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Photo contributor is Daniel Kirk-Foster | |
University Ave and Fordham Road |
Photo contributor is Charles | |
Westchester Creek heading out to the Bay for fishing | |
Immaculate Conception Church at Holland Avenue looking East on Gun Hill Road NOTE the absence of any tall buildings on the North side of Gun Hill Road! There were even small pasture-like areas along there in the 30's & 40's where goats were kept! | |
side looking towards Boston Road 1958 | |
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the grassy area visible across Gun Hill Road is now occupied by storefronts in the foreground and a city housing project called "the Surrey" behind those stores - all across the street from Evander Childs H.S. which would have been off tho the left of the photographer. Joe Mulino lived in our building a block away from here at 3415 Colden and drove a Medaglia D'Oro Espresso truck, often parked on Colden! | |
corner of 963 Gun Hill visible left | |
which led to the super's apartment, storeroom & (coal-burning) boiler room. Uncle Charles was MIA in Korea a few years later while in the Army and was later declared dead. | |
with 3354 Colden visible back right. All hedges on the block back in 1950 now it's mostly fences! |