BRONX’S Park Avenue is a northern extension of Manhattan’s (much like Broadway and Third Avenue) and its house numbers follow the sequence that started all the way south at East 32nd Street. In the Bronx, Park Avenue is a far cry from the ultimate urban boulevard between East 46th and 96th Streets in Manhattan with its St. Bartholomew Church, Lever Building, and ritzy penthoused apartments. Here, it’s merely a neighborhood street on both sides of the Metro North tracks; when the old NY Central was extended into the Bronx in the 1800s, Park Avenue was laid out alongside it.
The Metro-North, formerly part of the New York Central, runs north along Park Ave. both in Manhattan and the Bronx into Westchester, where it ends at various upstate terminals. Within the Bronx, there are stations at Melrose, Tremont, Fordham, Botanic Gardens, Williamsbridge, Woodlawn and Wakefield. Of these only the Botanic Garden station, serving the popular Bronx Park gardens, is well–known or frequently used. Several blocks east of the Grand Concourse IND Subway, this is a relatively transit-starved area, and the Metro-North might be able to do decent business if it ran frequent local service here at a comparable price to the $2.90 MetroCard swipe, but the MTA isn’t that imaginative. Local politicians have been pushing for an arrangement similar to this, but I have my doubts.
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3/27/24