At the corner of West 163rd and Woodycrest Ave. on top of Bronx schist/Fordham gneiss, is an occupied home that dates back to just 40 years after the neighborhood began as Highbridge, named after the bridge that carried the city’s water over the Harlem River. Next door is a row of stone houses, one of which, out of frame on the end, is occupied, and the remaining two have squatters.
The opposite side of the street was once lined with huge homes and they are all gone as of 2019. You might think that all this new development in Highbridge might be for working class or middle class, but, in fact all of the new structures, and they are considerable, will house and care for the very poor and homeless. They will charge market rate to the US government, based on, not this Highbridge neighborhood, but on New York City, and probably force rent up in this very poor section of the Bronx where apartments are rented at “preferred” rates because, otherwise, the units could never be rented at anything close to market/stabilized rates as unaffordable.
Yankee stadium, is a couple blocks to the west and down from the heights of Highbridge that sits like and island high over the Harlem River Valley to the west and below to Jerome Avenue to the east.