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Cartographically this map claims to be the culmination of original survey work accomplished by William Hooker, but to our eye is a clear copy of Burr’s contemporaneous pocket map of New York City. Hooker’s map, like Burr’s names all streets and identifies city wards from the Battery to 52nd Street.
The first map to extensively depict New York City's transit lines is a United States Geological Survey map of southern Brooklyn drafted in 1888. The first subway focused map was published in 1904-1905 when several maps were published alongside the opening of the IRT subway. [11]
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The Bronx County Historical Society founded The Bronx County Archives in 1974 to act as a repository for Bronx municipal records. Since that date, The Bronx County Archives have acquired a dedicated building, located next door to The Bronx County Historical Society Research Library, equipped with moisture- and temperature-controlled storage space.
The 183rd Street station of the Third Avenue El, shortly before its demolition. On May 17, 1886, the Suburban Rapid Transit Company operated the first rapid transit operation in the Annexed District—as the Bronx was known then—via a crossing over the Harlem River between 133rd Street and 129th Street in Manhattan. [1]
The West Farms Square–East Tremont Avenue station (formerly the 177th Street station) [3] is a local station on the IRT White Plains Road Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of East Tremont Avenue and Boston Road in the West Farms neighborhood of the Bronx , it is served by the 2 train at all times, and the 5 train ...
Sedgwick Avenue is a major street in the Bronx, New York City. It runs roughly parallel to Jerome Avenue , the Major Deegan Expressway , and University Avenue. Sedgwick Avenue is one of the longest streets in the western part of the Bronx, running from Mosholu Parkway at the north to Macombs Dam Bridge at its southern end, about 800 feet (250 m ...