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Engine Co. #73, Hook & Ladder #42 image

Engine Co. #73, Hook & Ladder #42
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FDNY Engine 73. During the 1970s and 80s, when many fire stations in the Bronx were disbanded and the borough suffered from neglect, Engine 73 responded to a huge number of calls, over 7000 in 1977.
Montefiore Hebrew Congregation Synagogue image

Montefiore Hebrew Congregation Synagogue
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Montefiore Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, 1938. The Montefiore Hebrew Congregation was founded in 1901 and six years later moved into their brand new synagogue on Hewitt Place. The Romanesque building was modeled on eastern European synagogue styles but is also topped with a pair of—somewhat fanciful— onion domes, more common in the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition. For two decades the congregation was led by an impassioned and dynamic leader named Rabbi Jacob Katz. Russian born, he arrived to New York City as toddler, later attending City College, Columbia, and Jewish Theological Seminary before getting a law degree from NYU. He began his career at a Flatbush synagogue before taking the leadership in 1920 of this Bronx community. He also served for 32 years as the chaplain at Sing-Sing Prison. As chaplain he attended to the spiritual needs of the general population and as well as more than 70 men executed for their crimes. Rabbi Katz moved on from Montefiore in the early 1940s. The religious building was designated a landmark in 1980 (as part of the Longwood Historic District) while serving as the home of the Hewitt Place United Church. The imposing structure still stands, with its eye-catching roofline, but sans its ornate stained glass (which is either lost or covered up).
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St. Anselm's Church
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St. Anselm's Roman Catholic Church as viewed from Wales Avenue, 1938. The parish of St. Anselm's dates to 1891, while the current church building was not constructed until 1918. A clear stylistic change from most of the earlier nearby churches, St. Anselm's was designed in the Byzantine Revival style. It is said that the design was inspired by the Hagia Sophia, the basilica, turned mosque, turned museum in Istanbul, Turkey. A quirky bit of religious history was once housed at St. Anselm's. The body of St. Peregine, who was martyred in Rome in A.D. 192 and entombed as a shrine and venerated by communities in Rome and then Germany, came to the Bronx for a time. In 1895, after a fire in the church where it had been housed , the shrine traveled to the United States and was kept at St. Anselm's in the Bronx until 1927, when it was removed to St. John's Abbey in Minnesota.
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Denison-White Mansion
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Denison-White Mansion, 1915. Erected in circa 1850, this former mansion is the oldest structure in the Longwood section of the Bronx. Constructed as the private residence of Charles Denison, a Manhattan merchant, the building was originally located just north of the junction of Southern Boulevard and Leggett Lane. Later owned by Denison's son-in-law, Samuel White, the house was likely moved at the end of the 19th century as the streets of Longwood were being laid out. According to the LPC designation report for the Longwood Historic District, very little of the original building remains. Extensive work on the home at the start of the 20th century removed the large, six-columned portico that fronted the building. The small porch entrance supported by Doric columns was created during these alterations. For most of the 20th century, the building housed a series of firms and community spaces, including a real estate office, quite a few social clubs, and a Police Athletic League center. By 2006 the property was long abandoned and derelict when a pair of Manhattan-based nonprofit developers of affordable housing planned a large development behind the old mansion. The development included the restoration of the mansion's facade as a community center and the construction of 93 units of affordable housing, with a portion reserved for grandparents (or other older relatives) raising grandchildren. The construction and restoration were completed in 2010.

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588 Fox Street image

588 Fox Street

588 Fox Street at the S.E. corner of St. John's Avenue. General exterior.
645 Prospect Avenue image

645 Prospect Avenue

Bronx: Prospect Avenue - 151st Street (East) Prospect Avenue, west side, north from E. 151st Street. April 26, 1938 P. L. Sperr
Engine Co. #73, Hook & Ladder #42 image

Engine Co. #73, Hook & Ladder #42

Bronx 22, Engine Co. \_73, Hook & Ladder \_42, 655 Prospect Ave; Jerry Spearman, Photographer
Engine Co. #73, Hook & Ladder #42 image

Engine Co. #73, Hook & Ladder #42

Engine Co. #73, Hook & Ladder #42 image

Engine Co. #73, Hook & Ladder #42

Bronx: Prospect Avenue - 152nd Street (East) Prospect Avenue, at, and adjoining the N.W. corner of E. 152nd Street, showing Fire Engine No. 73, and Hook and Ladder No. 42. April 26, 1938. P. L. Sperr
Engine Co. #73, Hook & Ladder #42 image

Engine Co. #73, Hook & Ladder #42

Engine Co. #73, Hook & Ladder #42 image

Engine Co. #73, Hook & Ladder #42

Southern Boulevard and Leggett Avenue, southeast corner image

Southern Boulevard and Leggett Avenue, southeast corner

Cattle drinking from a spring near Southern Boulevard and Leggett's Lane, Bronx, New York City, October 19, 1897.
Southern Boulevard and Leggett Avenue, southeast corner image

Southern Boulevard and Leggett Avenue, southeast corner

Spring at the southeast corner of Southern Boulevard and Leggett Avenue, Bronx, New York City, October 6, 1897.
619 Union Avenue image

619 Union Avenue

Bronx: Union Avenue - 151st Street (East) 619 to 625 Union Avenue, at, adjoining, and north of the N.W. corner of E. 151st Street. The view is west along E. 151st Street and across the clearance at the N.E. corner of the two thoroughfares. April 26, 1938. P. L. Sperr
699 Prospect Avenue image

699 Prospect Avenue

Bronx: Prospect Avenue - 155th Street (East) 699 to 719 Prospect Avenue, west side, at E. 155th Street. The view is northward. April 26, 1938. P.L. Sperr
Denison-White Mansion image

Denison-White Mansion

534 Union Avenue image

534 Union Avenue

Bronx: Union Avenue - Southern Boulevard Union Avenue, north from near Southern Boulevard. The second tall building on the west side of the avenue (left) is Public School No. 25, at E. 149th Street. August 16, 1940 P. L. Sperr
St. Anselm's Church image

St. Anselm's Church

Prospect Avenue and East 156th Street image

Prospect Avenue and East 156th Street

Bronx: 165th Street (East) - Prospect Avenue East 165th Street, north side, west from Prospect Ave., to Tinton Ave. In the background, extending from Union to Tinton Aves., is Public School No. 23. April 26, 1938. P. L. Sperr.
Prospect Avenue and East 156th Street image

Prospect Avenue and East 156th Street

Bronx: 156th Street (East) - Prospect Avenue E 156th Street, east from but not including Prospect Avenue. The street bends southward at Hewitt Place. April 26, 1938. P. L. Sperr
901 East 156th Street image

901 East 156th Street

Apartment building at E. 156th Street and Hewett Place, Bronx, undated (ca. October 1916).
497 Tinton Avenue image

497 Tinton Avenue

Bronx: 147th Street - Wales Avenue East 147th Street, north side, east from but not including Wales Ave. to Southern Boulevard. June 21, 1938. P. L. Sperr.
Montefiore Hebrew Congregation Synagogue image

Montefiore Hebrew Congregation Synagogue

490 Tinton Avenue image

490 Tinton Avenue

Bronx: Tinton Avenue - 147th Street (East) 490 to 480 Tinton Avenue, east side, south from E. 147th Street to Southern Boulevard. June 21, 1938. P. L. Sperr.
755 East 149th Street image

755 East 149th Street

Bronx: 149th Street (East) - Concord Avenue E. 149th Street (foreground), at, and adjoining the N.E. corner of Concord Avenue. The 4 story frame house on the left bears No. 564 Concord Avenue. June 21, 1938. P. L. Sperr
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