PS 3 was off Cortland Ave near e. 157th St when I lived in that area in the 40s & 50s. Hope this helps. Winnie in Calif. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Soyamaven@aol.com> To: <BronxRoots@rootsweb.com>; <NYBRONX-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 4:14 PM Subject: [NYBRONX] 1910 address & public school nearby > > On behalf of a person subscribed to NYC-ROOTS@rootsweb.com: > > > An address of 559 Cortland Avenue, in 1910, apparently no longer exists. > > According to this person, it appears on the federal census in Bronx > County. > (Hmmm, there was no Bronx County until 1914, as the Bronx Borough was > within > New York County until then.) > > What the person needs is the closest public grammar school to this > address. > > What would the address equivalent be today? > > > Happy Shavuot*, > > Walter Greenspan > Great Falls, MT & Jericho, NY > > * The 2-day Jewish Biblical Festival of Shavuot (shuh-VOO-oht) > commemorates > the day when G-d gave the Jewish people the Torah (the Five Books of > Moses) > following Moses' descent from Mount Sinai, begins 7 weeks from the second > Seder > of the Jewish Biblical Festival of Passover, which this year will be at > sundown > on Sunday, June 8 on the civil calendar. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYBRONX-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >