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Print and fill out the application and drop it off at your local BX Sports store.More in This Series The Bad Old Days Thirty years ago, a Bronx native returned home and photographed the ruins of his borough. A Cultural Hothouse in an Unlikely Locale A Soundtrack to Everyday Life A Canvas for Brush Strokes Faces in the Rubble How did Fordham Road become part of the South Bronx? That winding, sloping commercial strip is actually closer to Yonkers than it is to Mott Haven. Yet in the minds of some bureaucrats, reporters and bankers, it became the upper limit of the Lower Bronx as abandonment and arson crept ever northward during the 1970s. The dubious designation probably said more about the prejudice of outsiders than the lives of locals, since the strip bustled with life even when the South Bronx had been written off. These days, life and progress in the Bronx are often measured by the arrival of suburban-style big box stores. Witness this summer’s opening of the Gateway Mall near Yankee Stadium, built partly on what had been the Bronx House of Detention.
In the shadow of this retail behemoth a few days ago, customers lugged home bags bulging with necessities and luxuries alike, with plenty of room to maneuver through the wide outdoor walkways.It felt like Mars. Looking at some of the photographs I took of Fordham Road when I returned there after college in 1979, I am struck by something I have yet to witness at the new Bronx malls: people just hanging out. From the benches that lined Poe Park to the tiny triangular oases along Fordham Road, old men and women sat and chatted. Kids played in the dirt and scraggly grass. Conversations and chance encounters were the norm, not the coldly efficient consumer rituals of suburbanized city spaces. Who needed a mall when you had Fordham Road? Back then, furniture stores catered to a snazzy clientele with ornate window displays featuring dark, heavy “Mediterranean-style” bedroom sets that were probably more accurately described as Concourse Style. Farther east, just off the main drag, stores plopped sofas, bed frames and gaudy statues on the sidewalk, offering to furnish entire apartments on what would probably be lifelong installments of E-Z Credit.
Clothing stores were everywhere, hawking everything from nurses’ uniforms to disco duds. Some selling children’s clothes had window displays featuring stiff-armed mini-mannequins caught in mid-tantrum, with mouths agape and tear-streaked cheeks. Somebody actually thought this was a selling point. In the center of all this was Alexander’s, selling more or less anything you could find on the streets outside — but under one roof. Down the Grand Concourse, the Paradise Theater, already chopped up, was still in business showing movies. Perhaps it is fitting that one of the defining symbols of New York City in the 1980s got its start on Fordham Road. In the ’70s, garbage cans along the street were painted with slogans touting the Rock Brigade, a volunteer cleanup group whose leader was the manager of the local McDonald’s. His name was Curtis Sliwa. Before he and his Guardian Angels swaggered onto the Lexington Line in red berets (or he became a shouting head on television), Mr. Sliwa presided over the brigade, which aimed to keep this part of the Bronx clean.
In some ways, this might have been his most honest civic effort, given how he later admitted fabricating bogus feats of Angels heroism. It’s hard to fake a clean street. If there is a guardian angel on Fordham Road now, you’ll have better luck finding one at Saint Nicholas of Tolentine Roman Catholic Church, still presiding majestically over University Avenue. The stores are still busy, the street still noisy. Alexander’s is long gone, replaced by several smaller businesses. A new office tower has just opened above Sears, and a state-of-the-art public library has risen on the site of Jahn’s and the old Con Ed building. Some places went bust. The Paradise went dark, then was revived a few years ago by an investor who promised to turn it into a concert and boxing showcase. Mind you, nobody thought about parking for the thousands of merrymakers who were supposed to descend on the place. Today, the once-grand theater looks empty and forlorn. Fordham Road was never the South Bronx, except in the sense that it was the line where activists vowed the blight would stop.
Apartment buildings were saved and renovated, and the street still buzzes with vitality and commerce.One subway stop north of Fordham Road, the city and developers are pushing to turn the cavernous Kingsbridge Armory into — what else? Like the one in the South Bronx. Some fortunes are forever linked. 232 E Sunrise Highway Long Island City, NY 11101 773 East Tremont Avenue 845 White Plains Road Staten Island, NY 10302 1048 Green Acres Mall, Space #107l Valley Stream, NY 11581 305 West 125th Street New York, NY 10027 144 E 98th Street Jersey City, NJ 07306 119 East Fordham Road Central Islip, NY 11722 220 East 161st StreetDo More, Bronx Fordham Road About Bronx Fordham Road Sport Step into our gym and you will feel the difference. A buzz of energy and inspiration. A community ready to welcome you. And thousands of feet of premium workout space, complete with sparkling group fitness studios and dedicated training areas to help you reach for your best each day.
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