself as a Catholic College in and education. The quality of the education. Programs include was created by an act of the the sciences and technologies in FORDHAM UNIVERSITY the Lasallian tradition. That undergraduate programs has accounting, baking and pastry, Board of Higher Education on Meister Hall, and the Academic Rose Hill Campus tradition has continued to char- been demonstrated by its record business management, criminal April 22, 1968, in response to Computing Center and Learning Bronx, NY 10458 acterize the special educational as one of the nation’s leading justice, culinary arts, general the demands of Puerto Rican Center have been enhanced with (718) 817-1000 experience offered by the Col- undergraduate sources of doc- business, health services ad- and other Hispanic leaders who the acquisition of state-of-the- Website: www.fordham.edu lege over its long history. Its torates in the arts, sciences, ministration, hospitality manage- urged the establishment of a art equipment. President: Joseph M. McShane constant focus has been the engineering and education, and ment, information technology, college to meet the needs of education of the disadvan- it is recognized by the establish- medical administration, medical the South Bronx. In Septem- Presently, Bronx Community Founded as St. John’s College by taged. Manhattan has an envi- ment of chapters of such pres- assisting, nursing, and public ber 1970, Hostos admitted a College is experiencing a major Bishop , Fordham able record in this regard, albeit tigious honor societies as Phi health. Online Learning courses charter class of 623 students at transformation heralding expan- opened in 1841 to serve the engaged in the fi eld of higher Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and Tau allow students to take classes via the site of a former tire factory sion of its campus facilities, its immigrant Church of New education. From its beginning, Beta Pi. the Internet, while a direct digital at 475 Grand Concourse. En- curricula and its services for stu- York. At the invitation of Bishop the College has paid particular connection provides teleconfer- rollment grew rapidly to more dents. Construction of the North Hughes, the Society of Jesus (the attention to educating fi rst- encing between the Bronx and than 2,000 students by June Instruction Building and Library Jesuits) assumed responsibility generation college students, 2501 Jerome Avenue Westchester campuses. of 1974. To meet growing in- began in spring 2009. The Col- for the College in 1846. In 1907, and was an early proponent of Bronx, N.Y. 10468 terest in the College, the cam- lege also saw the opening of The the institution achieved university access to disadvantaged and Phone: (718) 933-6700 The Monroe College Athletic pus now has six buildings with Children’s Center building on status. Its name was offi cially minority students, establishing Fax: (718) 364-3552 Department fi elds teams base- well-equipped science, math, campus in spring 2011. changed to Fordham University. special scholarship funds as Website: ball, men’s basketball, women’s writing, and computer labs; During the 20th century, the early as 1938. That still holds www.monroecollege.edu basketball, men’s and women’s excellent physical education Students from 109 countries University grew to encompass true today for the impressive President: Marc M. Jerome cross country, men’s and wom- facilities; and state-of-the-art attend the school to take advan- 10 schools, with campuses percentage of the student body en’s indoor track and fi eld, men’s theatres. The goal of the school tage of its many offerings, includ- in the Bronx, Manhattan and that come from ethnic minori- Monroe College was founded and women’s outdoor track and is to become “a college of ex- ing Associate in Arts Degrees for Westchester County. Rose Hill, ties. Currently, the College has in 1933 with a single goal to fi eld, men’s soccer, softball, and cellence for students seeking a criminal justice and liberal arts the original campus, adjacent to a student body of approximately educate men and women for a women’s volleyball. All Monroe liberal arts or career education and sciences, and Associate in Little Italy, the Bronx Zoo, and 3,500: 2,900 undergraduates successful future in the world. teams are members of the Na- in a multilingual, multicultural Science Degrees in business ad- the New York Botanical Garden, and 600 graduate students. Monroe is recognized as a na- tional Junior College Athletic learning environment.” Stu- ministration, computer science, is situated on 85 acres in the The student-faculty ratio is tional leader in providing a fo- Association and participate in dents can earn an Associates in engineering science, forensics, north Bronx. More than 7,000 12:1. cused, career-oriented, quality NJCAA Region XV. Monroe Arts degree in liberal arts and and therapeutic recreation, undergraduate and graduate education to its student body Mustangs men’s baseball and criminal justice; an Associate among others. Associate in Ap- students attend classes here, Manhattan College features 19 with integration of classroom basketball are a Division I pro- in Sciences in business man- plied Sciences Degrees are of- with 3,369 living in University men’s and women’s NCAA Divi- learning with real-world ex- grams. All other Monroe sports agement, chemical engineer- fered in a wide variety of fi elds housing. sion I teams, including baseball, perience. Monroe offers Cer- play in Division III. ing, civil engineering, electrical such as accounting, automotive men’s and women’s basketball, tifi cate, Associate, Bachelor’s, engineering science and com- technology, computer informa- Fordham draws students from crew, golf, men’s and women’s and Master’s degree programs HOSTOS COMMUNITY munity health, among others. tion systems, environmental across the country and the world lacrosse, softball, women’s vol- leading to employment in the COLLEGE Associate in Applied Science technology, and telecommunica- who want to live and learn while leyball and track & fi eld, among most relevant areas for to- 500 Grand Concourse Degree options and certifi cate tions, among others. Certifi cate immersed in the diversity and others. day’s rapidly changing global Bronx, New York 10451 programs are also offered. programs are also offered. BCC opportunity of a world capital. economy. (718) 518-4444 Hostos’ athletic program in- also fi elds basketball, baseball, Students choose from more than Manhattan College maintains Website: www.hostos.cuny.edu cludes men’s basketball, men’s cross county, indoor track, soc- 50 majors in liberal arts, sciences, a full range of programs in the At Monroe, students take a lib- President: soccer, women’s basketball and cer and volleyball teams. and business and complete a liberal arts and sciences joined eral arts core and combine it with Dr. David Gomez women’s volleyball.

46 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29, 2017 BTR UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES

SUNY MARITIME has continued to operate in this college services available on site, tended, taking their fi rst two years training in a special fi eld and also 1974 by the New York State Board 6 Pennyfi eld Avenue way for over 57 years, and is now including a comprehensive library of study at the Bronx campus and the skills and knowledge to meet of Regents and is accredited by the Bronx, New York 10465, home to more than 2,500 faculty services; computer labs - wireless then transferring to Hunter’s Man- life’s varied challenges responsi- Middle States Association of Colleg- (718) 409-7200 members, 724 M.D. students, 248 network access; student lounges - hattan campus to complete their bly, intelligently and creatively. On es and Schools. The school enrolls Website: Ph.D. students, 117 MSTP students full service cafeteria and a learning undergraduate work. Shortly after the graduate level, the College has 1,100 full-time students in Manhat- www.sunymaritime.edu and 368 postdoctoral investigators center. With over 90 undergraduate U.S. entry into the war, the students developed professional programs tan, Brooklyn and The Bronx. Boric- President: Captain training at the Belfer Institute for and graduate programs, Mercy Col- and faculty vacated the campus and in nursing, teacher and counselor ua College offers Bachelors of Arts Dr. Michael Alfultis Advanced Biomedical Studies. lege offers a quality liberal arts and turned over the facilities to the U.S. preparation, accounting, com- Degree programs in liberal arts and More than 8,000 Einstein alumni education within its fi ve schools: Navy, which used them as a train- puter science, health services, and sciences and inter-American stud- Founded in 1874, SUNY Maritime are among the nation’s foremost business, education, health and ing station for the newly organized speech-language pathology. The ies; Bachelor of Science Degree is the fi rst maritime school in the clinicians, biomedical scientists, and natural sciences, liberal arts, and WAVES (Women Accepted for Vol- College also offers strong tradition- programs in business administra- country. The four-year college lo- medical educators. social and behavioral sciences. unteer Emergency Service). The al liberal arts graduate programs in tion, human services, and childhood cated at the historic and scenic 55- Mercy College professors include fi rst meetings of the U.N. Security art, biology, English, history, Span- education; and Masters Degree acre Fort Schuyler in Throgs Neck, Among its pioneering educational Fulbright Scholars, published au- Council on American soil were held ish and mathematics. Lehman also programs in human services, Latin offers a solid academic program initiatives, Einstein was one of thors and leading practitioners in on the campus in 1946. Normal offers baseball, basketball, track, American and Caribbean studies, coupled with a structured cadet life the fi rst major medical schools their fi elds. In addition to academ- collegiate activity resumed at the swimming and diving, tennis, soft- and Teaching English to Speakers in the regiment for both men and to integrate bedside experience ics, Mercy College fi elds competi- campus in 1947, but, in addition to ball, and volleyball, among others. of Other Languages (TESOL). To women. Maritime College prepares with learning, bringing fi rst-year tive teams in baseball, basketball, women, the Bronx branch began make students’ dreams a reality, over 1,850 students for careers students into contact with patients soccer, fi eld hockey, softball, vol- accepting former servicemen, who For more than two decades, Leh- the college employs one of the larg- in the maritime industry, govern- and linking classroom study to case leyball and lacrosse. studied in separate classes. In 1951 man has also deepened its involve- est concentrations of full-time and ment, military, and private industry experience. Einstein also led the way the campus became fully coeduca- ment with the surrounding com- part-time Latino bilingual faculty through a content-centered curricu- in the development of bioethics as LEHMAN COLLEGE tional and a four-year curriculum munity. The opening of the Lehman and professional staff in the United lum and a hands-on, team building an accepted academic discipline in 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West was introduced. The process of Center for the Performing Arts in States. Over in the Bronx, students approach to learning. Maritime of- medical school curricula, was the Bronx, NY 10468 separating the Bronx campus from 1980 and the Lehman College Art learn in a newly unveiled state-of- fers undergraduate and graduate fi rst private medical school in New (718) 960-8000 Hunter College into a separate unit Gallery in 1984 has made the Col- the-art facility. The college recently degrees, 20 varsity athletic teams, York City to establish an academic Website: www.lehman.edu began in 1967. The Board of Higher lege a cultural center for the region. moved into a 14-story tower that summer training cruises to Europe, department of family medicine, and President: Jose Luis Cruz Education named the new college Together with the City and the Hu- houses its academic and adminis- fi ve ROTC options, and U.S. Coast was the fi rst to create a residency after Herbert H. Lehman, in recog- manities Program, the Department trative offi ces as well as: a 350-seat Guard license and intern programs. program in internal medicine with an Lehman College was established nition of the commitment to public of Music, and the Theatre program, theatre, a museum, a cultural cen- emphasis on women’s health. The as an independent unit of The City service exemplifi ed by the four-time they present dozens of concerts, ter, a library, a high school, a college Maritime College offers under- medical school is affi liated with six University of New York on July 1, State who lat- plays, dance performances, and ex- prep program, and an after-school graduate and graduate degrees in hospital centers: Montefi ore Medical 1968, following a decision by the er became a U.S. Senator and was hibitions that are free or nominally program for the children of Boricua the following areas: Engineering Center; Beth Israel Medical Center; University’s Board of Trustees to the fi rst director-general of UNRRA priced. students. The vertical campus will (Marine, Mechanical, Electrical North Shore-Long Island Jewish create a comprehensive senior col- (the Relief and Reha- help expand the school’s reach with and Facilities), Naval Architecture, Health System; Jacobi Medical lege in the Bronx with its own fac- bilitation Administration). the ability to serve 2,000 full-time Marine Transportation/ Business Center; the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital ulty, curriculum, and administration. Melrose Commons students with a faculty of 100 full- Administration(minors in Ship Center; and St. Barnabas Hospital The College took over the campus Lehman College provides under- 890 Washington AVenue time and 100 part-time professors Management and Maritime & Port Center. It is also affi liated with three that, since 1931, had served as the graduates not only a major spe- Bronx, NY 10451 and an administrative staff of 140. Security), Maritime Studies, Marine mental health facilities and four Bronx branch of Hunter College, cialization, but also training in a (347) 964-8600 Boricua College is part of Boricua Environmental Science (minors in long-term care facilities. Through known as Hunter-in-the-Bronx. For range of basic skills and general www.boricuacollege.edu Village, which includes 700 units of Marine Biology and Meteorology & its extensive affi liation network, a decade before the entry of the subjects on beginning, intermediate President Victor Alicea affordable and moderate housing, Oceanography), Humanities, Inter- Einstein runs one of the largest post- United States in the Second World and advanced levels. In this way a underground parking, retail space national Transportation and Trade, graduate medical training programs War, only women students at- Bachelor’s Degree represents both Boricua College was chartered in and a plaza. and a Master’s degree in Interna- in the United States, offering some tional Transportation Management. 155 residency programs to more Travel on the College’s 565-foot than 2,200 physicians in training. Training Ship Empire State VI is an essential component of the Mari- In addition to education, it is time experience. Each summer, ca- biomedical research that drives the dets travel across the world, learn- College’s growth with 300 research ing about the maritime industry and laboratories researching diabetes, the operations of the ship, while cancer, liver disease, and AIDS gaining exposure to international while also concentrating its efforts cultures. The Summer Sea Term on developmental brain research, provides students with opportuni- neuroscience, cardiac disease, and ties for hands-on experience and initiatives to reduce and eliminate practical training to compliment ethnic and racial health disparities. classroom learning. To further their efforts, Einstein marked the opening of the Michael EINSTEIN COLLEGE F. Price Center for Genetic and Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus Translational Medicine/Harold and 1300 Morris Park Avenue Muriel Block Research Pavilion, a Bronx, NY 10461 223,000 square-foot biomedical (718) 430-2000 research building that houses 40 Website: www.einstein.yu.edu new laboratories. These new state- [email protected] of-the-art facilities bring together Email: [email protected] world-class scientists and the most The Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz advanced cutting-edge technology Dean: to facilitate the “translation” of Dr. Allen M. Spiegel discoveries at the molecular level to the actual treatment, cure and The Albert Einstein College of prevention of disease. Medicine of Yeshiva University is a graduate school of Yeshiva University. MERCY COLLEGE The private medical school opened 1200 Waters Place its fi rst class in 1955 with a total Bronx, NY 10461 of 56 students. It was the fi rst (877) MERCY-GO new medical school to be erected Website: www.mercy.edu within New York City since 1897. President: Tim Hall Albert Einstein agreed to attach his name to the school only after it was Mercy College is a New York metro- agreed upon to write into its bylaws politan area college founded in 1950 that admission would not be based with nearly 10,000 students study- upon race, religion, creed, color, ing online and at four campus loca- national origin, sex, age, disability, tions including: Dobbs Ferry, Bronx, veteran or disabled veteran status, Manhattan, and Yorktown Heights. marital status, sexual orientation The Bronx campus is a brand new, or citizenship status. The school state-of-the-art facility with all SUNY Maritime

BTR BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29, 2017 47 YANKEE STADIUM

The New York Yankees are one of the ’s eight char- ter franchises, but were actually The New Yankee Stadium founded in , Maryland in 1901. The team went from being Location: E. 161st Street & River the original Baltimore Orioles to be- Avenue coming the Highlanders when they Broke Ground: August 19, 2006 moved to New York in 1903. They Opened: April 3, 2009 were offi cially renamed the New First Exhibition Game York Yankees in 1913, and the rest Date: April 3, 2009 is history. Having played at the Polo Result: Yankees beat Cubs 7 to 4 Ceremonial First Pitch: Grounds during their New York stay up until 1922, the Yankees moved First Pitch: Chien-Ming Wang into the previous Yankee Stadium First Yankees Batter: Derek in 1923, where they stayed until Jeter 2008. During their entire history, First Yankees Hit: the franchise leads Major League First Home Run: Robinson Cano Baseball in both revenue and titles, First Winning Pitcher: Chien- with 27 World Series champion- Ming Wang Park would be part of the plans, 1977 • 1978 • 1996 • 1998 gust 3, 1974 First Save: Jonathan Albaladejo ships and 40 American League and it was, built beyond the center- 1999 • 2000 • 2009 20: (C) - Retired Au- First Regular Season Game Pennants. They have more cham- fi eld fences, below the Mohegan gust 23, 2015 Date: April 16, 2009 pionships than any other franchise Sun Sports Bar. The new structure 40 American 23: (1B) - Retired Result: Indians beat Yankees 10 in North American professional is built of pearl blue granite from League Pennants August 31, 1997 to 2 sports history, passing the 24 Finland, and features the fi ve Yan- 1921 • 1922 • 1923 • 1926 32: (C) - Retired Ceremonial First Pitch: Yogi Stanley Cup championships by the kee monuments in a central area 1927 • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 July 21, 1984 Berra Montreal Canadians in 1999. Their around a black marble Yankees 1937 • 1938 • 1939 • 1941 37: (M) - Retired Au- First Pitch: CC Sabathia logo. 1942 • 1943 • 1947 • 1949 gust 8, 1970 First Yankees Batter: Derek most recent championship came The ceremonial monuments them- 1950 • 1951 • 1952 • 1953 42: Mariana Rivera (P) - Retired with the defeat of the Philadelphia Jeter selves are the highest honor of all, 1955 • 1956 • 1957 • 1958 September 22, 2013 First Hit: Johnny Damon Phillies in 2009. The championship and are awarded posthumously. In 1960 • 1961 • 1962 • 1963 44: Reggie Jackson (RF) - Retired First Home Run: Jorge Posada came as the Yankees celebrated addition to Steinbrenner, only four 1964 • 1976 • 1977 • 1978 August 14, 1993 First Yankees Winning Pitcher: their fi rst season playing in a brand players and one manager have 1981 • 1996 • 1998 • 1999 46: (P) - Retired Au- Brian Bruney (April 17, 2009) new stadium. In 2010, their long- monuments dedicated to their 2000 • 2001 • 2003 • 2009 gust 23, 2015 First Yankees Save: Mariano time stadium announcer Bob Shep- memories - players , 49: (SP) - Retired Au- Rivera (April 17, 2009) , , and Joe 17 East Division Titles gust 23, 2003 pard and legendary former owner First Postseason Game DiMaggio, and manager Miller Hug- 1976 • 1977 • 1978 • 1980 51: (OF) - Retired passed away. Date: October 7, 2009 gins. Another monument was ded- 1981 • 1996 • 1998 • 1999 May 24, 2015 Result: Yankees beat Twins 7 to 2 In 2011, Derek Jeter reached a icated to commemorate the events 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 42: Jackie Robinson th Ceremonial First Pitch: Eric T. milestone, picking up his 3,000 of September 11, 2001. 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2009 ** - Retired April 15, 1957 Olson hit as the Yankees push to get back Outside of the monuments, plaques 2011 • 2017 * In 1972, the number 8 was retired First Pitch: CC Sabathia on top during another playoff run. are prominently displayed to honor in honor of catcher and First Yankees Batter: Derek players, managers, owners and ex- 4 Wild Card Berths his protege, catcher . Jeter Monument Park ecutives, public address and broad- 1995 • 1997 • 2007 • 2010 • ** The number 42 was retired First Yankees Hit: Derek Jeter casting personnel, papal visits and 2012 throughout the MLB in honor of First Home Run: Derek Jeter one related to the Yankees insignia. A permanent monument for Stein- Jackie Robinson to commemorate First Winning Pitcher: CC Those honored include Miller Hug- brenner was unveiled just beyond Retired Numbers - The Yankees the 50th anniversary of his break- Sabathia gins, Lou Gehrig, , hold the re- the center-fi eld wall in Yankee Sta- ing the color barrier. First Save: Mariano River dium’s Monument Park prior to an Babe Ruth, , Joe DiMag- cord for the most numbers retired evening game on September 20, gio, Mickey Mantle, Joe McCarthy, (15 for 16 players) Hall-of-Fame Players Vital Stats 2010 against the Tampa Bay Rays. Casey Stengel, , 1: (2B, Manager) - Re- Inducted As Surface: Grass Steinbrenner’s monument was the Elston Howard, , Phil tired August 10, 1986 New York Yankees Construction Cost: $1.5 billion seventh erected in Monument Park Rizzuto, Billy Martin, , 2: Derek Jeter (SS) - Retired May Yogi Berra Architect: Populous and the fi rst honoring an owner. White Ford,. Bill Dickey, Yogi Ber- 14, 2017 Earle Combs Capacity: 52.325 (including stand- Monument Park is an open-air ra, , Don Mattingly, 3: Babe Ruth (RF) - Retired June Joe DiMaggio ing room) museum containing a collection of , , Reggie 13, 1948 Babe Ruth Luxury: 56 monuments, plaques, and retired Jackson, Ron Guidry, Red Ruff- 4: Lou Gehrig (1B) - Retired July Casey Stengel Seat Width: 19-24 inches numbers honoring distinguished ing, Jackie Robinson, Paul O’Neill, 14, 1939 Bill Dickey Leg Room: 33-39 inches members of the New York Yan- George Steinbrenner, , 5: Joe DiMaggio (CF) - Retired April Concourse Width (average): 32 feet kees, as well as other memorable and Rich Gonzalez. 18, 1952 Lou Gehrig Team Store: 11,560 square feet moments that have taken place in The New Monument Park remains 6: Joe Torre (Manager) - Retired Lefty Gomez Restroom Fixture Ratio: 1 per 60 the Stadium and around the City. a popular destination point among August 23, 2014 Joe Gordon fans The unique museum was made a fans and tourists alike, honoring a 7: Mickey Mantle (CF) - Retired Public Elevators: 16 part of the original Yankee Stadium record-breaking, legendary legacy June 8, 1969 Waite Hoyt Video Scoreboard: 59 feet x 101 back when it was renovated in the in the Bronx. 8: Bill Dickey (C) - Retired July 22, feet 1972 * Reggie Jackson late 70’s. Prior to the construc- Field Dimensions tion of the structure, monuments Accomplishments 8: Yogi Berra (C, Manager) - Re- Tony Lazzeri Backstop: tired July 22, 1972 * Mickey Mantle 318 feet honoring players were placed on Left Field Line: 318 feet the fi eld. Those monuments were 27 World Series 9: Roger Maris (RF) - Retired July Joe McCarthy Left Field: Championships 379 feet moved into an enclosed area be- 21, 1984 Herb Pennock Left-Center: 1923 • 1927 • 1928 • 1932 10: (SS) - Retired Au- 399 feet yond the left center fi eld fence. Phil Rizzuto Center Field: 1936 • 1937 • 1938 • 1939 gust 4, 1985 408 feet Popular among fans, when the Red Ruffi ng Right-Center: 1941 • 1943 • 1947 • 1949 15: Thurman Munson (C) - Retired Manager Jacob Ruppert 385 feet moved to the new Right Field: 1950 • 1951 • 1952 • 1953 August 3, 1979 Manager Joe Torre 353 feet Yankee Stadium, it was a foregone Right Field Line: 314 feet conclusion that a new Monument 1956 • 1958 • 1961 • 1962 16: Whitey Ford (SP) - Retired Au- 48 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29, 2017 BTR 6ISITUSONLINEAT WWW3EAFOOD#ITY#)COM

BTR BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29, 2017 49 MAJOR BRIDGES

BRONX WHITESTONE BRIDGE the Throgs Neck Bridge was Opened: April 29, 1939 built between the Bronx and Bridge Type: Suspension Queens to ease congestion on Bridge the Bronx Whitestone Bridge. Purpose: Connects Ferry Point Traffi c on each of these bridges in the Bronx with Whitestone in now exceeds the number of Queens. Carries US Interstate vehicles carried by just the 678 over the East River. Bronx Whitestone when it stood Maintenance: Triborough alone. The bridge was built Bridge and Tunnel Authority. with long, curved approaches in Size: The total length is 3,770 order to allow for water traffi c feet. Its longest span is 2,300 beneath the span. Straddling feet. the meeting place of the East Daily Traffic: 112,971 (last River and Long Island Sound, measured in 2010). the bridge serves as a vital link Information: Before the Bronx in the city’s interstate highway Whitestone Bridge opened, the system. On the Bronx side it Triborough Bridge (now the feeds into the Cross Bronx and Robert F. Kennedy Bridge), five Bruckner expressways, the miles to the west, provided the Hutchinson River Parkway, and only vehicular connection be- the New England Thruway, pro- tween Queens and the Bronx. viding access to New Jersey, To help ease the congestion, upstate New York, Westchester help motorists from upstate County. and New England. The New York and New England bridge’s Bronx neighborhoods The toll plaza pictured above is now a thing of the past as cashless tolling has been introduced at the Throgs Neck, Whit- reach Queens and Long Island are the residential communi- estone and RFK bridges. without traveling through the ties of Throgs Neck and Locust traffic-ridden communities of Point and the S.U.N.Y. Maritime Black Friday in 1929. With name for the bridge. and large apartment complexes Purpose: Connects Manhattan western Queens, and as part College at Fort Schuyler. the economy struggling, the share breathtaking views from to the Bronx and crosses over of Robert Moses’ Belt Park- Since 2009, the bridge outlook for the Triborough Opened: December 12, 1936 the sloping shoreline of the the Harlem River. way system around Brooklyn has been under construction to Bridge looked bleak. Othmar Bridge Type: Steel Arch Bridge Hudson River and the Harlem Maintenance: The New York and Queens, a new bridge was upgrade the bridge with chang- Ammann, the man who would Size: The total length of the Ship Canal. On January 20, City Department of Transpor- born. The Bronx Whitestone es including a third supporting later be behind the Whites- bridge is 2,208 feet. 2011, the MTA implemented tation opened to traffic a mere 23 pier, the removal of the median tone and Throgs Neck bridges, Purpose: Connects the a pilot program on the bridge Daily Traffic: 33,266 (last months after the awarding of barrier, the removal and re- was brought in to simplify the Spuyten Duyvil section of the to phase out toll booths and measured in 2008) its first construction contract placement of the old roadway structure and collapsed the Bronx with the Northern end use open road tolling. Drivers Information: This is the third so that motorists could cross with a new superstructure, and original two-deck roadway into of Manhattan over the Spuyten without E-ZPass would be sent incarnation of the Broadway it on April 30, the opening day demolition of the old support- one. New Deal money helped Duyvil Creek. a bill in the mail. Bridge. During the late 1950’s, of the 1939 New York World’s ing piers. The cost of the up- to resurrect the project in the Maintenance: Triborough the city decided to replace Fair in Flushing Meadow Park. grade is estimated at $192.8 early 1930’s with the eventual Bridge and Tunnel Authority. Opened: December 12, 1900 the existing span with a new, The bridge spans the East million. opening on July 11, 1936. The Daily Traffic: 63,392 (last Bridge Type: stronger Broadway Bridge. River and featured pedestrian ROBERT F. KENNEDY BRIDGE Bronx Crossing leads motorists measured in 2010). Size: 610 feet. The 2,500-ton span more than to points north via the Bruck- walkways as well as four lanes (formerly the Triborough Information: Named in honor Purpose: Connects Manhattan doubled roadway capacity and ner and Deegan expressways of vehicular traffic. Those pe- Bridge) of Henry Hudson, the explorer and the Bronx over the Spuyten added another subway track and, more locally, to the neigh- destrian walkways were even- Opened: July 11, 1936 whose ship, the Half Moon, an- Duyvil Creek. It carries 1 line across the Harlem River. The borhoods of the South Bronx tually removed to enable the Bridge Type: Suspension chored near this site in 1609, of the . lower deck supports two 34- and the Port Morris Industrial addition of two more lanes of Bridge, Lift Bridge, Truss the Henry Hudson Bridge Information: In 1899, a steel foot wide roadways for vehicu- Area. The Manhattan branch vehicular traffic. On the Bronx Bridge opened in 1936 as part of the lar traffi c (For 2005, the NYC is the , bridge, designed by Robert side are the residential commu- Purpose: Crosses the East Henry Hudson Parkway by the Department of Transportation which links the Harlem River Giles, was created to replace nities of Unionport and Schuy- River, Harlem River and Bronx Henry Hudson Parkway Author- reported annual average daily Drive, the FDR Drive, and 125th the original wooden bridge that lerville and connections to the Kill to connect Manhattan, the ity. After a series of mergers, traffi c volume in both directions Street, Harlem’s commercial once stood. The bridge re- Hutchinson River Parkway, the Bronx and Queens. the Henry Hudson Parkway of 35,698) and two 8-foot wide and cultural center. The lon- mained standing until in 1983, Bruckner Expressway, and Maintenance: Triborough Authority became part of the sidewalks, while the upper deck gest span of the Robert F. Ken- when an accident involving a the Cross Bronx Expressway. Bridge and Tunnel Authority. Triborough Bridge Authority in supports three elevated tracks nedy Bridge, the East River Circle Line boat left the bridge As part of the massive bridge Daily Traffic: Suspension Span 1941. Today the Henry Hudson for the IRT #1 and #9 subway Suspension Bridge to Queens, in disrepair. The trestle and project two major recreational – 165,670 (last measured in Bridge remains one of Bridges lines. For water traffi c, the connects with the Grand Cen- swing bridge was in need of a areas were developed, one of 2006) and Tunnels’ facilities, but the bridge has a navigable channel tral Parkway and the Brook- complete rehabilitation. The which being Ferry Point Park in Lift Span – 87,606 (last mea- parkway is under the jurisdic- 304 feet wide, more than triple lyn-Queens Expressway and bridge was reconstructed in the Bronx. sured in 2010) tion of New York City and New the width of the navigable chan- to Astoria’s residential areas, 1991, and is now manned so Truss Span – 79,996 (last York State. When it opened, nels of the old bridge. In the THROGS NECK BRIDGE restaurants, and shops. The that when one of the Circle measured in 2010). it was the longest plate girder open position, the bridge has a Opened: January 11, 1961 bridge’s three branches meet Line boats approaches, the arch and fixed arch bridge in vertical clearance of 136 feet. Bridge Type: Suspension Information: The Robert F. on Randall’s Island, where an bridge is swung open to allow the world. Originally built with In 2003, the NYCDOT complet- Bridge Kennedy Bridge (formerly the interchange and two toll plazas passage. only one level, the bridge’s de- ed a $10 million minor rehabili- Purpose: Connects Throgs Triborough Bridge) is the Tri- sort out traffic flowing in 12 di- BROADWAY BRIDGE sign allowed for the construc- tation of the Broadway Bridge. Neck in the Bronx with Bayside borough Bridge and Tunnel rections and provide access to Opened: July 1, 1962 tion of a second level if traffic This work included applying a in Queens. Carries six lanes of Authority’s flagship facility the island itself. In 2008 and Bridge Type: Double-decked demands increased. Within a protective coating to the steel I-295 over the East River. and is actually three bridges, pursuant to a request made Vertical Lift Bridge year and a half the upper level components of the lift span, Maintenance: Triborough a viaduct, and 14 miles of ap- by the Kennedy family the Tri- Size: The present Broadway was opened. The upper level installing new expansion joints, Bridge and Tunnel Authority. proach roads connecting Man- borough Bridge was officially Bridge has a navigable chan- carries northbound traffic; the sealing and waterproofi ng the Size: The total length is 2,910 hattan, Queens, and the Bronx. renamed after Robert F. Ken- nel 304 feet wide providing lower one is for southbound deck, repairing concrete, and feet. Its longest span is 1,800 Although the bridge opened in nedy, who served New York as 136 feet of vertical clearance traffic. The bridge’s neighbors building a new median barrier. feet 1936, plans had actually been a senator, 40 years after his when the bridge is in the open to the north are the residential The city plans a three-year, $22 Daily Traffic: 108,455 (last in place since 1916, but did assassination. Since then, the position. In the down position, communities of Spuyten Duyvil million major reconstruction of measured in 2010). not receive any funding until term RFK-Triboro has become the bridge provides 24 feet of and Riverdale, where single Information: Opened in 1961, 1925. Construction began on increasingly popular as a nick- vertical clearance. family homes, wooded estates, 50 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29,30, 20172016 BTR MAJOR BRIDGES

the bridge beginning in 2010. masonry approaches. The However, over the years, the wear third-oldest major bridge. The Maintenance: The New York City De- in 2008) UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS Washington Bridge, which and tear of the bridge became mainline structure is a through- partment of Transportation Information: In 1874, residents in the would be added to the Na- too much. Offi cials were think- truss swing span. It was desig- Daily Traffi c: 23,148 (last measured BRIDGE vicinity asked for the construction of tional Register of Historic ing of closing the bridge in mid- nated an offi cial New York City in 2008) a bridge from 138th Street (then in Opened: January 8, 1908 Places in 1982, opened to pe- 1960s due to disrepair. Thoughts landmark in January 1992. Information: The bridge connects W. Westchester) to Madison Avenue in Bridge Type: Swing Bridge destrian traffic on December became reality in 1970, when a The idea of constructing a 145th Street and Lenox Avenue in New York, and funds were appropri- Purpose: Connects Manhattan 1, 1888. The plan had been to pedestrian threw a rock from the bridge in its present location Manhattan with E. 149th Street and ated the following year. Due to the to the Bronx and crosses over open the bridge to vehicular bridge to a tour boat resulting in was initiated by Robert Ma- River Avenue in the Bronx. Towards uneven topography and relatively the Harlem River via 207th traffic on February 22, 1889 the bridge’s closure. Although comb in 1810. The Legislature the end of the 19th century, rapid undeveloped landscape, the pro- Street. — Washington’s Birthday and closed to all traffi c, the structure awarded Macomb the right to growth in the vicinity created the posed bridge required substantial Maintenance: The New York the centennial anniversary of is the oldest surviving bridge in erect a dam; one-half of the toll need for an additional Harlem River pier and approach construction. City Department of Transpor- the first Presidency — but the New York City, and therefore has for crossing the bridge was to be crossing. The initial design of the The superstructure, composed of tation full opening was delayed until maintained a special place in the donated to the poor, and boats bridge, by Alfred P. Boller working for iron, was contracted to the Keystone Size: The total length is 268 December 1889. As traffic hearts of local residents. In No- were to pass freely through a the architectural fi rm of Messrs Clin- Bridge Company in 1882. The swing feet. Its longest span is 227 needs became greater, the vember 2006, it was announced lock. The bridge was construct- ton and Russell, was based on the bridge was opened in 1884. The feet bridge was modified to ac- that the bridge will reopen after ed in 1814. The new dam, how- recently built , area’s growth quickly necessitated Daily Traffic: 39,340 (last commodate more vehicles. a $20 million renovation project. ever, proceeded to fl ood mead- but was modifi ed to accommodate the construction of another, larger measured in 2008) During the 1940s and 1950s With the $20 million renovation, ows upstream and obstruct boat an expected growth in travel across bridge. The current bridge opened Information: The bridge car- the roadway deck was modi- the arch will be stronger, stair- navigation. In 1839 a group of the river. The bridge was delayed on July 18, 1910, and is a four-lane, ries two lanes of traffic in each fied to permit a 66-foot-wide cases will improve, cameras will citizens breached the dam with due to the construction of an IRT four-span Swing Bridge, carrying direction, serving 46,381 vehi- roadway with six traffic lanes be placed on both ends of the a coal-carrying vessel; this act subway tunnel under one pier, and traffi c between Madison and Fifth cles per day, along with a side- and two six-foot-wide pedes- bridge, boat beacon lights will was deemed legal by the courts, fi nally opened in 1905. However, Avenues and East 138th Street in walk on the south side of the trian lanes. be added, and more. The bridge who maintained that “it was a wear and tear led to the need for re- Manhattan and East 138th Street bridge. The first swing bridge In 2009, a $400 million is expected to reopen to pedes- public nuisance to obstruct the construction. Over 100 years later, and Grand Concourse in the Bronx. on this site had been a previ- full renovation was started on trians in 2013. navigation.” A new swing bridge on November 1, 2006, the AVENUE BRIDGE ous incarnation of the Broad- the bridge with an expected MACOMBS DAM BRIDGE was commissioned and opened was entirely closed to traffi c and way Bridge that was being re- Opened: 1956 (replacing 1897 completion date to take place Opened: May 1, 1895 in 1861 as the Central Bridge. the center swing span was removed. placed by a new double-level bridge) sometime in 2013. As of July Bridge Type: Swing Bridge This structure required many Following the removal of the existing bridge. In June 1906, the old Bridge Type: Vertical Lift Bridge 15, 2012, one of the east- Purpose: Connects Manhattan to repairs and modifi cations due swing span and reconstruction of bridge was floated down the Size: It has a length of 340 feet. bound lanes of the bridge has the Bronx over the Harlem River to rotting of the wooden compo- the center pier, the new swing span river and placed on a newly- Purpose: Connects Manhattan to the been closed to accommodate Maintenance: The New York City nents. In 1892 the Passaic Roll- was fl oated into place, connecting constructed center pier. After Bronx over the Harlem River and car- construction vehicles, caus- Department of Transportation ing Mill Company was awarded the Bronx spans with the Manhat- all the approaches and other ries three tracks of the Metro-North ing some inbound delays at Size: The total length is 2,540 the contract for a new bridge, tan spans, on February 9, 2007. DOT construction were completed, Railroad. the Hudson River crossings. feet. Its longest span is 408 designed by Alfred P. Boller. reopened one lane in each direction the bridge opened to traffic on Maintenance: Metropolitan ton Bridge was planned in the mid- feet. This bridge offi cially opened in and the north sidewalk on March 22, January 8, 1908. The design- Transit Authority 1950s to connect to Robert Moses’ Daily Traffi c: 38,897 (last mea- 1895, at a cost of $2,537,312. 2007. All four lanes of traffi c were er was Alfred Pancoast Boller. proposed Trans-Manhattan and sured in 2008) It was renamed the Macombs open to motorists shortly afterwards. Information: In 1867, a wooden A new bridge was constructed Cross-Bronx Expressways and to Dam Bridge in 1902. New ramp drawbridge was replaced with Information: This bridge carries The reconstructed bridge includes a between 1989 and 1992 to accommodate the additional traffi c connections were constructed new swing span, new machinery and an iron one and by the 1880s, two lanes of traffi c in each di- replace the decaying previous resulting from the addition of the on the Bronx side in 1920, when an electrical system, a new approach the bridge was crossed by rection and is a major route from structure. On the Bronx side, six-lane lower level to the George Yankee Stadium was being roadway and spans, railing, fencing, more than 200 trains a day. Manhattan to Yankee Stadium. the bridge provides access to Washington Bridge. With the Inter- built. lighting, and signals. However, the bridge was soon the University Heights Metro- state designation, 90% of the $21 The major features crossed are In 1999, efforts began to com- made obsolete by heavy traf- MADISON AVENUE BRIDGE North station on the Hudson million in construction costs were Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Bou- plete a $145 million renovation fic and dredging of the via its pedestrian walk- covered by the federal government. levard (Seventh Avenue,) the of the bridge. Opened: July 18, 1910 River Ship Canal. Alfred P. Harlem River Drive, the Harlem Bridge Type: Swing Bridge way. The Bridge design included a set of 145TH STREET BRIDGE Boller worked with the railroad spiraling ramps to connect to and River, the Oak Point Link, and Size: It has a length of 1,892 feet. to create a new four-tracked WASHINGTON BRIDGE Opened: August 24, 1905 from the Major Deegan Expressway the Major Deegan Expressway. Purpose: Connects Manhattan to the swing bridge. The railroad and Opened: December 1, 1888 Bridge Type: Swing Bridge (completed in 1964) and a viaduct This landmark is the oldest ex- Bronx over the Harlem River the city split the cost. The Bridge Type: Arch Bridge Size: It has a length of 1,603 feet. ramp connecting to the Harlem River tant swing-type bridge in its Maintenance: The New York City De- new bridge was built in con- Size: The length of the bridge Purpose: Connects Manhattan to the Drive, both of which are over 100 original form in New York City. partment of Transportation junction with the Army Corps is 2,375 feet Furthermore, it is the City’s Bronx over the Harlem River Daily Traffi c: 41,740 (last measured Purpose: Connects Manhattan feet below the level of the Bridge, Continued on Page 52 to the Bronx over the Harlem and access to Amsterdam Avenue. River and carries 6 lanes of For 2005, the New York City Depart- roadway and pedestrians ment of Transportation reported av- Maintenance: The New York erage annual daily traffi c volume in City Department of Transpor- both directions of 181,566. tation HIGH BRIDGE Daily Traffic: 189,598 (last (also known as Aqueduct Bridge) measured in 2008) Opened: 1848 Information: When the popu- Bridge Type: Arch Bridge lation of Manhattan started Size: It has a length of well over to move northward after the 2,000 feet. Civil War, a bridge to accom- Purpose: Connects Manhattan to the modate the expected traffic Bronx over the Harlem River was deemed necessary. This Maintenance: The New York City De- two-hinged arch bridge was partment of Parks and Recreation designed by William Rich Hut- Information: The bridge was built as ton and Edward H. Kendall, part of the Croton Aqueduct, which based on a design submit- carried water from the Croton River ted by C. C. Schneider that to supply the city. As designed, the was pared down to bring the High Bridge had the appearance of a bridge’s cost to $3 million. Roman aqueduct, but in the 1920s, The bridge features steel- a steel arch of about 450 feet, was arch construction with two added to replace the several ma- Highbridge 510-foot-long main spans and sonry arches that spanned the river. BTR BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29, 2017 51 MAJOR BRIDGES

from Page 51 Lexington Avenue, and the Har- Purpose: Connects Manhattan lem River Drive in Manhattan, to the Bronx over the Harlem of Engineers’ project to build traveling over the Metro-North River. the Harlem River Ship Canal. Railroad Oak Point Link, the Maintenance: New York City Between 1954 and 1956, the Harlem River, and Harlem River Department of Transportation New York, New Haven, and Drive. The main span over the Size: The total length is 3,212 Hartford Railroad built a third Harlem River is a swing-type feet. Its longest span is 304 rail bridge on the site. The new bridge. It is located about 750 feet. bridge had four tracks and con- meters south of the Madison Daily Traffi c: 62,167 (last mea- sists of two parallel double track Avenue Bridge and 600 meters sured in 2008) spans, 340 feet long. It has 25 northwest of the Willis Avenue feet of clearance when closed Information: The Willis Avenue Bridge. The Department of and 135 when open. During the Bridge extends from First Ave- Transportation undertook a 1960s, the bridge came under nue and E. 124th Street in Man- $118 million project to replace the ownership of several differ- hattan to Willis Avenue and E. the previous Third Avenue ent companies, including Penn 134th Street in the Bronx. Ori- Bridge. As part of the major Central Railroad. Today, Metro- ented north-south, the bridge is reconstruction project, a new North operates it. a northbound route and works swing span was fl oated into in concert with the nearby Third THIRD AVENUE BRIDGE place on October 29, 2004. Ad- Avenue Bridge, which carries Opened: August 1, 1898 ditional work covered redesign southbound traffi c. By the turn Bridge Type: Swing-Type of the approach ramps to the of the 20th century, intensifi ed After the ribbon cutting, a crowd of community members and dignitaries walked over the Bridge bridge on the Bronx side and off manufacturing development in Size: It has a length of the bridge in Manhattan. As re- the southern Bronx had ren- new City Island Bridge to offi cially bring it into service on Sunday, October 29. 340 feet. constructed, the bridge carries dered the Third Avenue Bridge Photo by Silvio Pacifi co Purpose: Connects Manhattan fi ve lanes of Manhattan-bound inadequate for traffi c demand. a trolley line across the bridge. loaded onto barges and began a way in the Bronx. It has wider to the Bronx over the Harlem traffi c from the Bronx, which In 1894, the State Legislature By the early 2000s, the Willis 135 nautical mile journey to NY lanes than the old bridge, and River. split to three ramps in Man- authorized a new bridge to be Avenue Bridge exhibited the ef- Harbor passing underneath 14 a combined pedestrian/bicycle Maintenance: New York City hattan: to East 128 Street and built in the same location where fects of age, weather and the bridges. On July 26, the 2,400 pathway along its north side. Department of Transportation Second Avenue; to Lexington a ferry ran in the 17th century. continual, daily usage by mo- ton bridge traveled on barges to The project is ongoing, as DOT Daily Traffi c: 58,510 (last mea- Avenue and East 129 Street; After a delay due to a right-of- tor vehicles. As part of a $612 its permanent location along the completes reconstruction work sured in 2008) and to the southbound Harlem way confl ict with the New Ha- million project, DOT completely East River. The new Willis Ave- on surrounding ramps and ap- Information: The Third Avenue River Drive/FDR Drive. ven Railroad, the bridge opened replaced the bridge, including nue Bridge was built to current proaches. A symbolic portion of Bridge carries traffi c south from WILLIS AVENUE BRIDGE on August 22, 1901, at a cost the FDR Drive approach ramp engineering design standards the original Willis Avenue Bridge Third Avenue, E. 135th Street, Opened: October 2, 2010 (re- of $2,444,511. Signifi cant work and the ramp onto Bruckner and features a direct connec- will be retained as a monument Bruckner Boulevard, and Lin- placing bridge built in 1901) to strengthen the structure was Boulevard in 2010. On July tion from the FDR to the north- in Harlem River Park. coln Avenue in the Bronx, to E. Bridge Type: Swing Bridge performed in 1916, when the 12, 2010 the swing span was bound Major Deegan Express- 128th Street, E. 129th Street, Union Railway Company routed

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ACADEMY OF MOUNT CARDINAL HAYES ST. URSULA HIGH SCHOOL 330 Bedfor Park Blvd.. 650 Grand Concourse Phone: 718-364-5353 Phone: (718) 292-6100 Fax: 718-364-2354 Fax: (718) 292-9178 Website: www.amsu.org Website: http://www.cardinal- Email: [email protected] hayes.org/ Principal: Sr. Jeane Marie Principal: Mr. William Lessa Humphries Cardinal Hayes was dedicated The oldest Catholic girls’ high on September 8, 1941 by Car- school in New York State, the dinal Spellman to provide a Academy of Mount St. Ursula challenging Catholic education was founded in 1855 in East to young men of the Metro- Morrisania, New York City by politan area by encouraging Ursuline Sisters who came unique talents and fostering from St. Louis, Missouri. It ws self-development through a chartered in 1868 and has been rigorous program of academ- located at Bedford Park Boule- ics, extra-curricular activities, vard and Bainbridge Ave. since discipline and spiritual growth. 1892. Owned and operated by Over 25,000 young men have the Ursuline Sisters of the Ro- chosen to attend Hayes during man Union, Mt. St, Ursula is an its 70+ years. Over 98% of its independent, Catholic, college- seniors go on to college. preparatory school for girls. CARDINAL SPELLMAN HIGH SCHOOL 111 East 164th Street 1 Cardinal Spellman Place Phone: 718.293.4545 Phone Number (718) 881- Fax: 718.410.8298 8000 Website: http://www.allhal- Fax: (718) 515-6615 lows.org/ Website: www.cardinalspell- Principal: Sean Sullivan man.org Mt. St. Michael Principal: Daniel O’Keefe All Hallows High School is a to the twelfth grade and is a Website: www.prestonhs.org tablished in 1889. The school strong academic record: 100% private Catholic high school for Cardinal Spellman High School member of the Ivy Preparatory Email: [email protected] aims to shape the future of annual graduation rate and a young men founded in 1909. is a Catholic parochial high School League. Its Upper, Mid- Principal: Jane Grendell young women through college 96% college attendance rate. When the school first opened, school opened in September dle, and Lower Divisions are lo- preparatory secondary educa- it was located at 13-15 West 1959. The school is co-ed. cated in Riverdale. The school Preston High School was es- tion that is faithful to the Gos- SAR HIGH SCHOOL 124th Street. With the passing Preparing each student for col- offers 20 Advanced Placement tablished in 1947 by the Sisters pel, Catholic tradition and the 503 W. 259th Street of time, however, the enroll- lege acceptance and achieve- courses and 10 foreign lan- of the Divine Compassion, as educational values of the Sis- Phone: (718) 548-2727 ment created the need for a ment is a priority of the entire guages, and an extensive arts an independent, college-pre- ters of Mercy. Website: http://www.sarhigh- new location. In 1929, the prop- program at Cardinal Spellman program. paratory school. The Roman school.org/ erty of the present location was High School. Catholic high school for girls is ST. RAYMOND ACADEMY Email: Kraussb@sarhigh- purchased and, in 1930, the MONSIGNOR SCANLAN chartered by the Board of Re- FOR GIRLS school.org building was completed. Hav- FORDHAM PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL gents of the University of the 1725 Castle Hill Ave. Principal: Rabbi Binyamin ing finished its first 100 years SCHOOL 915 Hutchinson River Parkway State of New York and is ac- Phone: (718) 824-4220 Krauss of service, All Hallows proudly 441 East Fordham Road Phone Number: (718) 430- credited by the Middle States Fax: (718) 829-3571 SSAR High School is commit- boasts more than 10,000 Phone Number: (718) 367- 0100 Association of Colleges and Email: rayacad@adnyschools. ted to creating a commu- alumni. Through a challeng- 7500 Fax: (718) 892-8845 Schools. 100% of graduates org nity of learners dedicated ing, structured curriculum, the Fax: (718) 367-7598 Website: www.scanlanhs.edu are accepted into post-second- Website: http://www.saintray- to shaping thoughtful and school continues its mission to Website: www.fordhamprep. Principal: Peter Doran ary institutions. mondacademy.org/ caring young men and women prepare students who possess org Principal: Sister Mary Ann with a deep commitment to a lifelong desire to learn realize Email: admissions@fordham- Monsignor Scanlan High School ST. BARNABAS HIGH SCHOOL D’Antonio Torah and mitzvot as well their fullest potential, go to col- prep.org is a Catholic, Co-Educational 425 E. 240th Street as a deep concern for the lege and effect positive change Principal: Dr. Joseph Petriello High School (Grades 9-12), Phone: (718) 325-8800 St. Raymond Academy, founded world around them. Advisory, in society. It is the only school with a history dating back to Fax: 718-325-8820 in 1960, is a small Catholic High Beit Midrash fellows, grade in the Archdiocese of New York Fordham Preparatory School is September 1949. The school Email: Sr. Joan Faraone (prin- School for young women. It of- meetings, shabbatonim – and to be included on a list of the a four-year, Catholic, college is part of the educational ser- cipal) - jfaraone@stbarna- fers a strong college preparato- a rich array of curricular and top 50 Catholic high schools in preparatory school founded in vices of the Parish of St. Hel- bashigh.com ry program along with business co-curricular programming – the country by Catholic School 1540 by St. Ignatius Loyola. ena, serving the Bronx and Website: www.stbarna- electives. The Academy is com- provide students with many Honor Roll. At the heart of Jesuit educa- Manhattan. It is staffed by the bashigh.com mitted to guiding students to an opportunities to find their tion is the rigorous study of Dominican Sisters of Sparkill Principal: Theresa Napoli appreciation of learning that will voice and explore their pas- AQUINAS HIGH SCHOOL the humanities and the sci- and a dedicated staff of lay enable them not only to realize sions and talents outside the 685 E. 182nd Street ences. The program of studies teachers, many of whom are Saint Barnabas High School is a their potential, but also prepare classroom. Phone: (718) 367-2113 aims to encompass more than Scanlan graduates. girls’ high school located in the them to make their unique con- Fax: 718-295-5864 the acquisition of knowledge; Northeastern Bronx, adjoining tribution to society. OUR SAVIOUR LUTHERAN Website: http://www.aqui- it fosters academic discipline MOUNT ST. MICHAEL the city of Yonkers. The school HIGH SCHOOL nashs.org/ and encourages reflection in ACADEMY was founded in 1924 with the ST. RAYMOND HIGH SCHOOL 1734 Williamsbridge Road Email: administration@mail2. the pursuit of excellence in the 4300 Murdock Avenue notion that girls could become FOR BOYS Phone: (718) 792-5665 aquinashs.org whole person: intellectual, re- Phone: (718) 515-6400 anything they wanted to be 2151 St. Raymond Avenue Fax: (718) 409-3877 Principal: Sr. Catherine Rose ligious, social, emotional and Fax: (718) 994 7729 through standard curriculum Phone: (718) 824-5050 Email: [email protected] Quigley, OP physical. Website: www.mtstmichael. and extra-curricular courses Website:www.straymondhigh- Website: www.oursaviour- org that develop the whole person. school.org bronx.org Founded in 1923 by the Do- HORACE MANN HIGH SCHOOL Principal: Br. Steve Schlitte Principal: Judith Carew Principal: Kenneth Famelure minican Sisters of Sparkill, 231 W. 246th Street ST. CATHARINE ACADEMY New York, Aquinas High School Phone Number: (718) 432- Mount Saint Michael Academy, 2250 Williamsbridge Road St. Raymond High School for Our Saviour is an academic provides a quality Catholic col- 4000 also known as The Mount, is an Phone: (718) 882-2882 Boys has educated young men high school, satisfying re- lege preparatory education that Website: www.horacemann. all-boys Roman Catholic High. Fax: (718) 231-9099 in the Lasallian, Catholic tradi- quirements for college ad- encourages the development of org The 22-acre campus is a non- Website: http://www.scahs. tion since 1960. The school mission. The school takes young women to their potential. Head of School: Thomas M. boarding college preparatory org prides itself on assisting fami- pride in its small class sizes Aquinas has been recognized Kelly school for some 1,100 boys Principal: ASr. nn M. Welch, lies in the education of their with a student to faculty ratio twice by the U.S. Department grades 6 through 12. RSM sons by providing academic of 15:1. Our Saviour fosters of Education as an Exemplary The is an excellence, diverse extra- four-dimensional growth: ac- School and as a Blue Ribbon independent college prepara- PRESTON HIGH SCHOOL St. Catharine Academy is a curricular pursuits, and strong ademic, physical, social, and School. It was also named an tory school in New York City. 2780 Schurz Avenue high school sponsored by the Catholic values during its 50+ spiritual. In order to graduate, Outstanding High School by Founded in 1887, Horace Mann Phone: (718) 863-9134 Sisters of Mercy of the Mid- years. St. Raymond High students must meet all State U.S. News and World Report. spans from nursery school Fax: (718) 863-6125 Atlantic Community and es- School for Boys also boasts a of New York requirements. 54 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29, 2017 BTR BTR BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29, 2017 55 FAMED BRONX SCULPTURES

AMERICAN BOY statue’s installation. further undermined the city’s The massive limestone The bronze sculpture, fi nancial viability, and in an at- sculpture was created by set on a granite base, was tempt to alleviate the local debt, French-born artist Louis St. unveiled on June 24, 1891 the City Council authorized the Lannes in the early 1920’s af- during the Golden Jubilee cel- sale of the fountain for 3,500 ter, in 1919, Julia Rice offered ebration of Fordham Univer- lira (the estimated equivalent New York City $1 million to sity during the school’s 46th then of $637). erect a recreational facility in commencement festivities. In 1902, William Rock- memory of her late husband: The statue remains at the spot efeller purchased the fountain lawyer, fi nancier, and inventor where it was unveiled on the and invested an additional Isaac Rice (1850-1915). The Rose Hill Campus of Fordham $25,000 to bring it to the City of location chosen for the facil- University, at Fordham Road New York, where it was installed ity was the southern end of and Third Avenue. Facing east at the Bronx Zoo in 1903. Later, Pelham Bay Park, not far from toward the institution’s Admin- the esteemed architectural fi rm factory that Rice istration Building, the statue’s of Heins and La Farge designed had owned and operated. placement allows Archbishop a new ceremonial setting, Joining the decorative John Hughes to watch over his and in 1910, the fountain was Olympics-inspired friezes and successors in the University’s moved to its present location on sculptures of the elaborate, Offi ce of the President. the north side of the zoo at the classically styled stadium BRONX RIVER SOLDIER Astor Court. In 1968, the foun- and indoor recreational facil- Italian-born sculptor tain was designated an offi cial ity known as Rice Stadium John Grignola created the New York City landmark, and is was the American Boy statue. granite statue of a Civil War one of the few local monuments Depicting a partially clad male Union soldier in military dress to be honored in this way. youth, the American Boy with a musket in hand. It was FOUNTAIN statue was inspired by the originally commissioned by The (also stylized ancient art of the Ar- a Morrisania veterans group known as the chaic Greek period. Sculptor in the 1890s as a marker for Fountain) at Joyce Kilmer Park Louis St. Lannes intended it to Woodlawn Cemetery. How- honors the German poet, writer, embody the spiritual ideals of ever, it was damaged before and social dissident Heinrich American youth and to serve delivery, and rejected. Heine (1797–1856), whose as an allegorical representa- John B. Lazzari, who ran poem Die Lorelei immortalized tion of healthy recreation. The a local tombstone quarry and the mysterious creature of ro- statue adorned a temple niche monuments yard, purchased mantic legend. According to in the stadium serving as an the statue and exhibited it legend, the maiden was trans- inspiration to those who ran on his property on the west formed into a siren after throw- and exercised on the Pelham bank of the Bronx River, just ing herself into the river. She Bay grounds. south of Gun Hill Road. Later, could be heard singing from a However, over the years, as local workers headed for a rock along the river, her voice the cost of the stadium up- tapestry factory on the east hypnotizing sailors to sleep, and keep proved a burden the City embankment of the river, they then to their death. could not bear leaving Rice damaged an adjacent foot- The sculpture was creat- Stadium to fall into such a bridge held fast by a granite ed by (1847-1917) state of disrepair that it was pier. Lazzari removed the out of white Tyrolean marble deemed a public safety haz- bridge, and placed the statue and features Lorelei, a German ard and demolished in 1989. on the granite pier in the mid- mythical fi gure seated on a rock American Boy was stored dle of the river. in the Rhine River among mer- away, but when the Parks Decades later, the statue maids, dolphins, and seashells. Department set out to reno- became unstable on its foot- Other decorative and allegori- vate the southern section of ing, and in 1964 it toppled into cal motifs include a frog, a bird, Pelham Bay Park, including the river. The Parks Depart- and a skull symbolizing mortal- its track, the 14-foot statue ment rescued the sculpture ity. The bas-reliefs around the was brought out of the cob- and salvaged it. On August 21, pedestal include a profi le of webs. Thanks to $238,000 1970 the Parks monuments Heine. in funding from Councilwoman crew installed the statue on a The fountain was cre- ated for the poet’s home city Madeline Provenzano, the ag- new base at its present loca- Archbishop John Hughes Statue ing limestone surface of the tion on the grounds of historic of Dusseldorf. However, politi- statue was cleaned, structural Valentine-Varian House. cal groups opposed to Heine’s garden consisting of hedges, The Rockefeller Fountain munity was divided by those problems were repaired and WINGED VICTORY Jewish origins and political fl oral plantings, benches and was named after its benefac- who revered the foundation the American Boy’s head was The Bronx Victory Me- views blocked its installation walks surrounds the over tor William Rockefeller (1841– and those who opposed its re-attached. American Boy morial, also known as The and instead, the fountain was 120-foot-high monument. 1922) who gave what once creation. Opponents of the now sits atop a new pedestal Bronx County War Memorial, purchased by a committee of The 32-acre site was com- stood in Como, Italy, to New work of art took exception to overlooking residents enjoying is located on the southern German-Americans in 1893. pleted at a cost of $400,000 York City. The fountain is now the nude female naiad fi gures Pelham Bay’s new track and edge of Crimi Road in Pelham The sculpture was dedicated raised by borough veterans an offi cial New York landmark and others were worried that fi e l d . Bay Park. Erected in 1932, at the south end of what was and patriotic groups. As part The fountain was cre- the waters needed to oper- ARCHBISHOP JOHN the memorial was designed then Grand Concourse Plaza on of a $975,000 capital project ated by Biagio Catella to beau- ate the fountain demanded HUGHES STATUE by architect and landscape July 8, 1899. It was moved to funded by Council Member tify Piazza Cavour, a place too much pressure from the Irish-born sculptor Mau- architect John J. Sheridan the park’s north end in 1940. Madeline Provenzano, renova- intended as a respite for tour- neighborhood water supply. rice J. Power created the and sculptors Belle Kinney In 1999, the monument was tion of the statue consisted of ists and residents alike. In six Poor construction and fi scal bronze statue in 1891 to honor and Leopold Scholz. The restored through the Municipal extensive cleaning, repair and months, Catella and a team mismanagement appear to Archbishop John Hughes, who monument was dedicated on Art Society’s Adopt-A-Monu- replacement of the limestone of artisans completed the have settled the matter. The founded Fordham University – September 24, 1933. The ment Program, with $310,000 masonry and ornamentation. three-tiered fountain carved waters of the lake had badly then St. John’s College – in main element of the memorial, as a gift from the Anna-Maria The missing eagle’s head of Bianco Pi Italian marble, eroded the landfi ll foundation 1841, and was also the City’s dedicated to the 947 Bronx and Stephen Kellen Foundation. was re-carved, as was the and composed of a central im- by 1890. A municipal bud- fi rst Roman Catholic Archbish- soldiers killed in World War I, It was relocated to its original massive globe supporting the age of a swan surrounded by get crisis left the city without op. To celebrate Archbishop is a limestone pedestal sup- position at Joyce Kilmer Park statue. The bronze sculpture sea creatures and ornamental the resources to repair and Hughes’ legacy, a statue was porting a limestone Corinthian in a newly landscaped setting was removed from her perch, carving. On September 23, run the fountain, and it was commissioned by the Alumni column capped by a bronze in the south end, funded by repaired, re-gilded, and in- 1872, the fountain was turned dismantled and placed in sal- of St. John’s College, and the “Winged Victory” sculpture. Borough President Fernando stalled on a new globe. on. While a work of beauty to vage in 1891. In 1899, a local citizens of New York, who also A paved plaza with the rem- Ferrer and Councilman Pedro ROCKEFELLER FOUNTAIN New Yorkers, in Italy, the com- exposition and disastrous fi re contributed funds towards the nants of the original formal G. Espada.

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General Josiah accurate depiction of the gener- henry hudson MonuMent the idea for a monument as part and is framed by a bed of trees to Greek and Roman antiquity. Porter statue al in full dress uniform. In 1998, This massive column lo- of his Henry Hudson Bridge and and floral beds. The sculpture The monument was The sculpture of General the Porter statue was reset on cated in Henry Hudson Park Park project 20 years later. was unveiled before thousands dedicated in an elaborate Josiah Porter (1830–1894), its base, and underwent a sur- fittingly commemorates Henry Sculptor Karl H. Gruppe, a stu- of spectators on November 11, ceremony, complete with pa- located in Van Cortlandt Park face cleaning and conservation Hudson. The famed explorer is dent of Bitter, redesigned the 1925. In 1989 it was conserved rade on September 24, 1933. adjacent to the Van Cortlandt by the City Parks Foundation credited as the first European figure of Hudson and the two through the Municipal Art Soci- Despite the welcoming, faulty House, was created by William Monuments Conservation Pro- to discover the Hudson River seven- foot bas-reliefs along the ety’s Adopt-A-Monument Pro- construction, environmental Clark Noble (1858–1938) and gram. Further funds are sought 400 years ago after being hired base of the column. The monu- gram. erosion, and vandalism led dedicated in 1902. It was com- to model and replicate Porter’s by the Dutch East Com- ment was dedicated on January Bronx Victory MeMorial Bronx Victory Memorial to fall missioned at a cost of $20,000, missing bronze sword. pany to find a sea route through 6, 1938, and ever since, Henry PelhaM Bay Park into disrepair, as the gold leaf and was a gift to the City by the louis J. heintz MeMorial North America to the Far East. Hudson keeps watch over the Pelham Bay Park’s Bronx disappeared altogether from National Guard Association of Louis J. Heintz first pro- Hudson is depicted at the top river that bears his name. Victory Memorial was designed Victory, leaving her bronze sur- New York State, who utilized the posed a Grand Concourse in of the column in a monumental Bronx Victory MeMorial by architect and landscape ar- face exposed to the elements, grounds for polo matches. 1890 and in honor of his efforts; bronze sculpture by Karl Bitter. Mosholu Parkway chitect John J. Sheridan, and and a crack in the supporting Porter is reputed to have a statue depicting his likeness Clad in seafaring garb, Hudson The bronze figural group sculptors Belle Kinney and globe represented a potential been the first Harvard College was cast in 1905 and presented stands as if balancing himself honors the local servicemen Leopold Scholz to commemo- safety hazard. graduate to enlist in the Union to the city in 1909. Fittingly, the on a ship’s deck. The relief on who lost their lives defending rate the 947 soldiers from the Councilwoman Madeline Army during the Civil War. He Memorial resides at the southern the south side depicts Hudson America during World War I. At Bronx who paid the ultimate Provenzano sponsored a $1.1 was made a first lieutenant in end of the Concourse in Joyce receiving his commission from the war’s conclusion in 1918, sacrifice during World War I. million capital project that the Massachusetts Volunteers Kilmer Park. The bronze portrait the Dutch East India Company, local citizens formed the Bronx The monument was erected in included an extensive clean- in 1861, and promoted to cap- statue is positioned on a granite and the relief on the north side Victory Memorial Association 1932 and dedicated in 1933. ing, repair, and replacement tain that same year. In 1865, he pedestal in front of which stands portrays the first fur trading post and commissioned Irish-born, It consists of a landscaped of the limestone masonry and commanded the 22nd Regiment a draped female figure desig- on Manhattan. self-taught artist Jerome Con- plaza and a raised paved ter- ornamentation for the Bronx of the National Guard of New nated FAME. She is represented Bitter originally prepared nor to create the war memorial. race in which stands a mas- Victory Memorial. In addition, York and in 1867, received the drawing the inscription: “Louis a plaster model of Hudson in His conception depicts a fallen sive limestone pedestal with the missing eagle’s head was rank of major. Porter’s distin- J. Heintz to commemorate the 1906, and the architectural firm soldier, protected by a comrade sculptural reliefs. At the center re-carved as was the massive guished service led him to be founding of the progress and of Babb, Cook and Welch de- who stands vigilant with bayo- of the pedestal, a Corinthian globe supporting the statue. promoted to colonel in 1869, prosperity of the Bronx” with signed the 100-foot-high Doric net in hand. At his feet, an eagle column is surmounted by a The bronze sculpture was and then to major general and her right hand while in her left column, which was erected by with wings spread symbolizes gilded bronze Victory figure. removed from her perch, re- adjutant general in 1886. Due to she holds a palm branch. The 1912. But the project was post- the victorious call to arms. The Measuring 18 feet in height paired, re-gilded, and installed his service, Porter was deemed monument was designed by ar- poned indefinitely when funds sculpture is set upon a circular and weighing 7,300 pounds, on the new globe. A rededica- worthy of the permanent bronze chitect William Welles Bosworth ran out and Bitter died in a car pedestal of Rockport and Deer the sculpture and the classical tion ceremony took place on sculpture. and the sculptor of the figures accident in 1915. Parks com- Isle pink granite designed by ar- column are part of a long sym- November 11, 2001. The statue of Porter is an are by Pierre Feitu. missioner Robert Moses revived chitect Ar thur George Waldreaon bolic sculptural tradition dating

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Department For the Aging Senior M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Centers and Services Services: Congregate lunch (As listed at http://www.nyc.gov/ html/dfta) JASA THROGGS NECK SENIOR CENTER AMALGAMATED PARK Address: 2705 Schley Avenue RESERVOIR NORC Bronx, NY 10465 Address: 80 Van Cortlandt Park Phone Number: (718) 823-1771 South Hours of Operation: Bronx, NY 10463 M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Phone Number: (718) 548-4990 Services: Congregate lunch; Hours of Operation: education; nutrition education; M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. recreation Services: Call for information on services provided. KIPS BAY CASTLE HILL SENIOR CENTER ARTURO SCHOMBERG Address: 625 Castle Hill Avenue SENIOR CENTER Bronx, NY 10473 Address: 1315 Franklin Avenue Phone Number: (718) 319-9156 Bronx, NY 10456 Hours of Operation: Phone Number: (718) 842-6880 M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Hours of Operation: Services: Case assistance; case M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. assistance – Medicaid; congregate Services: Case assistance; case lunch; congregate breakfast; assistance – Medicaid; congregate education; recreation; health lunch; education; recreation; promotion; nutrition education health promotion; nutrition education; telephone reassurance LSNY BRONX Address: 579 Courtlandt Avenue BJCC BAINBRIDGE Bronx, NY 10451 AVENUE OFFICE R.A.I.N. Senior Center Phone Number: (718) 928-3680 Address: 3176 Bainbridge Avenue Hours of Operation: Bronx, NY 10467 CITY ISLAND SENIOR CENTER Services: Congregate lunch; nutrition education M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Phone Number: (718) 652-5500 BRONXWORKS E. ROBERTS Address: 116 City Island Avenue education; recreation; health Services: Legal services Hours of Operation: MOORE SENIOR CENTER Bronx, NY 10464 promotion; nutrition education; JAMES MONROE M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Address: 515 Jackson Avenue Phone Number: (718) 885-0727 SENIOR CENTER MARBLE HILL SENIOR CENTER Services: Case assistance; case Bronx, NY 10455 Hours of Operation: FEGS CAREGIVER PROGRAM Address: 1776 Story Avenue Address: 5365 Broadway assistance – Medicaid; information Phone Number: (718) 665-5559 M – F: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Address: 2432 Grand Concourse Bronx, NY 10473 Bronx, NY 10463 Hours of Operation: Services: Congregate lunch; Bronx, NY 10458 Phone Number: (718) 893-3484 Phone Number: (718) 562-8551 BJCC HOLLAND M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. education; recreation; health Phone Number: (212) 366-8021 Hours of Operation: Hours of Operation: AVENUE OFFICE Services: Case assistance; case promotion; nutrition education; Hours of Operation: M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. M – F: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Address: 2157 Holland Avenue assistance – Medicaid; congregate transportation M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Services: Case assistance; case Services: Case assistance; case Bronx, NY 10462 breakfasts; congregate lunch; Services: Caregiver assistance; assistance – Medicaid; congregate assistance – Medicaid; congregate Phone Number: (718) 828-1114 education; recreation; nutrition CO-OP CITY NORC PROGRAM counseling; group respite; lunch; congregate breakfast; lunch; education; recreation; Hours of Operation: education Address: 2049 Bartow Avenue individual respite; information; education; recreation; health nutrition education M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Bronx, NY 10475 outreach; public info; supplemental promotion; nutrition education Services: Case assistance; case BRONXWORKS EAST CONCOURSE Phone Number: (718) 320-2066 services; support groups, training MELROSE MOTT HAVEN assistance – Medicaid; information SENIOR CENTER Hours of Operation: JASA BAY-EDEN SENIOR CENTER Address: 236 E. Tremont Avenue M – Sun: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. HOPE OF ISRAEL SENIOR CENTER Address: 372 E. 152nd Street BRONX HOUSE Bronx, NY 10457 Services: Call center for SENIOR CENTER Address: 1220 E. 229th Street Bronx, NY 10455 SENIOR CENTER Phone Number: (718) 731-6300 information on services provided. Address: 1068 Gerard Avenue Bronx, NY 10466 Phone Number: (718) 665-2280 Address: 990 Pelham Parkway Hours of Operation: Bronx, NY 10451 Phone Number: (718) 882-3815 Hours of Operation: South M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. CO-OP CITY SENIOR CENTER Phone Number: (718) 665-8400 Hours of Operation: M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Bron, NY 10461 Services: Congregate lunch; Address: 2049 Bartow Avenue Hours of Operation: M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Services: Case assistance; case Phone Number: (718) 792-1800 education; recreation; health Room 31 M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Services: Case Assistance; Case assistance – Medicaid; congregate Hours of Operation: promotion; nutrition education Bronx, NY 10475 Services: Case assistance; case Assistance – Medicaid; congregate lunch; education; recreation; M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Phone Number: (718) 320-2066 assistance – Medicaid; Congregate breakfasts; congregate lunch; nutrition education; telephone Services: Congregate lunch; BRONXWORKS HEIGHTS CENTER Hours of Operation: lunch; education; recreation; education; recreation; health reassurance; escort education; recreation; nutrition FOR SENIOR CITIZENS M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. nutrition education; health promotion; nutrition education education Address: 200 W. Tremont Avenue Services: Congregate lunch; promotion MID BRONX HOME Bronx, NY 10453 education; recreation; health JASA CASE MANAGEMENT DELIVERED MEALS BRONX JEWISH Phone Number: (718) 299-0300 promotion; nutrition education; IPR/HE BETANCES Address: 1351 White Plains Road Address: 900 Grand Concourse COMMUNITY COUNCIL Hours of Operation: telephone reassurance; SENIOR CENTER Bronx, NY 10458 Bronx, NY 10451 Address: 2930 Wallace Avenue M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. transportation Address: 401 St. Ann’s Avenue Phone Number: (347) 547-7140 Phone Number: (718) 992-2057 Bronx, NY 10467 Services: Congregate lunch; Bronx, NY 10454 Hours of Operation: Hours of Operation: Phone Number: (718) 652-5500 congregate breakfast; education; COBO MT. CARMEL CENTER FOR Phone Number: (718) 292-4922 M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Hours of Operation: recreation; nutrition education SENIOR CITIZENS Hours of Operation: Services: Case management Services: Home delivered alt. M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Address: 2405 Southern Boulevard M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. meals Services: Case assistance; BRONXWORKS MORRIS Bronx, NY 10458 Services: Case assistance; case JASA MECHLER HALL transportation SENIOR CENTER Phone Number: (718) 364-4788 assistance – Medicaid; congregate Address: 2158 Watson Avenue MITCHELL HOUSES st Address: 80 E. 181 Street Hours of Operation: lunch; education; recreation; Bronx, NY 10472 Address: 188 Lincoln Avenue BRONX RIVER Bronx, NY 10453 M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. nutrition education Phone Number: (718) 892-11396 Bronx, NY 10454 SENIOR CENTER Phone Number: (718) 933-6671 Services: Case assistance; case Hours of Operation: Phone Number: (718) 665-2168 Address: 1619 E. 174th Street Hours of Operation: assistance – Medicaid; congregate IPR/HE MILLBROOK M – F: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Hours of Operation: Bronx, NY 10472 M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. lunch; education; recreation; SENIOR CENTER Services: Congregate lunch; M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Phone Number: (718) 617-6334 Services: Arts; congregate nutrition education Address: 201 St. Ann’s Avenue education; nutrition education; Services: Case assistance; case Hours of Operation: weekend; congregate breakfasts; Bronx, NY 10454 recreation assistance – Medicaid; congregate M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. congregate dinner; congregate EINSTEIN SENIOR CENTER Phone Number: (718) 401-4901 lunch; education; recreation; Services: Case assistance; case lunch; education; health Address: 135 Einstein Loop Hours of Operation: JASA SUE GINSBURG nutrition education assistance – Medicaid; congregate management; case assistance; Bronx, NY 10475 M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Address: 975 Waring Avenue lunch; congregate breakfast; information; nutrition education; Phone Number: (718) 320-2066 Services: Case assistance; case Bronx, NY 10469 MORRISANIA AIR RIGHTS education; recreation; nutrition physical health/exercise; Hours of Operation: assistance – Medicaid; congregate Phone Number: (718) 881-1758 Address: 3135 Park Avenue East education technology; transportation M – F: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. lunch; education; recreation; Hours of Operation:

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Bronx, NY 10451 M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. M – F: 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Phone Number: (718) 992-2528 Services: Call center for Services: Congregate lunch; Hours of Operation: information on services provided. education; recreation; nutrition M – F: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. education Services: Congregate lunch PARKSIDE SENIOR CENTER Address: 644 Adee Avenue SEBCO SENIOR PROGRAMS MOSHOLU MONTEFIORE SENIOR Bronx, NY 10467 Address: 887 Southern Boulevard CENTER Phone Number: (718) 881-7780 Bronx, NY 10459 Address: 3450 Dekalb Avenue Hours of Operation: Phone Number: (718) 617-3465 Bronx, NY 10467 M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Hours of Operation: Phone Number: (718) 798-6601 Services: Case assistance; M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Hours of Operation: congregate breakfasts, congregate Services: Case assistance; M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. lunch; education; recreation; congregate lunch; education; Services: Case assistance; case health promotion; nutrition recreation; health promotion; assistance – Medicaid; congregate education nutrition education; telephone lunch; education; recreation; reassurance; transportation nutrition education PIO MENDEZ SENIOR CENTER Address: 1291 Lafayette Avenue SISTER ANNUNCIATA NEIGHBORHOOD SHOPP CASA Bronx, NY 10474 BETHEL SENIOR CENTER BORICUA SENIOR CENTER Phone Number: (718) 617-1514 Address: 243 E. 204th Street Address: 910 E. 172nd Street Hours of Operation: Bronx, NY 10458 Bronx, NY 10460 M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Phone Number: (718) 365-3725 Phone Number: (718) 542-0222 Services: Case assistance; case Hours of Operation: Hours of Operation: assistance – Medicaid; congregate M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. lunch; education; recreation; Services: Case assistance; case Services: Case assistance; case health promotion assistance – Medicaid; cong. assistance – Medicaid; congregate weekend; congregate lunch; lunch; education; recreation; PSS ANDREW JACKSON SENIOR education; recreation; health health promotion; friendly visiting; CENTER promotion; nutrition education nutrition education; telephone Address: 325 E. 156th Street reassurance Bronx, NY 10451 SOUNDVIEW SENIOR CENTER Phone Number: (718) 585-1640 Address: 1674 Seward Avenue NEIGHBORHOOD SHOPP Hours of Operation: Bronx, NY 10472 CASE MANAGEMENT BX-1 M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Northeast Bronx Senior Center Choir sang a song of the Emerald Isle for everyone. Phone Number: (718) 328-1809 Address: 910 E. 172nd Street Services: Congregate lunch; Hours of Operation: nutrition education; shopping Bronx, NY 10466 Bronx, NY 10460 congregate breakfasts; education; Services: Case assistance; case M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. assistance; transportation Phone Number: (718) 994-0132 Phone Number: (718) 328-3536 recreation; nutrition education; assistance – Medicaid; congregate Services: Congregate lunch; Hours of Operation: Hours of Operation: health promotion lunch; education; recreation; nutrition education. RAIN EAST TREMONT M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. nutrition education SENIOR CENTER Services: Congregate lunch; Services: Case management PSS CAREGIVER THOMAS L. GUESS C Address: 2405 E. Tremont Avenue education; recreation; nutrition SUPPORT PROGRAM RAIN BOSTON ROAD OMMUNITY SENIOR CENTER Bronx, NY 10461 education; transportation NEIGHBORHOOD SHOPP LEON Address: 325 E. 156th Street SENIOR CENTER Address: 2070 Clinton Avenue Phone Number: (718) 828-0447 SENIOR CENTER Bronx, NY 10451 Address: 2424 Boston Road Bronx, NY 10457 Hours of Operation: RAIN One-Stop Address: 735 E. 152nd Street Phone Number: (718) 222-3132 Bronx, NY 10467 Phone Number: (718) 584-2357 M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Services to the Elderly Bronx, NY 10455 Hours of Operation: Phone Number: (718) 547-8827 Hours of Operation: Services: Congregate breakfast; Address: 1168 Castle Hill Avenue Phone Number: (718) 708-6897 M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Hours of Operation: M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. congregate lunch; education; Bronx, NY 10462 Hours of Operation: Services: Caregiver assistance; M – F: 8 a.m. to 4p.m. Services: Case assistance; case recreation; nutrition education Phone Number: (718) 239-4358 M – F: 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. counseling; group respite; Services: Case assistance; case assistance – Medicaid; congregate Hours of Operation: Services: Case assistance; individual respite; information; assistance – Medicaid; congregate lunch; education; recreation; RAIN GUN HILL M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. congregate lunch; education; outreach; public info; supplemental lunch; education; recreation; health promotion; nutrition SENIOR CENTER Services: Case assistance; case recreation; health promotion; services; support groups; training nutrition education; transportation education; transportation Address: 3445 Holland Avenue assistance – Medicaid; information nutrition education Bronx, NY 10467 PSS HIGHBRIDGE RAIN BOSTON SECOR TRI CENTER TRANSPORTATION Phone Number: (718) 881-5589 RAIN PARKCHESTER NEIGHBORHOOD SHOPP-SNAP SENIOR CENTER SENIOR CENTER Address: 2600 Netherland Avenue Hours of Operation: SENIOR CENTER Address: 953 Southern Boulevard Address: 1181 Nelson Avenue Address: 3540 Bivona Street Bronx, NY 10463 M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Address: 1380 Metropolitan Bronx, NY 10459 Bronx, NY 10452 Bronx, NY 10475 Phone Number: (718) 884-5900 Services: Case assistance; Avenue Phone Number: (718) 620-4650 Phone Number: (718) 588-3004 Phone Number: (718) 671-8550 Hours of Operation: congregate lunch; congregate Bronx, NY 10462 Hours of Operation: Hours of Operation: Hours of Operation: M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. breakfast; education; recreation; Phone Number: (718) 597-9220 M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Services: Transportation. nutrition education; telephone Hours of Operation: Services: Case Assistance; Case Services: Case assistance; case Services: Case assistance; case reassurance M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Assistance – Medicaid; Information assistance – Medicaid; Congregate assistance – Medicaid; congregate VAN CORTLANDT Services: Case assistance; case lunch; education; recreation; lunch; congregate breakfast; SENIOR CENTER RAIN HOME DELIVERED MEALS assistance – Medicaid; congregate nutrition education education; recreation; nutrition Address: 3880 Sedgwick Avenue Address: 3450 Boston Road breakfast; congregate lunch; NORTHEAST BRONX education; shopping assistance; Bronx, NY 10463 Bronx, NY 10469 education; recreation; nutrition SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER PSS DAVIDSON transportation Phone Number: (718) 549-4700 Phone Number: (718) 231-7246 education Address: 2968 Bruckner Boulevard SENIOR CENTER Hours of Operation: Hours of Operation: Bronx, NY 10465 Address: 950 Union Avenue Rain Case Management M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. RIVERDALE SENIOR CENTER Phone Number: (718) 892-6090 Bronx, NY 10459 Address: 3377A White Plains Road Services: Case assistance; case Services: Home delivered alt meals Address: 2600 Netherland Avenue Hours of Operation: Phone Number: (718) 328-2811 Bronx, NY 10467 assistance - Medicaid; congregate Bronx, NY 10463 M – F: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Hours of Operation: Phone Number: (347) 346-9676 lunch; education; recreation; RAIN MIDDLETOWN Phone Number: (718) 884-5900 Services: Case assistance; case M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Hours of Operation: nutrition education SENIOR CENTER Hours of Operation: assistance – Medicaid; congregate Services: Congregate lunch; M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Address: 3035 Middletown Road M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. lunch; education; recreation; congregate breakfast; education; Services: Case Management WILLIAM HODSON Bronx, NY 10461 Services: Case assistance; case health promotion; nutrition recreation; health promotion; SENIOR CENTER Phone Number: (718) 822-0486 assistance – Medicaid; congregate education; telephone reassurance; nutrition education RAIN EASTCHESTER Address: 1320 Webster Avenue Hours of Operation: lunch; education; recreation; transportation SENIOR CENTER Bronx, NY 10456 M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. nutrition education; health RAIN BOSTON EAST Address: 1246 Burke Avenue Phone Number: (718) 538-1515 Services: Case assistance; case promotion PARKCHESTER ENHANCEMENT SENIOR CENTER Bronx, NY 10469 Hours of Operation: assistance – Medicaid; congregate PROGRAM NORC Address: 3450 Boston Road Phone Number: (718) 882-8513 M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. lunch; education; recreation; RIVERDALE Y SENIOR CENTER Address: 1525 Unionport Road Bronx, NY 10469 Hours of Operation: Services: Congregate breakfasts; nutrition education; transportation Address: 5625 Arlington Avenue Bronx, NY 10462 Phone Number: (718) 654-9200 M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. congregate lunch; education; Bronx, NY 10471 Phone Number: (718) 409-1619 Hours of Operation: Services: Congregate lunch; recreation; nutrition education. RAIN NEREID SENIOR CENTER Phone Number: (718) 548-8200 Hours of Operation: M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. congregate breakfast; education; recreation; friendly visiting; Address: 720 Nereid Avenue Hours of Operation: BTR BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29, 2017 61 BRONX SHOPPING CENTERS

BAY PLAZA heart of the shopping center is National Amusement’s SHOPPING CENTER Concourse Plaza Multiplex, located at 214 E. 161st The mall was constructed in the late 1980s, Street, and featuring the latest hit movies shown on just outside of sections 4 and 5 of Co-op City, 10 screens. The complex also features a Radio Shack, at Bartow and Baychester avenues, on an open CVS, McDonalds, Food Bazaar, Jeans Plus, Rainbow lot that was previously used to dump old tires Shop, Ashley Stewart, Jimmy Jazz, Payless Shoes, Foot and garbage. Bay Plaza is home to various Locker and Bank of America, along with offi ce space. department stores and shops, such as Toys R’ Us, Marshalls, Dress Barn, Mandee, JCPenney, BRUCKNER PLAZA Staples Inc., Modell’s Sporting Goods Store, Big Located on Bruckner Boulevard, near the Bruckner K Mart, Pathmark and Old Navy, among other Expressway and the Cross Bronx Expressway, the well-known stores. The only Barnes and Noble Bruckner Plaza is a 386,000-square-foot neighborhood bookstore in the Bronx is located at the shopping shopping center that includes Kmart, Toys R Us, Old center. Bay Plaza also houses an AMC-operated Navy, Modell’s, Rite Aid, and Key Food, along with a multiplex movie theater; several restaurants - an number of other retail, medical and fi nancial institutions. Applebee’s, Red Lobster; Checkers, Popeye’s, The highly valued property recently made news when Ponderosa Restaurant, Panera Bread, and Burger Vornado Realty Trust purchased the shopping center for $165 million in 2007. King - a Bally’s fi tness club, and offi ce space. THE BRONX GATEWAY The $500 million Bronx Gateway Center at the Bronx GUN HILL ROAD Terminal Market – one of the largest private sector SHOPPING CENTER investments in borough history – opened in September The 80,789 square foot property, owned by Vornado 2009. The newest shopping center, a LEED Silver retail Realty Trust, has seen an upswing in business after mall, replaces all but one of the original Bronx Terminal some dismal period of time during the economic crisis. Market buildings (originally built in 1920) along with The closure of A&P Supermarket had left the location the Bronx House of Detention. With one million square desolate several years ago and the opening of a Circuit feet of retail space and 2,600 parking spots, the new City at the location failed to bring in new shoppers to mall features the fi rst BJ’s Wholesale in the Bronx; the area. Circuit City would close its stores shortly after Marshalls; Home Depot; Target; Best Buy; Bed, Bath Concourse Plaze opening its Bronx location. However, the shopping strip, and Beyond; Staples; Toys R Us; Raymour & Flanagan; at 1700-1800 E. Gun Hill Road, has seen new life with and an Applebee’s. The Bronx Gateway’s opening has several new stores popping up over the last couple of helped to revitalize the South Bronx, bringing jobs and square feet and serves as the complex’ anchor store. which are opening in the Bronx for the fi rst time. Mall years. The location is now home to a widely visited TGI new development to a long-struggling community. Joining Target is a 27,031 square foot TJ Maxx. The tenants include H&M, Michael Kors, Forever 21, Ulta, Friday’s chain restaurant, a Duane Reade drugstore, a More information, including a full list of retail and Throggs Neck Shopping Center, easily accessible from Kay Jewelers, Victoria’s Secret, Gap, and American brand new Planet Fitness gym franchise, and a new dining options, and events can be found at http:// highways, features over 650 free surface parking Eagle, among others. grocery store in the form of an ALDI Supermarket. The gatewaycenteratbronxterminalmarket.com. spaces. most recent store to open at the site is a CiCi’s Pizza, RIVERDALE CROSSING CONCOURSE PLAZA a Texas-based national chain whose Bronx opening Formerly the Stella D’oro cookie factory, at Broadway MALL AT BAY PLAZA Concourse Plaza is located at the corner of E.161st St. marked its fi rst location in New York City. The stores and W. 238th Street, is now a 114,598 square-foot The Mall at Bay Plaza opened on Thursday, August 14. and Morris Avenue. It is a Lifestyle/Specialty Center join mainstays – Dunkin Donuts, Ridgewood Savings retail mall. Riverdale Crossing features a BJ’s Wholesale 2014. Prestige Properties and Development Co., are which opened in 1991 and was last renovated in 1999. Bank and an Oriental Chinese Buffet – in once again Club as its main anchor store. The popular wholesale the owner and developer of the mall. Sam Shalem is It is an open shopping mall with 1,258 parking spaces beefi ng up the retail strip for residents in and out of location occupies more than 80,000 square feet on W. the chairman and CEO of Prestige Properties. The mall, and a food court with 450 seats.. It covers an area of the community. 237th Street. Realty Associates purchased the site for anchored by a new Macy’s and an existing JC Penney, 232,793 sqft. and has about 53 stores. $19 million. Bank of America, occupying 2,800 square features a wide range of national retailers, many of RIVER PLAZA feet, and Petco, occupying 9,995 square feet, joined River Plaza sits on 9.5 acres along the Harlem River, BJ’s at the new mall. The mall also features 500 spaces adjacent to the Major Deegan Expressway and of surface and rooftop parking. Riverdale Crossing is West 225th Street. The site is the former home of a easily accessible from the Major Deegan Expressway warehouse utilized by Columbia-Presbyterian Medical at Exit 11 and by the local No. 1 Subway line. Center to store medical records, along with fi ve smaller THROGGS NECK commercial properties. The retail center is comprised SHOPPING CENTER of three one- and two-story buildings, which house 16 The 7.9-acre parcel of land, located at 815 Hutchinson storefronts located on West 225th Street. The mall River Parkway, between Lafayette Avenue and Wenner is home to the only Target in the Bronx; a Marshalls Place, was once a United States Postal Service transfer clothing store; a Starbucks; and an Applebee’s, among station. Target, joined by PA Associates and Simone other stores. Development, purchased the property in February Concourse Plaza Shopping Center 2011 and built an almost 300,000 square foot The $150 million shopping center opened in 1991 just shopping complex. The retail giant occupies 165,299 off the Grand Concourse in the south Bronx. At the

Bronx Gateway Center Bruckner Plaza

62 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29, 2017 BTR Saluting Our Hometown Heroes Thank you for being there.

(718) 792-0270 James E. McQuade Owner Family Owned & Operated for over 50 years 3535 East Tremont Avenue s Bronx, NY www.schuylerhill.com

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LITTLE LEAGUES Phone Number: (718) 379-8242 Email: Les Tarlton (President) – Astor Little League [email protected] 2701 Bruner Avenue Website: www.eteamz.com/ Phone Number: (718) 324-2880 coopcityll/ Email: Frank Berardi (President) - [email protected] Parkchester Little League Website:www.eteamz.com/astor- 2115 Starling Avenue littleleague/ Phone Number: (347) 247-5969 Email: Dean Ricks (President) – Bronxchester Little League [email protected] 1400 Waters Place Website: www.parkchesterbase- Phone Number: (718) 792-6666 ball.com/ Email: Vincent Firsching (Presi- dent) – [email protected] Castle Hill Little League Website:www.bronxchesterlittle- 2200 Powell Avenue league.com/ Phone Number: (718) 822-6632Email: Henry Pelayo, Pelham Bay Little League/ Jr. (President) - henry@castle Pelham Bay Belles hilllittle league.org 2680 Westchester Avenue Website: http://castlehilllittlelea- Phone Number: (718) 931-9585 gue.org Email: [email protected] Website: www.pelhambayll.com/ Jaws Little League 1237 Intervale Avenue Van Nest Little League Phone Number: (718) 589-5135 1500 Waters Place Email: Eli Martinez (President) - Phone Number: (718) 518-9303 [email protected] Email: Chris Amarosa (President) - Website:www.eteamz.com/ [email protected] Jawslittleleague/ Website: www.eteamz.com/ Warriors Football Club vannest/ Kingsbridge Little League rd 3319 Bailey Ave North Bronx Little League Football Phone Number: Jerry South Bronx United Soccer Club Address: 2505 Third Avenue (3 Throgs Neck Little League Phone Number: (718) 924-9135 4359A White Plains Road Demers (Director of Football) - 199 Lincoln Ave., #319 Floor) 150 Throgs Neck Boulevard Email: Chris Navarro (President) - Phone Number: (718) 320-8082 (718) 829-7574 Phont Number: (718) 404-9281 Bronx, NY 10451 Phone Number: (718) 822-8232 [email protected] Website: www.northbronxlittle- Website: www.eteamz.com/bronx- Email: [email protected] Phone Number: (718) 654-1500 Email: Vinny Todino (President) - Website:http://www.kingsbridgel- league.org/ warriorsfootball/index.cfm Website: www.southbronxunited. Email: [email protected] [email protected] ittleleague.org/ org Website: www. Website: www.throgsnecklittle- Throggs Neck Girls Softball North Bronx Cowboys YFC time2danceacademy league.com South Riverdale Little League 3159 Bruckner Boulevard #216 135 Einstein Loop TRACK TEAMS Phone Number: (917) 846-9223 Phone Number: (718) 684-4903 Bronx Dance Theatre P.O. Box 630301 th nd Pelham Parkway Little League Phone Number: (718) 548-0413 Email:Rachel Mazza (President) - Email: [email protected] Velocity Track Club Address: 585 E. 187 Street (2 2030 White Plains Road Email: Michael Farber (President) - Rachelmazza@Throggsneckgirls- Website: www.nbcowboysfootball. Floor) Phone Number: (718) 597-2292 [email protected] softball.com com 441-6166-2060 Bronx, NY 10458 Email: Daniel Lowe (President) - Website: www.srll.org Website:http://throggsneckgirls- Email: [email protected] Phone Number: (718) 364 2725 [email protected] softball.com/ Bronx Buccaneers Youth Email: [email protected] Email: Neil Goldstein Website:www.networkdimension. North Riverdale Little League Football (Executive Director) - director@ com/ppll.htm Mosholu Avenue FOOTBALL LEAGUES 800 E. Gun Hill Road (Evander Zodiacs Track Team bronxdancetheatre.com Website: Phone: (718) 884-1202 Childs Educational Campus P.O. Box 67 www.bronxdancetheatre.com Co-op City Little League Email: Maureen Kelly (Player Warrior Football Club Football Field) Phone Number: (718) 679-2060 177 Dreiser Loop #17 Agent) – [email protected] Pilgrim Station, P.O. Box 160157 Phone Number: (347) 805-8283 Email: [email protected] Mind-Builders Creative Arts Bronx, NY 10461 Email: [email protected] Website: www.zodiacstrack.org 3415 Olinville Avenue Website: http://bronxbuccs.org 652-6256-5136 New York Lyons Mane Email: [email protected] Moving the Chains/South Track Club MISCELLANEOUS Bronx Chargers Phone Number: (718) 671-3129 773 Concourse Village East #15K Email: [email protected] Co-op City Tennis Club Phone Number: (347) 633-3438 Address: 140-20G Asch Loop Email: [email protected] DANCE ACADEMIES Bronx, NY 10475 Website: http://movingthechains. Phone Number: (718) 671-4437 org Andrea’s Dance Academy Email: [email protected] 904 Morris Park Avenue Website: http://coopcitytennis.com BASKETBALL PROGRAMS Phone Number: (718) 597-9869 Team USA (Martial Arts Center) New York Gauchos Basketball Fancy Feet Address: 1101 Castle Hill Avenue Program 1295 Allerton Avenue Bronx, NY 10472 478 Gerard Avenue Phone Number: (718) 405-5136 Phone Number: (718) 931-0033 Phone Number: (718) 665-6952 Email: Ssuan O’Hanlon (Director) - Email: O. Samaroo (Instructor) – Email: contact@newyorkgauchos. [email protected] [email protected] com Website: www.fancyfeet.com Website: www.teamusanyc.com Website: www.newyorkgauchos. 1628 Crosby Avenue 2704 White Plains Road com Phone Number: (718) 824-1981 Phone Number: (718) 994-4300 SOCCER LEAGUES Unionport Road 914 Prospect Avenue Phone Number: (347) 691-3443 Phone Number: (718) 659-1700 AFC Rapid Youth Soccer Club Website: www.teamusanyc.com Will Cintron Fields Performers Edge Dance Balcom and Barkley avenues Academy Morris Park Boxing Club Phone Number: (718) 823-5149 Address: 4037 E. Tremont Avenue 644 Morris Park Avenue Email: [email protected] Bronx, NY 10465 Phone Number: (718) 430-9083 Website: http://afcrapid.com Phone Number: (718) 822-2025 Website: www.morrisparkboxing- Email: Stefanie Salaman club.com Riverdale Soccer Club (Owner) – info@ 4600 Fieldston Road performersedgedanceacademy. Juan LaPorte’s Boxing Gym Phone Number: (718) 601-8639 com 1300 Southern Boulevard Email: mail@riverdalesoccerclub. Website: www. Phone Number: (646) 299-6507 org performersedgedanceacademy. Email: [email protected] Website: www.riverdalesoccer- com Website: www.elmaestroinc.org Fancy Feet club.org Time2Dance Academy 64 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29, 2017 BTR BTR BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29, 2017 65 PASSENGER RAILROAD LINES

This is actually due to an 1848 of the way to Poughkeepsie. It is up to Southeast on the Harlem Line , Harlem- agreement with the Harlem line’s one of the more scenic routes of any and to stations up to New Haven on Station, and all outlying predecessor railroad the New York commuter train. the New Haven Line, or transfer at stations. Central that has carried over today Grand Central Terminal or Harlem- Harlem Line: An 82-mile com- for financial reasons. The train also Yankees-E. 153rd St. Station: 125th Street Station for additional Harlem and New Haven Lines: to/from Grand Central Terminal and muter rail line running north from stops at Yankee Stadium on a lim- This is the newest station added trains available after the departure of Direct pre- and post-game service to/ Harlem-125th Street Station. ited basis. in late May and is located on the New York City into eastern Dutchess the last direct Harlem or New Haven from stations to/from Southeast and There are no Amtrak stops in the Hudson Line (year-round service), County. Line trains. New Haven respectively or transfer Bronx. However, there are tracks Yankees-E. 153rd Street Station: but is also a stop on the Harlem and Shuttle service: Frequent ser- at Grand Central Terminal or Harlem- owned by the well-known train Bronx Stops: Melrose, Tremont, This is the newest station added in New Haven Lines on a limited basis vice to/from Grand Central Terminal 125th Street Station for additional company that run throughout the Fordham, Botanical Garden, Wil- late May 2009 and is located on the during the baseball season. The ef- and Harlem-125th Street Station. trains available after the departure of borough. Its Line travels liamsbridge, Woodlawn, Wakefield. Hudson Line (year-round service), fort was made to include a Yankee the last direct Harlem or New Haven through various parcels in the Bronx Note: The New Haven Line fol- but is also a stop on the Harlem and station as a way to ease hassles with Weekends and holidays: Line trains. lows the same path as the Harlem New Haven Lines on a limited basis parking, tolls and traffic. Hudson Line: Direct service from Shuttle service: Frequent service Line (although it skips most stops) during the baseball season. The Weekdays: before diverting away after the effort was made to include a Yankee Hudson Line: Direct service from Woodlawn stop. This train also station as a way to ease hassles Grand Central Terminal, Harlem- stops at the Yankee Stadium station with parking, tolls and traffic. 125th Street Station, and all outlying on a limited basis. stations Harlem and New Haven Lines: Transfer at Grand Central Terminal or Harlem-125th Street Station for service to/from Yankees-E. 153rd Hudson Line: A commuter rail Street Station. line running north from New York City New Haven Line: Metro-North along the east shore of the Hudson Shuttle service: Frequent ser- Railroad’s New Haven Line runs River and ending at Poughkeepsie. vice to/from Grand Central Terminal/ from New Haven, Harlem-125th Street Station (shuttles southwest to Woodlawn, New York. Bronx Stops: Yankees-E. 153rd after weekday 1:05 PM games will There it joins the Metro-North Har- Street, Morris Heights, University not stop at Harlem-125th Street). lem Line, where trains continue Heights, Marble Hill, Spuyten Duyvil, south to Grand Central Terminal in Riverdale. Weeknights: Manhattan. Notes: The Hudson Line actually Hudson Line: Direct service Bronx Stops: Fordham (limited). does not reach the river until it has to/from Grand Central Terminal, gone 11 miles and six stations from Harlem-125th Street Station, and all Notes: Although it follows the its Grand Central origin. Once it does, outlying stations. Harlem Line Path, it bypasses Mel- however, the view is nearly constant, Harlem and New Haven Lines: rose, Tremont, Botanical Garden, with the Hudson River in view much Direct post-game service to stations Williamsbridge and Woodlawn.

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#1 Broadway- Seventh Avenue Local: The 1 service operates at all times between Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Street in the Bronx and South Ferry in Lower Manhattan, making all local stops.

Bronx Stops: Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Street, 238th Street, 231st Street,

#2 Seventh Avenue Express: The 2 service operates at all times between Wakefi eld-241st Street in the Bronx and Flat- bush Avenue-Brooklyn College in Midwood, Brooklyn.

Bronx Stops: Wakefi eld – 241st Street, Nereid Avenue, 233rd Street, 225th Street, 219th Street, Gun Hill Road, Burke Avenue, Allerton Avenue, Pel- ham Parkway, Bronx Park East, E. 180th Street, West Farms Square – E. Tremont Avenue, 174th Street, Freeman Street, Simpson Street, Intervale Ave- nue, Prospect Avenue, Jackson Avenue, Third Avenue- 149th Street, 149th Street – Grand Concourse.

Bronx Transfer options: At times, patrons can transfer to the No. 5 train running on the Nereid Avenue Line at Nereid Avenue, 233rd Street, Gun Hill Road and Pelham Parkway. Patrons can transfer to the No. 5 train at all th th 5 train at 149 Street – Grand Baychester Avenue, Gun Hill Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx cal in the Bronx. times at E. 180 Street, Third th Avenue-149th Street, and 149th Concourse and 138 Street – Road (Seymour Avenue), Pelham and – City Hall Bronx Transfer Options: Street – Grand Concourse. Grand Concourse. Patrons can Parkway, Morris Park in Manhattan. Bronx Stops: Bedford Park Passengers can transfer to the D also transfer to the No. 2 train at Boulevard, Kingsbridge Road, train at Bedford Park Boulevard, Passengers can also transfer th th 149 Street – Grand Concourse. (Nereid Avenue Line): Nereid Bronx Stops: Pelham Bay Park, Fordham Road, 182nd – 183rd Fordham Road, Tremont Avenue to the No. 4 train at 149 Street rd th st Grand Concourse. Avenue, 233 Street, 225 Buhre Avenue, Middletown Streets, Tremont Avenue, 174th and 161 Street-Yankee Notes: The 4 train operates ex- Street, 219th Street, Gun Hill Road, Westchester Square – – 175th Streets, 170th Street, Stadium. Passengers can also press in Manhattan and Brook- Road (White Plains Road), Burke E. Tremont Avenue, Zerega 167th Street, 161st Street-Yan- transfer to the No. 4 train at Note: 2 trains operate locally st in the Bronx, express in Man- lyn, but local in the Bronx. Dur- Avenue, Allerton Avenue, Pelham Avenue, Castle Hill Avenue, kee Stadium. 161 Street-Yankee Stadium. hattan and local in Brooklyn ing late nights, 4 trains make Parkway, Bronx Park East Parkchester, St. Lawrence Ave- all local stops in the three bor- nue, Morrison Avenue – Sound- Notes: The B service operates except during late night hours th when 2 trains stop at all sta- oughs, and the southern termi- (At All Times): E. 180 Street, view, Elder Avenue, Whitlock on weekdays only from ap- nus is extended further south to West Farms Square-E. Tremont Avenue, Hunts Point Avenue, proximately 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.; tions. The 2 train operates on th the #5 line in the Bronx up until New Lots Avenue. Avenue, 174 Street, Freeman Longwood Avenue, E. 149th though the last trains depart E. 180th Street. When the 5 Street, Simpson Street, Intervale Street, E. 143rd Street – St. from their respective stations train runs express, patrons of #5 Avenue, Prospect Avenue, Mary’s Street, Cypress Avenue, at around 10 p.m. that train can either take the Lexington Avenue Express: Jackson Avenue, Third Avenue– Brook Avenue and Third Avenue 149th Street, 149th Street–Grand – 138th Street. D 2 train at 149th Street – Grand th Concourse or E. 180th Street to During rush hours, 5 trains Concourse, 138 Street–Grand Sixth Avenue Express: reach bypassed stations. operate between Eastchester- Concourse Notes: The 6 train runs on both The D service operates at all Dyre Avenue or Nereid Avenue, a local and express track. The times, from 205th Street in the #4 both in the Bronx, and Flatbush Bronx Transfer Options: At times, express train will skip stops Bronx to Stillwell Avenue in Lexington Avenue Express: Avenue – Brooklyn College in No. 5 passengers can transfer to between Third Avenue – 138th . Brooklyn. This train operates the No. 2 train at Nereid Avenue. Street and Parkchester. Some The 4 service operates at all th times with normal service op- express in the Bronx during rush They can also transfer to the trains from Manhattan termi- Bronx Stops: 205 Street, hours in the peak direction. No. 2 train at Third Avenue- nate at Parkchester where pa- Bedford Park Boulevard, erating between Woodlawn in th th the Bronx and Utica Avenue in During mid-days, 5 trains operate 149 Street and at 149 Street- trons must transfer to another Kingsbridge Road, Fordham only between Eastchester-Dyre Grand Concourse. Passengers train traveling the remaining Road, 182nd – 183rd Streets, Crown Heights, Brooklyn via th th Lexington Avenue. Avenue and Flatbush Avenue can also transfer to the No. stops to Pelham Bay. Some Tremont Avenue, 174 – 175 – Brooklyn College with local 4 train at 149th Street-Grand trains terminate at Third Av- Streets, 170th Street, 167th th st Bronx Stops: Woodlawn, Mo- stops in the Bronx. Concourse and 138 Street- enue – 138th Street where Street, 161 Street-Yankee sholu Parkway, Bedford Park During evenings and weekends, Grand Concourse. patrons must transfer to an- Stadium Boulevard – Lehman College, the No. 5 train operates only other #6 train for the remaining Kingsbridge Road, Fordham between Eastchester-Dyre Notes: During late nights, 5 stops. Bronx Transfer Options: During Road, 183rd Street, Burnside Avenue and Bowling Green in trains provide local shuttle ser- rush hours, D train passengers Avenue, 176th Street, Mount Manhattan with local stops in vice between Eastchester-Dyre B can transfer to the B train Eden Avenue, 170th Street, the Bronx. Avenue and E. 180th Street, Sixth Avenue Express: at Bedford Park Boulevard, At times, the No. 5 train will run where the 2 train provides Normal service operates be- Fordham Road and Tremont 167th Street, 161st Street – th Yankee Stadium, 149th Street – from or terminate at E. 180 through service to the South tween 145th Street in Harlem Avenue. At all times, passengers Street. Shuttle trains will take Bronx, Manhattan and Brook- to Brighton Beach in Brooklyn. can transfer to the No. 4 train at Grand Concourse, 138th Street th – Grand Concourse. passengers between E. 180 lyn. However, during rush hours, 16st Street-Yankee Stadium. Bronx Transfer options: Street and Eastchester-Dyre the northern terminus for the Passengers can transfer to the Avenue and vice versa. #6 B is extended to/from Bedford Notes: D trains generally operate B & D trains at 161st Street – Bronx Stops (Dyre Avenue Lexington Avenue Local: Park Boulevard in the Bronx. local in the Bronx, express in Yankee Stadium, or to the No. Line): Eastchester-Dyre Avenue, The 6 service operates between During this time, the B runs lo- Manhattan and Brooklyn.

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BRONX YMCA the New York City Police Depart- P.S. 48 Jr. K-Company touring dance Curriculum; and Summer Youth H.E.L.P. MORRIS 2 Castle Hill Avenue ment to enable the city’s unsu- 1290 Spofford Avenue and vocal troupe), air-supported Employmentt. 285 East 171st Street Phone: (718) 792-9736 pervised youth to play became Phone: (718) 378-0772 dome over cushioned turf (win- Coudert Clubhouse Phone: (718) 583-0174, Ext. Email: BronxYMCA@ymcanyc. a city-wide Cops & Kids move- Fax: (718) 378-0338 ter instructional baseball and 1835 University Avenue 506 org ment and later national model Information: In addition other activities are offered), and Phone: (718) 975-0788 Information: H.E.L.P. Mor- Executive Director: Sharlene that brought communities and to being open fi ve days a week, the Bronx’ only ice skating rink Fax: (718) 584-7275 ris continually provides a menu Brown police together in ways that pre- P.S. 48 is open 20 additional (converts to a rollerblading rink Information: The Coudert of services that take into account Web: www.ymcanyc.org/bronx vail to this day. PAL is New York days typically on school holidays, in warm weather). Children can Clubhouse offers a Triple Play current and future trends, needs, Hours of Operation: Mon- City’s largest independent youth giving the children of P.S.48 take part in travel and intramural component designed to teach interests, barriers, population day through Friday: 5:30 a.m. development not-for-profi t orga- and Hunts Point a place to go, teams in basketball, baseball and club members to make healthier shifts and inner city challenges. - 10:00 p.m.; Saturday & Sun- nization that operates head start/ away from the temptations of football. Karate instruction, table choices by educating boys and School locations: day: 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. (Pool day care, after-school, evening the street. Children participate games and board games are also girls about good nutrition, mak- Kips Bay began on-site closes 30 minutes prior to facility teen, summer day camp, youth in homework assistance, arts available. In addition, the center ing physical fi tness a daily prac- work at public schools in 1991, closing). Open New Year’s Day 8 employment, truancy preven- and crafts, low organizational offers homework help, diagnostic tice and developing individual and currently provides after- a.m.-8 p.m. The YMCA has had tion, juvenile justice and re-entry, games, sports, step and dance. skill level testing, group and indi- strengths and good character. In school Boys & Girls program- a presence in the Bronx since city-wide sports, play streets and The Center also offers a summer vidual tutoring, computer literacy addition to components for the ming at four schools. Education 1889. Today, it contributes to the part-time centers, food service, day camp and out-of-school time & enrichment, SAT and Regents mind and body, the Triple Play is a required activity at all sites lives of 15,000+ of boys, girls, and adventure learning programs activities. prep, science and newsletter program gets at the soul of the complemented by such activities men and women of all ages, for pre-school kids, children and Webster Center club. Teens have an opportunity Club experience - the games as leadership and service clubs, races, religions and economic adolescents ages 3 to 19. With 2255 Webster Avenue to obtain summer employment room, providing club members sports and fi tness, drug/alco- backgrounds. The facility of- over 95 years of service, PAL is Phone: (718) 733-6748 through Kips Bay while a seven- with access to billiars, ping pong, hol awareness, fi eld trips to the fers a number of children’s pro- continuing its evolution and re- Fax: (718) 584-7275 week Summer Camp program of air hockey and soccer table Lucile Palmaro Clubhouse, and grams and activities that include maining a vibrant and vital NYC Information: Webster- structured activities, educational games, as well as board games. performing arts. child care, arts & crafts, music, institution. Giannone Center’s mission is to fi eld trips, swimming and the arts A power hour provides members Public School 304 & M.S. 101 sports, photography, reading, Bronx locations: build, develop and inspire the is available for 6-13 year olds. with homework help. There are 2750 Lafayette Avenue social skills, computer skills, J.H.S. 127 (CJC) leaders of tomorrow. By helping On a periodic basis youngsters also classes on digital photog- Phone: (917) 417-3878, (718) college/career preparation; day 1560 Purdy Street with the development of char- from all sites are transported to raphy, media production, dance, 829-6372 ext:456 camps and sleep-away camps, Phone: (212) 477-9450 ext. acter, self-pride, responsibilities the Palmaro Clubhouse on Kips journalism, and visual arts. The Public School 140 and more. As the needs of the 389 and creativity, every child is pro- Bay’s buses to use these facili- Clubhouse also offers a class on 916 Eagle Avenue community changed, the Bronx Programs: This part time center vided with endless possibilities to ties. ballet and African dance. Phone: (917) 417-1720, (718) YMCA has changed with it. In offers Evening Teen Centers. express themselves through art, Other Bronx Locations: THROGGS NECK 585-0167, ext. 1000 2003, in an effort to expand its J.H.S. 131 (CJC) recreation and socialization. The Castle Hill Community COMMUNITY CENTER Community School 67 services, the YMCA built a brand 885 Bolton Ave. PAL’s after school program cur- Center 550 Balcom Avenue 2024 Mohegan Avenue new building to join the previously Phone: (212) 477-9450 ext. rently serves children in grades 625 Castle Hill Avenue Phone: (718) 824-9090 Phone: 718.893.8600, Ext. 260 existing facility that had fi rst been 389 1st through 5th. Children receive Phone: (718) 828.4518, ext. Information: The after- MADISON SQUARE built in 1970. As a result, the Information: This is a part time homework assistance, academic 101 school program is designed to BOYS & GIRLS CLUB Bronx YMCA offers distinctive center. enrichment, arts & crafts, rec- Information: Castle Hill emphasize on comprehensive Website: www.madisonsquare. 23,000 square-foot building with New South Bronx Center reation, dance and game room. Unit offers an Out of School youth, family and community org extensive glass panels, affording 991 Longwood Avenue Youth also participate in center, Time program free of charge programs, which focuses on In 1884, Dr. Charles H. views of the Long Island Sound, Phone: (718) 991-2447 borough and citywide events for youth 6 through 12 years of educational, recreational, social Parkhurst, pastor of the Madison features include a large swim- Fax: (718) 991-2589 where they learn the importance age with a goal to address the and character development. Square Church and president of ming pool, health and wellness Information: The New of sportsmanship and team- socio-economic ills the commu- The Center offers a power hour the Society for the Prevention of center, family computer center South Bronx Center provides an work. The Center also offers a nity faces: gang violence, drug component where students will Crime, suggested a Boys Club and other amenities. The facil- array of services to the children summer day camp, evening teen and substance abuse, diffi culty work on their homework assign- as a means to address the prob- ity is also the only YMCA in New of the South Bronx Community. centers, and out-of-school time meeting academic standards and ments. Other activities include: lem of youth gangs in the city’s York City to boast an outdoor The after school program offers programs. health-related issues. Some ac- sports and fi tness - (basketball, toughest eastside district. In re- swimming pool. The outdoor structured activities to partici- KIPS BAY BOYS tivities offered are Power Hour, a relay races, jump rope, football, sponse, a club was founded in pools and picnic area are open to pants that stimulates the child’s & GIRLS CLUB program that encourages partici- wiffl eball, soccer and various a vacant store on First Avenue members between Memorial Day sensory, motor and cognitive The Lucile Palmaro pants to start and complete their children’s games). Other servic- and 37th Street. Operating as a and Labor Day on the weekends skills. As part of the educational Clubhouse homework assignments; track es include arts & crafts, drama mission of the church, the club and weeknights during July and component, students participate 1930 Randall Avenue & fi eld; basketball; dance; arts and dance classes, computer relocated within the community August. And everyone can enjoy in supervised homework as- Phone: (718) 893-8600 & crafts; computer lab; game labs, nutritious meals, literacy several times before becoming the fun. At the YMCA, no one is sistance sessions, prepare for Website: http://kipsbay.org room; Smart Girls and Passport programs and youth develop- an organization independent of turned away because of an inabil- special educational projects and Information: Kips Bay the church in 1902. While girls ity to pay. To offer the broadest participation in various citywide moved to the Bronx in 1969 participated in club programs possible access to YMCA pro- events including creative writing and has been in its current loca- from the very beginning, their grams, services, and facilities, and poetry contests. As part tion ever since. Responding to involvement was limited to and to provide for those individu- of the cultural arts component, community needs, the services dramatics, swimming and so- als and community groups who participants are introduced to provided at the Lucile Palmaro cials. The trustees recognized may not be able to afford the full artistic mediums that stimulate Clubhouse and 10 outreach loca- the need for girls’ programs cost of our programs, services their curiosity and allow them to tions are based on the principles and were instrumental in and facilities, the YMCA engages experiment with various art forms of behavioral guidance and are in fundraising through the annual that include both performing and intended to promote the general founding the Girls Club of New Strong Kids Campaign, special visual arts. health, educational advance- York. It was in 1984 that the events at the branch and asso- In addition, the PAL New ment, character development clubs were offi cially opened ciation levels, grants, bequests, South Bronx Center offers sum- and leadership potential through to both girls and boys and the or individual, corporate or foun- mer camp to participants which health of its members, with an organization was renamed the dation support. follows thematic outlines es- emphasis on those between the Madison Square Boys & Girls POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE tablished by the PAL program ages of 6-18. The special fa- Club. Website: www.palnyc.org committee, These activities lead cilities of the Palmaro Clubhouse Bronx Locations: Overview: Since 1914, the in to citywide activities such as: and Coudert Sports Complex COLUMBUS CLUBHOUSE Police Athletic League has been Sports Day, Carnival Day, Fam- include an Olympic swimming 543 East 189th Street serving New York City’s youth ily Day, and lastly Cultural Day, pool (swimming instruction, Phone: (718) 733-5500 with safe, structured program- which takes place in Pelham Bay swim team, and Red Cross cer- : (718) 584-1897 ming designed to engage boys Park where all the PAL centers tifi cation), air-conditioned per- Fax and girls in positive activities come together to celebrate cul- forming arts hall (instruction in JOEL E. SMILOW CLUB- that improve their quality of life, tures from around the world. In dance and drama culminating HOUSE present developmental opportu- addition, youth enjoy cultural in an annual dance recital and nities, and offer the prospect of excursions to the many museum drama showcase in May and 1665 Hoe Avenue a brighter future. What started and cultural institutions in the June. Talented youngsters may Phone: (718) 328-3900 out as the closing of streets by New York City area. audition for the K-Company and to Manhood, a Boys & Girls ClubKips Bayment training. Fax: (718) 991-9187

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Information: Programs provement, arts & crafts, dance, (718) 405-6345 ext. 1050 and services offered at this site drama, music, summer camps, include contests, tournaments, martial arts, swimming, the P.S. 95 games, small groups, special borough’s largest little league, 3961 Hillman Avenue events, celebrations, field trips, and youth employment annually (718) 548-7680 shows, homework help, com- serve more than 28,000 Bronx- puters, performing arts, arts ites. After school programs are P.S. 153 and crafts and athletics as well offered at the center, in addition 650 Baychester Avenue as College Bound, job readiness to other locations throughout the (718) 904-5550 training, youth empowerment & Bronx, includin: Youth of the Year programs. P.S. 160 BRONX LOCATIONS 4140 Hutchinson River Parkway MOSHOLU-MONTEFIORE The Bronx New School (718) 379-5951 COMMUNITY CENTER 3200 Jerome Avenue 3450 DeKalb Avenue (917) 417-5619 MMCC Edenwald Cornerstone Phone: (718) 882-4000 Program Fax: (718)882-6369 1150 E. 229th Street P.S. 7 Website: www.mmcc.org 3240 Kingsbridge Avenue (718) 652-0246 Information: The Mosholu (917) 416-8079 Montefiore Community Center Beacon 8 3010 Briggs Avenue has been providing programs and P.S. 8 services to the North Bronx since 3010 Briggs Avenue (718) 329-0595 1942. During this time, a few (718) 365-3857 MMCC programs were run from Beacon 86 2756 Reservoir Avenue Bronx YMCA a storefront on Gun Hill Road, P.S. 20 some basements on Wayne Av- 3050 Webster Avenue (718) 563-7410 Email: [email protected] Language classes, day camp, a enue, and rented rooms in a local (718) 325-0764 BRONX HOUSE school. In time, the main building Beacon 113 Hours of Operation: Information: Bronx House, 4,000 square foot fitness center, 3710 Barnes Avenue an indoor swimming pool, bas- was built and the programs were P.S. 21 Monday – Friday: 8 a.m. to 9 a settlement house that moved to ketball courts, and a wide variety expanded to reach a broader 715 E. 225th Street (718) 654-5881 p.m. Pelham Parkway in the 1950s is of programs for children, teen- population base. Today, MMCC (718) 654-3840 Sat. & Sun: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m the heart of the neighborhood. It Beacon 142 is run by the Federation of Jewish agers and young adults. Hours is a multi-service agency serving 990 Pelham Parkway South 3750 Baychester Avenue Philanthropies as a community of Operation: M-Th: 8 a.m. to 9 people of all ages. Programs in P.S. 94 Phone: (718) 792-1800 (718) 798-6670 center and provides social ser- p.m.; Fri: 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sat. & education, ESL, health, self-im- 3530 Kings College Place Website: www.bronxhouse.org vices, support networks, English Sun: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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BTR Bronx STATS - DecemBer 29, 2017 69 BRONX INFLUENTIAL WOMEN

Annually, the Bronx Times Reporter salutes Hon. Llinet Rosado women who have energized so many Wilma Tamayo aspects of Bronx life. Rhina Valentin Each has made the Bronx a better place Dr. Eva Yan to live. Loretta Zaino

2010 Honorees 2016 Honorees Lisa Alvarado-Sorin Peggy Robles Alvarado Kennedy Benjamin Egeria Bennett Maria Aponte Toby Buongiorno .Effie Ardizzone Joanne Cicero Debra Arles Nan Clark Leenda Bonilla Linda Corcoran Linda Cunningham Ann Dellacava Joyce Higginson Davis Geri Demers Meiling Viera Delgado Sandra Erickson Gianna Dell’Olio April Horton Hetty Fox Jackie Kuhls Avril Francis Gerri Lamb This year’s Bronx Times Reporter 25 Infl uential Bronx Women honorees. Fran Pascale Evern Gillard-Randolph Sally Regenhard .Lynne Greco Rosalba Rolon Pamela Hamilton-Johnson Ivelisse Rosario Rosemary DeLuca Lucy Velez Michelle Dolgow Cristofaro Zelideth Diaz Hatch Bishop Nancy Rosario Barbara Dolensik Aviva Davidson Giselle Melendez-Susc Victoria Sammartino June Eisland 2012 Honorees Shannon Lee Gilstad Chrys Napolitano Elizabeth Figueroa Emily Sanchez Cecilia DeBrino Haas .Nicole Perrino Myra Gordon Jacqueline Acevedo Sabrina Kizzie Sr. Miriam Thomas Cathy Praino Peggy Vega Verona Greenland Arlene Allende Brigitte Lozada Palome Hernandez Gerry Arrighi Denise Matranga oyce A. Rivera Anna Vincenty Andrea Siegel Margaret Walsh Karen Washington Ida Bellone Longarino Claudia V. Mera Kathy Zamechansky Rosemary Ordonez Jenkins Sallie Caldwell Sister Mary Rita Miguel, S.de M. .Olga Luz Tirado Sister Kathleen Tracey Noris Colon Flora Montes Marjorie Velasquez-Lynch 2011 Honorees Judi Lanci Awilda Cordero Arlene Mukoko Tiffany Warren Maureen Shea Regina Gallgher Marengo Gail Nathan Jessica Zufall Wilma Alonso Arlene Parks Anna Isabel Garcia Reyes Melissa Munoz Patterson Eva Bornstein Marie Riolo Nancy Genova Lilyanna Pekic 2017 Honorees Bea Castiglia-Catullo Julia Rodriguez Marie Howse Carla Precht Anita Colby Geri Sciortino Josephine Infante Doris Quinones Sara Bonizio Blanche Comras Rifkin Sister Patrick Michael Madaha Kinsey-Lamb Veronica Torres Sulma Arzu-Brown Maria Torres Gloria Cruz Toby Liederman Andrea Verdeschi Lorraine C. Corsa, Esq. Madeline Marquez Fran Maturo 2015 Honorees Carolina DiFuccia Anne Myers Josephine Fanelli Dorothea Poggi Dr. Anita Vazquez Batisti Bernadette Ferrara Marta Rivera Nancy Biberman Lourdes Melendez-Gamez Medina Sadiq Dr. Yvette Calderon Roberta Gjonaj Sister Seline Mary Flores Michelle Centeno Kerry A. Lee Zena Twyman Rev. Que English Melissa Libran Bernice M. Williams Ana Melendez Virginia Wright Elizabeth Gill Maribel Gonzalez Carolyn Murphy Mary H. Murray 2013 Honorees Barbara Robles-Gonzalez Rev. Carmen Hernandez Karen Rauhauser Nani Dolores Batista Dr. Deborah Dolan Hunt Yasmin Cruz-Otero Edith Blitzer Judy Hutson Milagros Baez O’Toole Sharlene Brown Debra Ann Jaffee Dana Carotenuto Rico Marcia Cameron Cynthia Jones Tamara Rivera .Linda Cox Bharati S. Kemraj Frances Ann Rodriguez Terri Dambinskas Nilka Martell Maria Rodriguez Nydia R. Edgecombe Susan O’Hanlon Mendogni Melissa Salguero Rose Florio Carolyn Luella Smith Roberta Greenberg Denise Pagan Naomi Pouchie Marlene Taylor PA-C Hope Harley Evelyn Torres Jackie Kyle Kall Dr. Lisa Anne Rizopoulos Donna Karlson Hon. Fiordaliza A. Rodriguez Dr. Valerie M. Washington Sandi Lusk Mirian Moses Sana Nasser Karin O’Connor Evelyn Oliver Bailey Provetto Sr. Diane Prusinski Wendy Rodriguez Joanne Russo-Rubino Deirdre Scott Krystal Serrano Deborah Tymon Patricia Williams 2014 Honorees

Marianne O’Hea Anderson Melissa Barber, M.D. Holly Block Sister Lesley Block, O.P. Elba Cabrera Councilman-elect Mark Gjonaj congratulated his wife, Roberta on her Roseann Carotenuto (Back, l-r) Event organizer Laura Guerriero with presentators Geri Sciort- nomination. Jessica Clemente ino, Rosemary De Luca, Ana Vincenty, Lisa Sorin and Elizabeth Figueroa.

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(l-r) Honoree Dr. Manny Villafana; emcee Sukanya Krishnan; honoree Selenis Leyva; Olga Luz Tirado, Bronx Tourism Council executive director; Borough President Diaz; honorees Prince Royce and with Marlene Cintron, Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation president.

In 1997, the borough created the Bronx Fernando Ferrer) Jimmy Sabater - Boogaloo Pioneer Aventura Bachata-R&B Sensation - Charles Latibeaudiere - Executive Walk of Fame as a way to pay tribute to Sam Garnes - NFL Player Valerie Simpson - Singer, Songwriter, Music Group Producer Bronx stars and notable leaders who Dolores Hope – Entertainer Producer Dion DiMucci - Singer & Songwriter 2012 helped put their hometown in the spotlight. Marvin Scott - News Anchor Liz Torres - Actress & Comedienne Budd Friedman - Founder of Improvisa- (Inducted by Borough President Ruben In 2008, the Walk of Fame was expanded Yomo Toro - “Cuatro” Musician tion Comedy Club Diaz, Jr.) to include honorary Bronxites who were Neil deGrasse Tyson - Head of the NY 2004 Doris Roberts – Actress - Rap Artist not born in the borough, but helped in Planetarium (Inducted by then-Borough President Luther Vandross – Singer Tyson Beckford – Model and Actor some way to make the Bronx shine. In to- Dave Valentin - Jazz Flutist Adolfo Carrion, Jr.) Valerie Capers – Musician and Educator tal, almost 90 individuals have been hon- Guy Williams - TV’s original Zorro Willie Colon - Internationally-acclaimed 2008 Sol Negin - Cinematographer ored. As part of the induction, the borough Trombonist (Inducted by then-Borough President 2013 president unveils separate street signs for 2001 Bobby Darin - Legendary Entertainer Adolfo Carrion, Jr.) (Inducted by Borough President Ruben Larry Chance & The Earls - Doo Wop each honoree so that future generations (Inducted by then-Borough President Sonia Manzano - Maria on Sesame Diaz, Jr.) Group will remember their contributions for years Fernando Ferrer) Street Ellen Barkin - Actress to come. The signs run along The Walk of Lyn Brown - News Anchor Shelley Morrison – Actress GrandMaster Caz - Hip Hop Pioneer Miguel Angel Amadeo – Salsero Fame running south from the Bronx County Diahann Carroll - Actress and Enter- John Patrick Shanley – Screenwriter Rock Steady Crew - Originators of Robert Abrams – Former NYS Attorney Courthouse on the Grand Concourse, start- tainer Grandmaster Flash The Furious Five - Breakdancing General ing at E. 161 Street. These are those hon- E.L. Doctorow – Author Rap Pioneers Adam Rodriguez – Actor 2014 ored Bronxites: Paul “Ace” Frehley - KISS Guitarist Dr. Ruth Westheimer - Sex therapist and (Inducted by Borough President Ruben 1997 - Baseball Player 2005 Author (First Honorary Bronxite) Diaz, Jr.) (Inducted by then-Borough President Stanley Kubrick – Filmmaker (Inducted by then-Borough President Rachel Ticotin - Actress Fernando Ferrer) Johnny Pacheco – Musician Adolfo Carrion, Jr.) 2009 Pricilla Lopez – Actress Nate “Tiny” Archibald - Basketball & Kris Parker (KRS-ONE) - Rap and Hip Army Archerd - Hollywood’s Most Popu- (Inducted by Borough President Ruben David Zayas – Actor Hall of Famer Hop Artist lar Columnist Diaz, Jr.) Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean – John “Jellybean” Benitez - Music Im- Colin Powell - U.S. Secretary of State Kurtis Blow - Hip-Hop Pioneer Charles Fox – Composer Producer presario Jim Ryan - News Anchor Dominic Chianese – Actor Melissa Manchester - Singer/ Song- William Colon III – NY Jets Off. Lineman Robert Klein - Actor, Comedian, Enter- Burt Young – Actor The Chiffons - 60’s Sensations Writer 2015 tainer Joseito Mateo - King of Merengue Tony Orlando - Singer (Honorary Bronx- (Inducted by Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr.) Regis Philbin - Entertainer & TV Host 2002 Eddie Palmieri - Latin Pianist ite) Judy Reyes – Actress Malik Yoba - Actor Renee Taylor - Broadway & TV Actress (Inducted by then-Borough President Charlie Palmieri - Latin Pianist Dolph Schayes – Actress Grand Wizzard Theodore - Hip-Hop Pio- Adolfo Carrion, Jr.) Ed Pinckney - College Basketball Star David Zayas – Pro Basketball Player 1998 Danny Aiello – Actor Daniel Schorr - Veteran Reporter-Com- neer/ Inventor of Scratching Stacey Dash – Actress (Inducted by then-Borough President Ray Barretto – Musician mentator Alfredo Thiebaud – Founder of Delicioso Fernando Ferrer) The Chantels - 50’s Singing Group 2010 Coco Helado Angela Bofill – Singer Rosetta LeNoire – Actress 2006 (Inducted by Borough President Ruben Red Buttons – Comedian Cathy Moriarty-Gentile – Actress (Inducted by then-Borough President Diaz, Jr.) 2016 Gary Marshall - Film Producer, Actor, Gabe Pressman - Broadcast Journalist Adolfo Carrion, Jr.) Herman Badillo - Former Borough Presi- (Inducted by Borough President Ruben Comedian Emanuel “Manny” Azenberg – Pro- dent and Congressman Diaz, Jr.) Rita Moreno - Actress & Entertainer 2003 ducer Ed Lewis - Essence Magazine Founder Arlene Alda - Photographer/Author (Inducted by then-Borough President Afrika Bambaataa - The Godfather of and Chairman Vincent Pastore – Actor 1999 Adolfo Carrion, Jr.) Hip Hop Joanie Madden and Cherish the Ladies Peter Sohn – Animator/Director (Inducted by then-Borough President Michael Kay - Sportscenter & YES Net- Art Donovan - NFL Hall of Famer - Celtic Musicians Eduardo Vilaro – Artistic Director Fernando Ferrer) work’s voice of the Yankees Tony Guida - News Anchor Jerry Vale - Romantic Singer Joe Franklin – Broadcaster Joey Kramer - Aerosmith Drummer Mary Higgins Clark – Author 2017 Hal Linden - Actor & Musician Jake LaMotta - Boxer & World Middle- La India - “Princess of Salsa” 2011 (Inducted by Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr.) Felipe Lopez - NBA Player weight Champion Bobby Sanabria – Musician (Inducted by Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr.) Dr. Manny Villafana - Inovator Esai Morales – Actor Daniel Libeskind - Architect & Designer Selenis Leyva – Actress Chazz Palminteri - Actor and Writer of the New WTC Site 2007 DJ Funkmaster Flex – Radio Show 2000 DJ Red Alert - Hip-Hop Artist & Impre- (Inducted by then-Borough President Irene Cara – Singer Prince Royce – Singer/Songwriter (Inducted by then-Borough President sario Adolfo Carrion, Jr.) Joy Bryant – Actress and Fashion Model BTR BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29, 2017 71 GOLF COURSES

PELHAM/SPLIT ROCK GOLF COURSE Size: 9 holes, 3,253 yards with a par of Size: 18 holes, 7,407 yards - Jack VAN CORTLANDT PARK GOLF COURSE 35 Nicklaus design Location: 870 Shore Road Phone: 718-655-9165 Phone: 718-414-1555 Location: Van Cortlandt Park S. & Bailey Size: 18 holes, 6,691 yards with a par of Website: www.mosholugolfcourse.com Website: [email protected] Avenue 70 Size: 18 holes, 6,096 yards with a par of Phone: 718-885-1258 Information: Mosholu Golf Course, found- Information: Trump Golf Links at Ferry 70 Website: www.nycteetimes.com ed over a century ago as one of the first Point has an 18-hole, Jack Nicklaus Phone: 718-543-4595 public golf courses in the United States, Signature Design, links-style golf course Website: www.golfnyc.com/vancort- Info: Pelham Bay & Split Rock Golf Course has enjoyed a renaissance in recent years opened in 2015. Sitting at the foot of landt_home/ is New York City’s only 36 hole facility. Both with the complete reconstruction of its 9 the Whitestone Bridge in the Bronx, it is Information: Van Cortlandt Golf Course courses are located in Pelham Bay Park hole layout in 2007. Among the best con- designed specifically to take advantage is located in the North Bronx close to the (NYC’s largest park) in the Bronx, lying east ditioned municipal courses in the area, its of dramatic and spectacular views of Yonkers border. It is the oldest public golf of Co-Op City and just south of Westchester rolling fairways and contoured greens pro- the Manhattan skyline, East River, and course in the USA. Known as “Vanny” by County. The Pelham Bay Course was built vide the perfect golf experience for both Whitestone and Throgs Neck Bridges. The the locals, it is the most easily accessible in 1901 and is a links-style layout. With it’s beginners and experts alike, with a friendly course is truly a piece of art, handcrafted NYC course to mass transportation. The # expansive fairways and forgiving layout, atmosphere where you can bring the en- at every angle and exceeds the vision that 1 train leaves you just a short walk to the Pelham Bay Golf Course is the perfect tire family. Our 20,000 square foot putting was outlined by not only now President course. Over the years many famous people location for the beginner and experienced green, chipping area and driving range also Donald Trump, but by Jack Nicklaus, the have played at Van Cortlandt. They include golfer alike. Pelham’s sister course, Split provide a place to warm up before you City of New York and every golf rater that Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Joe Lewis and the Rock Golf Course, is a championship caliber tee off, or to hone your skills for your next has visited the property since it has grown Three Stooges. Under new management, John Van Kleek classic design. A shot- time out on the links. In addition, it is the in. The rolling mounds of fescue bordering Van Cortlandt features seven new greens, makers course, it is a challenge that forces most convenient golf course to get to for 7,407 yards of pristine tees, fairways & new tee boxes, additional cart paths, im- you to use every club in your bag. Whether residents of Manhattan, Bronx and lower greens create a golf experience unlike any proved bunkers, and dramatically improved you are looking to develop your skills or Westchester - located just steps from the other. It will be the only tournament-quality drainage. The cost of these improvements challenge your game, Pelham Bay & Split Woodlawn stop of the 4 Train and just a few course in New York City, giving avid golfers approximates one and a half million dollars. Rock Golf Course is the golf experience for hundred yards from Exit 13 off the Major a unique and more challenging alternative The architect in charge of this renovation you. Deegan Expressway. Come join us to expe- to other courses in the area. On property, rience a round at Mosholu today!. you will experience not only an incredible is Stephen Kay. This golf course, situated course, but world-class hospitality and in a park-like setting, is the perfect escape MOSHOLU GOLF COURSE TRUMP GOLF LINKS amazing views everywhere you turn. from the hustle and bustle of NYC without ever having to leave the City!. Location: 3545 Jerome Avenue Location: 500 Hutchinson River Parkway

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BTR BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29, 2017 73 MAJOR LANDMARK DISTRICTS

GRAND CONCOURSE HISTORIC DISTRICT Location: The Fieldston Historic lice station, the 1905 neo-renaissance Location: The Grand Concourse His- District is bounded roughly by the Henry Mott Haven Branch of the New York Public toric District is located along a mile-long Hudson Parkway on the west and Tibett Library and Saint Jerome’s Roman Catho- stretch of land from E. 153rd Street to E. and Waldo avenues on the east between lic Church. 167th Street. Manhattan College Parkway/244th MOTT HAVEN EAST Designation: The community was Street on the south and 250th Street on HISTORIC DISTRICT designated an historic district by The the north. Location: The Mott Haven East His- Landmarks Preservation Commission in Designation: The area was desig- toric District is located on East 139th and October 25, 2011. nated a Historic District in April 2006. East 140th Street between Brook and Information: The Grand Concourse Information: The historic area in- Willis Avenues. was conceived in 1891 as a link between cludes 257 buildings. The enclave was Designation: The area was re- the park systems of Manhattan and the once a privately owned estate that devel- warded with historic district status on sparsely settled region of the Bronx. At oped into a planned suburban commu- April 5, 1994. the time of its completion in 1909, the nity, a fact that was cited by the Land- Information: The district contains boulevard featured bicycle paths and pe- mark Preservation Committee to argue rows of handsome brownstones designed destrian sidewalks in addition to a central for the Historic District designation. The by William O’Gorman and William Hornum vehicular speedway. In 1924, the boule- area is unique for New York City in that in 1883 combining Dutch and Flemish ar- vard was extended south from E. 161st represents a planned suburban area chitectural aspects on the north side of Street to E. 138th Street, and the road- mixed in between wooded areas. E.140th Street and neo-Grecian aspects way soon became the major north-south MORRIS AVENUE on the south side of E.140th Street and on artery of the West Bronx. The comple- HISTORIC DISTRICT E.139th Street. tion of the Jerome Avenue subway line in Location: The Morris Avenue His- RIVERDALE HISTORIC DISTRICT 1918, which made the West Bronx more toric District is located in Mount Hope, on Location: The Riverdale Historic Dis- accessible to Manhattan, helped spark Morris Avenue, between Tremont Avenue trict is bound roughly by 252nd and 254th a period of intensive residential devel- and 179th Street. Streets and Palisade and Independence opment. The buildings of this era typi- Designation: Designation made July Avenues. cally refl ected the fashions of Manhattan, 15, 1986. Designation: The area of Riverdale characterized by revivalist architectural Information: The single block is was designated an historic district on Oc- styles such as Tudor, Renaissance, and lined with 35 houses and two apartment tober 16, 1990. Colonial Revival. The largely brick and buildings that builder August Jacob cre- Information: Winding, tree-lined terra-cotta buildings featured decorative ated between 1906 and 1910 with the roads that lead to grand homes and es- elements such as corner towers, faux hopes that their construction would be tates add to the beauty of Riverdale. The half-timbering, elaborate brickwork, and profi table after the 1904 opening of the historic district is also home to Wave classically decorated main entry porticos. IRT subway line connecting Manhattan Hill, a natural preserve with breathtak- A second wave of development was in- and the Bronx. The historic brownstones ing views of the Hudson River and special fl uenced by Art Deco and Moderne style, have stood the test of time, despite being events year-round; the Judaic Museum at as evidenced in the 27 apartments within Samuel Brook’s 442 E. 140th Street historic townhouse will be trans- turned into Single Room Occupancies. the Hebrew Home for the Aged; the Van the historic district constructed between formed into the fi rst-ever ‘Mott Haven Decorator Show House’. MORRIS H.S. Cortland House Museum; and the land- 1935 and 1945. In fact, the Grand Con- Photo courtesy of Samuel Brooks HISTORIC DISTRICT mark structures of the College of Mount course contains the largest concentration Location: The landmarked Morris Saint Vincent. of Art Deco-style residential buildings in designated an historic district in July Location: The Bertine Block Historic High School Historic District is located PERRY AVENUE the United States. The Art Deco style was 1980 and on September 26, 1983, it was District is located on E. 136th Street be- adjacent to the Forest Houses encom- HISTORIC DISTRICT marked by streamlined elements such as added to the National Register of Historic tween Brook and Willis Avenues. passing two square blocks between Bos- Location: The Perry Avenue Historic curving walls, recessed spandrels creat- Places. Designation: The community, which ton Road, Forest Avenue, and East 166th District is located between Bedford Park ing an effect of continuous window strips, Information: The district consists was once simply known as the Bertine Street. Boulevard and E. 201st Street. brickwork arranged in vertical or horizon- of semi-detached brownstones, most of Block, was designated an historic district Designation: Designated an historic Designation: The community was tal patterns, wrap-around corner window which have been converted into S.R.O.’s in 1994, district on December 21, 1982. designated an historic district by The openings, and materials suggestive of the (Single Room Occupancy). The original Information: The Mott Haven com- Information: Morris High School was Landmarks Preservation Commission in “Machine Age,” such as steel-and-glass developers of the Longwood Historic Dis- munity features this architectural trea- the fi rst public high school in the Bronx, December 15, 2009. casement windows. The related Moderne trict were George B. Johnson and C. Ball, sure; a row of 10 narrow townhouses opening in 1897 as the Mixed High School Information: The nine Queen Anne- style was also characterized by stream- who contributed greatly to the early ur- featuring eclectic gables, cornices, warm before moving into its current building, style row houses on Perry Avenue, shaded lined geometry, but with more minimal banization efforts in Morrisania. Up until brick, and tall chimneys. The distinct now known as the Morris High School Ed- red brick and tan, were built between ornamentation, and by a fascination with the late 19th Century, the area had been structures were designed by Edward Ber- ucational Campus, in 1904. The historic 1910 and 1912 by George D. Kingston aerodynamics. In addition to the 61 apart- sparsely populated. The plans for the IRT tine between 1891 and 1895. building’s exterior facade and auditorium, and designed by Charles S. Clark. The ment houses constructed between 1917 subway between the Bronx and Manhat- CLAY AVENUE along with the adjacent brownstones lo- three-story dwellings, which boast fi eld- and 1959, the historic district also con- tan spurred an early rowhouse develop- HISTORIC DISTRICT cated on the surrounding avenues in the stone walls and small front yards, were tains two parks and several public institu- ment. The completion of the subway and Location: One block between East Morris High School Historic District, have meant for middle class families; many tions, including the Bronx County Court- a massive population infl ux in the early 165th and 166th Street. been granted landmark status. were originally owned by German im- house and Andrew Freedman Home, both years of the 20th Century resulted in Designation: The one block was THE MOTT HAVEN migrants. When new, the wood-frame designated New York City individual land- subsequent apartment house construc- designated an historic district on April 5, HISTORIC DISTRICT houses included four bedrooms, two bath- marks. tion, which left the blocks of the Long- 1994. Location: The Mott Haven Historic rooms, cellars, laundry areas and ser- LONGWOOD wood Historic District as one of a handful Information: Thirty-two residential District is located on Alexander Avenue vants quarters. Although the neighbor- HISTORIC DISTRICT of isolated, low-scale rowhouse districts buildings face each other across the av- between E. 138th Street and E. 141st hood sprouted large apartment buildings Location: The Longwood Historic amidst the high density apartment build- enue, most of them designed by Warren Street. in the 1920s and 1950s, Perry Avenue’s District is a nationally recognized historic ings more typical of the area. The Ro- Dickerson, who was also the dominant Designation: Historic District status sloped slate roofs, splayed lintels, iron district located in the center of the Long- manesque Revival and neo-Renaissance architect in the Longwood Historic Dis- was awarded on July 29, 1969. cornices and three-sided porches remain, wood neighborhood in the Bronx, New style of the rowhouses make the district trict. The ensemble features Romanesque Information: The district contains retaining the architectural details and York. It encompasses three square blocks historically signifi cant to warrant a desig- Revival and neo-Renaissance style row- the row of handsome brownstones that suburban character that existed nearly a roughly bounded by Beck Street, Long- nation as an historic district. houses designed as semi-detached date back to the 1870’s. Known histori- century ago. The Perry Avenue houses wood, Leggett, and Prospect Avenues. BERTINE BLOCK pairs. cally as “Doctors Row” and “Irish Fifth constitute the Bronx’s tenth historic dis- Designation: The community was HISTORICAL DISTRICT FIELDSTON HISTORIC DISTRICT Avenue,’ the district also contains the po- trict and the City’s 100th historic district. 74 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 29, 2017 BTR BRONX LANDMARKS

Individual Landmarks 2000 The Historic Landmarks Preservation Center September 24, 1999 Public School 91 - The former Public School 91 Cultural Medallion Program Lisanti Chapel (740 E. 215th St.) - January 11, 175 Belden Street House (175 Belden Street in Fonthill (College Library), College of Mount St. (1257 Ogden Avenue) – August 25, 1981 2002 City Island) - July 28, 1981 Vincent (501 261st Street) - March 15, 1966 It was initiated to create a sense of pride in Rainey Memorial Gates (Concourse Entrance history and of place among New Yorkers and Longwood Historic District (Roughly bounded Alderbrook House (4715 Independence Ave.) - Fort Schuyler (Throggs Neck) - April 19, 1966 facing Pelham Parkway between Lake Agassiz visitors, to document signifi cant individuals, and by Beck St., Longwood, Leggett, and Prospect December 14, 2010 and Cope Lake) – January 11, 1967 notable occurrences related to the City’s cultural, Aves.) - September 26, 1983 Gould Memorial Library (180th Street between economic, political, and social history. Cultural 1857 Anthony Avenue House (1857 Anthony Sedgwick and University Avenues) - February Riverdale Presbyterian Church (4765 Henry Medallions are placed on buildings associated Lorillard Snuff Mill at NYBG - December 22, Avenue) - July 15, 1986 15, 1966 Hudson Parkway) - April 19, 1966 with distinguished New Yorkers involved in the 1977 arts, sciences, the law, business, education, 21 Tier Street House (21 Tier Street in City Greyston (William E. and Sarah T. Hoadley Dodge Robert Colgate House (“Stonehurst”) (Nicholas sports and politics. Two such medallions are Morris High School Historic District (Bounded Island) - June 20, 2000 Jr. Estate) Gatehouse (4695 Indepednence Katzenbach House) - October 13, 1970 located in the Bronx: by Boston Rd., Jackson and Forrest Aves., and Avenue) - March 22, 2011 E. 166th and Home Sts.) - Sept. 15, 1983 50th Precinct Police Station (3450 Kingsbridge Rockefeller Fountain (Bronx Zoo) - February 20, Fiorello Henry La Guardia – 5020 Goodridge Avenue) - July 15, 1986 Greyston Conference Center (William E. Dodge 1968 Avenue, Bronx, NY 10471: One of New York Morris Park (Under Espalanade at Bogart and House) (4655 Hadley Avenue) - October 13, City’s most beloved mayors (1934-45), the “Little Colden Ave. and Hone Ave.) - July 6, 2005 52nd Police Precinct Station House (3016 1970 Rose Hill (Fordham University Administration Flower” (the English translation of Fiorello) was Webster Ave.) - June 18, 1974 Building) - August 18, 1970 also among the fi rst Italian-Americans elected H.F. Spaulding House (Coachman’s Residence) to Congress (1917-19 and 1923-33). As mayor, Mott Avenue Control House (149th St. and 614 Courtlandt Avenue Building (614 Courtlandt (4970 Independence Avenue – Rear) - July 28, St. Ann’s Church and Graveyard (295 Saint his progressive reforms included a revised city Grand Concourse) - May 6, 1980 Ave.) - February 10, 1987 1981 Ann’s Ave.) - June 09, 1967 charter, expanded social services, public housing projects and parks construction. He lived here Mott Haven Historic District (An irregular The old 41st Police Precinct Station House Hadley House (5118 Post Road) - June 20, St. John’s Church (Fordham University) - from 1945 to 1947. pattern along Alexander Ave. and E. 140th St.) (1086 Simpson St.) - June 02, 1992 2000 February 19, 1974 - March 25, 1980 Lou Gehrig (Henry Louis Gehrig – 5204 Administration Building at East 180th Street Haffen Building (2804-2808 Third Avenue) – St. John’s Residence Hall (Fordham University) Delafi eld Avenue, Bronx, NY 10471: The NY New York Botanical Gardens (Southern and (481 Morris Park Avenue) - May 11, 1976 June 22, 2010 - August 18, 1970 Yankees fi rst baseman, the “Iron Horse,” who Bedford Park Blvds.) - May 28, 1967 played 2,130 consecutive games, lived here Alumni House (Housing Offi ce at Fordham Hall of Fame (Bronx Community College) - St. James’ Episcopal Church (2500 Jerome from 1939 to 1941. During his fourteen-year New York, Westchester and Boston Railroad University) - February 03, 1981 February 15, 1966 Ave.) - November 25, 1980 career, he earned a .340 batting average, 493 Administration Building (481 Morris Park Ave.) HRs, and 1,990 RBIs. - April 23, 1980 American Bank Note Company Printing Plant Hall of Languages (Bronx Community College) - St. Peter’s Church, Chapel, and Cemetery (1401 Park Plaza Apartments (1005 Jerome Ave.) - (1201 Lafayette Avenue) - February 05, 2008 February 15, 1966 Seabury Avenue) - March 23, 1976 National Register June 3, 1982 of Historic Places American Female Guardian Society (936 Herman Ridder Junior High School (Public Samuel Pell House (586 City Island Avenue) - Pelham Parkway Station (Dual System IRT) - Woodycrest Avenue) - March 28, 2000 School 98) (1619 Boston Road) - December October 29, 2002 242nd Street-Van Cortlandt Park Station (IRT) March 30, 2005 11, 1990 - March 30, 2005: Only remaining terminal Poe Cottage (2640 Grand Concourse) - August Andrew Freedman Home (1125 Grand Second Battery Armory (1116 Franklin Avenue) elevated subway station in Victorian Gothic 19, 1980 Concouse) - June 02, 1992 High Bridge, Aqueduct, and Pedestrian Walk - June 02, 1992 architectural style Prospect Avenue Subway Station (IRT) - (Spans the Harlem River) - November 10, 1970 September 17, 2004 Anthony Campagna Estate (640 249th Street) - Sunnyslope (Bright Temple A.M.E. Church) 48th Police Precinct Station (1925 Bathgate Public School 11 (1257 Ogden Avenue) - November 16, 1993 High Pumping Station (3203 Jerome Avenue) - (1303 Lafayette Avenue) - July 28, 1981 Ave.) - May 6, 1983 September 8, 1983 July 28, 1981 (4010 Dyre Ave.) - December Baird (Astor Court), New York Zoological Park Tremont Baptist Church (324 E. Tremont Ave.) - 1980 10, 1981 (Bronx Zoo) - June 20, 2000 (Eighth Regiment Armory) February 08, 2000 (29 West Kingsbridge Road) - September 24, (851 Grand (190 Fordham St.) - Bartow-Pell Mansion (895 Pelham Shore Road) 1974 Union Reformed Church of Highbridge Concourse) - September 8, 1983 September 27, 1984 - February 15, 1966 (Highbridge Community Church) (1272 Ogden Loew’s Paradise Theater (2400 Creston Avenue) Avenue) - November 16, 2010 Casa Amadeo, antigua Casa Hernandez (786 Rainey Memorial Gates (Bronx Zoo) - March Bedford Park Congregational Church (2888 - April 15, 1997 Prospect Avenue) - March 23, 2001 16, 1972 Bainbridge Ave.) - June 20, 2000 United Workers’ Cooperative Colony (“The Lorillard Snuff Mill (New York Botanical Garden) Coops”) (Bronx Park East) - June 02, 1992 Christ Church Complex (5030 Riverdale Ave.) - C. Rieger’s Sons Factory (450-452 E. 148th Begrisch Hall at Bronx Community College - - April 19, 1966 September 8, 1983 Street) - May 27, 2004 January 08, 2002 University Heights Bridge (W. 207th Street over Robert Colgate House (5225 Sycamore Ave.) - Riverdale—Spuyten Duyvil-Kingsbridge Macomb’s Dam Bridge (Central Bridge) and the Harlem River) - September 11, 1984 Sept. 8, 1983 Memorial Bell Tower (Riverdale Avenue at W. Bronx Borough Courthouse (E. 161st Street) - 155th Street Viaduct (Over the Harlem River) - Concourse Yard Entry Buildings (W. 205th Street 239th Street and Henry Hudson Parkway) – July 28, 1981 January 14, 1992 Van Cortlandt Mansion (6000 Broadway) - between Jerome and Paul avenues) - February January 3, 2012 March 15, 1966 9, 2006 Bronx County Courthouse (851 Grand Messiah Home for Children (1777 Andrews Ave. Concourse Yard Substation (3119 Jerome Riverdale Presbyterian Church Complex Concourse) - July 13, 1976 S.) - June 24, 1997 Van Schaick Free Reading Room/Huntington Ave.) - February 9, 2006 (4761-4765 Henry Hudson Parkway) - October Free Library and Reading Room (9 Westchester 14, 1982 Bronx Grit Chamber (Wards Island) - June 08, New York Botanical Garden Museum (Library) Square) - April 05, 1994 Dollar Savings Bank (2972 3rd Ave.) - April Simpson Street Subway Station and Substation 1982 Building, Fountain of Life, and Tulip Tree Allee 27, 2011 #18 (IRT) - September 17, 2004 (Bronx Park) - March 24, 2009 Varian House (3266 Reservoir Oval East) - Bronx Post Offi ce (556 Grand Concourse) - March 15, 1966 William E. Dodge House (690 W. 247th St.) - Henry F. Spaulding Coachman’s House (4970 September 14, 1976 : Morrisania Branch August 28, 1977 Independence Ave.) - November 4, 1982 (McKinley Square Branch) (610 East 169th Washington Bridge (Washington Bridge) - Edgehill Church at Spuyten Duyvil (2550 Christ Church (450 Goodridge Avenue) - January Street) - June 16, 1998 September 14, 1982 Independence Ave.) - October 29, 1982 St. Ann’s Church Complex (295 St. Ann’s Ave.) 11, 1967 - April 16, 1980 New York Public Library: Hunts Point Branch Wave Hill House (671 252nd Street) - June 21, Eighth Regiment Armory (29 W. Kingsbridge St. James’ Episcopal Church and Parish House College of Mount St. Vincent Administration (877 Southern Boulevard) - April 14, 2009 1966 Rd.) - Dec. 21, 1982 (2500 Jerome Ave.) - September 30, 1982 Building (6301 Riverdale Avenue) - February Fonthill Castle and the Administration Building 08, 1979 New York Public Library: Woodstock Branch Williamsbridge Reservoir Keeper’s House (3400 of the College of Mount St. Vincent (W. 261st (761 East 160th Street) – April 14, 2009 Reservoir Oval) - February 08, 2000 St. and Riverdale Ave.) - July 11, 1980 St. Peter’s Church, Chapel and Cemetery The Conservatory (Palm House and Wings) - Complex (2500 Westchester Ave.) - Sept. 26, October 16, 1973 Noonan Plaza Apartments (105-149 W. 168th Interior Landmarks Fort Schuyler (Throgs Neck at East River and 1983 Street) – June 22, 2010 Long Island Sound) - June 29, 1976 St. Stephen’s Methodist Church (146 W. 228th Cornelius Baker Hall of Philosophy (Bronx Bartow- Pell Mansion Museum Interior – May Street) – February 8, 2012 Community College) - February 15, 1966 Old West Farms Soldier Cemetery (Bryant 27, 1975 Grace Episcopal Church (116 City Island Ave.) Avenue and East 180th Street) - August 02, - September 13, 2006 Sunnyslope (812 Faile St.) - September 15, Cortona Play Center (Fulton Avenue between 1967 Cortona Play Center Bath House Interior (Fulton Grand Concourse Historic District (851-1675 1983 East 172nd Street and East 174th Street) - June Avenue between East 172nd and East 174th St.) Grand Concourse) - August 24, 1987 26, 2007 Orchard Beach Bathhouse and Promenade - June 26, 2007 Tremont Baptist Church (324 E. Tremont Ave.) (Pelham Bay Park) - June 20, 2006 Hall of Fame Complex (Bronx Community - October 16, 2009 The Former Dollar Savings Bank at 2972 Third Dollar Savings Bank (Emigrant Savings Bank) College campus) - September 7, 1979 United Workers Cooperatives (2700-2870 Avenue - Jan. 12, 2010 Park Plaza Apartments (1005 Jerome Avenue) First Floor Interior – July 19, 1994 Bronx Park East) - September 11, 1986 - May 12, 1981 Hertlein and Schlatter Silk Trimmings Factory Dollar Savings Bank Building (Emigrant Savings Gould Memorial Library at Bronx Community (454-464 E. 148th St.) - February 5, 2001 US Post Offi ce-Morrisania (442 E. 167th St.) - Bank) (2522 Grand Concourse) - July 19, 1994 Poe Cottage (2601 Kingsbridge Road) - February College (Ground Floor Interior) – August 11, November 17, 1988 15, 1966 1981 High Pumping Station (Jerome Avenue) - Valentine-Varian House (3266 Bainbridge Ave.) Edgehill Church of Spuyten Duyvil (United November 10, 1983 - March 21, 1978 Church of Christ) (2570 Independence Avenue) Public School 15 (4010 Dyre Avenue) - January Loew’s Paradise Theater Interior (2400 Creston House at 175 Belden St. - June 3, 1982 Frederick Van Cortlandt House (Van Cortlandt - November 25, 1980 10, 1978 Ave.) - May 16, 2006 Park at 242nd St.) - December 24, 1967 Jackson Avenue Subway Station (IRT) - Estey Piano Company Factory (Bruckner Public School 27 (544 148th Street) - September Morris High School, ground Floor Interior September 17, 2004 Washington Bridge (Between Amsterdam and Boulevard and Lincoln Avenue) - May 16, 2006 19, 1995 (Duncan Hall) – December 21, 1982 Jerome Park Reservoir (Goulden, Reservoir Undercliff Aves.) - September 22, 1983 and Sedgwick Aves.) - September 7, 2000 Fire House, Hook and Ladder 17 (Engine Public School 31 (423 Grand Concourse) - July Van Cortlandt Mansion Interior – July 22, 1975 Wave Hill (675 W. 252nd St.) - September 9, Company 60) (341 143th Street) - June 20, 15, 1986 Keeper’s House at Williamsbridge Reservoir - 1983

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