Photo Gallery: Hutchinson River Pkwy.
| East Tremont Avenue must be very annoying to the arterial highways of the Bronx. Wherever you are, wherever you turn, no matter where in the danged borough you are, East Tremont always seems to be there. Well it looks like the Hutch has simply had enough! It brought in a school to help it block ET out of view, at least from the south. |
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East Tremont isn't the only meandering pest to plague Bronx
highways with interminable overpasses. The bloated, elevated-heavy
Westchester Avenue also imposes itself on the weary Hutch, which
just couldn't find a second public works project to throw on
top of it, after expending all its mighty efforts to show up
East Tremont. What is the deal anyway when it comes to East and West in The Bronx? Look at a map of the Bronx and you'll see that the east seems to go almost all the way to the rivers separating it from Manhattan. East Tremont goes so far, but never becomes a West Tremont. There IS no West Tremont, so why is there an East Tremont? As for Westchester Avenue, obviously it was named for Westchester County, yet it runs entirely through the officially eastern Bronx. For that matter, since Westchester County is about as far east in NY State as any county can be, exactly what Chester is east of it? It actually contains the town of Eastchester and a boulevard in the Bronx is named for Eastchester. You guessed it baby. Eastchester Blvd is actually northwest of Westchester Avenue, at least in the east. How come there's no Northchester? Take this even further and compare the Chester situation to the Jersey Sexes, as in Sussex and Essex and England's Wessex. Ever notice there's no Nossex? No Sex? Get it? Okay, I'm quitting while I'm not that far behind. The un-arterial Pelham Pkwy is coming up soon. Pelham is nice. Pelham is Hutchie's friend. Pelham wouldn't do nasty things like cross the Hutch with hideous, blinding, royal blue, dayglo-like, painted steel arches, now would it? |
| Actually for crossroads like East Tremont and Westchester, that traverse the more bucolic highways like this one on a sharp slant, all stone-faced bridges were just not doable. You'll see spans like these every here and there on most of NYC's parkways. The shiny IRT rolling stock on the el are probably Kawasaki cars, belonging to the fabled #6 line of "The Taking of Pelham 123" movie fame. The billboard of course is sporting one of our era's latest cultural icons, the new late 90's VW Bug. For those of you traumatized to the point of mental exhaustion by my site already, that's VW as in Volkswagen, not Van Wyck. All shot 10/99. |