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20-926: Spuyten Duyvil and Port Morris Railroad was a railroad built in what is today the West Bronx and South Bronx in New York City , United States. It ran from the junction between the West Side Line and the Hudson River Railroad near Spuyten Duyvil Creek , then along the Harlem River to the northwestern shore of the East River in what is today the Port Morris section of the Bronx . The Spuyten Duyvil and Port Morris Railroad

40-493: A founder of The Bronx County Historical Society , was changed to an honorary designation for this portion of Southern Boulevard after the New York City Department of Transportation , having been lobbied by Fordham University , decided that the designation was little known and confusing to those unfamiliar with the area. Southern Boulevard is served by the following subway lines: And these bus routes serve

60-631: A freight spur leading to the Kingsbridge Freight Station, but the track around the northern and western sides of Marble Hill was later removed and no trace of it exists. Today, the realigned line serves as the segment of the Metro-North Railroad Hudson Line between Mott Haven Junction and the West Side Line . The former Kingsbridge Freight Spur and station has been occupied by the grounds of

80-594: Is a street in the Bronx , New York City , United States. It stretches from Bruckner Boulevard in Mott Haven to Bronx Park East in Bronx Park where it becomes Allerton Avenue. From 1981 until 2011, the portion north of Fordham Road , adjacent to the New York Botanical Garden , was also named Dr. Theodore L. Kazimiroff Boulevard . In 2011, the name of Kazimiroff, a Bronx historian and

100-687: The Harlem River and Port Chester Branch of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad . A connecting wye existed partially beneath the bridge lead to the New Haven Railroad-owned Oak Point Yard as well as the HR&;PC itself. The only two stations along this branch were at Westchester Avenue between Brook and St Ann's Avenues 40°48′57″N 73°54′46″W  /  40.81583°N 73.91278°W  / 40.81583; -73.91278 and at Port Morris itself across

120-513: The John F. Kennedy High School since the 1970s. The New York and Putnam Railroad spur remained until 1999. The Port Morris Branch began at a wye north of Melrose Station, then extended southeast through The Hub , through a 2,200-to-2,300-foot-long (671 to 701 m) tunnel (built 1905) under St. Mary's Park , and finally Port Morris along the East River just after crossing a bridge beneath

140-414: The Bronx are hilly, underlain by Fordham gneiss and dominated by a series of parallel ridges running south to north. The West Bronx has older tenement buildings, low-income public housing complexes, multifamily homes in its lower-income areas as well as larger single family homes in more affluent areas such as Riverdale . It includes New York City's third largest park: Van Cortlandt Park which runs along

160-444: The Bronx, which is directly north of Fifth Avenue. Jerome Avenue was approximately the centerline of the original Annexed District, though not of the expanded modern Bronx. Prior to the 1970s, New Yorkers generally saw the Bronx as being split into its eastern and western halves. However, with the urban decay that hit the southwestern Bronx starting in the 1960s, people began to see the borough as being fundamentally divided between

180-659: The Westchester-Bronx border. The Grand Concourse , a wide ridgeline boulevard runs through the area from north to south. Because the West Bronx uses the same street numbering system as Manhattan , large portions of streets designated as "east" (e.g., East 161st Street) may actually be located west of the Bronx River. This is because the east-west divider is Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and Jerome Avenue in

200-467: The city annexed the modern-day East Bronx, followed in 1898 by western Queens County (today's borough of Queens , with the remainder of what was eastern Queens County becoming the newly formed Nassau County ), all of the City of Brooklyn (today's borough of Brooklyn), and all of Richmond County (today's borough of Staten Island ) to form the consolidated city of New York. Physically, the western parts of

220-540: The construction of the Oak Point Link at the Bronx's southern tip and its subsequent opening in 1998, the Port Morris Branch ceased to be used in 1999; formal abandonment was declared in 2003, when CSX Transportation declared that the branch could be vacated due to the lack of use in the preceding two years. The Oak Point Yard remains just northeast of the site of the port, and an industrial track in

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240-508: The middle 19th century this included the central and southern part of the Town of Yonkers , but then became the separate Town of Kingsbridge. In 1874, the then towns of Kingsbridge , West Farms and Morrisania were transferred to New York County, becoming the first area outside Manhattan to be annexed by the City of New York. Today's West Bronx was then known as the "Annexed District". In 1895,

260-534: The realigned segment in Marble Hill, Manhattan . All stations between DV interlocking and Mott Haven Junction, and between Melrose and Port Morris, are read from north to south; the segment between Mott Haven Junction and Port Morris is read from south to north. West Bronx The West Bronx is more densely populated than the East Bronx , and is closer to Upper Manhattan . From the late 17th century to

280-633: The remaining Port Morris Branch continued its status as part of the Harlem Division. By 1871, it connected what became the New York and Putnam Railroad to the Hudson River Railroad . By 1905–1906, the line had been rebuilt and electrified . When the Harlem River Ship Canal was built, the line was realigned along the north side in Marble Hill, Manhattan . Part of the original segment around Marble Hill became

300-434: The river from North Brother Island . After World War II , the Port Morris Branch faced decades of underutilization and the increase in poverty and rampant violence from the surrounding neighborhoods, as well as low clearance and poor drainage . By the 1970s, a new bypass was being proposed because of the clearance and tight curves of the Port Morris Branch's tunnels, which could not fit contemporary train cars . After

320-587: The southwestern area ("The South Bronx ") and everywhere else. West Bronx neighborhoods include: From the Town of Kingsbridge (originally the southern part of the Town of Yonkers ). From the Town of Morrisania (Encompasses areas now considered to be the South Bronx ): From the Town of West Farms: The West Bronx is the home of Yankee Stadium . 40°51′00″N 73°54′00″W  /  40.850°N 73.900°W  / 40.850; -73.900 Southern Boulevard (Bronx) Southern Boulevard

340-602: The spur to the Harlem Line and to the New York Connecting Railroad as part of a New York City Subway circumferential line called Triboro RX . However, these plans were complicated due to the private ownership of the land next to the right-of-way , as well as a new housing development directly on the right-of-way at 156th Street. The entire line is in Bronx County, New York , except for

360-412: The trench, was pumped in 2009 for $ 350,000, although the garbage was allowed to remain. It is unknown who had owned the track bed, though different sections had been purchased by several private organizations. Restoration was proposed in 2014, to connect the Harlem Line to an expanded LaGuardia Airport . In 2015 the homeless encampment was vacated and bulldozed. Afterward, another plan was made to connect

380-510: The vicinity of the Port Morris station still survives south of Southern Boulevard . The rest of the track bed had a sizable homeless and drug-dealer encampment, was strewn with garbage, and is frequently flooded due to the poor drainage and its location below sea level . The "Mott Haven Swamp," as the corridor was called in the late 2000s due to the 625,000 US gallons (2,370,000 L; 520,000 imp gal) of stagnant water inside

400-623: Was built in 1842, and bought by the New York and Harlem Railroad in 1853, as part of a proposal by NY&H Vice President Gouverneur Morris Jr. to integrate it into a new industrial section of the waterfront. In 1864, the entire NY&H including the SD&;PM was acquired by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad (NYC) and the segment north of Mott Haven Junction became part of the NYC Hudson Division , whereas

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