From their site:
I became so enamoured of the Van Cortlandt Village/Kingsbridge Heights area while doing ForgottenTour 37 around the (temporarily dry) Jerome Park Reservoir that I resolved to return and explore these two obscure Bronx enclaves a little more in-depth, and that’s exactly what I did on September 20, 2009. [...]
Fascinating ……
http://www.archive.org/stream/historyoftownofk00edsa#page/n0/mode/2up
map in two pages History of the town of King..
“It is clear that Olmsted’s intent in providing neighborhoods like Kingsbridge Heights with narrow, curvilinear streets was to assure that they would maintain their residential character, discourage inappropriate development, and preserve their existing natural beauty.” (See VI below)
This is a power point: Fort Independence Historic District
This is a pdf of the power point: Fort [...]
The Jerome Park Reservoir
PRESERVATION REPORT
The History and Evaluation
of the Jerome Park Reservoir
Thank you to Lehman College for uploading this report.
http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/lehman/preservationreport/index.html
This should be a working file of things we collect. Let us know if you have items to upload and we will add. Send to fipna@fipna.org
Landmarks Preservation – request_for_evaluation FIPNA 030804
Old photo of Jerome Park Reservoir wall – Cousin and Aunt of Arax Hogroian
Fort Independence Historic District Designation – Fort Independence Historic District [...]
From the Desk of former FIPNA President:
I read the numerous comments on this issue concerning improvements for Jerome Park. As you know, Tina Argenti and I fought long and hard for many years to get improvements in Fort Independence Park (aka Pigeon Park] and around the reservoir. Everyone should just step back and take a [...]
This is just a list of old documents relating to JPC. They were up on the web, but were removed by the server. They were recreated for educational purposes.
PDF files
ABOUT
jpc-about-old-cr011109
BOARD OF DIRECTORS – THIS MAY HAVE BEEN UPDATED AFTER THIS TIME
jpc-board-of-directors-old-cr011109
DESIGN ELEMENTS
jpc-design-elements-old-cr011109
THE OUTDOOR URBAN ECOLOGY LAB – OUEL
http://www.waterblogged.org/public-access-and-the-outdoor-urban-ecology-lab-ouel/
Day 108 – Today (Friday) there was not much happening on the strike line, maybe they had too much fun yesterday! Maybe it is because all the organizers are back from their trip to PR. Whatever the case is, the line was still manned and the weather is really heating up.
Since not much is happening [...]
Day 102 & 103 – Once again the weekend is here and even though the strike continues on unabated, there is not much to report from the strike line.
I would like to extend a big thank you to Captain D’Adamo for personally visiting me on Sunday to offer his apology for the incident on [...]
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