Kappock Street as seen in October 1998, crawling beneath the Henry Hudson Parkway, heading east. A rebuilding project sometime in either the 1950's or 1960's must have resulted in the yellow bricked retaining walls seen on portions of this underpass. Kappock Street snakes its way eastward towards the Road Runner cartoon-like streets that descend the steep Riverdale hills down into the Marble Hill and Kingsbridge Bronx neighborhoods.

Kappock Street pedestrians use the stairs shown here to get from east to west. Note the baby "quarter-loop" mast arm attached like a papoose to its parent below. It is lighting up the stairs. I nicknamed these uplift type mast arms Quarter-loops because it would take roughly 4 of them to form a circle, and because I could think of nothing else to call them, and because on this site, every pole, arm, base and bracket has to have a nickname. What can I say? Its part of my, shall I say, branding.

Kappock Street has one moment of fame, courtesy of Hollywood, in what was either a late 1950's or very early 1960's film or TV show episode involving a frantic mother racing to deliver ransom money to her son's kidnappers. I can't remember any names, but the scene I remember had her coming off the Henry Hudson Bridge and thinking out loud about how she has to get off at Kappock. The incredulous manner in which she said the street name left me in stitches. Why was it so funny? Who knows? I was only 10 or so when I saw it. 10 year olds don't require much to make them giggle.