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couple of years, the road has been almost impassable, owing 

 to regrading, sewering, etc. ; and it will probably be in like 

 condition for two or three years more while the extension of 

 the subway is building up that avenue. 



If the traveller were coming south over the Albany Road 

 from Yonkers, instead of turning east at Van Cortlandt's, 

 he might have continued on a road to the west of Tippett's 

 Brook which led along the base of Tippett's Hill to the junc- 

 tion of Spuyten Duyvil Creek and the Hudson River. This 

 road still exists as the Spuyten Duyvil Road, known locally 

 as Dash's Lane, after a gentleman of that name who used to 

 live here, one of the older generation and a friend of "Felix 

 Oldboy." 



Southward of Kingsbridge lay Fordham Manor. The 

 street now called the Highbridge Road, leading from the Bronx 

 side of Farmers' Bridge, was laid out June 6, 1730, though the 

 bridge was not built until 1759 . A week later, in June, 1730, 

 the road leading to the Fordham meeting-house was ordered. 

 This was the old Dutch church which formerly stood near 

 the junction of the Fordham Landing (Berrien's Landing) 

 and the Macomb's Dam roads, or on the grounds of Webb's 

 Academy near the present Sedgwick Avenue. A road also 

 extended before the Revolution from this section to Morris- 

 ania opposite Harlem. It was approximately on the line of 

 the present Aqueduct Avenue, and crossed Cromwell's Creek 

 about East 169th Street, or not far from "Judge Smith's" 

 on Jerome Avenue, thence following the lines of Walton and 

 Mott avenues to Morrisania, but probably through farms and 

 private property. The lower part of Jerome Avenue was 

 built by Robert Macomb as a leader to his bridge from the 

 road just described; both being known as the Macomb's Dam 

 Road. A considerable portion of this road from Featherbed 



