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Nativity of Our Blessed Lady

There are about two dozen streets that cross from the Bronx into Mount Vernon. You can always tell where the city line is by inspecting house addresses, but, if memory serves, this spot — where Dyre Avenue turns into South 5th Avenue — is the only place where the border is celebrated with official signage. And what glorious official signage it is!

The line in the pavement denotes the boundary between New York City (on the left) and Westchester County (on the right), which runs, as it happens, right through the middle of the red and white house in the background. The house is a duplex, and, according to its mailboxes, its two apartments are located in different cities! (One is 4047 Dyre Avenue in the Bronx; the other is 788 South 5th Avenue in Mount Vernon.)

UPDATE: The city line actually passes just to the north (right) of this house, meaning the entire structure is located in New York City. A tiny corner of the lot that the house sits on (Lot 2) is in Mount Vernon, however, which may explain the Mount Vernon address (788 South 5th Avenue) on one of the mailboxes. Or perhaps that address comes from the adjacent lot to the north (Lot 1), which also belongs to the owner of the house and serves as the house's driveway. That lot is split almost evenly between NYC and Mount Vernon.

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This mighty thoroughfare is one of the oldest roads in the Bronx. From the inimitable John McNamara's History in Asphalt:

This lane dates back to the 1600s, when it led from Boston Road to a mill on the Hutchinson river. . . . The mill was operated in succession by Thomas Shute, Joseph Stanton, John Bartow and (in 1790) John Reid was the miller. His son, Robert, continued on until the 1850s. In the ensuing century, the name was rendered 'Reed.' After the Civil War, it was abandoned and stood forlornly on the salt meadows for decades, finally to be blown down in a storm in 1900. . . . later its site would be roughly the center of Co-Op City.

Back here again, on a nicer day