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[2] [5] The towers became the tallest in the borough when completed, at 400 feet (120 m), although the 404 feet tall River Park Towers took the title just three years later. [6] They were and remain the second-tallest cooperative housing development in the Bronx, behind Co-Op City , which is the largest of its kind in the world. [ 7 ]
The plaza is located near several attractions of Bronx Park, including the New York Botanical Garden and the Bronx Zoo. [ 4 ] [ 23 ] Fordham Plaza is part of the Fordham Road Business Improvement District , [ 21 ] [ 23 ] [ 28 ] which extends west to around Jerome Avenue past Grand Concourse and includes much of the "Fordham Center" commercial ...
In 1986, the New York City Transit Authority launched a study to determine whether to close 79 stations on 11 routes, including the White Plains Road Line north of East 180th Street, due to low ridership and high repair costs. [34] [35] Numerous figures, including New York City Council member Carol Greitzer, criticized the plans. [35] [36]
The 238th Street station is a local station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway.Located at the intersection of 238th Street and Broadway in the Kingsbridge neighborhood of the Bronx, it is served by the 1 train at all times.
The IRT Jerome Avenue Line, also unofficially known as IRT Woodlawn Line, is an A Division New York City Subway line mostly along Jerome Avenue in the Bronx.Originally an Interborough Rapid Transit Company-operated route, it was built as part of the Dual Contracts expansion and opened in 1917 and 1918.
The Westchester Avenue station is a former railroad station located in the Bronx in New York City, partially suspended over Amtrak's busy Northeast Corridor line. It was built in 1908 with rich terra cotta detailing to a design by Cass Gilbert, who would later employ similar terra cotta detailing in his 1910 design for the Woolworth Building.
At the south end the platforms are open and lit by modern double lampposts. Just south of the island platform's end is a pyramid-roofed original signal tower. There are other signal towers and service rooms, faced in corrugated metal, south of the other platforms. A flagman's structure is beneath the north end of the island platform canopy. [5]
The Zerega Avenue station is a local station on the IRT Pelham Line of the New York City Subway.Located at Zerega Avenue and Westchester Avenue in the Westchester Square neighborhood of the Bronx, it is served by the 6 train at all times except weekdays in the peak direction, when the <6> train takes over.