Where New York City Begins

That’s awesome. It’s like the gates to the Emerald City. Hopefully it’ll stay like that forever.. Well, maybe if they added some turrets to the station. But that would make it too much Disney, so lets not. ;p

The northern part of the Bronx is much different than the sounthern, more infamous, part. Perhaps you should scout out all the different movies filmed in the Riverdale section.

Love it. It’s like when all the old cities used to have walls and different gates into the the actual city. On a similar note I always love contemplating the different roads that run into a city and always imagine scenes from ancient Athens and Rome etc. when there were actual distinguished roads that ran into a city, a la the aforementioned walls and gates and what must have gone on outside the walls along the way.

Underneath the terminal of the el, there used to be a trolley terminus. The trolley just reversed direction at that point. The backs of the trolley seats swung on hinges to face the other direction. As kids we always like to help the conductor turn the seat backs. In the summers of the early 1950s we took the trolley north to Tibbets Brook Park in Yonkers to go swimming in the outdoor pool.,

Enjoyed this post. West of Jerome once you pass Moshulu Parkway, is Amalgamated Housing, a cooperative living community dating back to 1927. I live in the last of the original buildings. You probably know of it already. It’s a lovely tree-lined neighborhood with lots of history.

Scout, Agree, Jerome Avenue is the most abrupt city entrance I’ve seen, but the Southern entrance to Pittsburgh via the Fort Pitt Tunnel and Bridge is the most dramatic I know, hands down. I grew up there, and it never failed to stun, no matter how many times I went downtown, as we say in the ‘burgh. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0ScB9EpnBA

@George Gauthier some of the commuter trains in this area still use reversible seats. i know at least some models the LIRR uses do (or did five years ago when i lived there, anyway), and i think there may be some on NJT as well. (not sure about MetroNorth.)

just to be clear, i actually live in Woodlawn and take the leafy green jerome avenue (which extends all the way to 233rd street, by the way) and the entire road *is* the bronx. also, “the bronx isn’t supposed to look like this?” hrumph. the bronx is is about 24% parkland, which includes virgin forest, wetlands and beach front. additionally, there was an actual revolutionary battle fought in woodlawn in Indian Fields and woodlawn cemetery contains a redoubt from the encampment of washington’s troops dragging artillary across what is now the gun hill road. just saying.