Magenta Street at Barker Avenue, June 16, 1938. The detached house is No. 3400 Barker Avenue. The IRT White Plains Road Line tracks are visible at right, crossing Magenta Street.

The Goodfellows Club, Olinville Avenue, June 1, 1928. Two men watch from the porch of this wood-frame structure in Olinville. The 1918 Sanborn map identifies a beer garden at the rear of this house, which might explain the Prohibition-era lookouts in P.L. Sperr’s photo.

Elevated tracks of the IRT Third Avenue and White Plains Road lines converge at the Gun Hill Road station, May 12, 1938. In 1920, the Third Avenue El was extended from Bronx Park Terminal to Gun Hill Road, where the line terminated at a lower platform of the White Plains Road Line (today’s 2/5) Gun Hill Road Station. Third Avenue El service in the Bronx was discontinued in 1973, 18 years after the line’s Manhattan tracks were dismantled. The auto repair shop at left, at the corner of Willett Avenue, is No. 695 East Gun Hill Road.

Capuchin Friars Monastery, 1938. Since 1920, the Church of the Immaculate Conception has been associated with the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, a Catholic order related to the Franciscan Friars. This view shows the Friars’ residence, at the rear of the church. The land in the foreground is today occupied by the NYCHA Gun Hill Houses (completed in 1950).

Church of the Immaculate Conception, May 24, 1928. Around the turn of the century, the Church of the Immaculate Conception (unrelated to other parishes of the same name) was established in a storefront on White Plains Road. The first church was a wooden structure on the north side of Briggs Avenue ( Gun Hill Road), completed in 1905. When that church was destroyed in a 1923 fire, parish officials elected to build a new structure, across Gun Hill Road east of Holland Avenue. The new, neo-Romanesque church designed by Joseph Ziccardi was completed in 1925.

Bronx Boulevard and Duncomb Avenue, view is southeastward. The large building in the distance is Public School 41, 1938.

Third Avenue El tracks over Gun Hill Road, viewed from the Gun Hill Road station of the IRT White Plains Road line, June 1, 1928. The view is westward, across the Bronx River to Webster Avenue, where the Third Avenue El turns southward to Manhattan. This spur carried connecting trains between 1920 and 1973.

Three wood-frame houses on the south side of Duncomb Avenue, June 16, 1938.

Rock outcrop on Magenta Street, east of White Plains Road, June 16, 1938. The land to the left would be set aside for the New York City Housing Authority’s Gun Hill Houses, a six-building development which opened in 1950. The rock formation is still visible on Magenta Street.

409 East Gunhill Road, 1938. Amazingly this tiny wood-frame structure with the concave mansard roof still stands. Constructed circa 1899, likely as a home, it seems to be occupied by a cafe. Today it is a tire shop.