#mott haven

[wanderingnewyork]

A street corner in #Mott_Haven, #the_Bronx.

[aryburn-trains]

Bound for GCT, T-2b 267 rolls train 840 through Mott Haven on June 7, 1958.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A Baltimore and Ohio Railroad freight car standing at the Harlem River Yards, 1946.

Photo: Gordon Parks via the Gordon Parks Foundation

[fishmech]

union square & mott haven by floppy disk

[illalmusalliin]

Here's the bus system for Centrum. There are many routes running through downtown. I will eventually recolor the routes so they're easier to differentiate, but I'm too lazy.

Carretera Santa Cruz (the southwest highway on the sheet) carries two different express bus routes. This highway is named after St. Croix, USVI where I have family.

Here we have the metro/subway system for this sheet. I'm using the map/image from my first Cháxel post, so you can see details from other sheets. It'll show how they connect when stitched together.

We have Berlín Station, named after Plaza Berlín--a small park my mom used to go to back in Guatemala City. We have the City Hall station right in the middle of the downtown district. El Comandante Station named after Che Guevara. Mott Haven Stations for my childhood neighborhood in The Bronx.

[conandaily2022]

Bronx, New York City's Joshua Evans shoots Enriqueta Rivera in Mott Haven, hides in Mount Vernon

Joshua Evans, 21, of Mott Haven, Bronx, New York City, New York, United States is a gang member. In 2019, he was arrested and charged with robbery. Just after 12:30 p.m. on September 14, 2023, Enriqueta Rivera,71, of the Bronx and another woman, 34, of the Bronx were shot two blocks away from Evans’ residence in Mott Haven. He allegedly opened fire at a member of a rival gang but missed the…

[efsacco]

Friendly Village: a second grade trip

Remembering the dissonance of a second grade reader in the Bronx

PS 25 in 1905.  I attended some 55 years later. The school is still there, on 811 E 149th St. NYC.gov That diasporic feeling  There is no one place or time when diaspora occurs…it is a perpetual space of change and displacement. An awareness. It’s a process I share with many, whether by blood, place or experience, with locations linked by oceans and shaped by the relentless squeeze for money…

[historysisco]

I've always loved these buildings located on Alexander Avenue between 138th and 139th Streets in the Bronx. You don't really see too many of these types of row houses in the Bronx. I've mainly seen them in Brooklyn, particularly in Fort Greene.

According to the Historic District Council (HDC) Mott Haven Historic Districts webpage:

"Designated July 29, 1969

Alexander Avenue, once known as “The Irish 5th Avenue” and “Politicians’ Row,” features numerous handsome residences and public buildings from the turn of the century. One of the earliest, if not the earliest, series of row houses in the Bronx can be found here, built between 1863 and 1865."

There's nothing like coming across some history while getting your steps in on the streets of the Bronx and New York City.

#AlexanderAvenue #MottHavenHistoricDistrict #ArchitecturalHistory #RowHouses #BronxHistory #NewYorkHistory #NYHistory #NYCHistory #History #Historia #Histoire #Geschichte #HistorySisco

For Further Reading:

Mott Haven Historic District from the Museum of New York City website

[2othcentury]

Mott Haven, South Bronx, 1977

[thegeekproblem]

Doctor/Rose Mutant AU Plot Bunny

Dr. John Smith (i had the 10th doctor in my mind when i wrote this but you do you) is a mutant known as The Doctor throughout history. He's the founder of the Torchwood Institute, an organisation that gives a safe haven to mutants all over the world since 1941. It's run by Captain Jack Harkness, a mutant with Rapid Cellular Regeneration, meaning he heals real quick, so quick that it has slowed his aging so much he's practically immortal and has run the institute since its founding.

The Doctor's ability is Space/Time Manipulation. He's a prodigy, university level at 10 y/o. He discovers his mutant abilities young, but cannot control them yet. When he's a teenager he makes his first long accidental jump to the near future. 2030 or something like that. More than half of the population of the world is gone in a war, mutants are completely extinct. He spends a year in this future before he’s able to control his own abilities and jump again back to his own time. He returns from the accidental jump and decides he needs to change the course of history to change the future so he embarks in a journey through time to save humanity. He calls himself the Doctor so he isn’t found.

In present day a powerful mutant with Telepathic-Telekinetic abilities, code-named Bad Wolf, is trapped in a government facility dedicated to exterminate mutants. They say that in the wrong hands the power of Bad Wolf could be disastrous.

Donna Noble, vice principal of Torchwood and an empath, connects with Bad Wolf through the fear she's projecting. The Doctor must break Bad Wolf out the facility and protect her and maybe with that save the world.

And of course, because I'm a timepetals shipper the doctor and rose fall in love through the rescue and reacclimatising her to life outside the facility after being trapped in there for so long.

Torchwood Institute:

The Doctor - Space/Time Manipulation

Rose Tyler - Telepathy & Telekinesis 

Jack Harkness - Rapid Cellular Regeneration

Ianto Jones - Technopath

Gwen Cooper - Super Strength

Toshiko Sato - Suggestion

Mickey Smith - Non-Mutant

Martha Jones - Healing

Donna Noble - Empathy

Amy (Pond) Williams - Anti-Gravity

Rory Williams - Rapid Cellular Regeneration (but he’s unaware of it until an incident happens)

Melody (Pond) Williams - Anti-Gravity

Sarah Jane Smith - Lie Detection

Wilfred Mott - Non-Mutant

Bill Potts - Teletransportation

Amy and Melody use the name Williams because they were hiding the fact that they were mutants until they're found out and run away to Torchwood. Rory follows them there because he won't abandon his family.

Government (i didn't actually think about the name of the organisation but you know, fuck the government)

The Master - Power Negation/Pretends to be Non-Mutant

Clara Oswald - Memory Manipulation (she works for them until she gets to run away with the Doctor)

Adam Mitchel - Non-Mutant

Owen Harper - Non-Mutant

A/N: i decided to post some of the ideas i had for fics that for a while were only collecting dust in my drive. i'm trying to finish the series that i started back in 2020 that i completed the outline but life got in the way so i haven't written anything in a while. i also have a lot of incomplete ideas but i don't think i'll write most of them so i'll share what i have and if this inspires some of you please feel free to write this and share it with me so i can go and read it 🥰 also, this is as far as the idea got, i hadn't watched anything with the 13th doctor when i wrote this so i didn't get to how her companions would fit in this au but feel free to add them if you like. this was born as a doctor/rose fic so everything else was an after thought, though i always try to give space to every character i write that's why i had notes of so many of them

[vague-humanoid]

actually lets talk about this piece of shit

A quick post today about a person I’m endlessly fascinated with: Rep. Ritchie Torres (NY-15). Rep. Torres has emerged as the “one of the most outspoken congressional supporters of Israel,” according to the New York Daily News. His love of Israel and his hatred of its critics, namely those in the so-called Squad and Democratic Socialists of America, is evidenced in his frequent petty, screedy Twitter battles with both. 

A survey of his public statements—from his congressional website, Facebook page, and Twitter account—reveal a man whose most important topic isn’t the rampant poverty that makes his congressional district the poorest in the country, but the nominal wellbeing and arming of Israel. 

In public statements since coming into office in Jan. 2021, Torres has mentioned “Israel” 337 times and “poverty” 143 times. On his official website there are 202 mentions of Israel and 77 mentions of poverty. On Twitter there are 73 tweets about Israel and 12 about poverty. On Facebook, there are 62 mentions of Israel and 54 mentions of poverty.

According to Food Research and Action Center’s figures, using data from 2017, New York’s 15th district is by far the poorest of the 435 congressional districts in the US. 36.2% of Torres’ constituency lives below the poverty line. For reference, the second and third poorest districts in the country, Michigan 15 and Kentucky 5, have a poverty rate of roughly 29 percent, or 7 percentage points lower than the NY-15. 

This isn’t to say Torres doesn’t talk about poverty at all, just that he does so way less than he talks about Israel. He’s campaigned for Democrats to pass the Child Income Tax Credit that was central to reducing childhood poverty. He’s proposed bills to increase housing vouchers and “protect” Medicare for Seniors—fairly standard liberal Democrat fare, though nothing particularly progressive or subversive. Torres ostensibly supported a Medicare for All bill in 2021, but never posted on social media or issued a press release about it.  

Torres received the 7th highest donation out of 435 members of Congress in 2022 from Pro-Israel PACs, or roughly $291,961. His ability—and willingness—to attract large donors extends to other sectors as well. When he first ran in the highly competitive 2019 Democratic primary, Torres took an early donor lead in a crowded field fueled largely by real estate interests that, according to The City, sought Torres’ help turning the Mott Haven neighborhood into “the next Williamsburg”:

[wanderingnewyork]

Houses in #Mott_Haven, #the_Bronx.

[aryburn-trains]

NYC, Mott Haven Junction, New York, 1968

New York Central Railroad passenger train no. 911 led by electric locomotive no. 263 at Mott Haven Junction, New York, on August 13, 1968. Photograph by Victor Hand.

[mia-seth-adventures]

🇺🇸 "Dancing in the South Bronx" by photographer David Gonzalez (1979). Taken at a street fair in Mott Haven when a salsa band started playing, and this couple began dancing.

[fishmech]

Graham Triangle

[futurebird]

There was a guy making custom keychains in Mott Haven and I knew exactly what to get for the spare key for the cat sitter.