@Joseph Frank posted:Here is something to try to model - heh -- (photo below) --regards - Joe F
A SUPER fascinating photo: it is at "The Hub", a thriving commercial neighborhood at 149th St and Third Avenue in the South Bronx. There was a station on the El at that location but no longer there in your photo. I'm very surprised and impressed that such an old structure could still support the weight of that locomotive.
And I'm puzzled as to what NJ Public Service buses were doing in NYC that far away from the George Washington Bridge Bus Station (given the apparent existence of what seems like a bus station in the right of the old photo below). I can speculate that NJ Public Service buses had a transfer point to the Third Avenue El and the subways for NJ commuters at the Hub. After the GWB Bus station opened in 1963, all NJ buses coming over the bridge were required to terminate at the new bus station and would no longer traverse NYC streets, so that would put the date of your photo as prior to 1963.
I figured out the location from the name of the neckwear store to the left of the Thom McAn ("The Hub Neckwear Co."). Here's an earlier pic of the same area.
Thanks for sending me on a deep dive into South Bronx transit history! 😁
