YOU can be forgiven if you completely overlook Shrady Place, a dead end on Kingsbridge Terrace just south of Fort Independence Street in Kingsbridge Heights. The Terrace runs atop a steep ridge located in this very hilly part of the Bronx. It’s likely that residents of Shrady Place are quite happy to be overlooked, as this is a very quiet enclave. When ducking in one weekend afternoon I half expected to be shooed out, but it’s what I refer to as a public private lane.
One-family homes on single plots dominate this Bronx section, and several line Shrady Place, which has probably been called “Shady Place” over the years but the name is indeed Shrady, with an “R.” According to the late Bronx historian John McNamara, Doctor George Shrady, editor of the New York Medical Record, took possession of twelve acres of land in what is now Kingsbridge in 1860. Dr. Shrady, who later served in the Civil War, was from a long line of career soldiers as his grandfather and father had served in the Revolutionary War and War of 1812 respectively. The family was originally German and bore the name Schreder.
Even the Department of Transportation has missed Shrady Place, as it’s still lit by a yellow sodium lamp instead of a new light-emitting diode (LED).
according to Zillow, where I found this photo, the cottage, #154 Shrady Place, recently sold for over 3/4 million dollars.
…inside, the immaculate house has been fully modernized. The oak flooring in the living room and dining room is freshly polished and a mottled brick wall, reminiscent of a fireplace, has been exposed.
The highlight of the main floor is a sparkling sky-lit gourmet kitchen with maple cabinets, black and stainless appliances, a granite-topped breakfast bar and tile flooring. It leads to a multi-purpose room — that could be a mud room or laundry room — and a diminutive patio. [Riverdale Press]
Across the street is found a schist rock outcropping. It must have been an arduous task building the streets and homes in the area in the 19th Century.
I do not know when Shrady Place was laid out, but it does appear on a detailed real estate map in 1923.
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10/13/25
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Looks like the Google Street View camera car never went there.
Slim Shrady.
I don’t believe this recently *sold* for $0.75M, but that is the current “Zestimate” according to ZIllow. Whomever bought it in 2007 might have done a bit of work, but then apparently reached for the stars back around the COVID era, asking seven figures; it obviously did not sell. The listing doesn’t mention when they did all the interior work now pictured, but everything looks rather new, and considering the size of the home, the size of the lot (almost unheard of), and proximity to both public transit and the Deegan, I’d think this would be a sweet deal below eight bills.