I-- 87, Kingsbridge

Albany Crescent is literally a crescent, it starts at Bailey Avenue. It curves westward around in a crescent until it reaches Bailey Avenue again, near 233rd Street. While mainly residential, with apartment buildings, there is an irish bar on the corner of 231st street, and next to that, quite unexpectedly, a Chinese Buddhist temple, called the Temple of Enlightenment. I live near here, but I have never visited that temple, or seen anyone coming and going, and it is surprising to find this here, where there is no Chinese population that I have ever seen.

There is a gas station where Albany Crescent ends at Bailey Avenue, and a firehouse across the street from the gas station, on Bailey Avenue itself. Part of Albany Crescent has buildings only on the east side of the street, as the west side is the Major Deegan Expressway. I happen to like this area a lot, but I suspect that between the gas station, firehouse, and the parkway, it might tend to be a bit noisy right there if you lived in one of those buildings.

Here's the trivia part: It is called Albany crescent, because not too far from here was the old Albany Post Road, which connected with what is now Kingsbridge Road, during colonial and revolutionary times. That road, as you might imagine, brought the post, or the mail, all the way to Albany, the state capitol. Trust me, I'm a licensed tour guide, and the Bronx is a very historical area!