Allerton, Bronx

Location of Allerton in New York City

Allerton is a working-class neighborhood geographically located in the east Bronx borough of New York City in the United States. It is named in honor of Daniel Allerton, an early Bronx settler who purchased and farmed this area with his wife Hustace.[1] It consists of both the Bronxwood and Laconia neighborhoods. The neighborhood is part of Bronx Community Board 11. Its boundaries,[2] starting from the north and moving clockwise, are: East Gun Hill Road to the north, IRT Dyre Avenue Line to the east, Waring Avenue south, and Bronx River Parkway to the west. White Plains Road is the primary thoroughfare through Allerton. The local subway is the IRT White Plains Road Line. ZIP codes include 10467. The area is patrolled by the NYPD's 49th Precinct[3] located at 2121 Eastchester Avenue in the Morris Park section of the Bronx.

History

Allerton Avenue was ethnically divided in the 1950s through the 1980s by a distinct separation of Jewish and Italian residents. Primarily a commercial avenue west of Laconia Avenue, the geographic boundary between the Jewish and Italians was Bronxwood Avenue and Boston Post Road. Bordering the largely Jewish Pelham Parkway to the southern extreme of Williamsbridge, the area east of Boston Post Road was predominantly post-war immigrant Italian and to the west an older Jewish community. Mixed in were residents representing earlier 19th and 20th century migrations from Manhattan, largely of Irish and English-Irish extraction. The arrival of West Indians in the 1980s marked the transition, north of Allerton Avenue, from a distinctly Italian area to a West Indian one. West of Bronxwood Avenue, the arrival of Dominicans concurrently marked the end of the Jewish community north of Allerton Avenue (Laconia). Today, the area south of Allerton Avenue and east of Bronxwood Avenue has a large population of Italian-Americans and Albanian-Americans, as well as Asians, Hispanics, West-Indians, and other groups. In February 2014 Google Maps recognized Allerton as the name of a community that had prior been recognized as Williamsbridge or Bronxdale.[4]

Land use and terrain

Allerton is dominated by multi-unit homes of various types. There are also some tenements scattered across the neighborhood, primarily within five blocks of the El on White Plains Road. The total land area is roughly two square miles. The area is low and flat.

Demographics

Pelham Parkway Houses

Allerton has a population of almost 50,000, which are mostly Hispanic (Puerto Rican). Bronxwood has a population over 20,000 and Laconia has a population under 25,000. The neighborhood is now predominantly Hispanic south of Allerton Avenue (Bronxwood) and Black north of Allerton Avenue (Laconia). A smaller longstanding Italian and immigrant Albanian population exist east of White Plains Road primarily in Bronxwood near Esplanade Avenue. The majority of residents rent. Under 20% of the population lives below the poverty line in Bronxwood while over 20% of the population lives below the poverty line in Laconia.[5]

Four NYCHA developments are located in Allerton.[6]

  1. Boston Road Plaza; one, 20-story building
  2. Eastchester Gardens; ten buildings, 7 and 8-stories tall
  3. Parkside Houses; 14 buildings, 6, 7, 14 and 15-stories tall
  4. Pelham Parkway Houses; twenty-three, 6-story buildings

Subsections

Schools

Transportation

References

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  1. ↑ Bronx Neighborhood Fights for Its Spot on the Map
  2. ↑ "Living in Allerton, the Bronx". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
  3. ↑ "49th Precinct". Retrieved 24 October 2015.
  4. ↑ Hu, Winnie (April 6, 2014). "Bronx Neighborhood Fights for Its Spot on the Map". New York Times. Retrieved April 30, 2014.
  5. ↑ Bronx Community District 11
  6. ↑ NYCHA

Coordinates: 40°51′56″N 73°51′39″W / 40.86556°N 73.86083°W / 40.86556; -73.86083

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