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[citation needed] At Bronx House Emanuel Summer Camp, an over-sized skully board was painted on the basketball court and the game was played with shuffleboard equipment. [citation needed] It is said that the game has existed as long as the crown-rimmed bottle cap, which was invented in 1892.
The Bartow–Pell Mansion is a historic house museum at 895 Shore Road in the northern section of Pelham Bay Park, within the New York City borough of the Bronx.The two-story building, designed in the mid-19th century by an unknown architect, has a Greek Revival facade and federal interiors and is the last surviving manor house in the Pelham Bay Park area.
Edgewater Park once housed a mansion built by George T. Adee in 1856. Eventually, in 1923, he leased the land to Richard W. Shaw Sr. an Irish immigrant who was a member of St. Ann's Episcopal Church in Morrisania and invited church youth to camp on the grounds which became known as Edgewater Camp.
Rodman's Neck (formerly Ann Hook's Neck) [1] is a peninsula of land in the New York City borough of the Bronx that juts out into Long Island Sound. The southern third of the peninsula is used as a firing range by the New York City Police Department; the remaining wooded section is part of Pelham Bay Park.
Henry F. Spaulding Coachman's House is a historic home at 4970 Independence Avenue in Riverdale, Bronx, New York City. It was built about 1880 and is representative of the Stick-Eastlake style. The main section is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story cottage dwelling with board and batten siding.
The Andrew Freedman Home is a historic building in the Bronx, New York City.Constructed by the estate of the millionaire Andrew Freedman, it has been renovated into an artists' hub consisting of an interdisciplinary artist residency, an incubator space, workforce development and community services. [1]
The Justice Sonia Sotomayor Houses and Community Center is a housing project in Soundview, The Bronx, New York City.Formerly known as the Bronxdale Houses, the project was renamed in honor of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who had spent part of her childhood in the development, in June 2010. [1]
The Valentine–Varian House is a historic house located in the Norwood neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City. Built in 1758 by Isaac Valentine, it is the Bronx's second oldest house and oldest remaining farmhouse. [2] The house remained in the Varian family, which included Isaac Varian, the 63rd Mayor of New York City until 1905, when it ...