you rilly gotta play this first  :wink2:

 

 

mt. vernon, ny  (1664; 4+sq mi.; pop=70K)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Vernon,_New_York

 

http://cmvny.com/

 

 

what do ossie davis, ruby dee, art carney, capt. lou albano, p.diddy, heavy d, harvey kurtzman, pete rock, cl smooth, betty shabazz, robin givens, al b. sure!, denzel washington, e.b.white, malcolm x, sidney poitier, floyd patterson, dmx, stephanie mills and more all have in common? money earnin’ mt. vernon!

 

 

the 'mtv' tour starts in the SE and goes counter-clockwise

first thing is st. paul church+cemetery, a national historic site

 

 

 

 

 

hutchinson field

 

 

 

the forelorn memorial field and grandstand (1920)

a sign said it was under redevelopment & would be done in 2010 :(

 

 

 

 

 

 

otherwise, some big box shopping around e. sanford ave and

typical middle class suburbia on garden and grandview aves

 

 

 

 

wilson’s woods park

 

 

 

 

pelham pond

 

 

 

 

e. lincoln ave

 

 

 

 

 

 

fire dept hq

 

 

 

 

 

 

i swear every town has a pinky :D

 

 

 

devonia rd heading toward NW mt.vernon

 

 

hunt woods park

 

 

 

 

fleetwood metro-north station

 

 

 

a look under four bridges right in a row here  8-)

 

 

NW mount vernon is the fleetwood neighborhood

it has its own older tod/downtown near the station

 

 

 

i went up on a parking garage for a look around

 

 

this is looking NW

 

 

looking S

 

 

back on the ground

 

 

 

 

 

more big apt blocks on fleetwood ave

 

 

gramatan ave n

 

 

the circle --this is the middle of mt. vernon

 

 

 

 

hartley park war memorial

 

 

btw for the record did i mention mt vernon was by faaaaar a majority african american city?

just about everyone i met was black. yep!  ;)  :mrgreen:

 

 

anyway, there were two things in mtv i really always wanted to see -- here is the first:

 

 

that’s right -- it’s heavy d’s bandshell from his money earnin video --

did you clik the youtube link at the top of the thread?

 

 

coupla views from the park

 

 

 

 

heading downtown now

 

 

mtv also has a significant brazilian population,

mostly people from pocos de caldas, brazil

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

this is gramatan ave

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

city hall

 

 

 

police hq

 

 

 

^ plaque on the old bank bldg above

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

mt vernon east station

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

s4th st is known as the avenue

 

 

 

 

buster brown is still around? who knew?

 

 

 

old signage

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the local crank ranting at everybody  :-o

 

 

 

 

 

 

mt vernon’s more official slogan

 

 

 

 

 

interesting very old front in a newer, crappier strip

 

 

 

 

finally, this was the second thing i really wanted to see in mt.vernon:

 

 

^ that was denzel washington’s boys & girl’s club  :clap:

do you remember the tv commercial?

Denzel Washington and The Boys & Girls Clubs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SW and getting into the bronx now...

 

...yep  :police:

 

 

***  so that’s all -- hope you enjoyed a look over good old money earnin mount vernon  ***

I recognize a lot of that (I have family in Mt. Vernon).  Thanks.

That's a really interesting community. Seems like there are some wealthy and impoverished areas but mostly middle class neighborhoods. Has the city always had this type of make-up or has it recently improved?

 

^ its stayed pretty much the same for a long time.