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The New York Botanical Garden generates more than one million visitors from the tri-state region and around the word annually. Its membership has almost doubled in the last decade. (Pictured above) Visitors enjoy the New York Botanical Garden’s Azalea Garden. Photo by Ben Hider @NYBG Bronx ‘16 STATS

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BTR BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 30, 2016 3 Bronx ‘16 STATS TABLE OF CONTENTS

6. Police Precincts ronx Stats 2016 celebrates one of the Bronx’ great institutions - 7. History Of The NYBG the New York Botanical Garden, located at Bronx River Parkway Band Fordham Road. 10. Elected Offi cials/City Council Members This year marks the 125th anniversary of the founding of the New York 12. Congress Members Botanicl Garden. 12. State Senators Since 1891 NYBG has been a museum of plants dedicated to achiev- ing excellence in horticulture, education, and plant research and conser- 14. Assembly Members vation. 16. Community Boards Today, it is one of the great cultural institutions in the world, a pre- 20. Business Improvement Districts eminent center for botanical research, a natural treasure for visitors of all ages, and a leader and national model for plant-based education. 22. Major Landmarks The NYBG is a National Historic Landmark and one of the largest 23. Landmarks botanical gardens in any city in the United States, distinguished by the 24. Yankee Stadium beauty of its diverse landscape and extensive collections and gardens, as well as by the scope and excellence of its programs and commitment to 26. Major Bridges saving the plants of the world. 28. Firehouses As residents of the Bronx we should take advantage of all the opportu- 30. Cultural Institutions nities that are available to us. There are so many great places to spend the day with family and friends. Take a few minutes and peruse the volumi- 32. Geography nous information compiled in this year’s Bronx Stats. 34. Bronx Arts Ensemble Have you ever been to the Hall of Great Americans on the Bronx Com- 34. Bronx County Historical Society munity College campus, walked the grounds of the historic Woodlawn Cemetery or seen the massive 1930s Works Progress Act murals on the 36. Parks, Playgrounds And Park Facilities lobby walls of the former General Post Offi ce on the Grand Concourse 40. Post Offi ces/Postal Providers and 149th Street? 42. Universities And Colleges Monuments and sculptures are sprinkled throughout the borough - how many can you name? 44. Catholic And Private High Schools Art is everywhere: the Bronx Museum of Art, the Bronx River Arts 45. BronxNet/Media Center Center and galleries in every neighborhood - it would be worth your time 48. Family Programs and effort to pay them a visit. Bronx Stats 2016 places all this information at your fi ngertips. Use it to 50. Cemeteries discover the enormous wealth of opportunities the Bronx has to offer. 52. Famed Bronx Sculptures We hope you enjoy this year’s edition of Bronx Stats. 54. Helpful Sites And Phone Numbers If you have any information or wish to comment on the information 56. Hospitals contained herein, please e-mail [email protected]. 57. Large Housing Developments 58. Passenger Railroad Lines 60. Subway Lines 62. Senior Centers 64. Youth Athletic Programs 66. Step Streets CEO...... Les Goodstein 67. Shopping Centers President and Publisher...... Jennifer Goodstein Bronx Times Reporter Publisher ...... Laura Guerriero 68. New York Public Library Branches Editor...... John Collazzi 70 Bronx Infl uential Women Production...... Mauro DeLuca 72. Ghost Bikes Special Thanks to...... John Collazzi, Patrick Rocchio, Steven Goodstein, Robert Wirsing Arthur Cusano, Robert Christie 74. Golf Courses Account Reps...... Lenny Vigliotti, Donna Marzi 75. Footprints 76. Walk Of Fame 4 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 30, 2016 BTR Bronx ‘16 STATS

BTR BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 30, 2016 5 Bronx ‘16 STATS POLICE PRECINCTS

40TH PRECINCT Contact Information: HOUSING PSA 8 Deputy Inspector: Brian C. Hennessy Precinct: (718) 590-5511 Deputy Inspector Vanessa Kight 257 Alexander Avenue Community Affairs: (718) 590-5524 2794 Randall Avenue Contact Numbers: Crime Prevention: (718) 590-5568 Contact Information: Precinct: (718) 402-2270 Domestic Violence: (718) 590-5565 Phone Number: (718) 409-1505 Community Affairs: (718) 402-3362 Youth Offi cer: (718) 590-5525 Community Affairs: (718) 409-5743 Crime Prevention: (718) 402-3036 Auxiliary Coordinator: (718) 590-5560 Crime Prevention: (718) 409-1505 Domestic Violence: (718) 402-3802 Detective Squad: (718) 590-5537 Domestic Violence: (718) 409-179 /3495 Youth Offi cer: (718) 402-2050 Community Council: Youth Offi cer: (718) 409-6276 Auxiliary Coordinator: (718) 409-6276 Auxiliary Coordinator: (718) 402-3035 President: Betty Crawford Detective Squad: (718) 402-2555 Jurisdiction: Meetings: Every second Wednesday of Community Council: the month at 1072 Grand Concourse at The PSA8 patrols the New York City President: Gabriel DeJesus 7:00 p.m. Housinng Developments in the confi nes of the 43rd and 45th New York City Police Meetings: The fi rst Wednesday of each 45TH PRECINCT Precincts. month at Lincoln Hospital at 6:30 p.m. Captain: Danielle Raia Community Council: 41ST PRECINCT 2877 Barkley Avenue Captain: Louis M. Deceglie Contact Information: President: Loretta Masterson 1035 Longwood Avenue Precinct: (718) 822-5411 Meetings:The Council meets on the 2nd Contact Information: Community Affairs: (718) 822-5449 Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m. Precinct: (718) 542-4771 Crime Prevention: (718) 822-5487 Community Affairs: (718) 542-7964 Domestic Violence: (718) 822-5294 TRANSIT BUREAU - DISTRICT 11 Community Policing: (718) 542-4435 Youth Offi cer: (718) 822-5408 Deputy Inspector: Zaheer Azeez Crime Prevention: (718) 542-4798 Auxiliary Coordinator: (718) 822-5400 161st Street Station & River Avenue Domestic Violence: (718) 542-5255 Detective Squad: (718) 822-5414 Contact Information: Youth Offi cer: (718) 542-7106 Community Council: Phone Number: (718) 292-8311 Auxiliary Coordinator: (718) 542-7105 President: Robert Bieder 40th Precinct Jurisdiction: Detective Squad: (718) 542-5313/14 Meetings: The council meets the fi rst Crime Prevention: (718) 299-4522 every month at the 50th Precinct Station The Woodlawn Line (No. 4 Train): 161st Community Council: Thursday of every month at the 45th Domestic Violence: (718) 299-4755 House located at 3450 Kingsbridge Ave. Street/Yankee Stadium, 167th Street, President: Rosa Burgos Precinct, at 7:30 PM. Youth Offi cer: (718) 299-4121 at 7 :30 PM. 170th Street, Mount Eden Avenue, 176th Meetings: Every fi rst Thursday of each 46TH PRECINCT Auxiliary Coordinator: (718) 299-3921 52ND PRECINCT Street, Burnside Avenue, 183rd Street, month at the 41st Precinct Station House Inspector.: Phillip Rivera Detective Squad: (718) 299-4119 Deputy Inspector: Peter A. Fiorillo Fordham Road, Kingsbridge Road, Bedford at 7:00 p.m. 2120 Ryer Avenue Community Council: 3016 Webster Avenue Park Boulevard, Moshulu Parkway, Wood- lawn terminal. 42ND PRECINCT Contact Information: President: Aida I Haddock Contact Information: The Bedford park/205th Street Line (C & D Deputy Inspector: Ernest Morales III Precinct: (718) 220-5211 Meetings: Every last Tuesday of each Precinct: (718) 220-5811 830 Washington Avenue Train): 161st Street/Yankee Stadium, 167th Community Affairs: (718) 220-5234 month at the 48th Precinct, at 7:00 p.m. Community Affairs: (718) 220-5824 Street, 170th Street, 174-175th Streets, Contact Information: Crime Prevention: (718) 220-5207 49TH PRECINCT Community Policing: (718) 220-5807 Tremont Avenue, 182-183rd Streets, Ford- Precinct: (718) 402-3887 Domestic Violence: (718) 220-5254 Captain: Thomas Alps Crime Prevention: (718) 220-5818 ham Road, Kingsbridge Road, Bedford Park Community Affairs: (718) 402-5527 Youth Offi cer: (718) 220-5224 2121 Eastchester Road Domestic Violence: (718) 220-5857 Boulevard, 205th Street terminal. Crime Prevention: (718) 402-4579 Auxiliary Coordinator: (718) 220-3741 Youth Offi cer: (718) 220-8314 Detective Squad: (718) 220-5216 Contact Information: Auxiliary Coordinator: (718) 220-5818 TRANSIT BUREAU - DISTRICT 12 Domestic Violence: (718) 402-5301 Deputy Inspector: Joyce Williams Youth Offi cer: (718) 402-4580 Community Council: 3 Precinct: (718) 918-2000 Detective Squad: (718) 220-5836 Community Affairs: (718) 918-2032 460 Morris Park Avenue Auxiliary Coordinator: (718) 402-4579 President: Cynthia Thompkins Community Council: Detective Squad: (718) 402-5262 Community Policing: (718) 918-2029 Contact Information: Meetings: Every third Tuesday of each Crime Prevention: (718) 918-2026 President: Brenda Caldwell-Paris Phone Number: (718) 794-2300 Community Council: month at the 46th Precinct, at 7:00 p.m. Domestic Violence: (718) 918-2030 Meetings: The precinct community council Jurisdiction: President: Carlos Ruiz Youth Offi cer: (718) 918-0081 meetings are held at 7 p.m., the fourth 47TH PRECINCT The 241st Street/Dyre Avenue Line (No. 2 Vice President: Peter Bazeley Deputy Inspector: Ruel Stephenson Auxiliary Coordinator: (718) 918-0082 Thursday at various locations throughout Detective Squad: (718) 918-2034 the precinct. & 5 Train): 149th Street/Grand Concourse, Meetings: The Community Council meet- 4111 Laconia Avenue 3rd Avenue/149th Street, Jackson Avenue, ings are held on the fourth Thursday of Contact Information: Community Council: MORE POLICE NUMBERS Prospect Avenue, Intervale Avenue/163rd the month in the Precinct Sitting Room at President: Joseph Thompson HOUSING PSA 7 Street, Simpson Street, Freeman Street, 7:00 p.m. Precinct: (718) 920-1211 Community Affairs: (718) 920-1202 Meetings: Precinct community council Deputy Inspector: Jerry O’Sullivan 174th Street, East Tremont Avenue/West 43RD PRECINCT Community Policing: (718) 920-1204 meetings are held every last Tuesday of 737 Melrose Ave Farms Square, East 180th Street, Bronx Inspector: Fausto Pichardo Crime Prevention: (718) 920-1239 the month at 7:30 p.m. at 1913 Bronxdale Contact Information: Park East, Pelham Parkway, Allerton Av- 900 Fteley Avenue Domestic Violence: (718) 920-1205 Avenue. Phone Number: (718) 292-6161 enue, Burke Avenue, Gun Hill Road, 219th Street, 225th Street, 233rd Street, 238th Contact Information: Youth Offi cer: (718) 920-1201 50TH PRECINCT Community Affairs: (718) 292-2042 Street/Nereid Avenue, 241st Street ter- Precinct: (718) 542-0888 Auxiliary Coordinator: (718) 920-1244 Deputy Inspector: Terrence O’Toole Complaint Room: (718) 292-1153 minal, Morris Park, Pelham Parkway, Gun Community Affairs: (718) 542-6325 Detective Squad: (718) 920-1214/15 3450 Kingsbridge Avenue Crime Prevention: (718) 292-2042 Hill Road, Baychester Avenue, Dyre Avenue Crime Prevention: (718) 542-2350 Community Council: Domestic Violence: (718) 292-3909/3603 Contact Information: Youth Offi cer: (718) 402-1722 terminal. Domestic Violence: (718) 542-2422 President: Elizabeth Gill Youth Offi cer: (718) 542-2342 Precinct: (718) 543-5700 Auxiliary Coordinator: (718) 292-7287 The Pelham Bay Park Line (No. 6 Train): Auxiliary Coordinator: (718) 542-5571 Meetings: Meetings are scheduled for Community Affairs: (718) 543-5978 Jurisdiction: 138th Street/3rd Avenue, Brook Avenue, 7:30 P.M. every second Wednesday of Community Policing: (718) 796-3867 Cypress Avenue, East 143rd Street/St. Detective Squad: (718) 542-5530 The PSA patrols the New York City each month at varying locations within the Crime Prevention: (718) 543-7341 Mary’s Street, East 149th Street, Longwood Community Council: Housinng Developments in the confi nes of Precinct. Domestic Violence: (718) 543-6072 Avenue, Hunts Point Avenue, Whitlock Av- the 40th and 42nd New York City Police President: Tangee Lingar Youth Offi cer: (718) 543-5920 enue, Elder Avenue, Morrison/Sound View 48TH PRECINCT Precincts. Meetings: The Community Council meets Deputy Inspector: Timothy McCormack Auxiliary Coordinator: (718) 543-7341 Avenues, St. Lawrence Avenue, East 177th the fi rst Wednesday every month at the 450 Cross Bronx Expressway Detective Squad: (718) 543-6121 Community Council: Street/Parkchester, Castle Hill Avenue, Westchester Square/East Tremont Avenue, 43rd Precinct Station House at 7:00 p.m. Contact Information: Community Council: President: Barbara Holmes Middletown Road, Buhre Avenue, Pelham 44TH PRECINCT President: Paulette Schomo Meetings:The Council meets on the 2nd Precinct: (718) 299-3900 Bay Park terminal. Deuty Inspector: Martine Materasso Community Affairs: (718) 299-4522 Meetings: Held every second Thursday of Thursday of the month at 6 p.m. 2 East 169th Street 6 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 30, 2016 BTR Bronx ‘16 HISTORY OF NYBG STATS

The New York Botanical Garden is an iconic living museum, a major ed- ucational institution, and a plant re- search and conservation organization. Founded in 1891 and now a National Historic Landmark, it is one of the greatest botanical gardens in the world and the largest in any city in the United States, distinguished by the beauty of its diverse landscape and extensive col- lections and gardens, as well as by the scope and excellence of its programs, and committed to: Saving The Plants Of The World World Leadership in Research on Plants and Fungi • The New York Botanical Garden is one of the top two freestanding botani- cal gardens in the world where plant and fungal research is conducted. The outstanding staff and unparalleled re- sources of our International Plant Sci- ence Center, distinguished in scope, depth, authority, and excellence, po- When the great Conservatory was fi nished and opened to the public in 1902, it was an immediate sensation, as popular with school children sition the Garden at the forefront of as with adults and scholars. Photo courtesy of the New York Botanical Garden worldwide botanical research. • Garden scientists are currently en- gaged in 250 international collabora- cilitated 8,500 public information re- • Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, the in the 1940s. tions with 168 institutions in 49 coun- quests. nation’s preeminent Victorian-style • Exquisite orchid collection fea- tries. • State-of-the-art, 28,000-square- glasshouse, offers an ecotour of the tures nearly 7,000 plants, including • NYBG, in collaboration with three foot Pfi zer Plant Research Laboratory, world, including tropical rain forests, rare specimens accessioned through other lead institutions and more than opened in May 2006, tripled the size deserts of the Americas and Africa, the Garden’s role as a CITES Plant Res- 30 research institutions worldwide, has of the Botanical Garden’s former re- carnivorous plants, subtropicals, and cue Center. launched the new World Flora Online, a search facility. aquatic plants in temperate and tropi- • Thirty-thousand distinguished major initiative to create the fi rst open • Since its beginning in 1994, the cal pools. trees, many more than 200 years old, access online resource for compre- Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Pro- • Nolen Greenhouses for Living Col- include major collections of oaks, ma- hensive data for all of Earth’s 350,000 gram for Molecular Systematics has lections are the most sophisticated be- ples, legumes, magnolias, cherries, cra- known plant species. The project meets established the Botanical Garden as a hind-thescenes greenhouses of any bo- bapples, and an exceptional range of no- the United Nations Convention on Bio- leading center for molecular systemat- tanical garden in the U.S. table individual specimens. logical Diversity’s call for “an online ics research and study. • Three-and-one-half-acre Native • Home Gardening Center is an ac- fl ora of all known plants.” • NYBG’s Institute of Systematic Plant Garden is a four-season horti- tive outdoor classroom and informa- • William and Lynda Steere Herbar- Botany focuses on documenting the cultural display that celebrates the tion resource with gardens and demon- ium is the second-largest herbarium in biodiversity of plants and fungi and beauty, diversity, and ecological im- stration areas. the world and the largest in the West- on understanding their relationships, portance of northeastern North Ameri- Landmark Grounds and Buildings ern Hemisphere. evolutionary histories, and geographic can plants. It showcases more than 450 • The New York Botanical Garden is - It houses 7.8 million specimens, distributions in order to promote con- species among nearly 100,000 native steward of a 250-acre site National His- representing all groups of plants and servation and sustainable use of plant trees, shrubs, wildfl owers, ferns, and toric Landmark landscape. fungi from around the world, with ex- resources. grasses. • The Bronx River, New York City’s ceptional strength in the fl ora of the • NYBG’s Institute of Economic Bot- • Eleven-acre Azalea Garden in- only freshwater river, runs through the Americas. any studies plant diversity, local plant cludes nearly one mile of woodland heart of the Thain Family Forest in a - Specimens have been collected knowledge, and plant management paths meandering beneath ancient na- magnifi cent rock-cut gorge. from every continent and date from the practices, and through its work helps tive oaks, tulip trees, and sweetgums • Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, the 18th century to the present. to maintain and increase the resilience and surrounded by more than 70,000 country’s largest Victorian-style glass- • C.V. Starr Virtual Herbarium pro- of environments and the communities plants, including 3,000 azaleas and rho- house, a New York City Landmark, was vides instant Internet access to in- that live within them. dodendrons, 28,000 fl owering perenni- completed in 1902, restored in 1994–97 formation on more than 2.5 million • Commodore Matthew Perry Grad- als and ferns, and 40,000 bulbs. by Beyer Blinder Belle, and refurbished specimens in the Steere Herbarium. uate Studies Program, one of the larg- • Fifty-acre Thain Family Forest in 2010. Approximately 400,000 per year are est at any botanical garden in the world, is the largest extant tract of the old- • In March 2009 the New York City digitized in the Herbarium’s Digital was established in 1896 and addresses growth forest that once covered much Landmarks Preservation Commission Imaging Center, as staff work toward the shortage of biological scientists; 310 of New York City. added the Library building (1901), Lil- digitizing the entire collection. degrees have been granted, including • Thirty-seven-acre Arthur and Ja- lian Goldman Fountain of Life (1905), • LuEsther T. Mertz Library is the 219 Ph.D.s. net Ross Conifer Arboretum contains and Tulip Tree Allée (1906) to its regis- most important botanical and horticul- - This program has grown to include 1,500 trees, featuring more than 300 try of landmarks. tural library in the world. six premier universities (CUNY, Co- mature specimens of fi rs, pines, and • Other historic buildings include - It holds more than two million lumbia, Cornell, Fordham, New York spruces planted in the early 20th cen- the Lillian and Amy Goldman Stone items spanning ten centuries, encom- University, and Yale), enrolling an an- tury. Mill (1840), a National Historic Land- passing 86 languages and 1.3 miles of nual average of 30 students during re- • Fifteen-acre Benenson Ornamen- mark and New York City Landmark re- archival materials. cent years. It has also built a network tal Conifers, the largest landscape res- stored to LEED certifi cation at the Sil- - Oldest item in the collection is a of graduates in key positions at insti- toration project ever undertaken at the ver level in 2010, and the Stone Cottage manuscript, Circa instans, ca. 1190. tutions and universities around the Garden, includes among its nearly 500 (1852–54). • The Garden’s rich heritage - In fi scal year 2015, the Mertz Li- world. conifers outstanding new cultivars as brary welcomed 93,890 visitors and fa- Creating A Green Urban Oasis well as rare mature specimens planted Continued on next page BTR BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 30, 2016 7 Bronx ‘16 STATS HISTORY OF NYBG

From previous page • Audio Tours enhance the visitor experience: of renowned landscape architects and - 2015 audio tours: The Orchid Show designers begun in the late 19th cen- and FRIDA KAHLO (English and tury by Calvert Vaux and John Brinley Spanish); 9066 unique callers, 16,884 in- and in the fi rst half of the 20th century bound calls, 18,146 stops heard. by Beatrix Farrand, Olmsted Brothers, - 2014 audio tours added: Kiku Poetry Ellen Shipman, and Marian Coffi n is Walk, Holiday Train Show® Poetry still evident today through the work of Walk, The Orchid Show Poetry Walk, Penelope Hobhouse, Lynden B. Miller, and Groundbreakers; 6468 unique call- Shavaun Towers of Towers|Golde, ers; 10,268 inbound calls, 11,487 stops Sheila Brady of Oehme, van Sweden, heard. and Piet Oudolf. - Added to existing suite in 2013 were • The Garden features an impres- the Native Plant Garden, The Orchid sive portfolio of work by the country’s Show, and Wild Medicine; 9,270 unique leading architects and builders at the callers, 15,515 inbound calls, 18,000 time of its founding, including Rob- stops heard. ert Gibson, William Cobb, and Lord & Educational Programs Burnham. The tradition of architec- • Adult Education Program is the tural excellence continues with new largest and most diverse continuing ed- facilities by today’s leading architects, The fi rst Board of Managers of the New York Botanical Garden included J.P. Morgan and ucation program at any botanical gar- including Garden Cafe and Terrace Andrew Carnegie. The founding director, Nathaniel Lord Britton, is fourth from the right. den: Room (1997) by Cooper, Robertson & The photo was taken at the groundbreaking for the museum (Now the Library Building) in - Over 9,400 registrations last year; Partners; Everett Children’s Adven- more than 700 classes offered at the Bo- December 1897. Photo courtesy of the New York Botanical Garden ture Garden (1998) by Richard Dattner; tanical Garden, the Midtown Educa- William and Lynda Steere Herbarium tion Center in Manhattan, and off-site (2002) by Polshek Partnership Archi- the Cave Canem Foundation and New cultural history, landscape design, and locations in Dutchess County and Con- tects; Leon Levy Visitor Center (2004) York State Summer Writers Institute, plant science with accompanying schol- necticut. by H3 Hardy Collaboration Architec- among others, during FRIDA KAHLO: arly publications. Recent exhibitions - Certifi cates are offered in seven ture; Nolen Greenhouses for Living Art, Garden, Life. in its Art Gallery include Gardens for program areas: Botanical Art & Illus- Collections (2005) by Mitchell/Giurgola • Special family programming in- Beautiful America: The Women Who tration, Botany, Floral Design, Garden- Architects; Pfi zer Plant Research Lab- cludes concerts, live animal programs Photographed Them; The Renaissance ing, Horticultural Therapy, Horticul- oratory (2006) by Polshek Partnership during Fall Forest Weekends, and Herbal; The Artist in the Garden; His- ture, and Landscape Design. Architects; NYBG Parking Garage, Holiday Train Show® theater perfor- torical Views: Tourists at the Alham- - Three annual lecture programs, Peter Jay Sharp Building (2012) by En- mances. bra; A Forest in the City: Centuries of Landscape Design Portfolios Lecture nead Architects; and the Native Plant Innovative Exhibitions Sylvan Beauty; and Emily Dickinson’s Series, Winter Lecture Series, and An- Garden Pavilions (2013) by H3 Hardy And Other Visitor Attractions Garden: The Poetry of Flowers. drew Carnegie Distinguished Lecture, Collaboration Architecture. • 2015 exhibitions: Wild Medicine in • Plants and Fungi: Ten Current feature internationally recognized • Conversion from diesel to natural the Tropics; The Orchid Show: Chan- Research Stories presents examples of speakers. gas for the Garden’s seven trams has deliers; FRIDA KAHLO: Art, Garden, NYBG’s biodiversity research world- • School of Professional Horticul- resulted in a 35% reduction in carbon Life; Kiku: Spotlight on Tradition; and wide on display in the Britton Science ture, established in 1932 by distin- emissions. The conversion from #4 fuel Holiday Train Show®. Rotunda and Gallery. guished horticulturist Thomas H. Ever- oil to natural gas reduced carbon emis- • 2014 exhibitions: Wild Medicine • Seasonal exhibitions in the inti- ett, is nationally accredited and offers a sions by 51%. in the Tropics; The Orchid Show: Key mate Bourke-Sullivan Display House, two-year, full-time program. Connecting Gardening To West Contemporary; Groundbreak- housed in the Nolen Greenhouses for - Academic courses in horticulture, The Arts And Humanities ers: Great American Gardens and The Living Collections, educate and delight botany, and landscape design; a strong • More than 900 exhibition-related Women Who Designed Them; The thousands of visitors each year. foundation in horticultural science, in- programs were offered last year, serv- Haunted Pumpkin Garden; Kiku: The • NYBG Apps, accessed and down- cluding native plants, green roofs, ur- ing over 94,500 visitors. These included Art of the Japanese Garden; and Holi- loaded at nybg.org/app/, enhance the ban agriculture, sustainability, green- daily tours, home gardening demonstra- day Train Show®. visitor experience: house management, and ecological tions, music and dance performances, • 2013 exhibitions: Tropical Paradise; - The FRIDA KAHLO mobile guide, garden design. poetry readings, special lectures and The Orchid Show; Wild Medicine: Heal- released in 2015, offered visitors a tour - Hands-on training, including plant symposia, the Summer Concert Series, ing Plants Around the World, Featur- of the landmark exhibition in the Con- identifi cation walks with NYBG cura- festivals such as the Wine in the Native ing The Italian Renaissance Garden; servatory and the paintings on display tors and botanists; fi eld trips to nurs- Plant Garden, Mother’s Day Weekend Four Seasons; The Haunted Pumpkin in the Art Gallery. Users could create eries, public and private gardens, eco- Garden Party, Rose Garden Celebra- Garden; Kiku: The Art of the Japanese their own “Frida selfi e” styled after the logical sites, and celebrity estates; and tion, and Viva la Frida! Weekends, and Garden; and Holiday Train Show®. artist’s iconic selfportraits and share special lectures and meetings with evening cocktail events, including Or- • 2012 exhibitions: Caribbean Gar- via social media. world-renowned plant experts. chid Evenings, Frida al Fresco Eve- den; The Orchid Show: Patrick Blanc’s - Groundbreakers, released in 2014, - Unique 6-month internships in the nings, and Bar Car Nights. Vertical Gardens; Monet’s Garden; led visitors on a tour of an exhibition U.S., Europe, and around the world; • Poetry for Every Season, co-pre- Manolo Valdés: Monumental Sculp- of the work of some of America’s most 100% job placement rate during the sented with the Poetry Society of ture; The Haunted Pumpkin Garden; prominent female landscape architects, past fi ve years; alumni enjoy successful America, enhances the visitor experi- Kiku: Japanese Chrysanthemums; and using augmented reality to superim- and exciting careers in public and pri- ence with Poetry Walks that accom- Holiday Train Show®. pose historic photos of the gardens and vate sectors: estate management, land- pany each exhibition, featuring works • 2011 exhibitions: Caribbean Gar- collections they designed—including scape design/build fi rms, and public of acclaimed poets who also record den; The Orchid Show: On Broadway; gardens at NYBG—on today’s views. gardens. complementary audio tours and per- Spanish Paradise: Gardens of the Al- - Wild Medicine, released in 2013, in- Special Amenities form live readings, most recently: U.S. hambra; Fall Flowers of Japan; and cludes detailed information about some • NYBG Shop offers signature items Poet Laureate Billy Collins with win- Holiday Train Show®. of the most important medicinal plants for home and garden, as well as new and ter- and trainthemed poems during the • LuEsther T. Mertz Library pres- in the Haupt Conservatory, using aug- unusual plants for indoors and out, na- Holiday Train Show® and Rachel Eliza ents world-class public exhibitions of mented reality to animate their heal- ture-inspired toys, distinctive personal Griffi ths, recipient of fellowships from rare botanical prints and books of horti- ing properties. accessories, exhibition-related items, 8 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 30, 2016 BTR Bronx ‘16 HISTORY OF NYBG STATS

and more. The Shop’s superb selection City of $159 million and buys goods and of gardening and horticulture books services worth $17 million. provides insight for beginner and expe- Celebrating 125th Anniversary • The Garden invests in capital im- rienced gardeners alike. provements, resulting in more than • STARR Catering Group’s innova- The year 2016 marks the 125th Anniversary of the founding of The New 2,680 construction jobs over 10 years. tive approach to dining is available York Botanical Garden. Since 1891 NYBG has been a museum of plants • The Garden inspired the NYC “Vi- at two on-site venues: the Pine Tree dedicated to achieving excellence in horticulture, education, and plant re- sion Plan” for its local commercial cor- Café, offering fi rst-class culinary cre- search and conservation. Today it is one of the great cultural institutions ridor and rehabilitated and maintains ations from artisanal panini, Neapol- in the world, a preeminent center for botanical research, a natural treasure City parkland adjacent to the Metro- itan-style pizza, and signature salads for visitors of all ages, and a leader and national model for plant-based edu- North Railroad Station. to sweet treats and snacks, as well as cation. Recent Milestones the recently opened Hudson Garden In 1888 the Garden’s founders, Dr. Nathaniel Lord Britton, a Columbia • From November 2014 to November Grill, a full-service destination featur- University professor of botany and geology, and his wife, Elizabeth Knight 2015, more than one million visitors ing a menu of New American cuisine Britton, an avid and respected scholar of mosses, traveled to London and from the Tri-State region and around inspired by locally sourced ingredients visited the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Inspired by what they saw, the the world visited the Garden. from Hudson Valley producers. Brittons returned to New York determined to create a similar institution. • FRIDA KAHLO: Art, Garden, Life Teaching Science To City Kids On April 28, 1891, the Legislature of the State of New York passed an act exceeded 525,000 visitors during its run Innovative Programs in the Field of incorporating The New York Botanical Garden, providing for the building from May 16 to November 1, 2015, set- Informal Science Education and development of “a public botanic garden of the highest class” on 250 ting a record as NYBG’s most-attended • With its several unique learning acres of land in northernmost New York City “for the collection and culture art and garden exhibition. facilities—the Everett Children’s Ad- of plants, fl owers, shrubs and trees, [and] the advancement of botanical sci- • NYBG Membership has almost venture Garden, quarter-mile-long ence and knowledge…and for the entertainment, recreation, and instruc- doubled in the last decade, and since Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail, Ruth tion of the people.” 2010 it has grown 50%, while Member- Rea Howell Family Garden, and Green- ship revenue has increased 60%. As School—the Botanical Garden is one of of December 2015, NYBG has almost the country’s foremost environmental terraced amphitheater. munity gardening outreach program 50,000 paying Members, with an addi- education institutions for students of Anchoring The Community established in 1988, has created more tional 15,000 free Members as part of all ages and abilities. • The New York Botanical Garden than 300 community and school gar- the IDNYC cultural benefi t program. - More than 300,000 children and was established in 1891 on land set aside dens and urban farms throughout the Mission Statement their families from across the New by the State Legislature for the creation Bronx. Staff members provide horticul- The New York Botanical Garden is York metropolitan area attend Chil- of “a public botanic garden of the high- ture education, training, and technical an advocate for the plant kingdom. The dren’s Education programs annually. est class” for the City of New York. assistance to Bronx residents, commu- Garden pursues its mission through - Over 95,000 students are educated • Prominent civic leaders and fi - nity gardeners and organizations, local its role as a museum of living plant in the Garden’s one-of-a-kind learning nanciers, including Andrew Carnegie, schools, and urban farmers who care collections arranged in gardens and facilities and school programs annu- Cornelius Vanderbilt, and J. Pierpont for these essential green spaces. landscapes across its National Historic ally. Morgan, agreed to match the City’s com- • Horticultural advice, technical as- Landmark site; through its comprehen- - Last year more than 3,200 teachers mitment to fi nance the buildings and sistance, and training is provided to sive education programs in horticul- were trained by the Professional Devel- improvements, initiating a public-pri- 13 Bronx-based urban farms to create, ture and plant science; and through the opment Program through weeklong in- vate partnership that continues today. maintain, and strengthen opportuni- wide-ranging research programs of the stitutes, workshops, and partnerships. • The Garden is located on property ties for produce to reach farmers mar- International Plant Science Center. - The Everett Children’s Adventure owned in full by the City of New York, kets and local community-run markets Garden trains 145 high school interns and its operation is made possible in where federally funded coupons for low- each year. part by public funds provided through income families needing fresh produce Upcoming Highlights - Nearly 10,000 children participate the New York City Department of Cul- can be redeemed. in gardening programs and science tural Affairs. A portion of the Garden’s • The NYC Compost Project hosted Until April 2, 2017 camps throughout the year. general operating funds is provided by by the Garden, is part of a citywide What is a Herbarium? - Plant Hunters, a Web-based tool The New York City Council and The partnership created in 1993 by the NYC This exhibition highlights the importance of that provides virtual exploration of the New York State Offi ce of Parks, Recre- Department of Sanitation, which pro- NYBG’s William and Lynda Steere Herbarium— Haupt Conservatory, serves as a dy- ation and Historic Preservation. The vides compost outreach and education founded in 1901 and hailed by the National namic online educational resource in Bronx Borough President and Bronx to more than 5,000 Bronx community Science Foundation as a “national treasure”— plant science, allowing users to navi- elected representatives in the City gardeners, school, residents, organiza- and its collection of 7.8 million preserved gate the Garden’s diverse desert and Council and State Legislature provide tions, and businesses annually. plant and fungal specimens. This fascinating tropical galleries. leadership funding. • The Greenmarket farmers mar- display explores the Steere Herbarium The Edible Academy • Since 1989 the Garden’s endowment ket in partnership with GrowNYC re- specimens as museum pieces, scientifi c • The Edible Academy, a planned has grown 19 times, now funds 150 full- turned for the 13th season on Wednes- data, and historical artifacts, underscoring state-of-the-art facility, will become the time positions, and is a key component days (June–November), free to the their signifi cance as an essential botanical hub of the children’s vegetable garden- in the long-term fi nancial stability of public and encouraging healthful eat- resource, the impact of Herbarium specimens ing program and allow twice as many the institution. ing and lifestyles through cooking dem- on cutting-edge scientifi c study, and the children, parents, and teachers (from • Since 1993 the Garden has under- onstrations, recipes, fl yers, and health historical value of the Herbarium’s collection. 50,000 to 100,000) to learn how to grow gone a renaissance in facilities and pro- screenings. Until January 16, 2017 fruits and vegetables, as well as make grams, the result of campaigns to build • The Garden maintains active part- Holiday Train Show the important connections among endowment and fund programmatic nerships with more than 190 commu- plants, gardening, nutrition, and the initiatives, audience development, and nity-based organizations. The Holiday Train Show® continues to expand benefi ts of a healthful lifestyle. capital projects as part of a comprehen- • The Garden provides open access, with new elements that enhance the display • The complex, with the award-win- sive Master Plan. hosting free community festivals such of enchanting model trains that zip through ning Ruth Rea Howell Family Gar- • The Garden generates an overall as Bronx Day and Fiesta de Flores and the collection of 150 iconic landmarks, each den as its centerpiece, will feature ex- economic impact on New York City of distributing Family Passes to commu- re-created with pine cones, bark, leaves, and panded year-round programming in a $159 million annually. nity-based organizations. other natural materials. Complementary LEED-certifi ed environmentally sus- • Fiscal year 2015 marked the 27th Economic Development programming includes musical concerts, tainable building with a green roof, consecutively balanced budget. And Neighborhood Improvements children’s activities, evenings for adults, two high-tech classrooms, new display Community Outreach • Annually the Garden generates an and holiday fi lm screenings and poetry.. gardens, a teaching greenhouse, and a • Bronx Green-Up, the Garden’s com- overall economic impact on New York BTR BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 30, 2016 9 Bronx ‘16 STATS BRONX ELECTED OFFICALS

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

RAPHAEL SALAMANCA ANNABEL FERNANDO 17th District PALMA CABRERA 18th District 14th District 1070 Southern Boulebard 1041 Castle Hill Ave. 107 E. Burnside Ave. Phone Phone: Phone (718) 402-6130 (718) 792-1140 (347) 590-2874 Fax Fax: (718) 931-0235 Fax (718) 402-0539 [email protected] (347) 590-2878 fcabrera@council. Represents: Melrose, Hunts nyc.gov Point, Longwood, Port Morris, Represents: Fordham, VANESSA GIBSON Mott Haven, Morrisania, Kingsbridge, Morris Soundview, High Bridge, Heights, West Bronx 16th District 1377 Jerome Ave Crotona Represents: Parkchester, Soundview, Castle Hill, Clas- Phone: (718) 588-7500 Committees: Chair of Juvenile Justice, Fire & Criminal son Point, Harding Park Fax: (718) 588-7790 Committees: Aging, Chair Justice, General Welfare, Higher Education, Veterans, Committees: General Welfare, Land Use, Youth Services, [email protected] Community Development, Community Development, Technology. Subcommittees: Parks & Recreation, Co-chair of Gun Violence Task Committee on Health, Juvenile Justice, Land Use, Subcommittee on Land- Landmarks, Public Siting, & Maritime Uses. Force. Represents: W. Bronx, Morrisania, marks, Public Siting and Maritime Uses. South Bronx, Highbridge, Melrose Committees: Community Develop- ment, Courts & Legal Services, Finance, General Welfare, Higher Ed- ucation, Public Safety (Chair) Sanita- tion & Solid Waste Management .

ANDY KING 12th District 938 East Gun Hill Road Phone (718) 684-5509 RITCHIE TORRES Fax (718) 684-5510 15th District ANDREW COHEN JAMES VACCA council.nyc.gov/d12/html/mem- 1901 Southern Blvd 11th District 13th District bers/home.shtml Phone (718) 842-8100 3636 Waldo Ave. 3040 E. Tremont Ave. Represents: Edenwald, Co-Op City, Fax (718) 842-6280 Phone (718) 549-7300 Phone 718) 931-1721 Wakefi eld, Williamsbridge, Bay- [email protected] Fax (718) 549-9945 Fax (718) 931-1605 chester Represents: Bathgate, Belmont, Cro- [email protected] [email protected] Committees: Subcommittee on Li- tona, Fordham, East Tremont, West Represents: Kingsbridge, Riverdale, Represents: Pelham Parkway North braries, Chairperson; Civil Rights, Farms, Van Nest, West Farms Woodlawn, Norwood, parts of Bed- and South, Pelham Bay, Country Cultural Affairs, Libraries & Interna- Committees: Chair of Public Housing, ford Park, Wakefi eld and Bronx Park Club, City Island, Throggs Neck, Al- tional Relations, Sanitation & Solid General Welfare, Government Opera- East. lerton, Morris Park Waste Management, Education, tions, Housing & Buildings, Land Use, Committees: Chair of the Committee Committees: Chair of Technology, Community Development, Youth Public Safety. Deputy Leader of The on Mental Health, Alcoholism, Drug Transportation, Higher Education, Services, Co-Chair of Black, Latino New York City Council. Abuse & Disability Services, Land Public Safety, Juvenile Justice. & Asian Caucus. Use, Parks & Recreation & Veterans.

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

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Address: 959 E. 233rd Street Phone: (718) 547-8854 Fax: (718) 515-2718. infoatbailey2016.net Represents: Morrisania, West Farms, Williamsbridge, Co-op City, Wakefi eld, and Baychester

REVEREND RUBEN DIAZ, SR. 32nd District Address: 900 Rogers Place Phone: (718) 991-3161 Fax: (718) 991-0309 [email protected] Represents: Castle Hill, Clason Point, Hunts Point, Longwood, Melrose, Morrisania, Parkchester, Pelham Parkway, Soundview, and Union Port Committees: Aging, Bank, Finance, Investigations and Government Op- JEFFREY KLEIN erations, Judiciary, Puerto Rican/ 34th District Latino Caucus, Transportation. 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 Committees: Ex offi cio (non-voting) member of all Senate committee. Bronx ‘15 GUSTAVO RIVERA 33rd District STATS 2432 Grand Concourse BRONX CONGRESS MEMBERS Phone: (718) 933-2034 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. Committees: Ranking Minor- ity Member on the Senate’s Health Committee., Crime Victims, Crime and Correction, Ethics, Finance, Higher Education, Labor, Libraries, Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, State-Native American Relations, NYS Black, Puerto Ri- JOSE M. SERRANO can, Hispanic and Asian Legislative 28th District Caucus.. Address: 157 East 104th St. JOSEPH CROWLEY JOSE E. SERRANO Phone: (212) 828-5829 ADRIANO ESPAILLAT 7th District 15th District Fax: (212) 828-2420 31st District Address 2800 Bruckner Address: 1231 Lafayette Ave. Website: http://www.nysenate. Address: 5030 Broadway Boulevard, Suite 301 Phone: (718) 620-0084 gov/senator/jose-m-serrano New York, NY 10034 Phone (718) 931-1400 Website: http://serrano.house.gov/ Represents: Mott Haven, Melrose, Number: (212) 544-0173 Website: http://crowley.house.gov/ ELIOT L. ENGEL Highbridge, Morris Heights Website: http://www.nysenate. Address: 177 Dreiser Loop 17th District Represents: Mott Haven, Hunts Committees: Aging, Agriculture, gov/senator/adriano espaillat Point, Melrose, High Bridge, Mor- Phone: (718) 320-2314 Address: 3655 Johnson Ave. Children & Families, Consumer Pro- Represents: Riverdale/Marbile Hill risania, East Tremont, Tremont, Phone: (718) 796-9700 tection, Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Committees: Codes, Environmental Morris Heights, University Heights, Represents: Soundview, Pelham Website: http://engel.house.gov/ Parks & Recreation, Environmental Conservation, Finance, Higher Edu- Belmont, Fordham, Bedford Park, Parkway, Morris Park, Van Nest, Al- Conservation, Libraries, Mental cation, Housing, Construction and West Farms, the Longwood Avenue lerton, Parkchester, Throggs Neck, Represents: Riverdale, Woodlawn, Health & Developmental Disabili- Community Development, Insur- Historic District, and parts of Sound- City Island, Silver Beach, and Co-op Norwood and Wakefi eld ties, Science, Technology, Incuba- ance, Judiciary, Puerto Rican/La- view. City Committees: Energy and Commerce; tion & Entrepreneurship, NYS Black, tino Caucus - Chair Person, Rules, Committees: House Appropriations Committees: Ways and Means Foreign Affairs Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Leg- The New York State Black, Puerto Sub-Committees: Financial Services Sub-Committees: Health, Human Re- Subcommittees: Health; Energy and islative Caucus, Veterans, Home- Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legisla- & General Gov.; Commerce, Justice, Jamaal Bailey sources, Oversight, Select Revenue Power; WesteHealth; Europe and Eur- land Security & Military Affairs. tive Caucus Science & Foreign Operations. 36th District Measures, Social Security, Trade. asia; Western Hemisphere 12 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 30, 2016 BTR Bronx ‘16 STATS

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Represents: Co-op City, Throggs Neck, City Island, Locust Point, Edgewater Park, parts of Castle Hill, Westchester Square, Zerega. Committees: Chair, Committee on Cities, Agriculture, Education, Gov- ernmental Operation, Housing, La- bor, Ways and Means, Puerto Rican/ Hispanic Task Force, Subcommittee on Child Product Safety, Subcom- mittee on Oversight of Minority and Women-Owned Business Enter- prises (MWBEs), Subcommittee on Retention of Homeownership and LATOYA JOYNER Stabilization of Affordable Housing , 77th District and Child Product Safety MARCOS CRESPO Address: 250 Broadway, Ste. 2208 85th District LOUIS SEPULVEDA MARK GJONAJ Address: 1163 Manor Avenue, Phone: (212) 312-1498 87th District 80th District Phone: (718) 893-0202 VICTOR PICHARDO Represents: Highbridge, Morrisania, Address: Address: 1126 Pelham Represents: Bronx River, Harding 86th District Morris Heights 1973 Westchester Ave. Parkway South Park, Clason Point, Hunts Point and Address: 2175C Jerome Ave. Committees: Chair, Subcommittee Phone: (718) 931-2620 Phone: (718) 409-0109 Soundview Phone: (718) 933-6909 on Diversity in Law, Aging, Consumer Represents: Van Nest, West Farms, Represents: Pelham Parkway, Mor- Committees: Chair, Puerto Rican/ Represents: University Heights, Affairs and Protection, Housing, In- Parkchester and Castle Hill, Union- ris Park, Van Nest, Pelham Bay, Van Hispanic Task Force, Alcoholism and Tremont, and Morris Heights surance, Judiciary,Social Servicess, port, Bruckner Boulevard Cortlandt Village, Norwood, Bedford Drug Abuse, Cities, Energy, Environ- Committees: Chair, Subcommittee Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Committees: Chair, Subcommittee Pk. mental Conservation, Insurance,, on Intergenerational Care, Cities, Asian Legislative Caucus, Legislative on Transitional Services, Aging, Ag- Committees: Banks, Local Govern- Transportation, Black, Puerto Rican, Higher Education, Housing, Real Women’s Caucus. riculture, Banks, Correction, Hous- ments, Real Property Taxation, Small Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus, Property Taxation, Small Business, ing, Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic Business, Tourism, Parks, Arts and Co-Chair, Legislative Task Force on Social Services, Black, Puerto Rican, & Asian Legislative Caucus, Puerto Sports Development, Micro Business Demographic Research and Reap- Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus, Rican/Hispanic Task Force. Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force. portionment . Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force. .

CARL E. HEASTIE Assembly Speaker NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY DISTRICTS 83rd District Address: 1351 E. Gun Hill Rd. Phone: (718) 654-6539 Represents: Olinville, Williamsbridge, Wakefi eld, Edenwald, Eastchester, Fish Bay, Baychester. JOSE RIVERA Committees: Rules Committee. 78th District Address: One Fordham Plaza, Suite 1008, 10th Floor Phone: (718) 933-2204 JEFFREY DINOWITZ Represents: Bronx Park South, Bel- 81st District mont, Fordham, Bedford Park, South Address: 3107 Kingsbridge Avenue Riverdale, Van Cortland Village, Phone: (718) 796-5345 Marble Hill Represents: Riverdale, Kingsbridge, Committees: Aging, Agriculture, Kingsbridge Heights, Van Cortlandt Insurance, Small Business, Black, Village, Marble Hill, Norwood, Wood- Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian lawn, Wakefi eld. Legislative Caucus, Puerto Rican/ Committees: Chair of Consumer Af- Hispanic Task Force fairs & Protection, Rules, Judiciary, Health, Election Law, member of the Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force, chair of Bronx Delegation

CARMEN E. ARROYO 84th District Address: 384 East 149 Street, Phone: (718) 292-2901 Represents: Highbridge, Melrose, Longwood, Mott Haven, Port Morris, Hunts Point Committees: Aging; Alcoholism and Drug Abuse; Children and Families; MICHAEL BLAKE Education, Puerto Rican/Hispanic 79th District Task Force, Black, Puerto Rican, Address: S. 80 Concord Village W. Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus, Phone: (718) 842-3829 Legislative Women’s Caucus Represents: Morriasnia, Claremont, Crotona-Mapes, Longwood, Char- lotte Gardens, and Belmont area. Committees: Chair, Subcommittee MICHAEL BENDETTO on Mitchell-Lama, Banks, Correc- 82nd District tion, Election Law, Governmental Address: 177 Dreiser Loop, Rm. 12 Operations , Housing, Veterans’ Af- Phone: (718) 320-2220 fairs, Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic Address: 3602 E. Tremont Avenue & Asian Legislative Caucus Phone: (718) 892-2235 14 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 30, 2016 BTR Bronx ‘16 SERVING STATS THE BRONX for over 38 YEARS

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COMMUNITY BOARD 1 COMMUNITY BOARD 2

Chair: Chair: George Rodriguez Dr. Ian Amritt 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: Bronx River East: Prospect Avenue, East South: East River (includes 149th Street, East River North Brother Island, Brother South: East River Island) West: Harlem River West: East 149th Street, Pros- Neighborhoods: pect Avenue Mott Haven, Port Morris, Mel- Neighborhoods: rose Hunts Point, Longwood, Mor- Population (According to the risania 2000 Census): 82,159 Population (According to the Board Meeting: Last Thursday 2000 Census): 46,824 of the month, 6:00pm Board Meeting: Last Wednesday of the month, 6:00pm George Rodriguez, Ngande Ambroise, Carmen Aquino, Maria Garcia Baltazar, Robert H. Barnes, Carol Bod- Members: Evelyn Arauz, Alexa Campos, Sean Coleman, Mildred Colon, Roberto Crespo, Altagracia Cruz, Julia Cruz, die, Michael C. Brady, Betty Bryant Brown, Passyna Bula-Bula, Josephine Fernandez Byrne, Jessica Clemente, LMSW., Kevin Ellison, Paula Fields- Conyers, Sonya Ferguson, Jazmine Goodwin, Alexandra Guadalupe, Jesse Harris, Maura Cosme, Gloria Cruz, Linda Duke, Isabel Figueroa, Linda D. Gaines, Brenda Goodwin, Silverio Guzman, Barbara Lopez, Lina Lopez, Roland Lopez, Nicholas Madio, Luis Marrero, Cedric McClester, Dondi McKellar, Rev. Moses Lucas Henriquez, Richard Iyasere, John Johnson, John Lemon, Jorge Leon, Theresa Marrero, Eileen Marquez, Oladosu, Dr. Francis Onukwue, Sandra Reyes-Collazo, Marta Rivera, Larry Robinson, Israel Rodriguez, Peter Rosado, Nellie McKay, Evelyn Munoz, Walter C. Nash, Linda Ortiz, Arline Parks, Freddy Perez, Jr., Justino Rodriguez, Car- Olga Rosario, Glendalys Salgado, Richard Sherman, Maria Torres, John Udo-Okon, David Vazquez,Carolyn Waring men Santos, Alice Simmons, Marcelo Villagran, Betty Wessley, Maria Davis Wilson, Tracy Alecia Woodall, Delores Waller Worrell, Hakiem A. Yahmadii. .

COMMUNITY BOARD 3 COMMUNITY BOARD 4

Chair: Chair: Gloria S. Alston Kathleen Saunders District Manager: District Manager: John Dudley Paul A. Philps Address: 1426 Boston Road Address: 1650 Selwyn Avenue, Phone: (718) 378-8054 #11A Fax: (718) 378-8150 Phone: (718) 299-0800 [email protected] Fax: (718) 294-7870 Boundaries: North: Cross Bronx Email: [email protected] Expwy., Park Ave, East 174th St., Washington Avenue, Cross Bronx Boundaries: Expwy, Arthur Ave, Crotona Park North: Washington Bridge, Cross North, E. 175th Street, Southern Bronx Expressway Boulevard, Cross Bronx Expwy. East: Webster Avenue, Park Av- : Sheridan Expressway East enue South: Westchester Avenue, East 167th Street, East 169th South: East 149th Street, East Street, Prospect Ave, East 161st 145th Street Bridge St., Third Ave., East 159th St. West: Harlem River West: Park Ave., Webster Ave. Neighborhoods: Highbridge, Neighborhoods: Crotona Concourse, Mount Eden, and Park, Claremont Village, Concourse Village, Woodstock, Morrisania Concourse Village Population (According to the 2000 Census): 68,574 Population (According to the 2000 Census): 139,563 Board Meeting: Second Tuesday of the month, 6:00pm • Board Meeting: Fourth Tuesday of the month, 6:00pm Members: Kolaco Acqui, Lizzette Mantilla-Tavarez, Gloria Alston, Marlon Molina, Xiomara Arriola, Members: Ramatu Ahmed Ebrahim, Dawda Ndure, Rolando Aviles, Zonia Ortiz, Naimah Bilal, Sherrise Palo- Rev. Idus A. Nunn, Jr, Winifred Bama, Judith Ojo, Joetta Brown, Laila Patino, Nicole Brown, Anddy mino, Napoleon Black, Yohanny Rincon, Maynard Charles, Jimmy Rivera, John Fielder, George T. Robinson, Perdomo, Valerie Brown Simmons, Alberto Pimentel, Rev. Frederick Crawford, Terrence Podolsky, Sr., Walter Harris, Ruby Santana, Frances Hudson-Marrow, Ernest Serrano, Lionell Jackson, Eric Soto, Mo- Randy Dillard, Edna Quinones, Jasmine Drake, Allen Rey, Evang. Patricia Dyson-Johnson, Rev. hammed Mardah, Jackson Strong, Marie McCullough, Mohammed Suleman, Connie Morales, Teresa Wright, Bruce Rivera, Wanda Ellis, Lanet Rivera, Eric Henry, Anthony Sanchez, Abdul Johnson, Cassandra Leandro Monzon, Grace Zarate, Kathleen Saunders, Robert Garmendiz, Mildred James, Barry Nissen, Lilliam Saunders, Dr. Larry Johnson, Walter Thomas, Kathy Johnson-Morris, Clyde Thompson, Abraham Rosa, Beverely Bond, Martha Reyes, Bishop Earl McKay, Brenda Dawson, John Howard Algarin, Gregory A. Jones, D’Andra Van Heusen, Rita Jones, Saadia Walters, Linda Kemp, Joanne Webb-Dixon, Una Delts. Lawrence, Patrick Willis, Wilbert Tee Lawton, John Wilson III.

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COMMUNITY BOARD 5 COMMUNITY BOARD 6

Chair: Chair: Dr. Bola Omotosho Wendy Rodriguez District Manager: District Manager: Vacant 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 Park, 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 Population (According to the South 2000 Census): 128,313 Population (According to the 2000 Census): 75,688 Board Meeting: Third Wednesday of the Month at 6 p.m. Board Meeting: Second Wednesday of the month, 6:30pm Members: Dr. Bola Omotosho, Angel Caballero, Cheryl Westbrook, Jaqua Curiel, Thomasina Bushby, Dr. Marcia Brown, Jason Garcia, Shenia Rudolph, Pablo Blanco, Thomas Herrera, Ernest Acosta, Nero Graham, Jr., Michele Members: Jannie Armstrong, Virdjil Asanov, Tair Aziov, Virginia Bird, Evonne Capers, Alice Charles, Clau- Heath, Pastor Ester Henry, Martha Hunter, Kinsely Jabouin, Pastor Albert Jackson, Belinda Lawrence, Basil dette Coles, Sahre Davis, Diana Diaz, Margarita Espinosa, Frank Franz, Maria Garcia, April Hurley, Jerry Moore, Reverend Benjamin Nnaji, Linda Pedrosa, Denise Perry, Quinton Price, Felix Guareno Ramos, Owusu Jackson, Dr. Helene Jones, Octavia Lewis, Michael Nelson, Sara Nunez-Mejia, Floretta O’Brien, Rosa Per- Raynold, Jhenelle Robinson, Marsha Rodgers, Robert L. Whetstone eza, Paul Ramirez, Wendy Rodriguez, Moussa Siby, Gil Simmons, Carrie Taft. .

COMMUNITY BOARD 7 COMMUNITY BOARD 8

Chair: Adaline Walker-Santiago Chair: District Mgr.: Andrew Sandler Daniel Padernacht Address: 229A E. 204th St. District Manager: Phone: (718) 933-5650 Patricia Manning 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 Van Cortlandt Park, 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: Hudson River 225th St., W. Kingsbridge Rd, Res- Neighborhoods: Fieldston, ervoir Ave, Goulden Ave, Mosholu Kingsbridge, Kingsbridge Heights, Pkwy Marble Hill, Riverdale, Spuyten Neighborhoods: Norwood, Duyvil, Van Cortlandt Village University Heights, Jerome Park, Population (According to the Bedford Park, Fordham, Kingsbridge Heights 2000 Census): 101,332 Population (According to the 2000 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, Alora Bailey, Andrew Laiosa, Anthony Perez, Barbara Stronczer, Members: Sylvia Alexander, Eric Bell, Robert Bender, Anthony P. Creaney, Lenora Croft, Lisa Daub, Marga- Carlos Gonzalez, Charlesetta Rhett, Cynthia O’Neal-Riley, Dilletta Pina, Edgar Ramos, Eleanor Lundeen, Ellen R. ret Donato, Paul Ellis , Diomarys Escano, Robert Fanuzzi, Noah Friedman, Phil Friedman, Steven Froot, Dan- Ray, Emmanuel Capellan, Gloria Bent, Gregory Clarke, Sr., Gwendolyn Thomas-Sneed, Helene Hartman-Kut- iella Fuchs, David Gellman, Rosemary Ginty, Marvin Goodman, Shalva Gozland, Arturo Guzman, Michael nowsky, Ischia Bravo, Jean Hill, Jeffrey Hunter, John Snider, Joseph Nieves, Lorita Watson, Lowell Green, Lynette Heller, David Kornbluh, Irving Ladimer, Rita Pochter Lowe, Sergio Marquez, Demetrius McCord, Charles G. Arroyo, Marcos Sierra, Monique Weston, Monjur Choudury, Nora Feury, Robyn L. Saunders, Ruth M. Santana, Moerdler, Tao Moran, Omar Murray, Joseph O’Brien, Daniel Padernacht, Lamont Parker, Karen Pesce, Julie Sandra Erickson, Tiffany Wheatland-Disu, Velvet Ross, Victoria Owens. M. Reyes, Amy Joy Robateau, Diego Santiago, Georgia Santiago, James Santiago, Steven Sarao, Laura Spalter, William Stone, Sergio Villaverde, Martin Wolpoff, Mary Yamagata, Herbert Young.

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COMMUNITY BOARD 9 COMMUNITY BOARD 10

Chair: Chair: Nicholas Himidian, Jr. Martin A. Prince District Manager: District Manager: William Rivera Vacant 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., Eastchester Bay, East: North Prolongation of L.I. Sound Westchester Creek 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 Hutchinson River 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 2000 Census): 115,948 Population (According to the 2000 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, Col. William Chin, Andrew Chirico, Lauren Council, Michele Davila, Terence Franklin, Virginia Gal- Members: Abunoman Rahman, Arthur Walker, Benigno E. Cuevas, Brandon Ganaishlal, Carla Singleton. Cruz lagher, Irene Guanill-Elukowich, Alexis Henry, Deborah Hunt, Monique Johnson, Robert Kurz, Rosemarie Lifrieri, Garcia, Daniel Porro III, Dwayne Gathers, Felipa Manaiza, Harry Dunlap, Henry Pelayo Jr., Isabelo Adames, Israel Diane F. Lock, Kevin Lynch, John Marano, James McQuade, Joseph Melendez, Julian Misiurski, Mary Jane Thomas Browne, Jaime Feliberty, James Tynan, Jennifer Ellison Lackard, Jesse Mendoza, Juan Torres, Justin Musano, Karl Neddermeyer, Joseph Onwu, Christos Papastefanou , Alvin Ponder, Louis Popovic, Martin Prince, Westbrook-Lowery, Kadesha Washington, Linda Brown, Lisa Diaz, Loretta Masterson, Mohammad N. Mujumder, Jon-Michael Provetto, John Robert, Ruben Rodriguez, Nancy Rosario, Joseph Russo, Nicholas Salas, Tony Salim- Nelson Peralta, Nicole D. Washington, Rogier Van Vlissingen, Rosemary Ordonez-Jenkins, Sabrina Ladson, Sarwar bene, Reginald Sawyer, Naita Semaj-Williams, Peter Sullivan, Rocco Talarico, Evelyn Torres, Marjorie Velazquez, Jahan, Sharan Fernandez, Venus Williams. Stephanie Woods.

COMMUNITY BOARD 11 COMMUNITY BOARD 12

Chair: William Hall Chair: District Mgr.: George Torres Anthony Vitaliano 4101 White Plains Road District Manager: Phone: (718) 881-4455 Jeremy Warneke Fax: (718) 231-0635 Address: 1741 Colden Ave. [email protected] Phone: (718) 892-6262 Boundaries: North: City Line Fax: (718) 892-1861 East: Long Island Sound, Park Email: [email protected] Drive, W. Prolongation of Park Boundaries: Drive, New England Thruway North: Adee Avenue, Boston Road, South: East Gun Hill Road, Bos- East Gun Hill Road ton Road, Adee Avenue East: Hutchinson River Pkwy. West: E. & N. Boundary of Bronx South: East Tremont Avenue Pk, NY-New Haven RR, E. 211th West: Bronx River Parkway, East- St, Bainbridge Ave, Jerome Ave, ern Boundary of Bronx Pk. E. 233rd St, Van Cortlandt Pk. E. Neighborhoods: Morris Park, Neighborhoods: Edenwald, Pelham Parkway, Pelham Gar- Wakefi eld, Williamsbridge, dens, Allerton, Bronxdale, Laco- Woodlawn, Fish Bay, East- nia, and Van Nest chester, Olinville, and Bay- chester Population (According to the 2000 Census): 110,706 Population (According to the 2000 Census): 149,077 Board Meeting: Fourth Thursday of the month, 7:00pm Board Meeting: Fourth Thurs- Cabinet Meeting: Fourth Wednesday of the month, 10:00am day of the month, 7:30pm • Cabinet Meeting: Third Thursday of the month, 9:30am Members: Anthony Vitaliano*, Albert D’Angelo, Joanne Russo-Rubino, Silvio Mazzella, David Leavitt, Frano Za- Members: Franklin Allakpo, Shaking Alston, Judith Benitez, Egeria Bennett, Hazel Berry, Hillary Bloomfi eld, Ivan greda, Joseph Bacote, Edith Blitzer, Ruth Burko, Junior Campbell, Veronica Castro, Patricia A. Charles, Sal Con- Anthony Borras, Carla Borsotti, Marlene Brown-Allen, Victor Brown, Deacon Edward Browne, Dr. Lagree Burke, Nor- forto, Edwin Diaz, Patrick Dolan, Arlene Drayton, Bernadette Ferrara, Harain Figueroa, Avril Francis, Rabbi Moshe bet Bryan, Sadie Campbell, Evelyn Christian, Gail Clark, Joan Clodd, Bernisha Coleman, Tollyne Dickerson, Laura Eastmond, Raymond Evans, Alfredo Figueroa, Johnnie Goff, Robert Hall, William Hall, Lisa Hayes, April Horton, John Fuchs, Kenneth Gelnick, Marcy S. Gross, Joseph A. McManus, Danny Monti, Martin Morris, Gabriella Musto, Diane Isaac, Theodore James, Carl Lanzano, Barbara LaGrant, Mary McCloud, Angela Moore, Lucille Martin, Walter McNeil, Norris, Yahay Obeid, Dr. Mahendra Patel, Shradhanand Pirtam, Vincent Prezioso, Maria Provenzano, Keith Ram- Michael Morgan, Clinton Myke, Carmen Ortiz, Frank Porter, Claudia Powell, Anthony Reid, Felix Roldan, Dr. Dena sey, Matthew Raso, Daisy Rodriguez, Eliezer Rodriguez, Marnie Rodriguez, Martin Sacewicz, Dominick Schiano, Robins, Icy Mae T. Salkey, Karl Stricker, Nicole Weir, Norma Wiles... Oral A. Selkridge, Andrea Siegel, Tony Signorile, John Squitieri, Joann Terrelonge, Joseph A. Thompson, Joseph Thurston, Sandra Unger, Janice Walcott, Linda White.

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BTR BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 30, 2016 19 Bronx ‘16 STATS BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS

Thompson has taken over the reins The Department of Small Busi- KINGSBRIDGE tor Wilma Alonso, the Fordham 161ST STREET BELMONT as executive director of the BID, an ness Services defi nes a Business BID enjoys the borough’s larg- act made offi cial through a vote by Improvement District as “a formal est budget with money going the organization’s general board. organization made up of property toward seven-day sanitation and 2300 Olinville Avenue owners and commercial tenants new trash cans, graffi ti removal, Phone/Fax: (718) 881-3086 who are dedicated to promoting merchant-city mediation, and a Email:wprbid@pelhamparkway. business development and improv- renaissance festival that lured com ing an area’s quality of life.” This more than 15,000 people to Ford- Website: www.pelhamparkway. partnership between property ham Road. The BID’s Streetscape com owners and their tenants pays the Master Plan provides an in-depth Services: The BID provides a street city a yearly tax assessment, every analysis on the current conditions cleaner who sweeps the side- last bit of which is returned to bet- of Fordham Road’s streetscape, walks and the curbs and empties ter the BID through supplemental highlighting both the assets and the waste baskets several days a services, including sanitation and obstacles, while providing a co- week to rid the community of litter. maintenance, public safety, mar- hesive array of short and long- The BID also contracts with a graf- keting and promotional programs, term streetscape improvement fi ti removal fi rm to remove unsightly capital improvements, and beauti- projects. In addition, a renova- graffi ti when needed. A new plan fi cation. The Bronx has nine Busi- tion of Bryan Park (at the inter- aims to clean several of the awnings ness Improvement Districts with KATHERINE BROIHIER section of East Fordham and East that have picked up dirt over the budgets ranging from $110,000 to Kingsbridge Roads) is expected DR. CARY GOODMAN years. Plans also call to improve the After more than three years in its $500,000 to bring color and beauty to the fi re safety of the strip’s dozens of planning, the Kingsbridge Busi- community. The BID beautifi ca- Established on April 28, 2005, the businesses. The BID is also working ness Improvement District fi nally HUB–3RD AVENUE tion effort has also included the 161st Street BID faced immediate on plans to root out panhandling and opened its doors on December 18, installation of historic “M” pole struggles as its leadership faltered PHIL MARINO street vendors. The BID will continue 2002 serving 200 merchants along street lights along Fordham and property owners waffl ed, but to expand its presence by advertis- Broadway and W. 231st Street. Road. A BID advantage program with the excitement of the new Belmont: The district is located in ing in various newspapers and on 5760 Broadway also provides store discounts for Yankee Stadium and 161st Street the area generally known as Little television. The BID has branded its 2nd Floor Fordham University students, rezone, the BID was launched in Italy in the Bronx. The BID extends image with banners displaying its Phone Number: (718) 432-6935 faculty and staff. Other services July 2009 with Dr. Cary Goodman from East Fordham Road to East logo on banners, matching garbage Fax: (718) 432-6937 include a holiday tree lighting, a at the helm. The reincarnated 183rd Street along Arthur Avenue pails and street cleaner uniforms. Email:kbroihier@kingsbridgebid. neighborhood hotline, promotions BID is located in the Concourse and also includes East Fordham Street fairs are also expected to org and a shopper’s guide. Village section and extends along Rd. and E. 187th Street from boost the area’s businesses. During Website: www.kingsbridgebid.org 161st Street and is generally Lorillard Place to Southern Bou- the holidays, the BID lights up the Services: Newspaper promotions, bounded by River Avenue on the levard. The district is comprised community and welcomes Santa development of a Shopper’s Guide; SOUTHERN west and Morris Avenue on the of 352 businesses in more than Claus for the boys and girls. street cleanups, graffi ti removal, BOULEVARD east. The BID includes the newly 260 properties, most of which are and holiday lighting and decora- constructed Yankee Stadium and mixed-use buildings consisting VACANT JEROME- tion. The Business Improvement could include new high-rises, of commercial use on the ground District has also worked on plans The oldest BID in the borough. “The professional offi ces and a hotel fl oor and residential units above. E. GUN HILL ROAD to increase sidewalk lighting in the after a recent rezoning of the area 2369 Arthur Avenue Broadway of the Bronx” was formed area and has also initiated efforts to in 1988 and is the retail heart of the by the City Council. Phone Number: (718) 294-8259 plant new trees in the shopping dis- 900 Grand Concourse Website: www.bronxlittleitaly. South Bronx, located where four trict. Kingsbridge BID continues to roads converge: E. 149th Street, Ground Floor com encourage professional business to Phone Number: (718) 590-5433 and Willis, Melrose and Third av- participate in an after-school work enues. A proposal by Vincent Val- Email: [email protected] program involving John F. Kennedy Website: http://161bid.org WESTCHESTER entino, executive director, could see School of Law & Finance. the BID expand from E. 153rd Street Services: The 161st Street BID SQUARE North to E. 156th Street. was actively taking part in the 384 E. 149th Street FORDHAM ROAD rezoning efforts around Yankee Suite #400 Stadium to help transform the Phone Number: (718) 665-3983 area into a sensible neighbor- Email: [email protected] hood for young professionals Website: www.shopthehub.com with appropriate businesses. A Programs and Initiatives: Sanitation Youth Ambassadors program JENNIFER TAUSIG was also introduced to provide maintenance, security patrols, se- Managed by the Mosholu Pres- curity cameras, promotions, street MARQUES PAYNE high school age youth with ex- ervation Corporation since 1996, posure to international issues, festivals, winter holiday programs, the Jerome-Gun Hill Business Im- advertising opportunities. The Business Improvement District personalities and perspectives. provement District gives support to serves 134 businesses within the Other enhancements planned for WHITE PLAINS ROAD over 200 businesses along Jerome boundaries of 163rd Street and the area include: improved light- Avenue between Mosholu Parkway 167th Street on Southern Boulevard ing, sanitation, security, facades and E. Gun Hill Road and E. Gun Hill and Westchester Avenue between and storefronts, green spaces, Road between Jerome and Webster Fox and Hoe Streets. streetscapes and parking. Tak- avenues. 1029 E. 163rd Street ing advantage of its proximity to 3400 Reservoir Oval East Suite 201 Yankee Stadium, the organiza- Phone Number: (718) 324-4946 Phone Number: (718) 974-2990 tion also sponsors events around Fax: 718-324-4946 WILMA ALONSO Fax: (347) 584-2068 Yankee Cap giveaways and even LISA SORIN Email: jcorbett@montefi ore.org Email: [email protected] a Jeter Meter that allowed fans to Services: renovated the Owen Website:http://jeromegunhillbid.org The BID, which extends from Third Website: http://www.southern- send messages of good luck and Dolen Recreation Center, which Services:The Jerome-E. Gun Hill Avenue to Jerome Avenue along blvdbid.org/ best wishes to the Yankee captain serve as a centerpiece of the Road BID provides additional sani- Fordham Road and the commer- Services: Advertising through as he approaches the hit totals of BID’s efforts to spur the econom- tation services to keep the local cial areas on select side streets, television, print ads, handbills, some of baseball’s immortals. ic engine of the shopping district streets clean and attractive. The BID was established in December and more; sanitation through in- by having weekend events fea- JOE THOMPSON also organizes the Annual Jerome 2004. The BID is responsible for creased trash receptacles and turing performing arts and mu- Gun Hill BID festival, which attracts 300 businesses, ranging from na- street sweepers; security with the sic. Greenstreets have also been The BID was established in May residents for all over the borough. In tionwide chains to locally-owned proposed installation of security installed as part of a beautifi ca- 1994 by then-executive director addition, the organization removes independent shops. cameras; beautifi cation through tion effort. The Westchester Larry Prospect, as a not-for-profi t graffi ti from fi re hydrants, parking 2488 Grand Concourse, Room the installation and replenishment Square BID provides sanitation, community economic develop- meters and street signs, as well as 413 of tree pits along the boulevard and uniformed street cleaners, snow ment organization with a mission commercial buildings and roll-down Room 411 the power washing of pedestrian removal, security cameras, mar- to maintain and enhance business gates along the BIG. The organiza- Phone Number: (718) 562-2104 walkways; and advocacy to its keting and promotion for the conditions in a four-block area of tion also provides seasonal street BID Hotline: (718) 562-1269 members in matters related to the area, along with special events the Bronx with over 100 stores. The banners and trash receptacles. Dur- Fax: (718) 562-6225 Department of Buildings, NYPD, aimed at attracting guests to the area extends from Bolton Street ing the holiday season, it illuminates Email: fordhamroadbid@opti- Department of Small Business shopping corridor. east along Pelham Parkway South the BID with festive lights. Moreover, mum.net Services, Department of Trans- 25 Westchester Square to White Plains Road and south for the BID gets the word out about its Website: www.fordhamroadbid. portation, Environmental Control Phone Number: (718) 597-4629 three blocks to Brady Avenue. After businesses via the annual store and org Board, and other local government Website: http://wsbid.org the passing of its founder, Joseph local attractions guide. Services: Led by executive direc- entities.. Email: [email protected] 20 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 30, 2016 BTR Bronx ‘16 STATS 2 5 White Plains Road Business Improvement District 4)01
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BTR BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 30, 2016 21 Bronx ‘16 STATS 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 The First Presbyterian Church of Williamsbridge is being considered for turned into Single Room Occupancies. the Hebrew Home for the Aged; the Van the historic district constructed between landmark status. MORRIS H.S. Cortland House Museum; and the land- 1935 and 1945. In fact, the Grand Con- 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. 22 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 30, 2016 BTR Bronx ‘16 BRONX LANDMARKS STATS

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 Public School 15 (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 Kingsbridge Armory (Eighth Regiment Armory) February 08, 2000 (29 West Kingsbridge Road) - September 24, Bronx County Courthouse (851 Grand Public School 17 (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 New York Public Library: 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

BTR BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 30, 2016 23 Bronx ‘16‘15 STATS YANKEE STADIUM

The New York Yankees are one of the American League’s eight char- ter franchises, but were actually The New Yankee Stadium founded in Baltimore, 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 Grounds during their New York stay Ceremonial First Pitch: Reggie Jackson 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: Derek Jeter 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 ships and 40 American League First Save: Jonathan Albaladejo First Regular Season Game Pennants. They have more cham- Park would be part of the plans, 1950 • 1951 • 1952 • 1953 gust 3, 1974 and it was, built beyond the center- 1956 • 1958 • 1961 • 1962 23: Don Mattingly (1B) - Retired Date: April 16, 2009 pionships than any other franchise fi eld fences, below the Mohegan 1977 • 1978 • 1996 • 1998 August 31, 1997 Result: Indians beat Yankees 10 in North American professional Sun Sports Bar. The new structure 1999 • 2000 • 2009 32: Elston Howard (C) - Retired to 2 sports history, passing the 24 is built of pearl blue granite from July 21, 1984 Ceremonial First Pitch: Yogi Stanley Cup championships by the Finland, and features the fi ve Yan- 40 American 37: Casey Stengel (M) - Retired Au- Berra Montreal Canadians in 1999. Their kee monuments in a central area League Pennants gust 8, 1970 First Pitch: CC Sabathia most recent championship came around a black marble Yankees 1921 • 1922 • 1923 • 1926 44: Reggie Jackson (RF) - Retired First Yankees Batter: Derek with the defeat of the Philadelphia logo. 1927 • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 August 14, 1993 Jeter First Hit: Johnny Damon Phillies in 2009. The championship The ceremonial monuments them- 1937 • 1938 • 1939 • 1941 49: Ron Guidry (SP) - Retired Au- selves are the highest honor of all, 1942 • 1943 • 1947 • 1949 gust 23, 2003 First Home Run: Jorge Posada came as the Yankees celebrated and are awarded posthumously. In 1950 • 1951 • 1952 • 1953 42: Jackie Robinson First Yankees Winning Pitcher: their fi rst season playing in a brand addition to Steinbrenner, only four 1955 • 1956 • 1957 • 1958 ** - Retired April 15, 1957 Brian Bruney (April 17, 2009) new stadium. In 2010, their long- players and one manager have 1960 • 1961 • 1962 • 1963 * In 1972, the number 8 was retired First Yankees Save: Mariano time stadium announcer Bob Shep- monuments dedicated to their 1964 • 1976 • 1977 • 1978 in honor of catcher Bill Dickey and Rivera (April 17, 2009) pard and legendary former owner memories - players Lou Gehrig, 1981 • 1996 • 1998 • 1999 his protege, catcher Yogi Berra. First Postseason Game George Steinbrenner passed away. Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, and Joe 2000 • 2001 • 2003 • 2009 ** The number 42 was retired Date: October 7, 2009 In 2011, Derek Jeter reached a DiMaggio, and manager Miller Hug- throughout the MLB in honor of Result: Yankees beat Twins 7 to 2 gins. Another monument was ded- 17 East Division Titles Jackie Robinson to commemorate Ceremonial First Pitch: Eric T. milestone, picking up his 3,000th icated to commemorate the events 1976 • 1977 • 1978 • 1980 the 50th anniversary of his break- Olson hit as the Yankees push to get back of September 11, 2001. 1981 • 1996 • 1998 • 1999 ing the color barrier. First Pitch: CC Sabathia on top during another playoff run. Outside of the monuments, plaques 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 First Yankees Batter: Derek are prominently displayed to honor 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2009 Hall-of-Fame Players Jeter Monument Park players, managers, owners and ex- 2011 Inducted As First Yankees Hit: Derek Jeter ecutives, public address and broad- 4 Wild Card Berths New York Yankees First Home Run: Derek Jeter A permanent monument for Stein- casting personnel, papal visits and Yogi Berra First Winning Pitcher: CC brenner was unveiled just beyond one related to the Yankees insignia. 1995 • 1997 • 2007 • 2010 • Earle Combs Sabathia the center-fi eld wall in Yankee Sta- Those honored include Miller Hug- 2012 Joe DiMaggio First Save: Mariano River dium’s Monument Park prior to an gins, Lou Gehrig, Jacob Ruppert, Babe Ruth evening game on September 20, Babe Ruth, Ed Barrow, Joe DiMag- Retired Numbers - The Yankees Casey Stengel Vital Stats 2010 against the Tampa Bay Rays. gio, Mickey Mantle, Joe McCarthy, hold the Major League Baseball re- Bill Dickey Surface: Grass Steinbrenner’s monument was the Casey Stengel, Thurman Munson, cord for the most numbers retired Whitey Ford Construction Cost: $1.5 billion seventh erected in Monument Park Elston Howard, Roger Maris, Phil (15 for 16 players) Lou Gehrig Architect: Populous and the fi rst honoring an owner. Rizzuto, Billy Martin, Lefty Gomez, 1: Billy Martin (2B, Manager) - Re- Lefty Gomez Capacity: 52.325 (including stand- Monument Park is an open-air White Ford,. Bill Dickey, Yogi Ber- tired August 10, 1986 Joe Gordon ing room) museum containing a collection of ra, Allie Reynolds, Don Mattingly, 3: Babe Ruth (RF) - Retired June Goose Gossage Luxury: 56 monuments, plaques, and retired Mel Allen, Bob Sheppard, Reggie 13, 1948 Waite Hoyt Seat Width: 19-24 inches numbers honoring distinguished Jackson, Ron Guidry, Red Ruff- 4: Lou Gehrig (1B) - Retired July Miller Huggins Leg Room: 33-39 inches members of the New York Yan- ing, Jackie Robinson, Paul O’Neill, 14, 1939 Reggie Jackson Concourse Width (average): 32 feet kees, as well as other memorable George Steinbrenner, Joe Torre, 5: Joe DiMaggio (CF) - Retired April Tony Lazzeri Team Store: 11,560 square feet moments that have taken place in Tino Martinez and Rich Gonzalez. 18, 1952 Mickey Mantle Restroom Fixture Ratio: 1 per 60 the Stadium and around the City. The New Monument Park remains 7: Mickey Mantle (CF) - Retired Joe McCarthy fans The unique museum was made a a popular destination point among June 8, 1969 Herb Pennock Public Elevators: 16 part of the original Yankee Stadium fans and tourists alike, honoring a 8: Bill Dickey (C) - Retired July 22, Phil Rizzuto Video Scoreboard: 59 feet x 101 back when it was renovated in the record-breaking, legendary legacy 1972 * Red Ruffi ng feet late 70’s. Prior to the construc- in the Bronx. 8: Yogi Berra (C, Manager) - Re- Manager Jacob Ruppert Field Dimensions tion of the structure, monuments tired July 22, 1972 * Manager Joe Torre Backstop: 318 feet honoring players were placed on Accomplishments 9: Roger Maris (RF) - Retired July Left Field Line: 318 feet the fi eld. Those monuments were 21, 1984 Left Field: 379 feet moved into an enclosed area be- 27 World Series 10: Phil Rizzuto (SS) - Retired Au- Left-Center: 399 feet yond the left center fi eld fence. Championships gust 4, 1985 Center Field: 408 feet Popular among fans, when the 1923 • 1927 • 1928 • 1932 15: Thurman Munson (C) - Retired Right-Center: 385 feet Bronx Bombers moved to the new 1936 • 1937 • 1938 • 1939 August 3, 1979 Right Field: 353 feet Yankee Stadium, it was a foregone 1941 • 1943 • 1947 • 1949 16: Whitey Ford (SP) - Retired Au- Right Field Line: 314 feet conclusion that a new Monument 24 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 30, 2016 BTR Bronx ‘16‘15 STATS

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BTR BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 30, 2016 25 Bronx ‘16 STATS 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 reach Queens and Long Island are the residential communi- Spuyten Duyvil Bridge 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. family homes, wooded estates, vertical clearance. College at Fort Schuyler. western Queens, and as part the economy struggling, the HENRY HUDSON BRIDGE and large apartment complexes Purpose: Connects Manhattan of Robert Moses’ Belt Park- Since 2009, the bridge outlook for the Triborough share breathtaking views from to the Bronx and crosses over has been under construction to Opened: December 12, 1936 way system around Brooklyn Bridge looked bleak. Othmar Bridge Type: Steel Arch Bridge the sloping shoreline of the the Harlem River. and Queens, a new bridge was upgrade the bridge with chang- Ammann, the man who would Hudson River and the Harlem Maintenance: The New York es including a third supporting Size: The total length of the born. The Bronx Whitestone later be behind the Whites- bridge is 2,208 feet. Ship Canal. On January 20, City Department of Transpor- opened to traffic a mere 23 pier, the removal of the median tone and Throgs Neck bridges, 2011, the MTA implemented tation barrier, the removal and re- Purpose: Connects the months after the awarding of was brought in to simplify the Spuyten Duyvil section of the a pilot program on the bridge Daily Traffic: 33,266 (last its first construction contract placement of the old roadway structure and collapsed the to phase out toll booths and measured in 2008) with a new superstructure, and Bronx with the Northern end so that motorists could cross original two-deck roadway into use open road tolling. Drivers Information: This is the third demolition of the old support- of Manhattan over the Spuyten it on April 30, the opening day one. New Deal money helped Duyvil Creek. without E-ZPass would be sent incarnation of the Broadway of the 1939 New York World’s ing piers. The cost of the up- to resurrect the project in the a bill in the mail. grade is estimated at $192.8 Maintenance: Triborough Bridge. During the late 1950’s, Fair in Flushing Meadow Park. early 1930’s with the eventual SPUYTEN DUYVIL BRIDGE million. Bridge and Tunnel Authority. the city decided to replace The bridge spans the East opening on July 11, 1936. The Daily Traffic: 63,392 (last Opened: December 12, 1900 the existing span with a new, River and featured pedestrian ROBERT F. KENNEDY BRIDGE Bronx Crossing leads motorists measured in 2010). Bridge Type: Swing Bridge stronger Broadway Bridge. walkways as well as four lanes (formerly the Triborough to points north via the Bruck- Information: Named in honor Size: 610 feet. The 2,500-ton span more than of vehicular traffic. Those pe- Bridge) ner and Deegan expressways of Henry Hudson, the explorer Purpose: Connects Manhattan doubled roadway capacity and destrian walkways were even- and, more locally, to the neigh- Opened: July 11, 1936 whose ship, the Half Moon, an- and the Bronx over the Spuyten added another subway track tually removed to enable the borhoods of the South Bronx Bridge Type: Suspension chored near this site in 1609, Duyvil Creek. It carries 1 line across the Harlem River. The addition of two more lanes of and the Port Morris Industrial Bridge, Lift Bridge, Truss the Henry Hudson Bridge of the Amtrak Empire Corridor. lower deck supports two 34- vehicular traffic. On the Bronx Area. The Manhattan branch Bridge opened in 1936 as part of the Information: In 1899, a steel foot wide roadways for vehicu- side are the residential commu- is the Harlem River Lift Bridge, Purpose: Crosses the East Henry Hudson Parkway by the lar traffi c (For 2005, the NYC nities of Unionport and Schuy- which links the Harlem River bridge, designed by Robert River, Harlem River and Bronx Henry Hudson Parkway Author- Department of Transportation lerville and connections to the Drive, the FDR Drive, and 125th Giles, was created to replace Kill to connect Manhattan, the ity. After a series of mergers, reported annual average daily Hutchinson River Parkway, the Street, Harlem’s commercial the original wooden bridge that Bronx and Queens. the Henry Hudson Parkway traffi c volume in both directions Bruckner Expressway, and and cultural center. The lon- once stood. The bridge re- Maintenance: Triborough Authority became part of the of 35,698) and two 8-foot wide the Cross Bronx Expressway. gest span of the Robert F. Ken- mained standing until in 1983, Bridge and Tunnel Authority. Triborough Bridge Authority in sidewalks, while the upper deck As part of the massive bridge nedy Bridge, the East River when an accident involving a Daily Traffic: Suspension Span 1941. Today the Henry Hudson supports three elevated tracks project two major recreational Suspension Bridge to Queens, Circle Line boat left the bridge – 165,670 (last measured in Bridge remains one of Bridges for the IRT #1 and #9 subway areas were developed, one of connects with the Grand Cen- in disrepair. The trestle and 2006) and Tunnels’ facilities, but the lines. For water traffi c, the which being Ferry Point Park in tral Parkway and the Brook- swing bridge was in need of a Lift Span – 87,606 (last mea- parkway is under the jurisdic- bridge has a navigable channel the Bronx. lyn-Queens Expressway and complete rehabilitation. The sured in 2010) tion of New York City and New 304 feet wide, more than triple to Astoria’s residential areas, bridge was reconstructed in THROGS NECK BRIDGE Truss Span – 79,996 (last York State. When it opened, the width of the navigable chan- restaurants, and shops. The 1991, and is now manned so Opened: January 11, 1961 measured in 2010). it was the longest plate girder nels of the old bridge. In the bridge’s three branches meet that when one of the Circle Bridge Type: Suspension Information: The Robert F. arch and fixed arch bridge in open position, the bridge has a on Randall’s Island, where an Line boats approaches, the Bridge Kennedy Bridge (formerly the the world. Originally built with vertical clearance of 136 feet. interchange and two toll plazas bridge is swung open to allow Purpose: Connects Throgs Triborough Bridge) is the Tri- only one level, the bridge’s de- In 2003, the NYCDOT complet- sort out traffic flowing in 12 di- passage. Neck in the Bronx with Bayside borough Bridge and Tunnel sign allowed for the construc- ed a $10 million minor rehabili- rections and provide access to BROADWAY BRIDGE in Queens. Carries six lanes of Authority’s flagship facility tion of a second level if traffic tation of the Broadway Bridge. the island itself. In 2008 and Opened: July 1, 1962 I-295 over the East River. and is actually three bridges, demands increased. Within a This work included applying a pursuant to a request made Bridge Type: Double-decked Maintenance: Triborough a viaduct, and 14 miles of ap- year and a half the upper level protective coating to the steel by the Kennedy family the Tri- Vertical Lift Bridge Bridge and Tunnel Authority. proach roads connecting Man- was opened. The upper level components of the lift span, borough Bridge was officially Size: The present Broadway Size: The total length is 2,910 hattan, Queens, and the Bronx. carries northbound traffic; the installing new expansion joints, renamed after Robert F. Ken- Bridge has a navigable chan- feet. Its longest span is 1,800 Although the bridge opened in lower one is for southbound sealing and waterproofi ng the nedy, who served New York as nel 304 feet wide providing feet 1936, plans had actually been traffic. The bridge’s neighbors deck, repairing concrete, and a senator, 40 years after his 136 feet of vertical clearance Daily Traffic: 108,455 (last in place since 1916, but did to the north are the residential building a new median barrier. assassination. Since then, the when the bridge is in the open measured in 2010). not receive any funding until communities of Spuyten Duyvil The city plans a three-year, $22 term RFK-Triboro has become position. In the down position, 1925. Construction began on and Riverdale, where single million major reconstruction of Information: Opened in 1961, increasingly popular as a nick- the bridge provides 24 feet of 26 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 30, 2016 BTR Bronx ‘16 MAJOR BRIDGES STATS

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 Macombs Dam Bridge, 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 bridge PARK 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 Harlem Line 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 28 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- Throgs Neck Bridge 510-foot-long main spans and sonry arches that spanned the river. BTR BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 30, 2016 27 Bronx ‘16 STATS MAJOR BRIDGES

Drive in Manhattan, traveling partment of Transportation from Page 27 over the Metro-North Railroad Size: The total length is 3,212 of Engineers’ project to build Oak Point Link, the Harlem River, feet. Its longest span is 304 the Harlem River Ship Canal. and Harlem River Drive. The main feet. Between 1954 and 1956, the span over the Harlem River is a Daily Traffi c: 62,167 (last mea- New York, New Haven, and swing-type bridge. It is located sured in 2008) Hartford Railroad built a third about 750 meters south of the Information: The Willis Avenue rail bridge on the site. The new Madison Avenue Bridge and 600 Bridge extends from First Ave- bridge had four tracks and meters northwest of the Willis nue and E. 124th Street in Man- consists of two parallel double Avenue Bridge. The Department hattan to Willis Avenue and E. track spans, 340 feet long. It of Transportation undertook a 134th Street in the Bronx. Ori- has 25 feet of clearance when $118 million project to replace the ented north-south, the bridge is closed and 135 when open. previous Third Avenue Bridge. As a northbound route and works During the 1960s, the bridge part of the major reconstruction in concert with the nearby Third came under the ownership of project, a new swing span was Avenue Bridge, which carries several different companies, fl oated into place on October 29, southbound traffi c. By the turn including Penn Central Rail- 2004. Additional work covered of the 20th century, intensifi ed road. Today, Metro-North op- redesign of the approach ramps manufacturing development in erates it. to the bridge on the Bronx side the southern Bronx had ren- THIRD AVENUE BRIDGE and off the bridge in Manhat- dered the Third Avenue Bridge Opened: August 1, 1898 tan. As reconstructed, the bridge inadequate for traffi c demand. A cross section of the community with Polly Trottenberg, city DOT commissioner; Constance Bridge Type: Swing-Type Bridge carries fi ve lanes of Manhattan- In 1894, the State Legislature Moran, Bronx DOT commissioner; representatives from Congressman Joseph Crowley and Size: It has a length of 340 feet. bound traffi c from the Bronx, authorized a new bridge to be Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.; Senator Jeff Klein; Assemblyman Michael Benedetto and which split to three ramps in Purpose: Connects Manhattan built in the same location where Councilman James Vacca during a last walk and ride across the now closed City Island to the Bronx over the Harlem Manhattan: to East 128 Street a ferry ran in the 17th century. Bridge on Friday, December 18. River. and Second Avenue; to Lexington After a delay due to a right-of- Maintenance: New York City De- Avenue and East 129 Street; and way confl ict with the New Ha- partment of Transportation to the southbound Harlem River ven Railroad, the bridge opened tor vehicles. As part of a $612 bridges. On July 26, the 2,400 lanes than the old bridge, and Daily Traffi c: 58,510 (last mea- Drive/FDR Drive. on August 22, 1901, at a cost million project, DOT completely ton bridge traveled on barges to a combined pedestrian/bicycle sured in 2008) of $2,444,511. Signifi cant work WILLIS AVENUE BRIDGE replaced the bridge, including its permanent location along the pathway along its north side. to strengthen the structure was Information: The Third Avenue Opened: October 2, 2010 (re- the FDR Drive approach ramp East River. The new Willis Ave- The project is ongoing, as DOT performed in 1916, when the Bridge carries traffi c south from placing bridge built in 1901) and the ramp onto Bruckner nue Bridge was built to current completes reconstruction work Union Railway Company routed Third Avenue, E. 135th Street, Bridge Type: Swing Bridge Boulevard in 2010. On July engineering design standards on surrounding ramps and ap- a trolley line across the bridge. Bruckner Boulevard, and Lincoln Purpose: Connects Manhattan 12, 2010 the swing span was and features a direct connec- proaches. A symbolic portion of By the early 2000s, the Willis Avenue in the Bronx, to E. 128th to the Bronx over the Harlem loaded onto barges and began a tion from the FDR to the north- the original Willis Avenue Bridge Avenue Bridge exhibited the ef- Street, E. 129th Street, Lexington River. 135 nautical mile journey to NY bound Major Deegan Express- will be retained as a monument fects of age, weather and the Avenue, and the Harlem River Maintenance: New York City De- Harbor passing underneath 14 way in the Bronx. It has wider in Harlem River Park. continual, daily usage by mo-

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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 Wave Hill, 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- New York harbor. 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- BOTANICAL GARDEN 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 New York City Council, 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 1960’s, 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 Theodore Roosevelt. 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, United States 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. 30 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 30, 2016 BTR Bronx ‘16 BRONX CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS STATS

In addition, the BCA provides The Edgar Allan Poe Cottage: cutting edge programming in arts Sat. – 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. / Sun. – 1 education and cultural strategies to to 5 p.m. help revitalize local communities, The Bronx County Historical including the Bronx Culture Trolley. Society was founded in 1955 to BCA also designs and implements preserve the heritage of the thriving programs that focus attention on is- community. The Society adminis- sues of concern to Bronx residents ters the colonial era Valentine-Var- including: job training, fi nancial sta- ian House, which serves as the Mu- bilization, independent contracting, seum of Bronx History; The Bronx business startups, environmental County Archives; an extensive concerns, and health related issues. Research Library; and Poe Cottage, It also awards promising artists the fi nal home of America’s great through its BRIO Awards grant pro- 19th century poet and author, Ed- gram. Arts and education services gar Allan Poe. The Valentine-Varian and programs, such as the Bronx House, at 3266 Bainbridge Avenue, WritersCorp, are also available for and Poe Cottage, at 2640 Grand children enrolled in Bronx public Concourse at East Kingsbridge schools. Road, are listed in the National Reg- In the future, BCA will move into ister of Historic Places. the former Washington Mutual Bank The Valentine-Varian House, Branch at 2700 E. Tremont Avenue in the site of six skirmishes between the Westchester Square community. American troops and British forces, The former bank branch was gifted was built in 1758 by Blacksmith to the cultural institution by the JP- Isaac Valentine to include a black- Morgan Chase Foundation and will smith shop and farmland. When the become the BCA’s new headquarters Valentines fell on hard times after and permanent home, consolidating the Revolutionary War, the house its programs into one estimated passed into the hands of the Varian 5,200 square-foot building. family. The property was eventu- New York Botanical Garden ally sold to the Society in 1965 and BRONX COUNTY would open to the public as the Mu- “Eureka.” He would spend the last Tours of the borough are conducted port the Bronx Museum of the Arts Museum of the Arts was housed HISTORICAL SOCIETY seum of Bronx History in 1968. Visi- years of his life there, from 1846 to by The Society’s staff and volun- and its daily costs of operation. in the public rotunda of the Bronx Main Location: tors today can touch the fi eldstones 1894. The Bronx County Historical teers, while special publications, Purchasing membership provides County Courthouse located on 3309 Bainbridge Avenue Isaac Valentine used to construct Society has overseen the property radio and cable T.V programs, supporters with invitations to spe- Grand Concourse and 161st Street. The Bronx, NY 10467 the house and walk on the oak and since 1975. Poe Cottage has since concerts, educational programs, cial events, performances, exhibi- In 1982, it moved fi ve blocks north Phone: (718) 881-8900 pine fl oorboards he fashioned. The been restored to its original appear- exhibitions, art shows and lecture tion tours, and preview receptions on the Concourse to 165th street Fax: (718) 881-4827 main level contains three galleries ance, with authentic period furnish- series highlight today’s Bronx as of major exhibitions. For further into a former synagogue purchased E-mail: administration@bronxhis- that feature rich rotating bi-annual ings. A fi lm presentation and guided well as the borough’s heritage. details on the different types of and donated by New York City. toricalsociety.org exhibitions, and the museum gift tour help bring Poe Cottage to life. membership options, call (718) After making a success- Web: www.bronxhistoricalsociety. THE BRONX MUSEUM store. The upper levels are not open Visitors can see the bed in which 682-6000 ext. 136. ful impact in the community, the org OF THE ARTS to the public. Virginia died and the rocking chair Admission: Free for the 40th Anni- Bronx Museum of the Arts made Hours of Operation: 1040 Grand Concourse Poe Cottage is a small Poe used. In the kitchen, the dishes versary season. a decision to expand the scope of Research Library: Tuesday to Bronx, NY 10456 wooden farmhouse built around on the table appear as if the great its programs and embarked on an Thursday – 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (ap- (718) 681-6000 Basic Information: 1812 that once commanded un- author had just stepped out for air. ambitious capital project to en- pointment only) Fax: (718) 681-6181 The Bronx Museum of the obstructed vistas over the rolling The Society is not only dedi- hance its facility. In February 2004, The Bronx County Archives: [email protected] Arts is the fl agship cultural institu- Bronx hills to the shores of Long cated to preserving Bronx history. The Museum began construction Monday to Friday - 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. www.bronxmuseum.org tion of the Bronx and was founded Island. The house was where Edgar It also offers a variety of programs on a 16,000 square-foot building (appointment only) Hours of Operation: M-W: Closed; in 1971. The museum’s current Allen Poe penned many of his most for the casual visitor, tourist, busi- to the north of the existing facility. The Valentine-Varian House: Sat. Thurs., Sat. & Sun: 11:00am home on the Grand Concourse is enduring poetical works, including ness person, student, or researcher The Bronx Museum of the Arts was – 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. / Sun. – 1 to - 6:00pm; Fri. 11:00am - 8:00pm itself, a distinctive contemporary “Annabel Lee,” “The Bells” and interested in learning more about awarded the “Excellence in Design” 5 p.m. Membership: Members help sup- landmark designed by the interna- contemporary life in The Bronx. tionally-renowned fi rm Arquitec- prize by The Art Commission of the tonica. Inside, the cultural mainstay City of New York in 2003. The $19 focuses on 20th and 21st century million space opened in October contemporary art, while serving 2006, featuring a major gallery, the culturally diverse populations of fl exible events / program spaces, an the Bronx and the greater New York outdoor terrace, and an entire fl oor metropolitan area through its per- dedicated to education programs manent collections, special exhibi- and classrooms. tions and education programs. Continuing its expansion ef- Refl ecting the borough’s dy- forts, the Museum has plans un- namic communities, the Museum is derway to build a second structure the crossroad where artists, local on the existing site along with a residents, national and international moderate-income residential co-op visitors meet. The Bronx Museum tower (approximately 189 units). It of the Arts maintains a permanent is the Museum’s hope to serve as collection of works by artists of a cultural leader in the South Bronx African, Asian, and Latin American and as a catalyst for economic de- ancestry. Additionally, the Museum velopment within the surrounding collects works by artists for whom communities. the Bronx has been critical to their The 40th Anniversary Plans: artistic practice and development. In celebration of its 40-year The Museum’s educational offer- milestone, the Bronx Museum of ings spring from these central pro- the Arts has launched three key grams with outreach to children and initiatives that refl ect the pillars on families as well as adult audiences. which the facility was founded - its History: commitment to our community, to Bronx Zoo In its fi rst decade, The Bronx Continued on Page 32 BTR BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 30, 2016 31 Bronx ‘16 STATS BRONX GEOGRAPHY

RIVERS WATER The Bronx River fl ows south from Westchester County The Hudson River separates the Bronx from New Jer- and empties into the East River; it is the largest fresh- sey; the Harlem River separates it from Manhattan; water river in New York City. The Hutchinson River the East River separates it from Queens; the Long Is- passes through the east Bronx and empties into East- land Sound separates it from Nassau County. Spuyten chester Bay. Duyvil Creek used to separate the Bronx from Marble ROADS Hill, a Manhattan neighborhood. The creek was later The southernmost numbered street in the Bronx is fi lled in. More than 25 percent of the Bronx is water. East 132nd Street in Port Morris. The northernmost Its shoreline extends 75 miles. numbered street is E. 263rd Street in Riverdale. Major LONGEST ROAD north-south roads include Third Avenue, Park Avenue, White Plains Road runs about eight miles from the tip Broadway, the Grand Concourse, Jerome Avenue, of Clason Point north to Westchester County. Sedgwick Avenue, Webster Avenue and White Plains LAND AREA Road. Major east-west roads include Mosholu Park- 42 square miles way, Gun Hill Road, Fordham Road, Pelham Parkway and Tremont Avenue. Boston Road runs east-west CLIMATE and northeast-southwest. In summer, temperatures in the Bronx range from 60 Bronx River Highways include the Bronx River Parkway, the degrees to 105 degrees, with a July average of 83 ble. Northeast of Manhattan / South of Westchester degrees. In the winter, temperatures range from 0 Bruckner Expressway, the Cross-Bronx Expressway, GEOGRAPHICAL CENTER County / North of Queens / West of Bergen County the New England Thruway, the Henry Hudson Park- degrees to 70 degrees, with a January average of 27 (New Jersey) degrees. The Bronx averages 42 inches of rainfall and Bronx Park way, the Hutchison River Parkway and the Major Dee- POPULATION gan Expressway. 18 inches of snowfall annually. It rains or snows, on GEOLOGY average, 118 day a year. 1,392,002 (2011 Census Estimate) HIGHEST POINT The Grand Concourse north to the Cross-Bronx Ex- pressway is Manhattan schist. Much of the south COORDINATES The highest point in the Bronx, at 280 feet above sea FAULTS Bronx is Inwood Marble. The west and northwest 40 degrees 50-14 N / 73 degrees 53-10 W level, is west of Van Cortlandt Park, in Riverdale, near Cameron’s Line runs from Mott Haven north between Bronx are Fordham Gneiss. Hunts Point, Longwood, the Riverdale County School. the Bronx Zoo and the New York Botanical Garden, LAY OF THE LAND then under the Bronx River. First identifi ed by Eugene Morris Park, Castle Hill, Throggs Neck, Pelham Bay LOWEST POINTS The Bronx is divided by the Bronx River into a F. Cameron in the 1950s, the fault separates the pre- and the north Bronx are oceanic crust. The complex- hillier west Bronx and a fl atter east Bronx. It is Four low peninsulas are located on the East River: historic North American continent from the oceanic ity of Bronx geology is the result of a series of folds situated almost entirely on the American main- Hunts Point, Clason Point, Castle Hill Point and plate that smashed against it 450 million years ago. associated with Cameron’s Line. The general shape land; several small islands in the East River and Throggs Neck. Another low peninsula, Rodman’s The collision forced the oceanic plate underground, of the Bronx is related to the erosion of river valleys Long Island Sound belong to the Bronx, including Neck, is located between Pelham Bay Park and City where heat and pressure changed the material into before and between periods of glaciation. City Island, Hart Island, Hunter Island, Rat Island Island. Manhattan schist, Fordham gneiss and Inwood mar- LOCATION and Rikers Island. Bronx ‘15 BRONX CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS STATS

from Page 31 January 6, 2013 Other Cultural Programs In addition to a guided tour, the Mu- Artist in the Marketplace local youth and learning through the arts, This group exhibition, named af- The Bronx Museum of the Arts holds seum offers a studio component where Established in 1980, Artist in the and to the scholarly appreciation and inter- ter Carlos Monsivais’ book of the same a number of special events throughout the students work with instructors exploring Marketplace aims to provide networking pretation of contemporary art through an title, takes the work of Mexico’s renowned year. One such series of events is First a variety of techniques including painting, opportunities for emerging artists resid- increased permanent collection. photojournalist, Enrique Metinides, as a Fridays, which allows visitors from the drawing, photography, and mixed media. By ing in the New York metropolitan area departure point and complements it with community and beyond to enjoy a girm, art emphasizing concept, artistic experimenta- and of introducing their work to a greater Commitment to the Community: The the work of contemporary artists who also performance, music and other programs on tion and creative decision-making, these audience. Every year a panel of five arts economy has become a barrier to those capture the human experience in the me- the fi rst Friday of each month. studio sessions introduce participants professionals is assembled by the Bronx interested in the arts, but while many mu- tropolis. The photographs and video-based Education Initiatives to basic elements of the artistic process Museum to select 36 artists to partici- seums are raising their prices, the Bronx works provide a glimpse into the emotions By providing an open forum for dis- through engaging exhibition-related proj- pate in the program. Comprised of a se- Museum is offering free admission to ev- and events that run rampant in cities where cussion and experimentation, the Education ects. ries of 13 weekly seminars, held in the eryone, any day, allowing anyone, regard- massive concentrations of people congre- Department at the Bronx Museum works These programs do have a fee. winter (January through March) and the less of their economic standing to embrace gate, including notions of isolation and cha- as a catalyst for ideas and dialogue. The Please call the Bronx Museum of the Arts spring (April through June), the program the arts. os. Guest curator Monica Espinel organized museum promotes engaging and transfor- for more information. addresses areas of practical concern to Rituals of Chaos. Featured artists include: mational art experiences with the goal of Teen Council: artists including: career management Commitment to Local Youth and Enrique Metinides, Sophie Calle, Robin connecting the viewer’s personal experi- Teen Council was created in 2005 to make and gallery representation; exhibition Learning: With the belief that arts education Graubard, Gordon Matta-Clark, Rick Liss, ence with relevant areas in contemporary contemporary art and culture accessible and public art opportunities; grant writ- has the power to transform lives, the Bronx Jamel Shabazz, and others. culture. to urban youth. Teen Council is structured ing, copyright law, and marketing. Par- Museum of the Arts is providing 40 local BRONX LAB — STYLE WARS The Group Visits Program: around the production of MuseCasts, videos ticipating artists are encouraged to build public schools that currently have no ac- Exhibition Dates: July 19, 2012 – The Group Visits Program is the available on www.youtube.com/bronxteen- their networks through the program’s cess to the arts, with free art programming June 2, 2013 Bronx Museum’s main service to schools council, and MuseZines, a graphic publica- collaborative structure. AIM culminates at the Museum led by its seasoned teaching A forum and test site for new ideas, and community groups, providing both tion of original work and commentary by a with a biannual exhibition organized by a artists. This initiative is expected to impact BRONX LAB engages audiences in topics inquiry-based and hands-on participatory small group of high school students working team of guest curators, and an accompa- 10,000 public school students. relevant to its surrounding communities. experiences with contemporary art. Ses- closely with instructors in the Media Lab. In nying catalogue. Commitment to Scholarly Appre- Through different social media platforms as sions are based on viewer participation with addition, Teen Council participates in the The Museum Shop ciation and Interpretation of Contemporary well as hands-on activities, viewers will be the goal to foster visual literacy and critical Museum’s ongoing DVD series of interviews The Museum Shop allows visitors to Arts: The Museum will enhance its per- asked to interact with the exhibition’s main thinking. with contemporary artists and curates a purchase their favorite Museum-related manent collection holdings by adding 40 themes and exercise their critical views. Museum tours combine thematic teen-focused exhibition. Held in conjunction items. The store features the latest cata- signifi cant works of art to its collection to Drawing primarily from the Museum’s per- discussions of artworks on view with with the school year, this program provides logues, exhibition and program-related enhance the interpretation of these works manent collection, BRONX LAB’s fi rst ex- hands-on activities, which may include teens with an open forum for the expres- items including CDs and DVDs. Some and share those with audiences Citywide. hibition will look at the explosion of graffi ti sketching, writing and theatre exercises. sion of ideas and dialogue on issues affect- featured items include the catalogue for Current Exhibits: art that happened in the South Bronx in the Group discussions led by experienced Mu- ing young people, and the promotion of the the Street Art, Street Life Exhibition, a late 1970s, featuring artworks by Rigoberto Bronx as an important cultural, political and URBAN ARCHIVES: THE RITUALS OF seum instructors introduce participants to Bronx Museum Façade Tie and or scarf, Torres, Tim Rollins and KOS, Glendalys Me- artistic force. Student must apply to the a book titled Graffiti Women, a Street Art CHAOS contemporary art while enhancing critical Exhibition Dates: July 19, 2012 – dina, Keith Haring and William Borroughs, program between April 1 and June 30. coloring book and a DVD on Afrika Bam- Valeri Larko, Lady K. 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BRONX COUNTY heritage. Island. It was a bucolic setting in hard times and the Dutch Reformed updated history of the Bronx. Lloyd Supreme Court by George HISTORICAL SOCIETY BUILDINGS which the great writer penned Church seized the property. In 1791, Ultan puts together a one volume Lankevich: Touching essays of Research Library many of his most enduring poetical the house passed into the hands of work of Bronx history since the sixteen of our nation’s highest Address: 3309 Bainbridge 3309 Bainbridge Avenue works, including “Annabel Lee,” the Varian family. In 1905, William prehistoric era until the present judicial post. This work also Avenue The Bronx, NY 10467 “The Bells” and “Eureka.” F. Beller purchased it. In 1965, his time. It is a book all Bronxites must includes sections on the origin of The Bronx, NY 10467 Hours: Tuesday - Thursday 9 Administered by The Bronx son, William C. Beller, generously have in their collection. the Court and judicial review. 127 Phone: (718) 881-8900 a.m. to 5 p.m. by Appointment Only County Historical Society since 1975, donated the historic house to The The South Bronx and the pages. Fax: (718) 881-4827 Contact: (718) 881- the cottage is restored to its original Society to be used as a museum. Founding of America: The South Legacy of The Revolution. By E-mail: administration@ 8900 or librarian@ appearance, with authentic period In 1968, the restored house Bronx and the Founding of America Lloyd Ultan: A concise history of bronxhistoricalsociety.org bronxhistoricalsociety.org furnishings. A fi lm presentation and was opened to the public as the - An Activity Book for Teachers and the Valentine-Varian House and its Web: www.bronxhistoricalsociety. The Bronx County Archives guided tour help bring Poe Cottage to Museum of Bronx History. Visitors Students role in the American Revolution. org 3313 Bainbridge Avenue life. Visitors can see the bed in which today can touch the fi eldstones Yankee Stadium 1923-2008: 130 pages About: The Bronx County Bronx, NY 10467 Virginia died and the rocking chair Isaac Valentine used to construct This is a great book about the McNamara’s Old Bronx. by John Historical Society was founded Hours: Monday – Friday 9 a.m. Poe used. In the kitchen, the dishes the house and walk on the oak and rise of Yankee Stadium during the McNamara: John McNamara’s in 1955 to preserve the heritage to 5 p.m. by Appointment Only on the table appear as if the great pine fl oorboards he fashioned. The early 1920s until the present. This articles from his “Bronx in History” of the thriving community. The Contact: archivist@ author had just stepped out for air. main level contains three galleries book consist of great images of column in “The Bronx Press Society administers the colonial bronxhistoricalsociety.org VALENTINE VARIAN HOUSE/ that feature rich rotating bi-annual memorable baseball moments with Review” that span the centuries era Valentine-Varian House, which EDGAR ALLEN POE COTTAGE MUSEUM OF BRONX HISTORY exhibitions, and the museum gift excellent descriptions. with Bronx history. 254 pages serves as the Museum of Bronx Address: Address: store. The upper levels are not open Bronx Accent by Lloyd Ultan and Morris High School: The story History; The Bronx County Archives; 2640 Grand Concourse at East 3266 Bainbridge Avenue to the public. Barbara Unger: This work takes of the extraordinary educational an extensive Research Library; Kingsbridge Road The Bronx, NY 10467 Books about the Bronx sold at a look at The Bronx’s relationship reforms of the 1890s that led to and Poe Cottage, the fi nal home The Bronx, NY 10458 Hours: Saturday 10:00 AM - 4:00 the Bronx Museum Shop: to writers over the years and the opening of Morris High School of America’s great 19th century Hours: The Cottage is undergoing PM; Sunday 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Annotated Primary Sources: provides historical context and and the creation of the Public High poet and author, Edgar Allan Poe. a major renovation and restoration. Group and school tours are only From the Collections of The Society: documentation to important literary School System. by Gary Hermalyn Both historic houses are listed in Guided tours for groups and by appointment during the week. Colorful, lively historical documents works. It is perfect for the coffee 247 pages the National Register of Historic individuals will be suspended until Contact: education@ contextualized by annotations table! 310 pages The Beautiful Bronx: 1920-1950: Places. further notice. bronxhistoricalsociety.org and classroom implementation Bronx Views: Postcards of The Memories of an exciting time in The The Society is not only dedicated Contact: (718) 881-8900 or Admission: $5 per adult, $3 for questions. Bronx: Wonderful images of The Bronx. 192 pages to preserving Bronx history. It also education@bronxhistoricalsociety. students, children and seniors. History in Asphalt: The Origin of Bronx with an essay on the origin The Birth of The Bronx: 1609- offers a variety of programs for org About: Blacksmith Isaac Bronx Street & Place Names: Did of post cards. 1900: Accounts from diaries, the casual visitor, tourist, business Admission: $5 per adult, $3 for Valentine built this four-level you ever wonder how your street By The El: Third Avenue and Its letters and notes describing The person, student, or researcher students, children and seniors. fi eldstone farmhouse in 1758 near got its name? This fascinating El at Mid-Century: Author Lawrence Bronx as it began and developed, interested in learning more about About: Edgar Allan Poe spent the the Boston Post Road. His property book describes the history of Bronx Stelter takes a look into the past accompanied by rare illustrations. contemporary life in The Bronx. Tours last years of his life, from 1846 to included a blacksmith shop, names. and remembers one of the fi xtures 182 pages of the borough are conducted by The 1849, in The Bronx at Poe Cottage, outhouses, farmland, and a number The Bronx: Then & Now: that connected Manhattan to The The Bronx In the Innocent Years: Society’s staff and volunteers, while now located at Kingsbridge Road of slaves. His homestead was later The Bronx: Then and Now book Bronx. Although it has been gone for 1890-1925: Colorful fi rst-person special publications, radio and cable and the Grand Concourse. A small the site of six skirmishes between highlights the major transition The decades, the Third Avenue El was reminiscences and rare historical T.V programs, concerts, educational wooden farmhouse built about American troops and British forces, Bronx has gone through over the very important to the development photographs provide a nostalgic programs, expeditions, art shows 1812, the cottage once commanded who occupied the house for most years with fascinating images. of The Bronx and lives in many New glimpse into the past. 164 pages and lecture series highlight today’s unobstructed vistas over the rolling of the Revolutionary War. After the The Northern Borough: A History Yorker’s memories. 132 pages. Bronx as well as the borough’s Bronx hills to the shores of Long Revolution, the Valentines fell on Of The Bronx: This book is an Chief Justices of The U.S. BRONX ARTS ENSEMBLE

Bronx Arts Ensemble performed music of all periods. of the arts’ importance and exposing chamber music programs for both Address: 80 Van Cortlandt Park Some performances accompany them to great music of both Western University and general community at South Suite 7D-1 notable stories, like the Three and other cultures. In addition to University Church; annual Christmas Bronx, NY 10463 Little Pigs, Hansel and Gretel, The education students about music and and Spring concerts with Fordham Phone Number: (718) 601-7399 Emperor’s New Clothes, and Beauty boosting their self-esteem through University Concert Choir, conducted Fax: (718) 549-4008 and the Beast, and are geared the arts, the program serves State by Robert Minotti; and an annual Email: [email protected] toward children. Programs are Learning Standards and helps to music competition for Fordham Website: http://bronxartsensemble. taken to areas free of charge or at improve reading and writing skills as students, the winner of which org/ low admission so that our cultural well as English comprehension. Their performs with the organization. The Bronx Arts Ensemble is a outreach is accessible to all. projects involve the interdisciplinary Competitions not-for-profi t organization founded The organization commands learning of English, history and social In addition, the organization in 1972 to enrich the cultural the respect of the music world studies, as well as art and music. has hosted its Young Bronx Artist environment of the Bronx with a for its high artistic standards, Auditorium Programs Contest since. The competition is year-round schedule of concerts and innovative programming and As an extension of its open to music students between special programs for families and acclaimed recordings, as well educational programs, the Bronx Arts ages 14 and 20 who either live a full music and arts-in-education as its demonstrated service and Bronx Arts Ensemble Ensemble makes it easy for students in or at least go to school in the program for schools. commitment to the Bronx community. to enjoy shows at either the Lovinger Bronx. Whether the applicant is The Bronx Arts Ensemble The Bronx Arts Ensemble engages Manor Hall and numerous Bronx BAE include P.S. 126, P.S. 64, P.S. Theatre or Hostos Center for the Arts a instrumentalist or vocalist, the serves its diverse community with some of New York’s fi nest freelance school districts. 58, Bronx International High School, & Culture. Through BAE, schools may competition affords talented students a repertoire of many cultures, musicians who perform on a regular Youth and Education Bronx International Community High book groups to attend professional with valuable public performance educational services for children and basis. The cultural institution also Programs: School and University Heights High performances each fall and spring. experience. Many have gone on to adults and concerts. The concerts comprises all instruments of the The Bronx Arts Ensemble School. The 45-minute shows are performed have professional solo or orchestra feature guest artists and conductors standard orchestra, performing has displayed a commitment to BAE Arts in Education programs in the morning and are geared for careers. This year, Madeleine of varied backgrounds, including as a small group or full symphony. enriching the lives of students combine a workable balance both younger and older students. Manasse, a violinist and sophomore Willie Rodriguez, the Valerie Capers They present over 100 concerts through performance programs and of hands-on teaching, student All programs offer teachers’ guides, at Bronx High School of Science, Quartet, Kelly Hall-Tompkins, Jay each season, reaching an audience curriculum-related arts projects. Its participation in interdisciplinary introduce the instruments with was awarded fi rst prize in the Lee, Christine Dookie, Marina of over 50,000 annually at such programs take place throughout the projects, teacher training and musical examples and invite student competition and was awarded $500 Piccinini, and Stewart Goodyear, Bronx institutions as The New Bronx as well as in other boroughs professional performances, which participation. and a solo performance with the among others. Genres featured York Botanical Garden, Fordham and Westchester County. Teaching are acclaimed throughout the New Residency Program Bronx Arts Ensemble that will take include chamber music, jazz, Latin University, Lehman Stages, Lehman artists work with school faculty in York City region. The Bronx Arts Ensemble place during one of its subscription music, and classical music. These Center for the Performing Arts, developing programs to enhance BAE’s programs are praised has had a Residency at Fordham concerts during the upcoming 2012- concerts frequently include new Hostos Community College, Bartow- their teaching curriculum. Some of for directly involving children in the University since 1979 which include 13 season. Runner-ups were also works or commissions or rarely Pell Mansion Museum, Philipse the schools that have worked with creative process, making them aware a free summer concert series; free awarded. 34 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 30, 2016 BTR Bronx ‘16 EASTCHESTER CHECK CASHINGSTATS

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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 Info: Roberto Clemente State Park is diamonds. The park also includes 26 a 25-acre waterfront park that opened handball courts, 11 playgrounds spread in 1973 along the Harlem River. The throughout the park, four comfort stations, park is named after Roberto Clemente, and picnic and sitting areas for those just the first Latino-American inducted looking to enjoy the tranquility of nature. into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Each Crotona Park also hosts many special year, special events pay homage to the programs throughout the year. Since 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 FERRY POINT PARK Orchard Beach 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 true 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 Soundview Park, 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 – Orchard Beach 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 Central Park, Pelham Bay Park is Bay Park area in the early 19th Century. World War I. In 1913, the Cross-Country 36 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 30, 2016 BTR Bronx ‘16 PARKS, PLAYGROUNDS & PARK FACILITIES STATS

Park Avenue Avenue between Lodovick and Gunther and Freeman Street avenues MLK Boulevard and Featherbed Lane Bailey Playground (3.53 acres) – Bailey avenues Davidson Playground (0.21 acres) – W. Eagles Slope (0.38 acres) – Westchester Field of Dreams Park (0.17 acres) – E. Avenue between W. 234th and W. 237th Captain Rivera Playground (0.99 acres) – E. 180th Street between Davidson and Grand Avenue between St. Ann’s and Eagle 167th Street between Southern Boulevard streets 156th Street between Jackson and Forest avenues avenues and Simpson Street Barnhill Square (0.01 acre) – W. Kingsbridge avenues Dawson Playground (0.68 acres) – Rogers Eastchester Playground (1.02 acres) – Flood Triangle (0.07 acres) – E. 188th Avenue at Reservoir Avenue Caserta Playground (1 acre) – St. Raymond Place at Dawson Street Adee Avenue at Tenbroeck Avenue Street at Third Avenue and Washington Barretto Park (0.12 acres) – Baretto Street Avenue between Purdy and Odell streets Derosa O’Boyle Triangle (0.02 acres) – Echo Triangle (0.16 acres) – Echo Avenue between Randall and Spoffard avenues Castle Hill Little League Field (1.71 acres) Dewey Avenue between E. Tremont and Place, E. Tremont Avenue and the Grand Flynn Playground (0.82 acres) – Brook Barretto Point Park (11.6 acres) – Viele – Zerega Avenue between Commerce and Edison avenues Concourse Avenue to Third Avenue between E. 157th Avenue between Tiffany and Barretto Gleason avenues Devanney Triangle (0.12 acres) – E. Edenwald Playground (2.54 acres) - and E. 158th streets streets Castle Hill Park (8.83 acres) – Barrett Burnside Avenue between Creston Avenue Schieffelin Avenue between E. 266th Fordham Landing Playground (3.90 Barry Plaza (0.09 acres) – E. 173rd Street Avenue and Hart Street between Olmstead and Grand Concourse Drive and E. 229 Street acres) – Landing Road, Major Deegan between Clay and Anthony avenues and Zerega avenues Devoe Park (5.44 acres) – W. Fordham Road Estella Diggs Park (0.90 acres) – Third Expressway and Bailey Avenue Bathgate Playground (2.50 acres) - Castle Hill Playground (1.37 acres) – Castle between Sedgwick and University avenues Avenue between E. 167th and E. 168th Fort Independence Playground (3.02 Washington Avenue to Bathgate Avenue Hill Avenue, Parker Street Dred Scott Bird Sanctuary – Grant Avenue streets acres) – Jerome Park Reservoir and between W. 181st Street and E. 183rd Cedar Playground (1.80 acres) – W. 179th between E. 169th and E. 170th streets Ewen Park (7.84 acres) – Johnson Avenue, Sedgwick Avenue Street Street between Cedar and Sedgwick Drew Playground (0.94 acres) – Fulton W. 232nd Street, Riverdale Avenue Fountain of Youth Playground (1.38 acres) Beanstalk Playground (0.27 acres) – avenues Avenue between E. 169th and E. 170th Fairmount Playground (0.47 acres) - – Union Avenue between E. 150th and E. Billingsley Terrace between Phelan Place Chief Dennis L. Devlin Park (0.52 acres) – streets Prospect Avenue between N/B Cross 152nd streets and Sedgwick Avenue Cross Bronx Expressway Road, Ellis and Dunbar Playground (1.44 acres) – E. 161st Bronx Expressway and Fairmount Place Fox Playground (0.94 acres) – E. 156th Beatty Plaza (0.10 acres) – E. 169th Street Olmstead avenues Street, Trinity Avenue, E. 163rd Street, Farm in the Bronx – E. 182nd Street Street between Fox Street and Southern and Franklin Avenue Church Triangle (0.09 acres) – Cross Bronx Cauldwell Avenue between Bassford and Washington Boulevard Behagen Playground (3.35 acres) – Tinton Expressway Service Road and Castle Hill Eae J. Mitchell Park (0.18 acres) – E. 174th avenues Franz Sigel Park (15.99 acres) – Gerard and Avenue between E. 165th and E. 166th and Watson avenues Street between Bryant and Longfellow Featherbed Triangle (0.17 acres) – Dr. Walton avenues and Grand Concourse Streets Ciccarone Park (0.55 acres) – E. 188th Bell Tower Park (0.50 acres) – Riverdale Street between Arthur and Hughes Avenue, Henry Hudson Parkway and W. avenues 239th Street City Island Wetlands (8.01 acres) – Bay and Belmont Playground (2.21 acres) – E. Tier streets and Eastchester Bay 182nd Street between Crotona and Belmont Claremont Park (38.54 acres) – Clay and avenues Anthony avenues between Mount Eden Benjamin Gladstone Square (0.20 acres) – Parkway and E. 170th Street Westchester and Hoe avenues, West Farms Clark Playground (0.72 acres) – Third Road Avenue between E. 144th and E. 145th Bergen Triangle (0.21 acres) - E 181st streets Street, Anthony Avenue, Grand Concourse Cleopatra Playground (0.62 acres) – Bicentennial Veterans Memorial Park (9.39 Anthony Avenue between Prospect Place acres) – Throggs Neck Expressway at and Ittner Place Pennyfi eld and Elisworth avenues Co-Op City Field (3.40 acres) – Co-op Blackrock Playground (0.32 acres) – City Boulevard and the Hutchinson River Watson and Blackrock avenues between between Carver Loop and Bellamy Loop Virginia and Pugsley avenues Colgate Close (1.87 acres) – Bruckner Boone Slope (0.03 acres) – Cross Bronx Expressway between Close and Colgate Expressway Exit Ramp between Boone avenues Avenue and West Farms Road Colucci Playground (4 acres) – Hutchinson Bridge Park (2.12 acres) – Prospect and River Parkway East between Wilkinson York streets between Jay and Bridge Avenue and E. 197th Street streets Concrete Plant Park (7.39 acres) – Bronx Bridge Playground (0.61 acres) – Boscobel River between Westchester Avenue and Place between Dr. MLK Boulevard and Bruckner Boulevard Undercliff Avenue Cooney Grauer Field (1.27 acres) – Bailey Bronx River Parkway (205.65 acres) – Avenue between W. 233rd and W. 234th Bronx River between Burke Avenue and the streets New York City - Westchester Line Cpl. Fischer Park (0.57 acres) – Nelson Brook Park (0.76 acres) – Brook Avenue Avenue between W. 169th and W. 170th between E. 140th to E. 141st streets streets Bruckner Playground (1.05 acres) – Crescent Park (0.44 acres) – Albany Brinsmade Avenue between Cross Bronx Crescent, W. 233rd Street, Major Deegan Service Road and Swinton Avenue Expressway Brust Park – (1.79 acres) – Manhattan Crotona Parkway Malls (8.75 acres) – College Parkway, Dash Place and Greystone Crotona Parkway between Bronx Park Avenue South & E. 175th Street Bryan Park (0.15 acres) - E Kingsbridge D’auria Murphy Triangle (0.31 Street) – Road at E. Fordham Road Adams Place between Cresent Avenue and E. 183rd Street Bryant Triangle (0.17 acres) – Longfellow, Bryant and Westchester avenues D’onofrio Square (0.38 acres) – White 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) – Pelham Bay Park Burns Playground (1.62 acres) – Mace Boone Avenue between West Farms Road

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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 Gasoline Alley (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 Mill Pond Park – 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 Monsignor 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 Bronx Zoo 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 Henry Hudson Park (8.97 acres) – Palisade and the Bronx River Macombs Dam 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 Magenta Playground (1.21 acres) Olinville Mount Hope Playground (0.70 acres) – E. Harding Park (2.16 acres) – Bolton Avenue Harlem River to the Saw Mill River Parkway Hutchinson River Parkway (229.14 acres) Avenue at Rosewood Street 177th Street at Walton Avenue between O’Brien and Gildersleeve avenues Highbridge Park (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 Vinmont Veteran Park (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 Starlight Park (12.93 acres) – Sheridan Washington Park (0.52 acres) – E. 183rd Melrose and Cortlandt avenues Playground 52 (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. 133rd Street 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 Taqwa Community Farm (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 Williamsbridge Oval (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 Seton Falls Park (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 University Woods (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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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. Gun Hill Road Einstein Post Offi ce 10460 Business Hours: Hunts Point Post Offi ce 127 Einstein Loop 10452 M-F: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sat: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 800 Manida Street Business Hours West Farms Post Offi ce Business Hours M-F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Stadium Post Offi ce 362 Devoe Avenue Mosholu Post Offi ce M-F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sat: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. †No Longer Slated for Possible Closure 901 Gerard Avenue Business Hours 3464 Jerome Avenue Business Hours: M-F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sat: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Business Hours: M–F.: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. †No Longer Slated for Possible Closure M-F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. †No Longer Slated for Possible Closure 10461 Van Cott Post Offi ce Highbridge Post Offi ce 3102 Decatur Avenue 1315 Inwood Avenue Westchester Post Offi ce Business Hours: Business Hours 2619 Ponton Avenue M-F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. M-F: 9 a.m. to 5p.m.; Sat: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Business Hours: *Slated for Possible Closure M-F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sat: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. University Heights Post Offi ce Allerton Post Offi ce 1541 Shakespeare Avenue Pilgrim Post Offi ce 2815 White Plains Road Business Hours 1545 Crosby Avenue Business Hours: M-F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Business Hours M-Sat: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. *Slated for Possible Closure M-Sat: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. 10468 10453 Morris Park Post Offi ce 1807 Williamsbridge Road Jerome Station Post Offi ce Morris Heights Post Offi ce Business Hours: 2549 Jerome Avenue 2024 Jerome Avenue M-F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Business Hours: Business Hours M-F: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sat: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. BRONX M-F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sat: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. 10462 10469 10454 Parkchester Post Offi ce 1449 West Ave Baychester Post Offi ce POSTAL PROVIDERS Mott Haven Post Offi ce Business Hours 1525 E. Gun Hill Road Stamp Booklets Only 10465 517 E. 139th Street M-F: 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sat: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Business Hours: CVS - 3775 E. Tremont Avenue Business Hours M-F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sat: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. M-F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sat: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Parkway Post Offi ce 10451 10466 2100 White Plains Esplanade Post Offi ce CVS – 282 E. 149th Street Key Food – 4171 White Plains Road 10455 Business Hours: 2488 Williamsbridge Road CVS – 224 E. 161st Street 10467 M-Sat: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Business Hours: 10455 CVS – 3125 Bainbridge Avenue Hub Post Offi ce M-F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Duane Reade – 2939 3rd Avenue CVS – 732 Allerton Avenue 633 Saint Ann’s Avenue Castle Hill Post Offi ce *Slated for Possible Closure Staples – 3006 3rd Avenue CVS – 310 E. 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. Tremont Avenue Business Hours: Cranford Post Offi ce Walgreens – 3085 E. Tremont Avenue Business Hours M-F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. 690 E. 241st Street Walgreens – 3575 Boston Road Walgreens – 55 Westchester Square Walgreens – 2504 Eastchester Road M-F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sat: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. *Slated for Possible Closure Business Hours: Walgreens – 1820 Williamsbridge Road M-F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. 10471 10458 Fieldston Post Offi ce *Slated for Possible Closure 10462 Food Emporium – 5661 Riverdale 444 W. 238th Street Cross County FSB – 791 Morris Park Avenue Fordham University Post Offi ce Business Hours: 10471 Avenue CMSV Bookstore – 6301 Riverdale 441 E. Fordham Road M-F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. CVS – 2112 White Plains Road Avenue Business Hours: †No Longer Slated for Possible Closure Riverdale Post Offi ce Staples – 2040 White Plains Road 10472 M-Th: 10:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.; F: 10:30 5951 Riverdale Avenue Walgreens – 1371 Metropolitan Avenue CVS – 1688 Westchester Avenue a.m. to 3 p.m. 10464 Business Hours 10463 M-F: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sat: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. CVS – 565 W. 235th Street 10473 Fordham Post Offi ce City Island Post Offi ce Manhattan Bookstore – 3825 Corlear Ridgewood Savings Bank – 1626 465 E. 188th Street 199 City Island Avenue 10472 Avenue Bruckner Boulevard Business Hours: Business Hours: Staples – 5680 Broadway M-F: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sat: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. M-F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sat: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Soundview Post Offi ce Stop & Shop – 5716 Broadway 10475 1687 Gleason Avenue Ridgewood Savings Bank – 3899 Staples – 340 Baychester Avenue Mount Carmel Post Offi ce 10465 Business Hours Sedgwick Avenue Stop & Shop – 691 Co-op City Boulevard 652 E. 187th Street M-F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sat: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Walgreens – 5564 Broadway Business Hours: Throggs Neck Post Offi ce

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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 Bronx Community College 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 Boricua College 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 Hostos Community College 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 John Hughes, 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- MONROE COLLEGE 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: Stephen 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.

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

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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 ALL HALLOWS HIGH SCHOOL 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 St. Raymond High School for Boys. Principal: Daniel O’Keefe All Hallows High School is a to the twelfth grade and is a Website: www.prestonhs.org aims to shape the future of strong academic record: 100% private Catholic high school for Cardinal Spellman High School member of the Ivy Preparatory Email: [email protected] young women through college annual graduation rate and a young men founded in 1909. is a Catholic parochial high School League. Its Upper, Mid- Principal: Jane Grendell preparatory secondary educa- 96% college attendance rate. When the school first opened, school opened in September dle, and Lower Divisions are lo- tion that is faithful to the Gos- it was located at 13-15 West 1959. The school is co-ed. cated in Riverdale. The school Preston High School was es- pel, Catholic tradition and the SAR HIGH SCHOOL 124th Street. With the passing Preparing each student for col- offers 20 Advanced Placement tablished in 1947 by the Sisters educational values of the Sis- 503 W. 259th Street of time, however, the enroll- lege acceptance and achieve- courses and 10 foreign lan- of the Divine Compassion, as ters of Mercy. 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- Website: http://www.sarhigh- new location. In 1929, the prop- program at Cardinal Spellman program. paratory school. The Roman ST. RAYMOND ACADEMY school.org/ erty of the present location was High School. Catholic high school for girls is FOR GIRLS Email: Kraussb@sarhigh- purchased and, in 1930, the MONSIGNOR SCANLAN chartered by the Board of Re- 1725 Castle Hill Ave. school.org building was completed. Hav- FORDHAM PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL gents of the University of the Phone: (718) 824-4220 Principal: Rabbi Binyamin ing finished its first 100 years SCHOOL 915 Hutchinson River Parkway State of New York and is ac- Fax: (718) 829-3571 Krauss of service, All Hallows proudly 441 East Fordham Road Phone Number: (718) 430- credited by the Middle States Email: rayacad@adnyschools. SSAR High School is commit- boasts more than 10,000 Phone Number: (718) 367- 0100 Association of Colleges and org ted to creating a commu- alumni. Through a challeng- 7500 Fax: (718) 892-8845 Schools. 100% of graduates Website: http://www.saintray- nity of learners dedicated ing, structured curriculum, the Fax: (718) 367-7598 Website: www.scanlanhs.edu are accepted into post-second- mondacademy.org/ to shaping thoughtful and school continues its mission to Website: www.fordhamprep. Principal: Peter Doran ary institutions. Principal: Sister Mary Ann caring young men and women prepare students who possess org D’Antonio with a deep commitment to a lifelong desire to learn realize Email: admissions@fordham- Monsignor Scanlan High School ST. BARNABAS HIGH SCHOOL Torah and mitzvot as well their fullest potential, go to col- prep.org is a Catholic, Co-Educational 425 E. 240th Street St. Raymond Academy, found- as a deep concern for the lege and effect positive change Principal: Dr. Joseph Petriello High School (Grades 9-12), Phone: (718) 325-8800 ed in 1960, is a small Catholic world around them. Advisory, in society. It is the only school with a history dating back to Fax: 718-325-8820 High School for young women. Beit Midrash fellows, grade in the Archdiocese of New York Fordham Preparatory School is September 1949. The school Email: Sr. Joan Faraone (prin- It offers a strong college pre- 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- paratory program along with 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 business electives. The Acad- co-curricular programming – the country by Catholic School 1540 by St. Ignatius Loyola. ena, serving the Bronx and Website: www.stbarna- emy is committed to guiding provide students with many Honor Roll. At the heart of Jesuit educa- Manhattan. It is staffed by the bashigh.com students to an appreciation of opportunities to find their tion is the rigorous study of Dominican Sisters of Sparkill Principal: Mrs. Frances Dziuma learning that will enable them voice and explore their pas- AQUINAS HIGH SCHOOL the humanities and the sci- and a dedicated staff of lay not only to realize their poten- 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 tial, but also prepare them to classroom. Phone: (718) 367-2113 aims to encompass more than Scanlan graduates. girls’ high school located in the make their unique contribution Fax: 718-295-5864 the acquisition of knowledge; Northeastern Bronx, adjoining 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 HIGH SCHOOL 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 Famulare 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: Ann M. Welch, RSM lies in the education of their with a student to faculty ratio twice by the U.S. Department grades 6 through 12. sons by providing academic of 15:1. Our Saviour fosters of Education as an Exemplary The Horace Mann School is an St. Catharine Academy is a excellence, diverse extra- four-dimensional growth: ac- School and as a Blue Ribbon independent college prepara- PRESTON HIGH SCHOOL high school sponsored by the curricular pursuits, and strong ademic, physical, social, and School. It was also named an tory school in New York City. 2780 Schurz Avenue Sisters of Mercy of the Mid- Catholic values during its 50+ spiritual. In order to graduate, Outstanding High School by Founded in 1887, Horace Mann Phone: (718) 863-9134 Atlantic Community and es- years. St. Raymond High students must meet all State U.S. News and World Report. spans from nursery school Fax: (718) 863-6125 tablished in 1889. 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BRONX YMCA the New York City Police Depart- PS 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, JHS 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 JHS 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 & GirlsBronx Club YMCAment 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, fi eld 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 Montefi ore 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 a storefront on Gun Hill Road, P.S. 20 Kips Bay 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 fi tness 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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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 Robert Moses 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 St. Raymond’s Cemetery Outstanding monuments include Oak Point avenues. the memorial to Isidor and Ida included the college cemetery. CHURCH CEMETERY Straus who lost their lives aboard This is on of the smallest cemeter- The property was taken by the BERRIAN-BASHFORD CORSA FAMILY 3051 E. Tremont Avenue the Titanic, the elaborate mauso- ies in the Bronx. Drake Cemetery authority of the state 1884 New BURYING GROUND BURIAL GROUNDS (718) 829-5326 leum for members of the Belmont was named after Joseph Rodman Parks Law. Those acres later East of Van Cortlandt Mansion Fordham University’s Rose Hill family and the Egyptian tomb of Drake, a poet who made a name became part of the New York and West of the lake in Van Campus The First Presbyterian Church dime store magnate F.W. Wool- for himself in the 1800’s. When Botanical Garden. Thereafter Cortlandt Park of Throgg’s Neck was organized worth). he died of tuberculosis at the age the cemetery could no longer c/o Van Cortlandt House The circular garden behind in 1855 and the cemetery was of 25, he requested to be laid to be used and so for a short time Museum St. John’s Hall is the spot of the used during the 19th Century. The ST. RAYMOND’S CEMETERY rest near the Bronx River. Since 3 Jesuits’ bodies were kept Van Cortlandt Park private burial ground of the Corsa church was destroyed in a fi re in 2600 Lafayette Avenue then, members of the prominent in a vault in the St. Raymond Broadway and W. 246th Street family who owned the land that 1870. It is believed that church (718) 792-1133 families of the era – the Hunts, cemetery. In January 1890, he (718) 543-3344 Fordham University now occupies. records may have been destroyed www.straymondparish.org/ Leggetts, etc. have been buried remains of 61 Jesuits), three The site was discovered in the in that fi re. A new church was cemetery.html here. seminarians, nine college stu- Members of the Ackerman, Ber- 1840’s when St. John’s Hall was built in 1883. dents, and two workmen were rian, Bashford and Warner fami- under construction. The Cemetery of St. Raymond, FERRIS FAMILY PLOT transferred to the new cemetery lies are known to be buried at CEMETERIES NO LONGER the only Catholic cemetery in the Commerce Street near near the university church. Jan- this site, with gravestones dat- MOUNT SAINT IN EXISTENCE Bronx, has been a part of the par- Westchester Avenue uary 24, 1909, marked the last ing back to between 1794 and VINCENT CEMETERY ish since 1842 and has expanded burial in the Fordham cemetery: 1807. Most graves were marked College of Mount Saint Vincent Bensionia (Morrisania) Cem- from the original cemetery in Ferris Family Plot - Commerce New York-born Fr. William O’B. by rough fi eldstones. In some in Riverdale etery: This grave site was origi- front of the church and on the site Street near Westchester Avenue Pardow, aged 62, formerly Jesuit cases, the initials of the deceased This cemetery contains the re- nally an Indian Burial Ground and of the elementary school to the – This cemetery originally be- provincial superior and famous were engraved into stone, while mains of approximately 150 nuns. contained many prominent fami- Old Cemetery on Tremont Avenue longed to the Ferris family, which preacher. In 1999, at a newly formal monuments were erected lies. The graves were reinterred to the new Cemetery and Mau- had large holdings in the area be- formed committee’s suggestion, for others. The New York City POTTER’S FIELD to Woodlawn and the former grave soleums at the Lafayette Avenue ginning in 1667. Benjamin Ferris the deteriorating tombstones and Northern Railroad was cut Hart Island site is now the home of P.S. 138 site. The Cemetery provides in- owned what is now Westchester were replaced by low granite through the northern end of the Old Berrian Cemetery – Lo- ground burials, in-ground crypt Square in 1839. Captain Watson markers. The cemetery and the plot around 1890, where African- The City purchased Hart Is- cated at Fordham Road and burials in the new Holy Cross Ferris sailed for California to fi nd markers were blessed by the Rev. American slaves are thought to land from the Hunter family for Sedgwick Avenue, the site was section, Mausoleum burials and gold in 1851 and died of yellow Gerald Blaszczak, S.J., Rector of be buried. $75,000 in 1868 and established once the fi nal resting place of the niches for cremains and burials fever in Panama. His body was the Jesuit Community, in a well- the site as a public cemetery for Berrian, Valentine and Cromwell in the base of the granite Cross placed in a barrel of rum and attended ceremony. On April 5, PELHAM CEMETERY the burial of those persons who families. located in the Holy Cross section. is, according to Bronx historian 2000, a permanent plaque was 73 Earley Street died penniless or whose bodies Fordham Manor Dutch Re- The entire cemetery complex is John McNamara, interred in the placed beside the cemetery to (718) 885-3036 went unclaimed. In the fi rst year, formed Church – Once located 180 acres and when fi lled (almost “family vault behind Westchester bear witness to those interred in 1,875 burials were performed. on Kingsbridge Road, the remains 4,000 burials are held each year) Square,” where the Ferris Family “God’s Holy Acre.” Pelham Cemetery is so named Potter’s Field has been used by were eventually reinterred in Ken- will be a holy and prayerful burial Plot is said to be. because City Island was still a a variety of agencies over the sico Cemetery in Westchester. site for more than half a million ST. PETER’S CHURCHYARD part of the Westchester town years, including the Department West Farms Dutch Reformed people. Buried in the cemetery JESUIT CEMETERY Westchester Avenue when the cemetery was fi rst of Correction. In 1948, at the Church – Most of the interments are Dr. L.Sullivan Ives, founder of Fordham University, While the current St. Peter’s Epis- placed here in the 1880s. It is behest of inmates, a 30-foot high at this cemetery, once located at The Catholic Protectory (originally Rose Hill Campus copal Church was built in 1855, the only waterside cemetery in monument, located in the center Boone Avenue and 172nd Street, an orphanage on the Parkchester the parish grounds have actually the Five Boroughs and while it of the burial site, pays tribute to were removed to Woodlawn Cem- site); Bishop Pernicone, the fi rst July 11, 1847 marked the fi rst existed since 1693 and contains was created in the 1880’s, there the departed there. The DOC etery. Italian American Bishop of New burial in the old Fordham cem- many graves dating back to the are older gravestones within its still maintains and operates the Westchester Methodist Church York; Jazz singer Billie Holiday etery on a hillside, east part of late 1690’s. St. Peter’s Church, grounds. The cemetery is fi lled site. Burials continue to be per- – Located at 2547 E. Tremont and Fr. Frank Duffy of the Fight- campus: Joseph Creeden, aged Complex and Cemetery were with the gravestones of well- formed there by inmate labor, Avenue, the cemetery here once ing 69th regiment, among other 26, Irish-born Jesuit novice designated by the New York City known Pelham families and early under supervision of Correction contained members of the Fowler well known names. A special Brother. In April 1889, after pay- Landmarks Preservation Com- settlers. In addition, the grave staff. Hart Island is closed to the family as well as church members Garden of Innocents is where ment of $93,966.25, New York mission in 1976, and listed on sites of veterans of the Civil War public. and townsmen. In 1940, the re- still-born and young babies are City took title to 26.845 acres of the National Registry of Historic and virtually every war since may mains were removed to a church- buried with dignity and solemnity. Fordham’s east campus, which Places in 1983. be found in the cemetery. 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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 the battery 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 LORELEI FOUNTAIN statue was inspired by the originally commissioned by The Lorelei Fountain (also stylized ancient art of the Ar- a Morrisania veterans group known as the Heinrich Heine 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 Ernst Herter (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- Bronx Zoo Rockefeller Fountain 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 fl oral 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- fi tt i n g l y c o m m e m o r a t e s H e n r y 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 fi rst European fi gure 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 India 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 fi nd 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 fi rst 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 fi gural group sculptors Belle Kinney and globe represented a potential been the fi rst 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 fi rst lieutenant in end of the Concourse in Joyce receiving his commission from the war’s conclusion in 1918, sacrifi ce 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 fi rst fur trading post and commissioned Irish-born, It consists of a landscaped of the limestone masonry and commanded the 22nd Regiment a draped female fi gure 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 fi rm 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 fi gure. 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 indefi nitely 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 fi gures 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 Arthur George Waldreaon bolic sculptural tradition dating

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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- Lincoln Hospital 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 Brooklyn 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 all ages, from Playgroup and Nursery for South Condominium comprising the the development. Co-op City also toddlers through a Naturally Occurring East Quadrant, West Quadrant and Located in Baychester at the features four basketball courts and five Retirement Community Program for South Quadrants. Parkchester North intersection of Interstate 95 and the baseball diamonds. seniors. Some programs include a visual Condominiums consist mostly of the Hutchinson River Parkway and part In addition to being policed by the arts committee, wood shop, fitness owned units/condominiums and are of Community Board 10, Co-op City 45th Precinct, Co-op City also has its club, photography club and a writer’s managed by an independent real is arguably the largest cooperative own Public Safety Department, made workshop, among others. Community estate management firm, Grenadier housing development in the world. To up of more than 100 sworn officers, that News, detailing some of these activities, Management. Some of the owned units fully understand the size of Co-op City, if help keep the entire cooperative and its has also been published regularly since in Parkchester North Condominium it truly was its own city, it would be the residents safe from crime. 1929. have since been rented or sold by their 10th largest municipality in New York A 24-hour security force, serves original owners. PSC consists mostly State. RiverBay Corporation, led by a AMALGAMATED HOUSES as a link between the 50th Precinct, the of the rental units and are managed by 15-member elected board of directors, Fire Department and EMS services and Parkchester Preservation Management. manages Co-op City. Founded in 1927, Amalgamated the co-op. In addition, a high-pressure Parkchester North Condominium, Construction on Co-op City began is the oldest limited equity housing steam facility owned and operated by Inc. and Parkchester South Condominium, in 1968 and was completed in 1971 with cooperative in the United States. The the co-op provides heat and hot water Inc. are not-for-profit corporations and 15,372 residential units in 35 high-rise cooperative was sponsored by the to the entire co-op, as well as central air condominium associations. Although buildings, ranging from 24-33 floors) Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union cooling at Towers I and II. Power Plant operating separately as two distinct and seven clusters of townhouses (236 under the leadership of Sidney Hillman. engineers and mechanics also maintain organizations, the two condominiums total), each three stories in height; all It is the first co-op created by Founding and repair the entire utility service work cooperatively for the benefit of our upon 320 acres of land. The largest President and Manager Abraham infrastructure of the co-op. community. development in the United States was E. Kazan, known as “The father of Today, over 82,000 individuals live built on a landfill and the former site cooperative housing in the United PARKCHESTER NORTH AND SOUTH and work in the Parkchester community of the Freedomland amusement park. States.” CONDOMINIUM of 112 residential buildings, 8,000 55,000 people call Co-op City home and On its first day of occupancy, apartments and numerous commercial can afford living in the housing complex November 1, 1927, 303 residents moved Originally owned by the enterprises including major retailers, thanks to New York’s Mitchell-Lama into Amalgamated Houses. Today, 1482 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, theaters, restaurants and small specialty Program, which subsidizes affordable families of moderate income live in the Parkchester housing development shops. housing. eleven buildings, the oldest of which was built from 1939-41 on the farmland For these residents, the Parkchester In addition to the housing units, – Building 6 – is one of the original of the Catholic Protectory, a home for Condominiums maintains public parks Co-op City also features eight parking buildings. The “newest” buildings are orphaned and troubled boys conducted and a variety of recreational services garages, three shopping centers (one two Towers which were completed by the Brothers of the Christian Schools, and events, including a summer concert of which – Bay Plaza, comes complete in 1968 and 1970, and replaced the which relocated to Lincolndale. In 1974, series at The Oval, the Friendship Day with 13-screen multiplex movie theatre, original First Building. one-third of the complex was converted and Kite Day festivals as well as a free department stores and a supermarket), Amalgamated has always provided to condominiums, with the remaining computer center with Internet access a 25-acre educational park that includes community as well as housing. There has portion converting in 1986. and mini-library. The Condominiums also Truman High School (complete with been an Education Department almost The four quadrants of the offer arts and crafts and game centers planetarium), two middle schools and from inception. It is responsible for co- development, located on 121 acres, were in the South, West and East Quardrants three grade schools, a power plant, op education and community activities. divided into two entities: Parkchester for our younger residents as well as 4-story air-conditioning generator, and a There are activities for cooperators of North Condominium comprising the organized youth sporting leagues firehouse. There are also approximately North Quadrant and Parkchester BTR BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 30, 2016 57 Bronx ‘16 STATS PASSENGER RAILROAD LINES

This is actually due to an 1848 of the way to Poughkeepsie. It is up to Southeast on the Harlem Line Grand Central Terminal, Harlem- agreement with the Harlem line’s one of the more scenic routes of any and to stations up to New Haven on 125th Street 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 Hell Gate 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, Connecticut 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. Bronx Transfer Options: times at E. 180 Street, Third th Avenue-149th Street, and 149th Concourse and 138 Street – Road (Seymour Avenue), Pelham and Brooklyn Bridge – City Hall Passengers can transfer to the D Street – Grand Concourse. Grand Concourse. Patrons can Parkway, Morris Park in Manhattan. Bronx Stops: Bedford Park train at Bedford Park Boulevard, also transfer to the No. 2 train at Boulevard, Kingsbridge Road, Fordham Road, Tremont Avenue Passengers can also transfer th st th 149 Street – Grand Concourse. (Nereid Avenue Line): Nereid Bronx Stops: Pelham Bay Park, Fordham Road, 182nd – 183rd and 161 Street-Yankee to the No. 4 train at 149 Street rd th Grand Concourse. Avenue, 233 Street, 225 Buhre Avenue, Middletown Streets, Tremont Avenue, 174th Stadium. Passengers can also Notes: The 4 train operates ex- Street, 219th Street, Gun Hill Road, Westchester Square – – 175th Streets, 170th Street, transfer to the No. 4 train at st Note: 2 trains operate locally press in Manhattan and Brook- Road (White Plains Road), Burke E. Tremont Avenue, Zerega 167th Street, 161st Street-Yan- 161 Street-Yankee Stadium. in the Bronx, express in Man- lyn, but local in the Bronx. Dur- Avenue, Allerton Avenue, Pelham Avenue, Castle Hill Avenue, kee Stadium. hattan and local in Brooklyn ing late nights, 4 trains make Parkway, Bronx Park East Parkchester, St. Lawrence Ave- Notes: The B service operates all local stops in the three bor- nue, Morrison Avenue – Sound- on weekdays only from ap- 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 proximately 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.; nus is extended further south to West Farms Square-E. Tremont Avenue, Hunts Point Avenue, though the last trains depart 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 from their respective stations E. 180th Street. When the 5 Street, Simpson Street, Intervale Street, E. 143rd Street – St. at around 10 p.m. train runs express, patrons of #5 Avenue, Prospect Avenue, Mary’s Street, Cypress Avenue, Lexington Avenue Express: Jackson Avenue, Third Avenue– Brook Avenue and Third Avenue D that train can either take the th th 2 train at 149th Street – Grand 149 Street, 149 Street–Grand – 138th Street. Sixth Avenue Express: During rush hours, 5 trains Concourse, 138th Street–Grand The D service operates at all Concourse or E. 180th Street to th reach bypassed stations. operate between Eastchester- Concourse Notes: The 6 train runs on both times, from 205 Street in the Dyre Avenue or Nereid Avenue, a local and express track. The Bronx to Stillwell Avenue in #4 both in the Bronx, and Flatbush Bronx Transfer Options: At times, express train will skip stops Coney Island. Avenue – Brooklyn College in No. 5 passengers can transfer to between Third Avenue – 138th Lexington Avenue Express: th The 4 service operates at all Brooklyn. This train operates the No. 2 train at Nereid Avenue. Street and Parkchester. Some Bronx Stops: 205 Street, times with normal service op- express in the Bronx during rush They can also transfer to the trains from Manhattan termi- Bedford Park Boulevard, hours in the peak direction. No. 2 train at Third Avenue- nate at Parkchester where pa- Kingsbridge Road, Fordham erating between Woodlawn in th th nd rd the Bronx and Utica Avenue in During mid-days, 5 trains operate 149 Street and at 149 Street- trons must transfer to another Road, 182 – 183 Streets, only between Eastchester-Dyre Grand Concourse. Passengers train traveling the remaining Tremont Avenue, 174th – 175th Crown Heights, Brooklyn via th th Lexington Avenue. Avenue and Flatbush Avenue can also transfer to the No. stops to Pelham Bay. Some Streets, 170 Street, 167 – Brooklyn College with local 4 train at 149th Street-Grand trains terminate at Third Av- Street, 161st Street-Yankee th Bronx Stops: Woodlawn, Mo- stops in the Bronx. Concourse and 138 Street- enue – 138th Street where Stadium sholu Parkway, Bedford Park During evenings and weekends, Grand Concourse. patrons must transfer to an- Boulevard – Lehman College, the No. 5 train operates only other #6 train for the remaining Bronx Transfer Options: During Kingsbridge Road, Fordham between Eastchester-Dyre Notes: During late nights, 5 stops. rush hours, D train passengers Road, 183rd Street, Burnside Avenue and Bowling Green in trains provide local shuttle ser- can transfer to the B train Avenue, 176th Street, Mount Manhattan with local stops in vice between Eastchester-Dyre B at Bedford Park Boulevard, Eden Avenue, 170th Street, the Bronx. Avenue and E. 180th Street, Sixth Avenue Express: Fordham Road and Tremont At times, the No. 5 train will run where the 2 train provides Normal service operates be- Avenue. At all times, passengers 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 can transfer to the No. 4 train at Street. Shuttle trains will take Bronx, Manhattan and Brook- to Brighton Beach in Brooklyn. 16st Street-Yankee Stadium. Grand Concourse, 138th Street th – Grand Concourse. passengers between E. 180 lyn. However, during rush hours, Bronx Transfer options: Street and Eastchester-Dyre the northern terminus for the Notes: D trains generally operate Passengers can transfer to the Avenue and vice versa. #6 B is extended to/from Bedford local in the Bronx, express in B & D trains at 161st Street – Bronx Stops (Dyre Avenue Lexington Avenue Local: Park Boulevard in the Bronx. Manhattan and Brooklyn. Yankee Stadium, or to the No. Line): Eastchester-Dyre Avenue, The 6 service operates between During this time, the B runs lo-

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BTR BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 30, 2016 61 Bronx ‘16 STATS BRONX SENIOR CENTERS

Department For the Aging Senior Hours of Operation: Centers and Services M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (As listed at http://www.nyc.gov/ Services: Congregate lunch html/dfta) JASA THROGGS NECK AMALGAMATED PARK SENIOR CENTER RESERVOIR NORC Address: 2705 Schley Avenue Address: 80 Van Cortlandt Park Bronx, NY 10465 South Phone Number: (718) 823-1771 Bronx, NY 10463 Hours of Operation: Phone Number: (718) 548-4990 M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Hours of Operation: Services: Congregate lunch; M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. education; nutrition education; Services: Call for information on recreation services provided. KIPS BAY CASTLE HILL ARTURO SCHOMBERG SENIOR CENTER SENIOR CENTER Address: 625 Castle Hill Avenue Address: 1315 Franklin Avenue Bronx, NY 10473 Bronx, NY 10456 Phone Number: (718) 319-9156 Phone Number: (718) 842-6880 Hours of Operation: Hours of Operation: M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Services: Case assistance; case Services: Case assistance; case assistance – Medicaid; congregate assistance – Medicaid; congregate lunch; congregate breakfast; lunch; education; recreation; education; recreation; health health promotion; nutrition promotion; nutrition education education; telephone reassurance LSNY BRONX BJCC BAINBRIDGE Address: 579 Courtlandt Avenue AVENUE OFFICE Northeast Bronx Senior Citizen Center Bronx, NY 10451 Address: 3176 Bainbridge Avenue Phone Number: (718) 928-3680 Bronx, NY 10467 CITY ISLAND SENIOR CENTER M – F: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. lunch; education; recreation; Hours of Operation: Phone Number: (718) 652-5500 BRONXWORKS E. ROBERTS Address: 160 Pilot Street Services: Congregate lunch; nutrition education M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Hours of Operation: MOORE SENIOR CENTER P.O. Box 172 education; recreation; health Services: Legal services M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Address: 515 Jackson Avenue Bronx, NY 10464 promotion; nutrition education; JAMES MONROE Services: Case assistance; case Bronx, NY 10455 Phone Number: (718) 885-0727 SENIOR CENTER MARBLE HILL SENIOR CENTER assistance – Medicaid; information Phone Number: (718) 665-5559 Hours of Operation: FEGS CAREGIVER PROGRAM Address: 1776 Story Avenue Address: 5365 Broadway Hours of Operation: M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Address: 2432 Grand Concourse Bronx, NY 10473 Bronx, NY 10463 BJCC HOLLAND M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Services: Congregate lunch; Bronx, NY 10458 Phone Number: (718) 893-3484 Phone Number: (718) 562-8551 AVENUE OFFICE Services: Case assistance; case education; recreation; health Phone Number: (212) 366-8021 Hours of Operation: Hours of Operation: Address: 2157 Holland Avenue assistance – Medicaid; congregate 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. Bronx, NY 10462 breakfasts; congregate lunch; transportation M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Services: Case assistance; case Services: Case assistance; case Phone Number: (718) 828-1114 education; recreation; nutrition Services: Caregiver assistance; assistance – Medicaid; congregate assistance – Medicaid; congregate Hours of Operation: education CO-OP CITY NORC PROGRAM counseling; group respite; lunch; congregate breakfast; lunch; education; recreation; M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Address: 2049 Bartow Avenue individual respite; information; education; recreation; health nutrition education Services: Case assistance; case BRONXWORKS EAST CONCOURSE Bronx, NY 10475 outreach; public info; supplemental promotion; nutrition education assistance – Medicaid; information SENIOR CENTER Phone Number: (718) 320-2066 services; support groups, training MELROSE MOTT HAVEN Address: 236 E. Tremont Avenue Hours of Operation: JASA BAY-EDEN SENIOR CENTER BRONX HOUSE Bronx, NY 10457 M – Sun: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. HOPE OF ISRAEL SENIOR CENTER Address: 372 E. 152nd Street SENIOR CENTER Phone Number: (718) 731-6300 Services: Call center for SENIOR CENTER Address: 1220 E. 229th Street Bronx, NY 10455 Address: 990 Pelham Parkway Hours of Operation: information on services provided. Address: 1068 Gerard Avenue Bronx, NY 10466 Phone Number: (718) 665-2280 South M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Bronx, NY 10451 Phone Number: (718) 882-3815 Hours of Operation: Bron, NY 10461 Services: Congregate lunch; CO-OP CITY SENIOR CENTER Phone Number: (718) 665-8400 Hours of Operation: M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Phone Number: (718) 792-1800 education; recreation; health Address: 2049 Bartow Avenue Hours of Operation: M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Services: Case assistance; case Hours of Operation: promotion; nutrition education Room 31 M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Services: Case Assistance; Case assistance – Medicaid; congregate M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Bronx, NY 10475 Services: Case assistance; case Assistance – Medicaid; congregate lunch; education; recreation; Services: Congregate lunch; BRONXWORKS HEIGHTS CENTER Phone Number: (718) 320-2066 assistance – Medicaid; Congregate breakfasts; congregate lunch; nutrition education; telephone education; recreation; nutrition FOR SENIOR CITIZENS Hours of Operation: lunch; education; recreation; education; recreation; health reassurance; escort education Address: 200 W. Tremont Avenue M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. nutrition education; health promotion; nutrition education Bronx, NY 10453 Services: Congregate lunch; promotion MID BRONX HOME BRONX JEWISH Phone Number: (718) 299-0300 education; recreation; health JASA CASE MANAGEMENT DELIVERED MEALS COMMUNITY COUNCIL Hours of Operation: promotion; nutrition education; IPR/HE BETANCES Address: 1351 White Plains Road Address: 900 Grand Concourse Address: 2930 Wallace Avenue M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. telephone reassurance; SENIOR CENTER Bronx, NY 10458 Bronx, NY 10451 Bronx, NY 10467 Services: Congregate lunch; transportation Address: 401 St. Ann’s Avenue Phone Number: (347) 547-7140 Phone Number: (718) 992-2057 Phone Number: (718) 652-5500 congregate breakfast; education; Bronx, NY 10454 Hours of Operation: Hours of Operation: Hours of Operation: recreation; nutrition 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. M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. SENIOR CITIZENS Hours of Operation: Services: Case management Services: Home delivered alt. Services: Case assistance; BRONXWORKS MORRIS Address: 2405 Southern Boulevard M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. meals transportation SENIOR CENTER Bronx, NY 10458 Services: Case assistance; case JASA MECHLER HALL st Address: 80 E. 181 Street Phone Number: (718) 364-4788 assistance – Medicaid; congregate Address: 2158 Watson Avenue MITCHELL HOUSES BRONX RIVER Bronx, NY 10453 Hours of Operation: lunch; education; recreation; Bronx, NY 10472 Address: 188 Lincoln Avenue SENIOR CENTER Phone Number: (718) 933-6671 M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. nutrition education Phone Number: (718) 892-11396 Bronx, NY 10454 Address: 1619 E. 174th Street Hours of Operation: Services: Case assistance; case Hours of Operation: Phone Number: (718) 665-2168 Bronx, NY 10472 M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. assistance – Medicaid; congregate IPR/HE MILLBROOK M – F: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Hours of Operation: Phone Number: (718) 617-6334 Services: Arts; congregate lunch; education; recreation; SENIOR CENTER Services: Congregate lunch; M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Hours of Operation: weekend; congregate breakfasts; nutrition education Address: 201 St. Ann’s Avenue education; nutrition education; Services: Case assistance; case M – F: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. congregate dinner; congregate Bronx, NY 10454 recreation assistance – Medicaid; congregate Services: Case assistance; case lunch; education; health EINSTEIN SENIOR CENTER Phone Number: (718) 401-4901 lunch; education; recreation; assistance – Medicaid; congregate management; case assistance; Address: 135 Einstein Loop Hours of Operation: JASA SUE GINSBURG nutrition education lunch; congregate breakfast; information; nutrition education; Bronx, NY 10475 M – F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Address: 975 Waring Avenue education; recreation; nutrition physical health/exercise; Phone Number: (718) 320-2066 Services: Case assistance; case Bronx, NY 10469 MORRISANIA AIR RIGHTS education technology; transportation Hours of Operation: assistance – Medicaid; congregate Phone Number: (718) 881-1758 Address: 3135 Park Avenue East

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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. R.A.I.N. Gun Hill Senior Center. 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 30, 2016 63 Bronx ‘16 STATS YOUTH ATHLETIC PROGRAMS

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/ Astor Little League [email protected] Jawslittleleague/ Website: www.eteamz.com/ North Bronx Little League Demers (Director of Football) - Riverdale Soccer Club performersedgedanceacademy. vannest/ Kingsbridge Little League 4359A White Plains Road (718) 829-7574 4600 Fieldston Road com 3319 Bailey Ave Phone Number: (718) 320-8082 Website: www.eteamz.com/bronx- Phone Number: (718) 601-8639 Website: www. Throgs Neck Little League Phone Number: (718) 924-9135 Website: www.northbronxlittle- warriorsfootball/index.cfm Email: mail@riverdalesoccerclub. performersedgedanceacademy. 150 Throgs Neck Boulevard Email: Chris Navarro (President) - league.org/ org com Phone Number: (718) 822-8232 [email protected] North Bronx Cowboys YFC Website: www.riverdalesoccer- Email: Vinny Todino (President) - Website:http://www.kingsbridgel- Throggs Neck Girls Softball 135 Einstein Loop club.org Time2Dance Academy [email protected] ittleleague.org/ 3159 Bruckner Boulevard #216 Phone Number: (718) 684-4903 Address: 2505 Third Avenue (3rd Website: www.throgsnecklittle- Phone Number: (917) 846-9223 Email: [email protected] South Bronx United Soccer Club Floor) league.com South Riverdale Little League Email:Rachel Mazza (President) - Website: www.nbcowboysfootball. 199 Lincoln Ave., #319 Bronx, NY 10451 P.O. Box 630301 Rachelmazza@Throggsneckgirls- com Phont Number: (718) 404-9281 Phone Number: (718) 654-1500 Pelham Parkway Little League Phone Number: (718) 548-0413 softball.com Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 2030 White Plains Road Email: Michael Farber (President) - Website:http://throggsneckgirls- Bronx Buccaneers Youth Website: www.southbronxunited. Website: www. Phone Number: (718) 597-2292 [email protected] softball.com/ Football org time2danceacademy Email: Daniel Lowe (President) - Website: www.srll.org 800 E. Gun Hill Road (Evander [email protected] Football Leagues Childs Educational Campus Track Teams Bronx Dance Theatre Website:www.networkdimension. North Riverdale Little League Football Field) Address: 585 E. 187th Street (2nd com/ppll.htm Mosholu Avenue Warrior Football Club Phone Number: (347) 805-8283 Velocity Track Club Floor) Phone: (718) 884-1202 Pilgrim Station, P.O. Box 160157 Email: [email protected] Bronx, NY 10458 Co-op City Little League Email: Maureen Kelly (Player Bronx, NY 10461 Website: http://bronxbuccs.org 441-6166-2060 Phone Number: (718) 364 2725 177 Dreiser Loop #17 Agent) – [email protected] Football Phone Number: Jerry Email: [email protected] Email: Neil Goldstein Moving the Chains/South Email: [email protected] (Executive Director) - director@ Bronx Chargers bronxdancetheatre.com Website: 773 Concourse Village East #15K Zodiacs Track Team www.bronxdancetheatre.com Phone Number: (347) 633-3438 P.O. Box 67 Email: [email protected] Phone Number: (718) 679-2060 Miscellaneous Website: http://movingthechains. Email: [email protected] org Website: www.zodiacstrack.org Co-op City Tennis Club Address: 140-20G Asch Loop Roller Hockey Leagues New York Lyons Mane Bronx, NY 10475 Track Club Phone Number: (718) 671-4437 Phone Number: (718) 671-3129 Email: [email protected] Waterbury Roller Hockey League Email: [email protected] Website: http://coopcitytennis.com 916 Logan Avenue Phone Number: (718) 823-9072 Dance Academies Team USA (Martial Arts Center) Email: Bobby Gannello (Commis- Address: 1101 Castle Hill Avenue sioner) - rangers6892@yahoo. Andrea’s Dance Academy Bronx, NY 10472 com 904 Morris Park Avenue Phone Number: (718) 931-0033 Phone Number: (718) 597-9869 Email: O. Samaroo (Instructor) – Basketball Programs [email protected] Fancy Feet Website: www.teamusanyc.com New York Gauchos Basketball 1295 Allerton Avenue 2704 White Plains Road Program Phone Number: (718) 405-5136 Phone Number: (718) 994-4300 478 Gerard Avenue Email: Ssuan O’Hanlon (Director) - Phone Number: (718) 665-6952 [email protected] 914 Prospect Avenue Email: contact@newyorkgauchos. Website: www.fancyfeet.com Phone Number: (718) 659-1700 Website: www.teamusanyc.com com 1628 Crosby Avenue Website: www.newyorkgauchos. Phone Number: (718) 824-1981 com Morris Park Boxing Club Unionport Road 644 Morris Park Avenue Soccer Leagues Phone Number: (347) 691-3443 Phone Number: (718) 430-9083 Website: www.morrisparkboxing- AFC Rapid Youth Soccer Club Performers Edge Dance club.com Will Cintron Fields Academy Balcom and Barkley avenues Address: 4037 E. Tremont Avenue Juan LaPorte’s Boxing Gym Phone Number: (718) 823-5149 Bronx, NY 10465 1300 Southern Boulevard Email: [email protected] Phone Number: (718) 822-2025 Phone Number: (646) 299-6507 Website: http://afcrapid.com Email: Stefanie Salaman Email: [email protected] City Island Little League (Owner) – info@ Website: www.elmaestroinc.org

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STEP STREETS Avenue & Edward L. Grant Highway) West 230th Street (between Heath Avenue and Kingsbridge Terrace) East Mt. Eden Avenue (between West 167th Street (between Shakespeare Topping Avenue & Clay Avenue) Avenue & Jerome Avenue) West 231st Street along Henry Hudson Parkway East 174th Street (between West 166th Street (between Anderson Anthony Avenue & Clay Avenue) Avenue & Jerome Avenue) Van Cortlandt Village (between Orloff Av- enue and Cannon Place) East 172nd Street (between Grand West 161st Street (between Summit Av- Concourse & Sheridan Avenue) enue & Sedgwick Avenue) Van Cortlandt Park South from Gale Place to the intersection with Bailey Avenue, Van East 171st Street (between Clay West 176th Street (between Davidson Av- Cortlandt Avenue, and the Major Deegan Avenue & Webster Avenue) enue and Jerome Avenue) Van Cortlandt Park South northbound on-ramp. East 169th Street (between Clay Avenue & Sedgwick Avenue at University Avenue Webster Avenue) Spuyten Duyvil (between the top of the 187th Street in Washington Heights Waldo Avenue hill to the West 238th Street East 168th Street (between Clay Avenue & IRT) Teller Avenue) West 215th Street (between Broadway and Park Terrace East) Davidson Avenue (between Featherbed Carroll Place at East 165th Street Lane and Davidson Avenue) Godwin Terrace north of West 230th Street West 171st Street (between University Palisades Place to Sedgwick Avenue Avenue & Undercliff Avenue) Naples Terrace (between Godwin Terrace and Broadway) Sedgwick Avenue to Cedar Avenue West 170th Street (between University Avenue & Sedgwick Avenue) Summit Place (between Bailey and Heath Lester Street (between Olinville Avenue Avenues) and Barker Avenue) West 169th Street (between University Avenue & Merriam Avenue) West 230th Street (between Riverdale Avenue and Netherland Avenue) West 168th Street (between Shakespeare

66 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 30, 2016 BTR Bronx ‘16 BRONX SHOPPING CENTERS STATS

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 team at Moe’s Southwest Gril, including (l-r, front) Anthony Waldon, Chaouki Bouzayene, the area. Circuit City would close its stores shortly after Marshalls; Home Depot; Target; Best Buy; Bed, Bath opening its Bronx location. However, the shopping strip, and Beyond; Staples; Toys R Us; Raymour & Flanagan; Matt Mckeinney and Arron Brueske, are ready to serve you. 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 THE 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

(l-r) Joe Farkas, Metropolitan Realty Associaties; Dave Shaw, general manager of the BJ’s Wholesale Club’s Bronx Riverdale location; Racine Rodriguez, senior manager of food sourc- ing at City Harvest; Echo Shumaker-Pruitt, quality assurance manager of Kingsbridge Heights Community Center; Eileen Torres, executive director of BronxWorks; Kenneth Petriccione, principal of P.S./M.S. 37 The Multiple Intelligence School; and Chris Baldwin, The Bay Plaza Barnes & Noble announced it would be closing at the end of 2016. A Sacks Off president and COO of BJ’s Wholesale Club, during the bread breaking ceremony. Fifth will be replacing it in 2017.

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Printing and/or Copy Services Library Branch Library Address Telephone Number Monday Hours Tuesday Hours Wednesday HoursThursday Hours Friday Hours Saturday HoursSunday Hours Library Manager Handicap Accessible Children’sYoung Collection/Room AdultAdult Collection CollectionStory RoomBook DropComputer Box Services

Allerton Branch 2740 Barnes Avenue 718-881-4240 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Denise Lyles Fully • • • • • •

Baychester Branch 2049 Asch Loop North 718-379-6700 10 a.m. to7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Leslie Brown Fully • • • • • •

Belmont Branch 610 East 186th Street 718-933-6410 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Danielle Youmeni Fully • • • • • •

Castle Hill Branch 947 Castle Hill Avenue 718-824-3838 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Yilda Rodriguez Fully • • • •

City Island Branch 320 City Island Avenue 718-885-1703 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Irma Cancel Fully • • • • •

Clason’s Point 1215 Morrison Avenue 718-842-1235 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Melissa Davis Fully • • • • •

Eastchester Branch 1385 East Gun Hill Road 718-653-3292 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Joan Aikens Fully • • • • •

Edenwald Branch 1255 East 233rd Street 718-798-3355 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Charity Goh Fully • • • • •

Francis Martin 2150 University Avenue 718-295-5287 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a..m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Linda Jones Fully • • • •

Grand Concourse 155 East 173rd Street 718-583-6611 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Gloria Hughes Partially • • • • •

High Bridge Branch 78 West 168th Street 718-293-7800 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Margaret Fleesak Fully • • • •

Hunt’s Point Branch 877 Southern Boulevard 718-617-0338 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Gilbert Arroyo Fully • • • • •

Jerome Park Branch 118 Eames Place 718-549-5200 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Liana Acevedo Fully • • • • •

Kingsbridge Branch 291 West 231st Street 718-548-5656 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Martha Gonzalez-Buitrago Fully • • • • • •

Melrose Branch 910 Morris Avenue 718-588-0110 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Dawn Holloway Not Accessible • • • • •

Morris Park Branch 985 Morris Park Avenue 718-931-0636 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Sandy W. Henry Fully • • • • • •

Morrisania Branch 610 East 169th Street 718-589-9268 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Colbert Nembhard Fully • • • • •

Mosholu Branch 285 East 205th Street 718-882-8239 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Jane Addison-Amoyay Partially • • • • • •

Mott Haven Branch 321 East 140th Street 718-665-4878 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Jeanine Thomas-Cross Fully • • • • • •

Parkchester Branch 1985 Westchester Avenue 718-829-7830 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Wendy Archer Fully • • • • • •

Pelham Bay Branch 3060 Middletown Road 718-792-6744 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Debra Acosta Fully • • • • • •

Riverdale Branch 5540 Mosholu Avenue 718-549-1212 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Rebecca Brown Barbier Fully • • • • • •

Sedgwick Branch 1701 Martin L. King, Jr Blvd 718-731-2074 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Samuel O. Ansah Fully • • • • • •

Soundview Branch 660 Soundview Avenue 718-589-0880 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Olive Baker Partially • • • • • •

Spuyten Duyvil 650 West 235th Street 718-796-1202 11a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Tim P. Tureski Partially • • • • • •

Throg’s Neck 3025 Cross Bronx Expwy Ext 718-792-2612 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Tanya Willis Fully • • • • • •

Tremont Branch 1866 Washington Avenue 718-299-5177 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Sandra C. Pugh Fully • • • • •

Van Cortlandt 3874 Sedgwick Avenue 718-543-5150 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Ana Rubio Fully • • • • • •

Van Nest Branch 2147 Barnes Avenue 718-829-5864 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed David Nochimson Partially • • • • • •

Wakefield Branch 4100 Lowerre Place 718-652-4663 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Lakisha Brown Fully • • • • •

West Farms Branch 2085 Honeywell Avenue 718-367-5376 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Omisha Covington Fully • • • •

Westchester Square 2521 Glebe Avenue 718-863-0436 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Tambra Gill Not Accessible • • • • •

Woodlawn Branch 4355 Katonah Avenue 718-519-9627 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Rachel Hanig Fully • • • • •

Woodstock Branch 761 East 160th Street 718-665-6255 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Corey Rodriguez Not Accessible • • • • •

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Annually, the Bronx Times Reporter salutes Dr. Anita Vazquez Batisti women who have energized so many Nancy Biberman aspects of Bronx life. Dr. Yvette Calderon Each has made the Bronx a better place Michelle Centeno to live. Rev. Que English Elizabeth Gill 2010 Honorees Maribel Gonzalez Lisa Alvarado-Sorin Barbara Robles-Gonzalez Kennedy Benjamin Rev. Carmen Hernandez Egeria Bennett Dr. Deborah Dolan Hunt Toby Buongiorno Judy Hutson Joanne Cicero Debra Ann Jaffee Nan Clark Cynthia Jones Linda Corcoran Bharati S. Kemraj Ann Dellacava Nilka Martell Geri Demers Susan O’Hanlon Mendogni Sandra Erickson April Horton Denise Pagan Jackie Kuhls Naomi Pouchie Gerri Lamb Dr. Lisa Anne Rizopoulos Fran Pascale Hon. Fiordaliza A. Rodriguez Sally Regenhard Hon. Llinet Rosado Rosalba Rolon Wilma Tamayo Ivelisse Rosario Rhina Valentin Bishop Nancy Rosario Several of the 2016 honorees. Dr. Eva Yan Victoria Sammartino Loretta Zaino Emily Sanchez Sr. Miriam Thomas Rosemary DeLuca Marie Riolo 2014 Honorees 2016 Honorees Peggy Vega Barbara Dolensik Julia Rodriguez Anna Vincenty June Eisland Geri Sciortino Marianne O’Hea Anderson Peggy Robles Alvarado Margaret Walsh Elizabeth Figueroa Sister Patrick Michael Melissa Barber, M.D. Kathy Zamechansky Maria Aponte Myra Gordon Maria Torres Holly Block .Effie Ardizzone Verona Greenland Lucy Velez Sister Lesley Block, O.P. Debra Arles 2011 Honorees Palome Hernandez Elba Cabrera Leenda Bonilla Karen Washington 2012 Honorees Roseann Carotenuto Wilma Alonso Rosemary Ordonez Jenkins Jessica Clemente Linda Cunningham Eva Bornstein Sister Kathleen Tracey Jacqueline Acevedo Michelle Dolgow Cristofaro Joyce Higginson Davis Bea Castiglia-Catullo Judi Lanci Arlene Allende Aviva Davidson Meiling Viera Delgado Anita Colby Maureen Shea Gerry Arrighi Shannon Lee Gilstad Gianna Dell’Olio Blanche Comras Rifkin Arlene Parks Ida Bellone Longarino Cecilia DeBrino Haas Hetty Fox Gloria Cruz Sallie Caldwell Sabrina Kizzie Avril Francis Noris Colon Brigitte Lozada Evern Gillard-Randolph Awilda Cordero Denise Matranga .Lynne Greco Regina Gallgher Marengo Claudia V. Mera Pamela Hamilton-Johnson Sister Mary Rita Miguel, S.de M. Anna Isabel Garcia Reyes Zelideth Diaz Hatch Nancy Genova Flora Montes Marie Howse Arlene Mukoko Giselle Melendez-Susc Josephine Infante Gail Nathan Chrys Napolitano Madaha Kinsey-Lamb Melissa Munoz Patterson .Nicole Perrino Toby Liederman Lilyanna Pekic Cathy Praino Madeline Marquez Carla Precht oyce A. Rivera Fran Maturo Doris Quinones Andrea Siegel Anne Myers Veronica Torres .Olga Luz Tirado Dorothea Poggi Andrea Verdeschi Marjorie Velasquez-Lynch Marta Rivera Tiffany Warren Medina Sadiq 2015 Honorees Jessica Zufall Sister Seline Mary Flores Zena Twyman Bernice M. Williams Virginia Wright (l-r) The Selection and Planning Committee’s Lisa Sorin, Geri Sciortino, Elizabeth Figueroa, Rosemary De Luca, Anna Vincenty, Laura Guerriero 2013 Honorees and Steven Goodstein. Photo by Silvio Pacifi co Dolores Batista Edith Blitzer Sharlene Brown Marcia Cameron .Linda Cox Terri Dambinskas Nydia R. Edgecombe Rose Florio Roberta Greenberg Hope Harley Jackie Kyle Kall Donna Karlson Sandi Lusk Mirian Moses Sana Nasser Karin O’Connor Evelyn Oliver Bailey Provetto Sr. Diane Prusinski Wendy Rodriguez (l-r) Sonny Vitaj, representing Assemblyman Mark Gjonaj; Sarah Bonizio Joanne Russo-Rubino from Metro Optics; Assemblyman Michael Benedetto and Thomas Mes- Deirdre Scott Krystal Serrano Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochle (l) met with Jennifer Goodstein after sina, representing Congressman Joseph Crowley celebrated this year’s Deborah Tymon incredible honorees. Photo by Silvio Pacifi co Patricia Williams giving her keynote speech in 2016. Photo by Silvio Pacifi co 70 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 30, 2016 BTR Bronx ‘16 WHO KNEW ALL OF THISSTATS WAS AT KINGS HARBOR? 
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GHOST BIKES Location: E. Gun Hill Road and Bouck Avenue Ghost Bikes are small and somber memo- The Story (From the New York Times): Juan rials for bicyclists who are killed or hit on the Solis was riding his bicycle on East Gun Hill Road street. As part of this initiative, an actual bicycle near Bouck Avenue in the Baychester section of is painted all white and locked to a street sign the Bronx at about 4:30 p.m. When he tried to near a particular crash site, accompanied by a ride around a double-parked car an east-bound small plaque explaining the details of the crash truck driving at high speed smashed into him and and putting a face to the tragedy that occurred. fled. Juan was pronounced dead of severe head These memorials aim to raise awareness to the trauma at the hospital. bicyclist and their right to safe travel. The Ghost “Flaco” Bikes remind travelers about the tragedy that Date: Friday, took place on an otherwise anonymous street May 18, 2007 and encourages motorists to be safer when Location: Melrose Avenue and E. 153rd Street driving their cars, especially when bicyclists are Story: A 40-year-old man known in the com- near. munity as Flaco was riding his bike west on 153rd The origins of the Ghost Bike memorials go Street across Melrose Avenue in the Bronx. Sud- back to 2003 when the first memorial was cre- denly he was struck and killed by a southbound ated in St. Louis, Missouri. Since then, over 500 express bus traveling at a high speed. Although ghost bikes have appeared in over 180 locations well-known in the community, he had fallen on throughout the world. To pay homage to these hard times and had actually stolen a necklace memorials and the message they hope to relay, just before the accident occurred. A friend who Ghostbikes.org was created. Initially set up by worked on that corner stayed by him until the am- the NYC Street Memorial Project, Ghostbikes. bulance came. Flaco did not survive the crash. org hopes to provide people with an opportunity Eulene Bryant to remember the loved ones while also putting Date: Saturday, forth a call to action to create safer streets in the October 29, 2005 community. Location: 3rd Avenue and 168th Street New York City Story: Eulene Bryant, 57, of Mott Haven, In New York City, the Street Memorial Proj- was hit while riding his bike along Third avenue. ect uses the Ghost Bikes memorials to foster The driver remained at the scene and was not mutual respect among all people who share the charged. streets. The Project, created in 2007, continues Louie Eddie Morales the work of various groups and volunteers, who Date: Tuesday, for more than a decade have created memorials May 3, 2011 for those lost in New York City crashes – the first Location: 132nd Street and St. Anns Avenue of which were created in 1996 by Right of Way. Story: Louie Eddie Morales aka FATBOY The group would create memorial stencils on the was Vice President/CEO & cofounder of Ruff street before the arts collective Visual Resistance Ryder Cycle Squad, which is a branch/division of embraced the Ghost Bike memorial in June 2005 the Ruff Ryder Motorcycle, Car and Truck Club. to honor Liz Padilla. Since this time, almost 100 A true lover of bikes, the 18-year-old was tragi- ghost bikes have been installed in the City honor- cally hit at 132nd Street and St Anns Avenue in ing 145 known fatalities. the Bronx by the driver of a truck exiting the Fed There are several ways in which the Bronx Ex facility there. According to the NY Post, he community can follow the progress of the Ghost was rushed to Lincoln Hospital, where he died. A Bikes initiative in New York. ghost bike was installed by members of the squad Brother John Nin (l) and mother Raisa Jiminez mourn Giovanni Nin’s death. The Web: www.ghostbikes.org/new-york- together with Louie’s mom on that corner in his city memory, one year after his death. was hit by a bus. The driver of the car was issued Story: A man was fatally struck and killed by Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ Alprentice (A.J.) Gray a summons for interfering with a bicyclist. Meg a vehicle while riding his bike in the Port Morris NYCGhostBikes?sk=wall Date: Friday, had been nicknamed “Mother Theresa” by mem- community. Not much is known about the accident. Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/pho- August 27, 2010 bers of her community because she would always Police still are uncertain of the man’s identity. tos/19363530@N02/ Location: E. 188th Street and Webster Avenue open her home to poor and sick kids in the area. Gabriela Aguilar-Vallinos The Bronx Story: Alprentice was riding down E. 188th On April 10, 2010, friends, family and cyclists in- Date: Friday, The following is a list of many of the individu- Street when he crossed Webster Avenue and was stalled a ghost bike in her memory. The 2010 Tour September 11, 2015 als memorialized in the Bronx through the Ghost struck by a southbound passenger car. According de Bronx was dedicated in honor of Meg Felice Location: Bikes initiative: to news reports, he was brought to St. Barnabas Charlop. Pelham Bay Park near City Island Bridge Michael Needham hospital and put on life support until he eventu- Faustino Morales Story: Aguilar-Vallinos, 27, who was biking Date: Thursday, ally died. The driver of the vehicle was simply Date: Tuesday, home from City Island after working her shift at June 5, 2008 issued a summons for driving without a license, November 18, 2008 Sammy’s Shrimp Box, was hit by a hit-and-run Location: Barnes Avenue which normally is an arrestable offense. Only 30 Location: Randall Avenue and Truxton Street driver on the northwest corner of the City Island Allerton Community minutes before the incident, he had spoken to his Story: According to news reports, Faustino Bridge and City Island Road at 11:45 p.m. The Story: Michael Needham Jr. was riding girlfriend, Maria Cipolla, and promised he would Morales was riding east on Randall Avenue in Giovanni Nin his bike with friends outside the Allerton Library spend time with her, saying “I’ll call you back .... I Hunts Point, when a delivery truck killed him in a Date: Saturday, after school on June 5th, when a speeding car love you.” Maria continues to maintain Alprentice’s hit-and-run crash. Despite the accounts of speed- June 11, 2016 struck him. After 19 days in a coma, he died on Facebook page where many people, especially ing and reckless driving, the crash site lacked a Location: E. Tremont and Mayflower avenues June 23rd, 2008. Michael’s friends helped deco- Maria, continue to express their love for him. proper traffic signal. Bike lanes have since been Story: Giovanni Nin, a 26 year old, was rate the Ghost Bike. Later that year, a Bike Rodeo Meg Felice Charlop painted on Randall Avenue. killed in a hit-and-run incident while biking to his was held at Michael’s school to educate the stu- Date: Wednesday, Unnamed girlfriend’s apartment on E. Tremont and May- dents about bike safety. March 17, 2010 Date: Tuesday, flower avenues.. Juan Luis Solis Location: E. Tremont and Crotona avenues July 19, 2011 Date: Friday, Story: Meg was on her way to work when Location: Bruckner Boulevard, S. Boulevard and For more on these and other stories, go to June 22, 2007 she swerved to miss a car door opening and she E. 141st Street www.ghostbikes.org/new-york-city. 72 BRONX STATS - DECEMBER 30, 2016 BTR Bronx ‘16 SALE! HUGE SAVINGS!STATS IF WE CAN’T GET IT, IT IS NOT MADE

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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, 3,6,096 yards with a par Phone: 718-885-1258 Information: Mosholu Golf Course, found- Information: Trump Golf Links at Ferry of 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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In 1997, the borough created the Bronx Ray Barretto – Musician Group Writer 2015 Walk of Fame as a way to pay tribute to The Chantels - 50’s Singing Group GrandMaster Caz - Hip Hop Pioneer Tony Orlando - Singer (Honorary Bronx- (Inducted by Borough President Ruben Bronx stars and notable leaders who Rosetta LeNoire – Actress Rock Steady Crew - Originators of Break- ite) Diaz, Jr.) helped put their hometown in the spotlight. Cathy Moriarty-Gentile – Actress dancing Judy Reyes – Actress Malik Yoba - Actor In 2008, the Walk of Fame was expanded Gabe Pressman - Broadcast Journalist Adam Rodriguez – Actor Grand Wizzard Theodore - Hip-Hop Pio- Dolph Schayes – Actress to include honorary Bronxites who were Dr. Ruth Westheimer - Sex therapist and neer/ Inventor of Scratching David Zayas – Pro Basketball Player not born in the borough, but helped in 2003 Author (First Honorary Bronxite) Stacey Dash – Actress some way to make the Bronx shine. In to- (Inducted by then-Borough President 2010 Alfredo Thiebaud – Founder of Delicioso Coco Helado tal, almost 90 individuals have been hon- Adolfo Carrion, Jr.) 2009 (Inducted by Borough President Ruben 2016 Diaz, Jr.) ored. As part of the induction, the borough Michael Kay - Sportscenter & YES Net- (Inducted by Borough President Ruben (Inducted by Borough President Ruben president unveils separate street signs for work’s voice of the Yankees Diaz, Jr.) Herman Badillo - Former Borough Presi- Diaz, Jr.) each honoree so that future generations Joey Kramer - Aerosmith Drummer Charles Fox – Composer dent and Congressman Arlene Alda - Photographer/Author will remember their contributions for years Jake LaMotta - Boxer & World Middle- Melissa Manchester - Singer/ Song- Ed Lewis - Essence Magazine Founder Vincent Pastore – Actor to come. The signs run along The Walk of weight Champion and Chairman Peter Sohn – Animator/Director Fame running south from the Bronx County Daniel Libeskind - Architect & Designer Joanie Madden and Cherish the Ladies Eduardo Vilaro – Artistic Director Courthouse on the Grand Concourse, start- of the New WTC Site - Celtic Musicians ing at E. 161 Street. These are those hon- DJ Red Alert - Hip-Hop Artist & Impresa- Jerry Vale - Romantic Singer ored Bronxites: rio 1997 Jimmy Sabater - Boogaloo Pioneer 2011 (Inducted by then-Borough President Valerie Simpson - Singer, Songwriter, (Inducted by Borough President Ruben Fernando Ferrer) Producer Diaz, Jr.) Nate “Tiny” Archibald - Basketball & Hall Liz Torres - Actress & Comedienne Chazz Palminteri - Actor and Writer of Famer Irene Cara – Singer John “Jellybean” Benitez - Music Im- 2004 Joy Bryant – Actress and Fashion Model presario (Inducted by then-Borough President Charles Latibeaudiere - Executive Robert Klein - Actor, Comedian, Enter- Adolfo Carrion, Jr.) Producer tainer Willie Colon - Internationally-acclaimed Regis Philbin - Entertainer & TV Host Trombonist 2012 Renee Taylor - Broadway & TV Actress Bobby Darin - Legendary Entertainer (Inducted by Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr.) Sonia Manzano - Maria on Sesame Fat Joe - Rap Artist 1998 Street Tyson Beckford – Model and Actor (Inducted by then-Borough President Shelley Morrison – Actress Valerie Capers – Musician and Educator Fernando Ferrer) John Patrick Shanley – Screenwriter Sol Negin - Cinematographer Angela Bofi ll – Singer Grandmaster Flash The Furious Five - Red Buttons – Comedian Rap Pioneers 2013 Gary Marshall - Film Producer, Actor, Co- (Inducted by Borough President Ruben median 2005 Diaz, Jr.) Rita Moreno - Actress & Entertainer (Inducted by then-Borough President Ellen Barkin - Actress Adolfo Carrion, Jr.) Miguel Angel Amadeo – Salsero 1999 Army Archerd - Hollywood’s Most Popular Robert Abrams – Former NYS Attorney Peter Sohn (Inducted by then-Borough President Columnist General Fernando Ferrer) Kurtis Blow - Hip-Hop Pioneer 2014 Joe Franklin – Broadcaster Dominic Chianese – Actor (Inducted by Borough President Ruben Hal Linden - Actor & Musician The Chiffons - 60’s Sensations Diaz, Jr.) Felipe Lopez - NBA Player Joseito Mateo - King of Merengue Rachel Ticotin - Actress Pricilla Lopez – Actress Esai Morales – Actor Eddie Palmieri - Latin Pianist David Zayas – Actor - Latin Pianist Charlie Palmieri Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean – 2000 Ed Pinckney - College Basketball Star Producer (Inducted by then-Borough President Daniel Schorr - Veteran Reporter-Com- Eduardo Vilaro William Colon III – NY Jets Off. Lineman Fernando Ferrer) mentator Sam Garnes - NFL Player Dolores Hope – Entertainer 2006 Marvin Scott - News Anchor (Inducted by then-Borough President Yomo Toro - “Cuatro” Musician Adolfo Carrion, Jr.) Neil deGrasse Tyson - Head of the NY Emanuel “Manny” Azenberg – Pro- Planetarium ducer Dave Valentin - Jazz Flutist Afrika Bambaataa - The Godfather of Hip Guy Williams - TV’s original Zorro Hop Art Donovan - NFL Hall of Famer 2001 Tony Guida - News Anchor (Inducted by then-Borough President Mary Higgins Clark – Author Fernando Ferrer) La India - “Princess of Salsa” Lyn Brown - News Anchor Bobby Sanabria – Musician Diahann Carroll - Actress and Entertainer E.L. Doctorow – Author 2007 Paul “Ace” Frehley - KISS Guitarist (Inducted by then-Borough President Ed Kranepool - Baseball Player Adolfo Carrion, Jr.) Stanley Kubrick – Filmmaker Aventura Bachata-R&B Sensation - Mu- Johnny Pacheco – Musician sic Group Kris Parker (KRS-ONE) - Rap and Hip Hop Dion DiMucci - Singer & Songwriter Artist Budd Friedman - Founder of Improvisa- Colin Powell - U.S. Secretary of State tion Comedy Club Jim Ryan - News Anchor Doris Roberts – Actress Burt Young – Actor Luther Vandross – Singer

2002 2008 (Inducted by then-Borough President (Inducted by then-Borough President Adolfo Carrion, Jr.) Adolfo Carrion, Jr.) Danny Aiello – Actor Larry Chance & The Earls - Doo Wop Vincent Pastore Arlene Alda

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ALLOY WHEEL REPAIR STRAIGHTENING We provide High tech straightening to back to near factory standards

WELDING High quality TIG Welding for your wheel cracks needs

SAND BLASTING High quality method for surface preparations Ask For Our Lease Return Specials. Don’t Get Over Charged By The Dealer REFINISHING/RECONDITIONING High Quality finihes with our state of the art CNC 24/48-Hour Turnaround Service Lathe and Computerized Color Matching Equipment

Full Service Reconditioning and POWDER COATING Straightening Services Provided Custom Colors and texture to make your wheels stand out We Stock Factory OEM Wheels Follow Us On FREE Pick-up and Delivery Facebook

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PUBLIC PARKING AUD Cherkasky Auditorium 210th Street Garage (Open 24-hours) Rates (subject to change): Up to 1 hour: $6, up to 2 hours $8, up to 12 Hours: $12, up to 24 hours $16 OHS Occupational Health Services Greene Medical Arts Pavilion Garage (6am-11pm daily) Rates (subject to change): up to 1 hour: $6, up to 2 hours $8, up to 6 hours: $12, up to 12 hours: $16, after 12 hours: $20 DEOD Division of Education & Organizational Development PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

Montefi Bus: HR Human Resources (Staffing) Bx1 bus stops at Jerome Avenue and 210th Street. Bx10, Bx16, Bx28, Bx30 and Bx34 buses stop directly outside Greene Medical Arts Pavilion. SEC Security (ID Badges) Subway: train (Lexington Avenue Woodlawn line) to Mosholu Parkway Station. train (IND) to 205th Street Station (last stop). Street sign says 206th Street and Bainbridge.

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We have been operating since 1978, offering quality products to those that desire organic, more natural, gluten-free, and non GMO foods.

Our vitamin and herb selection is extensive.

Examples of lines stocked; New Chapter, Solgar, Bluebonnet, Twin Labs, Nature’s Way, Kal, Solaray, Country Life, Herb Pharm., Gaia, Europharma, Natrol, Bach Flower,Life Extension.

Even our herb selection becomes even greater when you take into account all the herbal teas offered. Its unmatched in the Bronx Where there is always a sale

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