14 Photos Of The Bronx From Before You Were Born
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Bergen Avenue and 148th Street in 1915.
Here's how it looks today.<p>East 177th Street looking west from Metcalf Avenue in 1915.</p>
<p>Sedgwick Avenue looking south to High Bridge, ca. 1895. Many years later, <a href="http://gothamist.com/tags/1520sedgwick">hip hop was born</a> on Sedgwick Avenue.</p>
<p>St. Stephen's United Methodist Church, Marble Hill Avenue in 1932. And <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1170&bih=606&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=St.+Stephen's+United+Methodist+Church,+Marble+Hill+Avenue&fb=1&gl=us&hq=St.+Stephen's+United+Methodist+Church,&hnear=0x89c2f39398d459bf:0xc5030b44b0083d53,Marble+Hill+Ave,+New+York,+NY&cid=0,0,9961555091173042593&ei=5JRXT6f9HsT10gHh9NXkDw&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=image&ved=0CAkQ_BI">still there today</a>!</p>
<p>Schools, Academy of Mt. St. Vincent in 1915.</p>
<p>Ewen Avenue No. 2565 (Bar and grill), Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx. October 1935.</p>
<p>Albert J. Ver Bryck, Bronx County Court House, Third Ave. & 161st St. in 1926.</p>
<p>White Plains Road at Gun Hill Road in 1915</p>
<p>Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, formerly Irene Langhorne, sister of Nancy Astor, and of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson_Girl">Gibson Girl fame</a>... at the Bronx Zoo!</p>
<p>Southern Boulevard at 163rd Street in 1913.</p>
<p>Bronx Traveling Library, 1938.</p>
<p>Kingsbridge Road looking north east from Fordham Road in 1930.</p>
<p>Gasoline Station on July 2, 1936.</p>
<p>Poe Cottage, 1898, just about 50 years after he died. You can <a href="http://gothamist.com/2010/11/03/how_much_would_you_pay_to_rentsave.php">still visit the cottage today</a>. Poe paid $100 a year for the cottage, and the two acres it sat upon!</p>