Welcome to The Bronx County Historical Society's main RU-vid page! We also have a variety of channels devoted to our different project. Here you'll find all of our latest general-interest videos on Bronx history in and around the borough. Enjoy and don't forget to subscribe to keep up on the latest material.
So many great Yankees players and many other baseball greats have all played there at some point in they're careers to a place in the Bronx called Yankee stadium aka baseballs cathedral the world's greatest baseball park ever build in American history that s place even attracted many of our presidents have also come to this great ball park and and 2 popes this place is electric exciting fascinating an amazing place to be football boxing & concerts have also played here as well this place isn't just for baseball it's a great place for many social events too this great s what makes Yankee stadium a place that leaves you in awe no matter who you are when it was finally torn down I was heartbroken I'm sure I was not the only one such a great place of many many memories torn down 😢
Sorry to disappoint you but this isn’t the ‘old’ Yankee Stadium. This is the renovated stadium when the original was closed after the 1973 season and reopened for the 1976 season. The Yankees played in Shea Stadium for the 74 and 75 seasons.
That is not the "old Yankee Stadium." Okay--it is on the original site, but it is the stadium that was REBUILT in the 1970s. Completely different vibe.
So this tour was conducted on November 5th, 1991. Just think, by the time this video reached its 5th anniversary, we Yankees fans got to call the team "World Champions!"❤
I used to live in the west Bronx as a child. .My first memories were the little 1 bedroom walk i' at the end of Morris Ave where it turns and ends at Jerome Ave. When I was older we lived over in University Heights. In my wanderings as a child I discovered a neat little coffee shack On east side of Sedgewick Ave. between two apartment Buildings on a scrap of land just south of Fordham Road . The building looked real old. There was a big sign over the counter that this was one of Poe's favorite spots. It seemed a bit far from his cottage but now that I know his wife was buried near there in makes sense. .Nice to see the park and the tours when I went in the service back in 68 things were a bit rough around the park at night.
Wow, 6 years and I am the first comment. It is too bad this talk was so badly recorded, but so great that it was. I have never seen someone talk about redlining in my hometown of the Bronx so authoritatively for the public. I found it fascinating, explaining so much about three generations of my Puerto Rican family living there. Thank you!
I toured the stadium on my own when I bought a ticket. I just remained silent when security and staff asked what I was doing in a secured area and kept walking past them to wherever the heck I wanted. Good times.
Nice video, very informative. But the background music gets a bit too full of itself. It was loud, almost obnoxious, and 11 minutes in, really obscures the speakers.
Do you folks know that Edgar Allan Poe has a Scottish Connection? The Mystery of "Mar'se Eddie"in the Shire, a Biography of EDGAR ALLAN POE'S Scottish Connections. Self-published by the author, Robert Densmore Brill, M. A., J. D., 885 pages, 2 Volumes, Copyright 2013, Foster City, California. The Poe Museum of Philadelphia, Penn. does. So does the Archive Section (Poe Vertical File), Library of the U. S. Military Academy, West Point, N. Y., and 33 others to whom I sent complimentary copies for allowing me access to Poe materials. I often quote the Poe biographer, Raymond Foye, The Unknown Poe, who was going to take me to the Fordam Cottage, but I never had time during the 20 years of working on my 2 volume book. No one in PSA, MLA, or other interested Poe scholar would help me get my book published. I am retired from the US Air Force and United Airlines, and not in academia.
Went on the tour in 2003. Loved it!!! I made sure to stand in the spot at the fence where Chambliss hit the pennant winning HR in 1976. It's impossible to understand how big the field is until you stand on it and look around!!!
Is there a creative reason for having the narration and music at the same volume? If the purpose was to make it difficult to understand what's being said, you can give yourselves a pat on the back. Mission accomplished! 👏
i use to work at the one in baltimore md it was hunted i live in baltimore city for all my life i know i miss working there again i moved so its hard for me
I was born and raised in The Bronx, and I never knew any of this. I was actually born at Bruckner Boulevard and Southern Boulevard, at the old Lincoln Hospital. Thank you so much!
I have posted a paper, "Evidence that Edgar Allan Poe Stole 'The Raven' from Mathew Franklin Whittier," which is downloadable at the following link. It can also be found by searching on the title on Academia.edu. www.ial.goldthread.com/MFW_The_Raven.pdf
I LOVEEEEE that I found this video! Born and bred in the Bronx! I played by this home all the time as a little girl. I lived near the park. I think the Bronx is SO underrated. The land, geologically speaking: is beautiful. Growing up there, you would hear so many awful things,(especially from people who didnt live in the Bronx) basically putting the Bronx down in some demeaning levels. I will never forget it is the people (humans) that turn things into something negative and that has nothing to do with the actual beauty of the Land of the Bronx. Bronx has many wonderful attractions and Poe Park and his home is one of them. Thank you so much for sharing this! Cheers! xx
You see that hill there at 2:01 my cousin had bought a cheap Yugo car we were coming from up up traveling towards that hill right there and there was sewer that kinda stuck out so my cousin didn’t slow down and he hit the sewer cover and it ripped his muffler off and as I look back his muffler went rolling down that hill
The original name is borinken The Jatibonicu Taino of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico is "Borikén" in the Taino language and means "Land of the Valiant and Noble Lord", that refers also to the Great Spirit or Creator) are descendants of the original 24 tribal bands that settled in Puerto Rico.
I toured the stadium on my own when I bought a ticket. I just remained silent when security and staff asked what I was doing in a secured area and kept walking past them to wherever the heck I wanted. Good times.
Yes and no. I started going to YS in the spring of 1967. It's final last years were glorious yet tired & run down, if that makes sense. The area was dangerous (night games especially/poor lighting etc).
