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List of Registered Historic Places in Bronx County, New York (Borough of The Bronx): . This is intended to be a complete list of the 82 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Bronx County, New York.
Pelham Bay Library: 3060 Middletown Road 68: Pelham Parkway–Van Nest Library: 2147 Barnes Avenue "The history of the branch goes back to 1912, when it was first established as a station of NYPL's Travelling Libraries program, bringing library books to neighborhoods that didn't yet have branches.
Pelham Parkway is a working-and middle-class residential neighborhood geographically located in the center of the Bronx, a borough of New York City in the United States. [5] Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise are: Pelham Parkway South, to the east the IRT Dyre Avenue Line tracks (5 train) and to the south Bronxdale Avenue and to the west, Bronx Park East.
The road begins in Bronx Park at the Bronx River Parkway and U.S. Route 1 (US 1) and ends at Interstate 95 (I-95), the New England Thruway, in Pelham Bay Park, hence the roadway's name. The parkway is designated as New York State Route 907F ( NY 907F ), an unsigned reference route , by the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT).
The area around Pelham Parkway for example has a large number of multi-family buildings or apartments in comparison to the number of one and two family homes. Many of the buildings on Bronx Park East both north and south of Pelham Parkway are designed in the Art Deco/Art Moderne style. Bronx Park East and Reiss Place
Edenwald Houses are a housing project in the Eastchester and Laconia neighborhoods of the Bronx, New York City.Established on October 30, 1953, the project consists of forty buildings, 3 and 14 stories tall with 2,039 apartment units.
The Bartow–Pell Mansion is a historic house museum at 895 Shore Road in the northern section of Pelham Bay Park, within the New York City borough of the Bronx.The two-story building, designed in the mid-19th century by an unknown architect, has a Greek Revival facade and federal interiors and is the last surviving manor house in the Pelham Bay Park area.
In 2007, the proposed Visitors Center for the Cottage and Bronx Historical Society in Poe Park was honored by the New York City Art Commission's 2007 Design Awards. [37] The visitor center, designed by Toshiko Mori, opened in 2008 [ 38 ] [ 39 ] and was the first NYC Parks project completed under mayor Michael Bloomberg 's Design and ...