1906

Manhattan: Marble Hill Avenue - 227th Street (West)

Marble Hill Ave., (formerly Kingsbridge Ave., running from right center, to center background), north from and including West 227th Street (left, formerly Wicker Place), showing King's Bridge, thrown across Spuyten Duyvil Creek (no longer in existence) and connecting Manhattan with the Bronx. On the right slightly hidden by tree, is No. 96, a 2½ story frame house, obstructing from view (partially) St. Stephen's Church (M.E.), at the S.E. corner of 228th Street. Across the Creek are visible the hills in the Bronx, as seen from the former site of Fort Prince Charles (hill, left foreground, now 1937 occupied by a 6-story apartment house, the Fort Prince Charles Court). For further data see view 1. March 28, 1906. Brown Brothers.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection