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Re: Former Bx9, now Bx31, on Eastchester Road |
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Posted by Joe on Wed Jul 1 20:50:40 2015, in response to Former Bx9, now Bx31, on Eastchester Road, posted by Joe on Tue Jun 30 13:01:54 2015. If the Dyre Avenue #5 train now includes the word Eastchester in its destination sign, and if the Eastchester Bridge carries Boston Road over the Eastchester Creek (also known as the Hutchinson River), how can Eastchester Road be aimed at Eastchester?--- John McNamara explains some of this in "History in Asphalt." "This ancient road is mentioned in the 1667 Nicholl's grant of the Ten Farms as the Westchester path. This was the earliest connecting road between Westcheter and Eastchester. After the Revolutinary War, the term Westchester path fell into disuse and Eastchester Road took its place. Before the days of the Oostdorp settlers in what is today Westchester Square, it was a trail used by the Siwaney Indians." "Just below Pelham Parkway, the Americans had an outpost to prevent the British from crossing the shallow Westchester Creek in October, 1776. A wooden bridge spanned the creek in the 19th century at about Morris Park Ave." --- The Town of Eastchester was once much larger than today. I suspect that the town the name Eastchester Road refers to is that land extending along the east side of Metro-North's Harlem line. The catch came in 1892, when the Albany legislature and governor approved the incorporation of the City of Mount Vernon. That left the Town of Eastchester with a northern half (still existent) and a southern half that would soon be annexed by the City of New York. Already, the Village of Wakefield had been incorporated within the Town, but that also was soon annexed. --- This may explain why the Dyre Avenue train goes to Eastchester, a Bronx neighborhood, but Eastchester Road, which sets out on a different course, at one time transversed Mount Vernon to Eastchester. |
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