Prospect Avenue and Avenue St. John. 1905
Jules Aarons, Morton Broffman and Joe Conzo are three Bronx-born photographers who captured moments of political activism in the New York borough and across the country, from the civil rights movement in the 1960s to the protest against alleged racism in the film Fort Apache the Bronx in the 1980s. A new exhibition juxtaposes their work and poses questions about community and how it can effect social change
This is not my thread.. just thought it was interesting.. enjoy Bronxdale Projects (Soundview, BX) Bronxdale Houses has 28, seven-story buildings...
Parkchester is a huge middle-class housing complex in the Bronx similar to Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village. All three d...
Freedomland was an amusement park in the Bronx in what is now Coop City , it was open from 1960 thru 1964. I remember going there as a kid...
Loew's Paradise Theatre - Bronx, NY 1930.
Vintage Parkchester photos In Parkchester, Bronx, New York 10462 - Parkchester Information Network
Here's what New York City looked like during the 70s, one of the city's most tumultuous decades.
...and from before it was burning.
The Windsor Theatre opened around 1920 with 1,600 seats, located in the Fordham section of the Bronx on Kingsbridge Road near Fordham Road. Closed ...
New York City has many grand old theaters and movie houses. These hearty survivors have been typically rebranded as a drugstore, Starbucks, or some other store that has none of that show biz grandeur or charm. But it seems like the Bronx has more than its share of old theaters than other boroughs. Two recycled…
The new Netflix series is set in New York City in 1977, a notoriously rough year that saw economic disaster and a major blackout
How the borough has transformed from the 1890s to today
In this quarter the murales are threatening, the images most of all refer to drug addiction, large number of Churchesand you can find murales with Jesus icon
Co-op City, located in the northeast Bronx on NYC's urban periphery, is highly visible but remains an enigma to most New Yorkers. It is worth a closer look.
Continuing my halting, wavering, and occasionally incoherent way up the Grand Boulevard and Concourse, the spine of the western Bronx broached in Grand Concourse Part 1, my first stop was…
Just one of the marvelously rendered and colored signs that you see on some of the Art Deco apartment houses along the Grand Concourse and other locales in the Bronx.…
These vintage photos of the Bronx-Yankee Stadium, Bronx Zoo, Fordham Road, Hunts Point-lend to its storied history far before the days of the "Burning Bronx."
Parkchester+ +The+Grand+Old+Neighborhood SD - YouTube
