"Seneca Ave., south side, west from Bryant Ave. to Faile Street. The 3-unit building bears No. 1314 and is known as the Seneca Court, ca. 1929."

Bryant Avenue between Garrison & Seneca Avenues, 1931. Strangely enough this empty boulder-strewn lot, captured here in 1931, looks nearly the same today.

Hunts Point Station, ca. 1915. The Hunts Point Station was a stop on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company. Situated on the “suburban” Harlem River Branch, the company constructed a series of new station houses between 1908 and 1910 while the line was being rebuilt. Cass Gilbert (who NYT architectural writer Christopher Gray called "the newly minted \[..] starchitect with the 1899 commission for the United States Custom House at Bowling Green.") designed nine stations in the Bronx. Each of the new stations had a different architectural look. Hunts Point is perhaps the most whimsical, rendered in a French Renaissance style, with pointed lacy dormer windows, spires, and crenellations. While the Harlem River Branch was originally opened for freight, it ended up a popular passenger route as well for a time. Revenue and ridership had dwindled by the late 1920s, and the line ceased service in 1931. Today the building still stands but is occupied by various small businesses including eateries, a beauty parlor, a dentist, and seemingly a topless bar. While many of the charming architectural features have been lost to time, the peaked dormers remain.