[Publib] Question about the High Bridge (Bronx, NY) Library

[Judith Turner]

Greetings, all --

Can someone from the area tell me when the High Bridge Branch of the NYPL will reopen? The hours and locations page on the NYPL website indicates the library was closing for major renovation in June 2007.  The branch's page doesn't seem to have any info, other than PDF's of architectural drawings (PDF's which refuse to turnsideways in my browser :-( 

It's odd how NYPL stuck with the earliest name for the neighborhood which came from the High Bridge across the Harlem River at the western boundary of the area some distance away from the library. One would expect to find the library over there, perhaps near the park. Instead it's between Woodycrest and Shakespeare Avenues. 

Friday evening I took a walk around this neighborhood (where 3 generations of Campbells and Clynes once lived) courtesy Google street views. I've always been a map afficionado -- forget about collecting  books, it's maps of all sizes and vintages I want and keep. Street views is the tops!  But I do wish they were dated because I'm not sure when this area was done -- it's clearly warm weather (late spring or summer judging by the trees).

Nothing of the library is visible as far as I can tell so it's after June 2007.  Since I recall there being an entrance up a flight of stairs from the W. 168th St. side (this was the late 50's/early 60's) it's hard to imagine that portion wouldn't extend above the construction barriers if it still existed in '07.  

Judy Turner
Whitefish Bay, WI