NYC on the left; Mount Vernon on the right. Looks like some of our water flows into their sewer. Suckers!
UPDATE: While this pavement interface approximates the line between the Bronx and Mount Vernon, the actual border is located just out of frame to the right, running at a bit of an angle across Pratt Avenue. So I guess the storm drain above feeds into an NYC sewer after all. Dang!
There is a break in the middle of this block where the roadway jumps about twelve feet in elevation. This rocky slope is the only thing connecting the two halves of the road.
(That's Co-op City in the background.)
These woodlands were once owned by the Seton family, whose ranks included the first American-born saint, Elizabeth Seton.
since I've seen one of these. They're generally found on street trees, but this one is located in the woods of Seton Falls Park.
That's Mount Vernon on concrete and the Bronx on asphalt.
and, a few clicks later, found myself watching a marginally unsafe-for-work video starring our new mohawked friend.
This is part of the former McBurney YMCA, which was the inspiration for a song you may have heard ten thousand times.
These baths were built around the turn of the 20th century as part of a long-overdue public health campaign to combat the unsanitary conditions found in poorer quarters of the city, where most families lacked access to bathing facilities.
It's always embarrassing when Google's robo-camera takes a better picture than I do.
The west side of Railroad Avenue in Queens looks out on a pretty bleak industrial landscape. The east side, on the other hand, is lined with a seemingly endless quarter-mile of Callery pear trees, all of which are currently in bloom!
Somewhere between 1,750,000 and 3,000,000 people have been laid to rest in Calvary, meaning there are more dead folks here than there are living ones in any US city outside of New York and Los Angeles, and maybe Chicago and Houston, depending on the exact number.
Today I was in First Calvary, which is the oldest section of the cemetery. Calvary has expanded over the years, and it now comprises four parcels split up by expressways.
