Westchester Avenue & Hobart Avenue, Bronx
2 historical photos taken here between 1892 and 1926, oldest first.
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Bronx: Westchester Avenue - Hobart Avenue
Westchester Ave., west side, between Hobart and Morris Park Aves., showing the "Spy Oak". It is said to be the largest of its kind east of the Rocky Mountains and the last remaining vestige of the vast primeval forest that once covered this entire area. History tells us that during the American Revolution, a British spy, captured in this neighborhood, was summarily hanged from one of its branches, hence its name. June 1926. Brown Brothers.
Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection
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