Some antique glass negatives - two labeled the Bronx

That second "Bronx View" sure looks like it's the same wall and buildings from the opposite direction to the first. The hills are kind of tall for the NY Bronx, though.

 

It is the Bronx! Along the Bronx River, I believe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx_River

 

Yep - that three stepped shed roof on the smaller building is pretty conclusive

 

I am currently racking (what little is left of) my brain trying to identify that large building out in the open, but am having no luck. I THINK that after years of architectural day tripping in New York I would recognize that building if it were in the Bronx (particularly in the East Bronx, which this appears to be), but I am coming up empty..................so its very possible that that building is/was elsewhere

 

Yeah, well we WON'T go in to that..........................but a building as large as that would have been mentioned somewhere in the annals of NY architectural history and I have no remembrance of it so.............I even checked around Eastchester and Westchester (both border on the Bronx) and have come up cold. Part of the problem may be the the Bronx was not real an incorporated place (county) until about 1914/15, and heaven only knows what most of the smaller "areas" were called until then

 

I'm getting NY Botanical Gardens Museum for that large building

 

Here's a link to an old postcard listing on eBay


http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Museum-Botan...507?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4880693ba3

 

And correct you are! As I have never had an interest in anything green unless it was dried and rolling paper, I must have ignored that building all of my life - though I have a feeling that when this photo was taken it was in the early years before the greenhouse, etc. surrounded it.

 

And yes, it is on the Bronx River as well. BY the way, the photo in Wiki is almost exactly the same as yours, sans the bicyclist

 

I think the falls may be DeLancey's Falls and the history on this page may have something to do with the buildings:
https://books.google.ca/books?id=Cf...9wDz#v=onepage&q=DeLancey bronx river&f=false