A tiny private street, blocked by shipping containers, that just barely lives up to its name — thanks to that bucket garden over there.

of that locked gate

on Metro-North's Harlem Line

Closer look here

A fading Bronx ad for a long-gone Yonkers bowling alley

at Woodlawn Junction, where Metro-North's Harlem and New Haven Lines meet

This "hidden sliver of woodland" along the Bronx River is rife with lesser celandine, the national flower of the Bronx. There is supposedly a 9/11 memorial grove somewhere in the park, but I didn't notice it.

From the Bronx River Alliance: "Look on the streambanks for the presence of bollards used to tie up barges that held back the [Bronx River] while it was straightened during the modernization of the [Bronx River Parkway]." You can actually spot two more bollards on the far side of the river if you look closely.

Reminds me of Pennsylvania

The plaque at the base of this flagpole reads:

TO
RECORD
THE FACT THAT
WILLIAM WHITE NILES
WAS THE FOUNDER
OF THE
BRONX RIVER PARKWAY
THIS MEMORIAL
HAS BEEN ERECTED
BY HIS FRIENDS

A sea of lesser celandine

Formerly a branch of the Bronx County Trust Company

After a couple of decades at Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center, this statue has made the move over to the Church of Our Lady of Grace.

I didn't see this painting last time; the door must have been open.

Another sign for a road that doesn't exist

Here's where this photo was taken.

UPDATE: LB thinks it's a goat face.

It's not quite North Dakota, but I'll take it!

A tradition here, apparently

Again. More info and photos here and here.

at St. Raymond Elementary School