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Kimberly Place is a small street that originates at Godwin Terrace and ends one short block east of Broadway. It's two blocks long. The block between Godwin Terrace and Broadway has an apartment building on the corner, a public school across the street, and the end that joins Broadway is just the side of an electronics store and a diner, making that apartment building the only building with an address on Kimberly Place. I often find parking on this little street. On the east side of Broadway, the street ends in a public parking lot, the kind where you park yourself and keep the keys. On the other side of the parking lot is the Deegan Expressway. Perhaps Kimberly place was once longer, before they built the expressway.

The biggest draw to this area is convenience, as it is near the 1, 2, 7, 9, 10, and 20 buses, and the number one subway, not to mention all kinds of shopping, such as supermarkets, 99 cent stores, electronics, home accessories, pet store, walgreen's, duane reade, restaurants, and post office.

Manhattan College Parkway, predictably, gets it name from Manhattan College. It begins on the East at Broadway, right where the number one subway ends. There are no buses that go up there, so you would have to take a taxi, as it probably wouldn't be practical to walk unless you were going only part way.

In the beginning, there are some apartment buildings and a restaurant, and then you get to some really lovely apartment buildings and a home for the elderly. You will pass Manhattan College on your right. Then the road bears left and heads up the hill.

Like most of Riverdale, Manhattan College Parkway is green and leafy. As you continue on, you start coming to beautiful big private houses, many of them selling for much more than a million dollars, even in this market. Riverdale is a place that is in the city but still maintains a suburban feel. The drawback is the lack of public transportation, but at the same time, that's also part of it's charm and contributes to the suburban feel. Unless you are a kid, this will not be an issue for you if you live here, as I am sure that all residents have at least one car, a necessity in this neck of the woods.

This street tends to be much busier with traffic than the surrounding area of Marble Hill, which is a bit quieter. There are three good things about this street. One is that it is very convenient to transportation. Metro North stops here, the number one subway is on the corner, and several buses go by, to Manhattan and other parts of the Bronx.

The next good thing about it is that it is convenient to shopping. There is a Target on the next street, along with an Applebee's, Marshall's, and some other stores. There is a Planet Fitness across Broadway.

The third good thing is the great view of the Hudson, Columbia University's Baker Field, and Inwood Hill Park, because this street is right on the North River.

Drawbacks would be that it can be kind of noisy and there can be some drama on the street from time to time, on the corner of Broadway. Not much in the way of nightlife here, but why do you need that when Manhattan is so close by?

Kingsbridge Avenue originates at Terrace View Avenue, in the Marble Hill section of the Bronx. Marble Hill was at one time a part of the island of Manhattan, but was cut off when a shipping channel was dug.

Kingsbridge is so named because it once led to the first bridge connecting the island of Manhattan with the mainland. It was called the King's Bridge. (This was before the Revolutionary War.) It was via the King's Bridge that George Washington re-entered Manhattan after the British left for the last time. This is the basis for the name of the entire area, the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx.

Modern-day Kingsbridge Avenue is mainly residential, and for most of it, lined with apartment buildings of five or six storeys. Many of them are walk-up buildings, built in the early part of the twentieth century. The main shopping area is 231st street, with many small stores and service businesses, such as dry cleaners and nail salons. There is a branch of the New York Public Library on 231st Street. There is a Target and a Stop n' Shop in the neighborhood. The Fiftieth Police Precinct is located on the corner of Kingsbridge Avenue near its end at 238th Street.