Photo Gallery: Sidestreets/Neighborhoods
| Taken on the July 1999 walking tour organized by Forgotten-NY's Kevin Walsh. Kevin and I stopped on our way to meet the rest of the group, so I could get my token shots in of the Mosholu. Mosholu Pkwy is one of two Bronx parkways that predated and never quite made it up to the status of arterial highway. The other is Pelham Pkwy. The two roads never meet each other; the Bronx Botanical Gardens getting in the way. Both are noted for this; a wide, sweeping grassy center median that pretty much serves as community greenspace and parkland, although in the withering drought-like conditions of the summer of '99, the grass wasn't looking too green. The top view faces north and the middle faces south. |
| The cross street is Bainbridge Avenue, a major north Bronx thoroughfare. Mosholu, like Pelham, does enjoy one short run as a limited access highway, north of its interchange with the Major Deegan Expwy. It still shares the usual traits of olden days parkways, despite substantial rebuilding in that section, of constant winding curves. Most of Mosholu however, is like this section. To many people outside NY, such bucolic imagery probably runs counter to their impressions of what the Bronx must look like; so maligned has that borough been over the decades in popular media. |
| Lining Mosholu, as they do most Bronx residential streets, are the usual gaggle of 1920's-1930's era apartment houses, mostly 6 story affairs. The thin corner building is 1920's vintage. The neighboring structure with the stepped back els is an art-deco era building, most likely from the late 30's, or possibly just after WW2. The striped brickwork is characteristic of such buildings, although many art deco era edifices sported cream and orange brickwork. |