A Photographic Tour of The Bronx Streets in the Early 1900s

A Photographic Tour of The Bronx Streets in the Early 1900s

In the first decades of the 20th century, the streets of the Bronx told a story of a borough in transition. One could find grand, Parisian-style boulevards, bustling commercial avenues shadowed by elevated trains, dense residential blocks of new brick tenements, and quiet, unpaved country roads, all within a few miles of each other. The streetscape was a dynamic mix of the old rural Bronx and the new urban borough. The grandest street in the bor…