⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ Walking NYC in snow: Highbridge, The Bronx neighborhood tour

Описание: January 17, 2026 - 12:30 PM
32°F / 0°C
(snow)

Walking tour (without narration) of the Highbridge neighborhood of The Bronx, New York on a snowy day, via the following route: northbound on Shakespeare Avenue → westbound on West 168th Street → northbound on University Avenue → southbound on Merriam Avenue → eastbound on West 171st Street → southbound on Ogden Avenue → eastbound on West 170th Street. Filmed with GoPro Hero 12.

Highlights:
00:00 - PS X114 (Luis Llorens Torres School)
00:21 - The Joker Stairs
00:51 - Walking northbound on Shakespeare Avenue
03:55 - Martin Luther King Triangle, Sacred Heart Church
05:33 - Walking westbound on West 168th Street
08:10 - Walking northbound on University Avenue
11:49 - The High Bridge (oldest bridge in New York City)
15:49 - Walking northbound on University Avenue
16:08 - Highbridge apartment complex (under construction)
18:41 - Walking southbound on Merriam Avenue
19:29 - Walking eastbound on West 171st Street
20:01 - Walking southbound on Ogden Avenue
21:19 - Walking eastbound on West 170th Street
23:16 - Corporal Irwin Fischer Park
24:22 - Walking eastbound on West 170th Street

From Wikipedia:
"Highbridge is a residential neighborhood geographically located in the central-west section of the Bronx, New York City. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are the Cross-Bronx Expressway to the north, Jerome Avenue to the east, Macombs Dam Bridge to the south, and the Harlem River to the west. Ogden Avenue runs north–south through Highbridge.

At the time of European settlement, the southern Bronx was inhabited by the Siwanoy, a tribe of the Wappinger confederacy. They called the hill that is now Highbridge "Nuasin", or "the land between", for its location between the Harlem River and an estuary that formerly flowed in the area of modern-day Jerome Avenue.

The neighborhood takes its name from the High Bridge, built in 1848 by Irish immigrants. The structure originally carried Croton Aqueduct water across the Harlem River In 1864, a walkway was built across the High Bridge. Use of the structure to deliver water to Manhattan ceased in 1949. The bridge was closed to pedestrian traffic in the early 1960s, and allowed to fall into disrepair; in 2015 a reconstruction project was undertaken and completed with the opening of the bridge in 2019.

In the mid-late 19th century, the area was developed as a suburban retreat for the elite, who built large homes overlooking the Harlem River. The names of these families and their estates are reflected in the names of Highbridge's north–south avenues: Ogden Avenue and Boscobel Place for William B. Ogden, Merriam Avenue for Francis W. Merriam, Anderson Avenue and Woodycrest Avenue for the Anderson family, and Shakespeare Avenue for the Shakespeare Garden on the Marcher family estate. Around the turn of the 20th century, many of these estates were subdivided for urban development, however a few older houses still remain.

In the early 20th century, the neighborhood was served by the Anderson–Jerome Avenues station, which connected the New York City Subway's Ninth Avenue elevated Line with the IRT Jerome Avenue Line (4 train).

In the late 1960s, the residents of Highbridge were predominantly of Irish, Italian and Eastern European Jewish descent. They have since been replaced by large numbers of Hispanics and African Americans. As of 2017, the neighborhood is undergoing gentrification."