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kibebx:
A great article from a couple of years back about why KiBe is the place to be.
Student Research on Bedford Park, Bronx
I am a student participating in a neighborhood project on Bedford Park. I found this blog and was excited to see that people actually write about Bedford Park. I would like to know if anyone is willing to participate in a survey I am having about Bedford Park. Your help will be greatly appreciated; you could help people become more aware of the marvel of Bedford Park. My email is Gabriela.Lopez924@gmail.com. Thank you.
New York Times
TWENTY-FIVE years ago, the future of Bedford Park, a tiny neighborhood in the north Bronx, looked bleak. Farther south, whole neighborhoods were plagued by drugs, abandoned buildings and trash-strewn vacant lots. And it seemed to many observers that it was just a matter of time before Bedford Park would face a similar fate.
That did not happen. Instead, Bedford Park residents formed community organizations to fight for better city services, to pressure landlords to sell or renovate buildings, to improve neighborhood schools and, as many like to say, ”to just get to know our neighbors.”
Magnolias at the New York Botanical Garden.
Bedford Park Boulevard
Bedford Park Boulevard is a short film written and directed by Felix Thompson, a recent graduate from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
The film tells the story of a young Hispanic boy attending high school in the Bronx and the day he makes a terrible mistake.
Written and Directed by Felix Thompson
Cinematography by Brandon Roots
New York Architecture
In 1994, Raphael Vinoly designed the Herbert H. Lehman College Physical Education Facility of the City University of New York at Bedford Park West Boulevard in The Bronx, a very beautiful low-rise structure that employs a gentle, swooping stainless steel curved roof. “The building’s singular form has become an icon of the college to the neighborhood, its play of light and heavy forms articulating a sequence of dramatic profiles. In a sweeping gesture, the segmented arc of the great roof - set at grade on the campus side - rises to form a crest over the street side.”
The area now known as Bedford Park was mostly farmland outside the town of Kingsbridge, then an unincorporated suburb of New York City. The area began to be developed with the construction of the Jerome Park Racecourse, for thoroughbred horse racing, by Leonard Jerome and August Belmont, Sr. in 1866. Jerome Park Racecourse became the first home of the famous Belmont Stakes horse race, until 1890. To attract the wealthy to the racecourse, Leonard Jerome built what is today Jerome Avenue. In 1874 the town of Kingsbridge was officially incorporated into New York City.
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New York Botanical Gardens
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