Crew surveying Broadway ahead of the construction of elevated tracks, April 5, 1907. The M. Hummel Grocery is located at 5614 Broadway, in the Kingsbridge Section of the Bronx. This photo is just north of 231st Street, where a station on the IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line would be completed the next year. In 1907, the segment of Broadway had not yet been paved, though streetcar tracks of the C-line from Van Cortlandt Park to West Farms Square are visible. The horse-drawn carriage at left bears an advertisement for the Mount Hope Market.

Kingsbridge Ave., at the S.W. corner of West 231st Street, showing the Church of the Mediator, October, 1927. Organized as a the Protestant Episcopal society in 1855, the first church building belonging to the The Church of the Mediator was a wood-frame structure consecrated in 1864. The current building was designed in the neo-Gothic style by Henry Vaughan, who designed the original portion of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. The church photographed here was consecrated in 1927. The church is also the guardian of the Corlear Sycamore, a massive tree on Corlear Avenue just south of West 231st Street that is considered the "oldest living thing in Kingsbridge."

Kingsbridge Branch, data unknown. Designed by McKim, Mead & White and completed in 1905, the small neo-Federal Kingsbridge Branch was one of the smallest Carnegie's constructed in the city. It is only 3,700 square feet. The building, which it set far back from the sidewalk, is surrounded by a generous lawn. The library was decommissioned in 1958 when a new larger branch was built on West 231st Street. Today the structure functions as a pre-school.

5820 Broadway, circa 1915. Just after the turn of the 20th century, a German beer hall opened at the corner of West 238th Street and Broadway. Originally called Buckeye's it was the epitome of a classy watering hole, complete with swinging saloon doors and stained glass windows (visible in this photograph). The brew served at that time was likely the product of a single local brewery. During Prohibition, an ice cream parlor was the front for the still functioning bar. After the war, the business opened as an Irish pub and by 1960 was called The Punch Bowl, its current name. Though both the interior and exterior have changed over the last 115 years, the original stained glass now hangs over the bar, the elevated train continues to rubble by just above the entrance, and the patrons are still a local working-class population.