Girl at the entrance to the Engine 61 station house, August 3, 1928. The wood-frame station house was replaced by a new two-story brick structure in 1929.

Morris Park Station, ca. 1915. In 1904 the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad began work on their Harlem line, planning for 12 new stations. Of the proposed number, only six were constructed, and only three survive (and just barely) today. The Morris Park Station is one of those survivors. Designed by Cass Gilbert, the Morris Park Station (along with the others on the Harlem line) were never as popular as expected. Opened in 1908, they were all closed by 1937 when the line was taken completely out of service. The Morris Park Station was a small multicolored tile and brick structure that, according to a New York Times article, looked like "it could have been a cable-car terminal in the Austrian Alps." After closing the buildings were unfortunately left to deteriorate. Since the station closed the Morris Park building has had a different (and historically inaccurate) roof installed and its large windows bricked in. The building has been the home of the Parkchester Rifle & Revolver Club since at least the 1980s. In the wake of the attacks of September 11th, they painted their building with an American flag motif, which remains today.

Poplar (left) and Silver Streets, Westchester Square, August 25, 1935.

The two buildings that are seen in the middle of the frame at nos. 1478 and 1476 still stand!

Westchester Square Hospital, 1931. The hospital, which opened in 1929, was enlarged twice during the 1940s. The present facility is operated by the Montefiore Medical Center.

1515 Williamsbridge Road, 1928.

Shops on the eastern side of Westchester Square, ca. 1913. At left is the James Butler grocery store. Butler, an Irish immigrant, founded a successful chain of grocery stores in the 1880s. Forgotten today, Butler’s chain was once the sixth-largest in the country, with over 1,100 locations.