Bronx Harlem Walk NYC – Exploring Marble Hill Neighborhood to W. 218th St., March 2023

Welcome to TEchi World Walk! Marble Hill neighborhood that borders Riverdale and upper Washington Heights is one of those quaint places I love to explore. This time, I decided to start from West 228th Street and Broadway instead of where I started the last time. Though I wish the promenade on West 225th Street was by the Harlem River near the train tracks. It would make a spectacular view for the walking tour. Nonetheless, the walking tour was as fascinating as it was supposed to be.
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Marble Hill
Marble Hill has been occupied since the Dutch colonial period. On August 18, 1646, Governor Willem Kieft, the Dutch Director of New Netherland, signed a land grant to Mattius Jansen van Keulan and Huyck Aertsen, including the whole of the present community. Johannes Verveelen petitioned the Harlem authorities to move his ferry from what is now the East River and 125th Street to Spuyten Duyvil Creek because the creek was shallow enough to wade across, thus providing a means of evading the toll. The ferry charter was granted in 1667. Many settlers circumvented the toll for the ferry by crossing the creek from northern Marble Hill to modern Kingsbridge, Bronx, where it was feasible to wade or swim through the waters. In 1669 Verveelen transplanted his ferry to the north tip of Marble Hill, at today's Broadway and West 231st Street.
The King's and Dyckman Free Bridge connected Marble Hill with the mainland. In 1693 Frederick Philipse, a Dutch nobleman who had sworn allegiance to the Crown upon the British takeover of Dutch New Netherlands, built the King's Bridge at Marble Hill near West 230th Street in the Bronx. Originally a merchant in New Amsterdam, Philipse had purchased vast landholdings in Westchester County. Granted the Lord of Philipse Manor, he established a plantation and provisioning depot for his shipping business upriver on the Hudson in present-day Sleepy Hollow. His toll bridge provided access and opened his land to settlement. Later, it carried the Boston Post Road.

Broadway Bridge
The Broadway Bridge is a vertical-lift bridge across the Harlem River Ship Canal in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It connects the neighborhoods of Inwood on Manhattan Island and Marble Hill on the mainland. The bridge consists of two decks. The lower deck carries Broadway, designated as U.S. Route 9 at this location. The upper deck carries the New York City Subway's IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line, serving the 1 train.
Two successive swing bridges previously occupied the site. The first, known as the Harlem Ship Canal Bridge, was built between 1893 and 1895 to cross the canal, which had been constructed to bypass a meandering alignment of the Spuyten Duyvil Creek. By the first decade of the 20th century, the city's first subway line had obsolete the original bridge. A double-decker span called the 225th Street Bridge was built to accommodate the subway line above highway traffic. Between 1905 and 1906, the second bridge was installed, and the first bridge was relocated southward on the Harlem River, becoming the University Heights Bridge.

Timestamp:
00:00 Intro
00:30 West 228 Street/Broadway
00:51 W. 228th Street
04:27 West 228th Street/Adrian Ave/Terrace View Ave
04:46 Terrace View Ave
09:22 Terrace View Ave/Adrian Ave/W. 225th Street
09:55 W. 225th Street
12:29 W. 225th Street/Jacobus Pl
12:46 Jacobus Pl
14:14 Jacobus Pl/FT Richard Pl/Van Corlear Pl
14:49 FT Richard Pl
17:14 FT Richard Pl/Marble Hill Ave
17:54 Marble Hill Ave
20:30 Marble Hill Ave/W. 225th Street
20:58 W. 225th Street
21:36 W. 225th Street/Broadway
21:56 On Broadway Bridge
24:22 Broadway
27:45 Broadway/W. 218th Street
29:13 Broadway
32:48 On Broadway Bridge
35:19 Broadway
35:47 Broadway/W. 225th Street
36:35 W. 225th Street – End.