Posted by Chris on Wed, Aug 07, 2024

Driving through yesterday's torrential downpours reminded me of similar rainstorms on hot summer days as a kid. We would gladly stay out in the heavy rain just to cool off.
Standing in the curbside water rushing down the hill of Burnside Avenue always gave the feeling of being in an urban brook. Not the cleanest water but fun just the same.

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Posted by Diane on Wed, Aug 07, 2024

Coincidentally, yesterday I was in my old "Kingsbridge" neighborhood and took a nostalgic drive. The area encompassed Kingsbridge Road to the Reservoir and Sedgwick Avenue to University Avenue. WOW - while I have been driving through the old neighborhood through the years - the changes yesterday were dramatic. It was sadly unrecognizable. The beautiful mansions on Webb and Claflin Avenues are being replaced with modern office like buildings which stick out, like a sore thumb. I was stunned seeing, in my opinion, this ugly transformation, along with the total downslide in the upkeep and care of our old buildings and streets. A very sad day for me. BTW, after the thunderstorms yesterday, all I am seeing on the news this morning is the giant tree that went down on Claflin Avenue and 195th Street, which prompted me to write today.

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Posted by Longtime Resident on Wed, Aug 07, 2024

I lived at 2825 Claflin.It started its downward spiral in the mid 70's and now ,fifty years later it is unrecognizable and a calamitous disaster.

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Posted by Paul H. on Thu, Aug 08, 2024

The most prevalent change to our old Bronx neighborhoods like yours on Claflin Avenue has been the proliferation of security gates and doors and window bars. There was a 70s movie whose name I don't recall about city dwellers who are essentially imprisioned in their apartments due to the armies of criminals roaming the streets at night. It was sadly quite prescient. The poverty of today is terribly different from what we lived through in the 50s.

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Posted by Richard O. on Thu, Aug 08, 2024

Is that the building next to OLA?

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Posted by Longtime Resident on Thu, Aug 08, 2024

No It's in the middle of that block

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Posted by Chris on Fri, Aug 09, 2024

Paul, are you thinking of escape from New York?

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Posted by Kevin Reynolds on Sat, Aug 10, 2024

My first apartment when I left my parent's home was 2825 Claflin ave in 1970. Got married out of there and moved upstate NY.

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Posted by Diane on Tue, Aug 13, 2024

I actually grew up on Webb Avenue at 195th Street
PS 86
PS 7 Jr High
Walton HS

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Posted by Diane on Tue, Aug 13, 2024

I actually grew up on Webb Avenue at 195th Street
PS 86
PS 7 Jr High
Walton HS

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