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Title: Air View Of The East Bronx
Description: Drawing of air view showing Jacobi Hospital, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Co-op City in the distance.
Type: still image
Genre: architectural drawing
Local Identifier: street_airview_bronx_5.jpg

Title: Bronx Maternity Hospital
Description: Plan for a ten-story hospital to be erected at 166th St. and the Grand Concourse. Shown is the front elevation designed by B. H. Whinston. Drawing by Harold Goldman. The hospital fell victim to the Great Depression economy and was not built.
Type: still image
Genre: architectural drawing
Local Identifier: hospital_bronx_maternity.jpg

Title: Concourse Village
Description: Plan showing the Concourse Village development in relation to surrounding landmarks -- the County Building, and what should be Yankee Stadium but is actually the Polo Grounds.
Type: still image
Genre: architectural drawing
Local Identifier: housing_concourse_2.jpg

Title: Corn Exchange Bank Plan
Description: Plan for the Corn Exchange Bank at Arthur & Tremont Aves. by architect Fellheimer & Wagner.
Type: still image
Genre: architectural drawing
Local Identifier: core-exchange_bank_3.jpg

Title: Curry Chevrolet Dealership Completed
Description: Plan of dealership at 1221 Jerome Ave. & Edward L. Grant Hwy. between 167th and 169th Sts., that opens for business with an automotive show on Aug. 6, 1953. Since Cromwell's Creek ran through the site, the entire building was constructed on 356 piles driven to bedrock. The poem 'The Blue and the Gray' by Frances Miles Finch is thought to have been written on this site.
Type: still image
Genre: architectural drawing
Local Identifier: business_University_chevrolet.jpg

Title: Knickerbocker Savings & Loan Plan
Description: Architects rendition of the future office of the bank on Crosby Ave.
Type: still image
Genre: architectural drawing
Local Identifier: knickerbocker_federal_savings_loan_2.jpg

Title: Misrecordia Hospital
Description: Plan for Misrecordia Hospital at E. 233rd Street. Kiff, Corlean, Voss & Souder, Architects.
Type: still image
Genre: architectural drawing
Local Identifier: hospital_bronx_misericordia.jpg

Title: New York Central Plan
Description: Proposed plan (never implementd) of decking for the New York Central Railroad yards in the West Bronx. Shown in plan are the Major Deegan Expwy., Yankee Stadium, the County Building, Cardinal Hayes H.S., the 149th St. Post Office, Patterson Houses, and the Melrose Central building of the New York Central Railroad.
Type: still image
Genre: architectural drawing
Local Identifier: Railroads_ny_1.jpg

Title: New York Public Library, Kingsbridge Branch
Description: Architects rendering of new Kingsbridge Branch to open on 231st St. & Corlear Ave. (A new facility is now being constructed.)
Type: still image
Genre: architectural drawing
Local Identifier: library_kingsbridge.jpg

Title: North New York Savings & Loan Assn.
Description: Plans for new bank branch at 2700 E. Tremont Ave. Robert Gottlieb, architect.
Type: still image
Genre: architectural drawing
Local Identifier: North_New_York_savings_loan_3.jpg

Title: Plan For new North Side Savings Bank
Description: Architectural plan for the new bank Main office at West 231st St. Note railroad bridge for the Putnam division of the New York Central Railroad on the right.
Type: still image
Genre: architectural drawing
Local Identifier: North_savings_bank_2.jpg

Title: Prospect Hospital
Description: Architectural drawing of Prospect Hospital by Theodore L. Soontup, architect. This private hospital was located at 930 Kelly St. The founder of the hospital had a holistic aproach to healing. He brought in musicians to play soothing music for the patients; and saw that original art work was displayed in rooms and corridors. No operations were performed at the hospital and patients were referred out for surgery. The hospital was in the vicinity of the Longwood Historic District.
Type: still image
Genre: architectural drawing
Local Identifier: hospital_bronx_prospect.jpg

Title: R. Hoe & Co., Inc.
Description: The main plant of R. Hoe & Co., Inc., known for its rotary printing equipment, presses and saws, located on the East River at 138th St. The company took over the site in the 1920s, with buildings from an ice box company. Hoe added buildings and the site took up three city blocks for their corporate offices, assembly facilities, and its Saw Division.
Type: still image
Genre: architectural drawing
Local Identifier: business_Hoe_co_2.jpg

Title: Stadium Motor Lodge
Description: Rendering of the Stadium Motor Lodge, at 167th St. & the Deegan Expwy., by Morris Rothstein & Son, Architects.
Type: still image
Genre: architectural drawing
Local Identifier: Stadium_motor_lodge.jpg

Title: White Rock Beverages
Description: Plan for the soda company's plant at Eastchester Ave. & Haswell St. Warehouse constructed by Milau Assoc., Inc.
Type: still image
Genre: architectural drawing
Local Identifier: business_white_rock-beverages.jpg

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