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On February 27, 1962, the New York City Transit Authority announced a $700,000 modernization plan of the Dyre Avenue Line. The plan included the reconstruction of the Dyre Avenue station, and the extension of the platforms of the other four stations on the line, including Baychester Avenue to 525 feet (160 m) to accommodate ten-car trains.
The Bx25 and Bx26 begin at Paul Avenue and 205th Street, looping around Harris Park. They then run south on Paul Avenue until Bedford Park Boulevard, where they run east until reaching Southern Boulevard/Kazimiroff Boulevard, continuing north and east as it becomes Allerton Avenue, heading east until Gunther Avenue, turning north there onto Bartow Avenue until reaching Baychester Avenue, where ...
Baychester is a neighborhood geographically located in the northeast part of the Bronx, New York City. Its boundaries are East 222nd Street to the northeast, the New England Thruway ( I-95 ) to the east, Gun Hill Road to the southwest, and Boston Road to the northwest.
On May 12, 1955, the Third Avenue Line was closed south of 149th Street in response to developers wishing to construct newer residences and commercial buildings on the East Side of Manhattan. [2] [3] [4] The remainder of the Third Avenue Line, wholly within the Bronx, was closed on April 28, 1973 and was subsequently demolished. [5]
The Bx28 began on September 18, 1933, under the designation of the Bx15. On July 1, 1974, the Bx15 was extended on its eastern end from Gunther Avenue-Bartow Avenue to its current terminus at Co-op City and extended on its western end from Mosholu Parkway-Jerome Avenue to its current terminus in Fordham, although select trips and all Sunday trips continued to terminate at Mosholu Parkway ...
The layout resembled a large map of the contiguous United States and was designed like a movie set. As guests entered from the parking lot, they walked into Little Old New York of the 1890s. Baychester Avenue and the New England Thruway at the park's western edge approximately represented Freedomland's border with Canada.
In 2009, as part of Phase II of the MTA and New York City Department of Transportation (DOT)'s Select Bus Service (SBS), both the Third Avenue and Webster Avenue bus corridors were studied for the implementation of a north-to-south bus rapid transit service through the South Bronx. [10] The Bx41 along Webster Avenue was chosen for Select Bus ...
1905 Map showing Givans Creek. Street grid does not match modern layout. Robert Givan emigrated to the area (at the time, a part of Westchester County) from Kelso, Scotland, in 1795, purchasing land along the western shore of the Hutchinson River and Eastchester Bay, which previously was owned by the Bartow family.