Ok today was a nice day and decided to go out and take lots of photos of this most talk about neighborhood in NYC. I walk alot and try to cover most of the neighborhood. So please enjoy my pics! :)


Mott Haven, The Bronx:



Mott Haven is a neighborhood of Bronx.

The community was named for Jordan Mott, who built an iron works here in 1828.

Elevation is 36 feet.

Bounded by East 149th Street, Saint Mary's Park, the Harlem River and the East River.

Piano manufacturing was an important industry from the late 1800s to the 1940s

http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=1208

Mott Haven was the first neighborhood to give rise to the term "South Bronx". In the 1940s when the Bronx was usually divided into the East Bronx and West Bronx, a group of social workers identified a pocket of poverty in Mott Haven and called it the South Bronx. This pocket of poverty greatly expanded northward, following the post-war phenomenon colloquially referred to as white flight, reaching a peak in the 1970s when the North Bronx-South Bronx boundary reached Fordham Road. Today the North Bronx-South Bronx distinction remains more common than the traditional East Bronx-West Bronx distinction, and some still regard Fordham Road as the boundary.

http://www.answers.com/topic/mott-haven-bronx

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Interesting. I'm not really too familar with The Bronx, but based on your photos it seems to be somewhat auto-centric. Is this true?

Interesting. I'm not really too familar with The Bronx, but based on your photos it seems to be somewhat auto-centric. Is this true?

Not really. I dont think is not any different than Brooklyn or even Manhattan. I think Queens and Staten Island are more auto-centric. You see more homes with parking in those two borougs than you will see in the Bronx.

Interesting. I'm not really too familar with The Bronx, but based on your photos it seems to be somewhat auto-centric. Is this true?
If you look at some of the pics, you will see subway entrances.

No more comments! :(

great pictures

Great pics. This is kind of a strange looking place. It looks calm, though sort of mysterious at the same time.

Thanks for the comments guys.

Did you guys also notice that there is not alot of garbage on the sidewalks. Even though you can see many people walking on them. That is a NYC myth that the sidewalks and streets (especially in the South Bronx) are usually full of garbage.

great pics!:)

Thanks for the pics, Krull. Much nicer than what I would expect of the South Bronx (little graffiti, etc.). Is this considered a nicer part of the South Bronx?

Nice Pictures ! It really does capture the spirit.

I love New-York!

Lovely. The architecture looks good, the population seems quite cosmopolitan, and there is a lot of urban life in the place.

Grade A photos of the Boogie Down. :applause:

Krull, what will be the next picture tour we will see from you ? :)

Interesting. I'm not really too familar with The Bronx, but based on your photos it seems to be somewhat auto-centric. Is this true?

I don't see much cars/parking space for such apartments (http://www.pbase.com/image/75555595.jpg)

Nice serie. I like to see more like this, you usually only see Manhattan, but neighborhoods like Brooklyn and Queens are so much bigger.

In pic 55, you can notice a old subway entrance that wasn't replaced with a modern one, and there is another like this at Court St in Brooklyn.

Thanks for the comments guys! :)

Thanks for the pics, Krull. Much nicer than what I would expect of the South Bronx (little graffiti, etc.). Is this considered a nicer part of the South Bronx?

Not at all! Actually this is the South Bronx that was burning in the 60's and 70's. All of those movies from the 60's to the 90's that were based on crime and abandonment in the Bronx were mostly based about this neighborhood. This neighborhood has change dramatically. It looks much cleaner, not alot of graffity. Lots of empty vacant lots have almost dissapear, abandon homes are non-existance, crime is way down, and new immigrants and others price out of other parts of the city are moving to the area. Especially hipsters and arts people (mainly white young people).

Grade A photos of the Boogie Down. :applause:

Krull, what will be the next picture tour we will see from you ? :)

You wil be surprice with my next photo tour. I am even considering East New York or Bushwick in Brooklyn! Or maybe not. :nuts:

Fantastic. I remember reading about Mott Haven specifically and how bad it was in the 70's/80s, with crack houses and homeless everywhere. IT really looks like it's been revitalized into a solid working class neighbourhood.

And it has more charm and urbanity than 90% of American suburbs.

I gotta visit NYC some time

Fantastic. I remember reading about Mott Haven specifically and how bad it was in the 70's/80s, with crack houses and homeless everywhere. IT really looks like it's been revitalized into a solid working class neighbourhood.

And it has more charm and urbanity than 90% of American suburbs.

I gotta visit NYC some time

I agree the change has been amazing. But this neighborhood still one of the poorest areas of the city. Crime may be lower than before, but people still strugle with the cost of rent and food prices. It is deffenetly attracting new immigrants that are been price out of rest of the city. And if you compare this neighborhood to other poor neighborhoods in other American cities then I would defenetly consider to live in this one. :yes: If I had to live in a poor neighborhood ofcourse.

wow. The first time i've seen a closer look of this neighborhood and it's definatly not what i expected. looks very vibrant.

wow. The first time i've seen a closer look of this neighborhood and it's definatly not what i expected. looks very vibrant.

People are indeed surprice. People usually think of the South Bronx as abandon, full of garbage and graffity. But then they see it and they are surprise how organize things really are and that is vibrant.

Wait is this really the South Bronx? Yeah I though this area was full of abandonment, garbage, graffity and dangerous people. Looks wonderful. I woudn't mind living in such place. If I could afford it. You have done good for your ****! Incredible. Movies stereotype this area so badly. :cheers:

Wait is this really the South Bronx?

Yes it is. :yes: I am glad I change your perception of this area. Next time you see a Hollywood movie about the Bronx, think of this thread. ;)

Pleasantly surprised krull. I would expect an extremely crappy part of town but it actually looks like a place I would move to!

The Bronx always seemed so weird to me, unlike other parts of new york I can't seem to familiarise myself with it.
Also, just wondering from the huge amounts of photos ive seen of this area over the years it seems that the vast majority of the south bronx is made up of these weird cardboard/suburbanesque townhouses that have been developed in the last decade to fill up the vast empty lots and these depressing looking mid 20th century Tenement buildings ,(Not the kind you get along the lower east river in manhattan but more along the lines in washington heights) with very few of those buildings that look like there from way further into the city.

I sort of have and idea of what happened, but i was just wondering what time these tenement buildings came about, did they involve large demolishment of these older buildings or was the area lacking in these types of buildings anyway and the tenements simply built in larger supply and survive longer because they were harder to demolish?


....Hope that made sense:cheers:

So you visited the South Bronx?? You are amazing Krull and thanks for these sweet photos! NYC is so amazing.

nice!

pics r great! yet the Bronx looks like one of the uglier areas in NYC, isn't it so?

Very nice pics from those areas of N.Y.C. :) Bronx area (to me) looks interesting area and also nice

You wil be surprice with my next photo tour. I am even considering East New York or Bushwick in Brooklyn! Or maybe not. :nuts:

If you can do a photo tour of the Bronx then you can do Bushwick!!! East New York though... I don't know anything about it but I've been told by natives not to go there as I'm obviously a white transplant. I dunno.

^^ Yes you are right. I will skip East New York if I can. :lol: But I do want to get Bushwick though.

Thanks for everyone else for the comments. :)

Ah, great thread and really great pictures. I worked in the Bronx for many years and really grew to love it. I didn't think it was possible, but this made me actually miss it!

Very beautiful pics! The house of Edgar Allan Poe is in Bronx,no?

This is real NY !)) nice!