The Jerome Legacy
Do the Jerome Avenues in the Bronx and Brooklyn have anything to do with each other? The Bronx Jerome Ave. runs for miles from the Major Deegan Expressway at Macombs Dam Bridge north, past Yankee Stadium to where it meets the Deegan again, at E. 233rd and the junction of Van Cortlandt Park and Woodlawn Cemetery. For much of its route it’s shadowed by the Woodlawn El, the #4 train. When western Bronx joined New York County in the 1800s, it was chosen as the dividing line between East and West numbered streets, a duty fulfilled by 5th Ave. Читать дальше...