When an apartment complex has 55,000 residents, I guess it makes sense for it to have its own power supply. After major renovations a few years ago, this facility became NYC's first trigeneration plant.
We'll get a much closer look at the towering Bronx Victory Memorial in Pelham Bay Park sometime in the future, but here it is from afar.
I'm not certain of this, because I was pretty far away, but I believe there is a wild parrot nest at the top of that light pole (located where I-95 cuts through Pelham Bay Park), and that hawk was, to no avail, checking the nest for tasty morsels. You can see what looks like a parrot nest in a larger version of this photo, and I could hear some raucous, parrot-like squawking in the area. Perhaps some of the birds resettled here after their homes at the park's nearby ball fields were removed during renovations a couple of years ago.
Here we are, back at that dump of a stable on Pelham Parkway that was largely torn down a few years ago when it was discovered to have been illegally built on DOT property. Even though the building has been declared unfit for human occupation, there is, last I heard, one poor horse still living inside.
UPDATE (Dec. 28, 2014): The owner and another guy live here too!
UPDATE (Apr. 29, 2015): NY Times — "A Squatter’s Last Stand at a Condemned Bronx Barn"
