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B ronx public housing residents will benefit from kitchen and bathroom repairs done at Edenwald Houses.
That's because after the repairs NO more free water, they are putting water meters in!
T he newly renovated "Edenwald Houses community center" opens in MARCH.
N o more Mr. Mercer... Kenneth Mercer, who does not live in the Bronx and has not been seen at Edenwald Houses since the community center closed, could not be reached for comment.
(Mercer took over after former director Jessie Collins resigned amid financial difficulties. But Mercer proved equally unable to sign contracts or submit relevant paperwork in a timely manner.)
Street Boundaries
225th Street/Laconia Avenue
Grenada Place/Baychester Avenue
Subway Lines
2 to 233rd Street ~ transfer to BX31 to 229th Street
5 to Baychester Avenue ~ turn left walk 3 blocks to Schieffelin Avenue
6 to Westchester Square ~ transfer to BX31 to 229th Street
Bus Lines
BX31 east to 229th Street
SITE STATISTICS AND DESCRIPTION:
Edenwald Houses is the largest NYCHA development in the
Bronx with forty buildings, 3 and 14-stories tall on
48.88-acres. It has 2,034 apartments housing about 5,450
people. Completed October 15, 1953 it is bordered by
Grenada Place, East 225th Street, Baychester and Laconia
Avenues.
*
EDENWALD PLAYGROUND *
2.537 acres
This playground, like the adjacent housing project, street, and neighborhood, takes its name from the Edenwald Estate, which stood near Boston Road, Light Street and Conner Street. From 1900 to 1913, John H. Eden owned the north central Bronx estate whose name in German means ‘ Eden’s Forest .’ Some time after Eden sold the estate, it became a Hebrew Orphan Asylum. After World War II, the City acquired the land in order to build the 2,036-unit housing development, which houses approximately 6,000 residents.
Schieffelin Avenue, which runs adjacent to this playground, honors the Bronx family that owned land in Edenwald, near Eastchester Road. Eugene Schieffelin, a wealthy
* drug manufacturer * and theatre aficionado, brought European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) to New York City as part of his attempt to introduce every bird mentioned the works of Shakespeare into the United States. Shakespeare’s sole reference to the European starling appears in King Henry IV, “Nay, I’ll have a starling shall be taught to speak nothing but ‘Mortimer.’â€
Eugene Schieffelin did not manage to introduce Shakespeare’s other birds into the United States, but succeeded beyond his wildest hopes with the starling. He brought 80 of the birds into Central Park in 1880 and another 40 the following year. The European starling spread through the city, country, and continent. By 1950, it had made its way into every state of America and every province of Canada. In America alone, there are an estimated 140 million starlings.
The City acquired this land on November 28, 1950, and it was named for the adjacent houses on June 26, 1954. Borough President Fernando Ferrer financed a $335,000 reconstruction of Edenwald Playground, completed on November 15, 1995.
