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NAME
PHONE
Fort Independence Park Neighborhood Association (FIPNA)
(347) 614-0005
ADDRESS
3332 Giles Place
CITY, STATE, ZIP
Bronx, NY 10463
DATE
January 27, 2010
PROPERTY
TO BE
Fort Independence Historic District -- Contact Person: Lynn Schwarz
EVALUATED
Both sides of the all streets starting at the most southern point of Fort Independence Street at Sedgwick
Avenue going north and westward for the entire Fort Independence Street to Orloff Avenue, then
northward along Orloff Avenue to Van Cortlandt Avenue West, then eastward to along Van Cortlandt
Avenue West to Sedgwick Avenue, and southward along Sedgwick Avenue to Fort Independence
Street, including all of both sides of Giles and Cannon Places.
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION
For centuries, the area encompassed by the Fort Independence Historic District has played a special
role in the development of our history and culture, contributing mulit-levels of historical
significance to the character and heritage of our nation, state and city. This historic legacy predates the Revolutionary War, with an Indian Village resting place. It continues with places so rich
in our country’s history, from when the Revolutionary War General Montgomery – our country’s
first war hero, made this area his home and farm. Later our area is blessed with the fortune of
having one of the greatest landscape architects design our streets, not in a grid as the rest of the city,
but in a curvilinear line ingeniously modeled after the topography. Finally, this is an area
surrounded by historical and cultural features: Jerome Park Reservoir is on the State and National
Register of Historic Places, as is the Croton Aqueduct (also a NYC Landmark); and the Sholom
Aleichem and the Amalgamated Houses are eligible for the State and National Register.