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Mount Eden / Crotona Park (Bronx Apartments) Neighborhood Information for Apartment Renters

Mount Eden: Rachel Eden purchased a hill-top estate in 1820, where the name Mount Eden comes from. Mount Eden was rural until the 1920s, when apartment houses began to be built when the subway came. Mount Eden first attracted a Jewish population, and since the 1970s the area has become more popular with African Americans and Hispanics. In the late 1980s, it resembled a war zone, rife with crime and drug dealers. By the mid-1990s, Mount Eden had undergone a renaissance because of the efforts of the Settlement Housing Fund, a nonprofit group that built a 16-building, 995-unit complex called New Settlement Houses for low- and moderate-income families. Now there's a clear sense of pride in the community.
Crotona Park: In 1884, after wrangling with the Bathgate family, city commissioners bought the property and called it "Crotona" although no one is any longer sure why. Crotona was crowded with tenement and apartment houses through the first half of the 1900s that drew a European immigrant population largely drawn from lower Manhattan. Crotona attracted national attention in the 1970s with its burned-out buildings and bulldozed vacant lots. After much governmental attention and investment, though, the entire area has become known as the Bronx Miracle. In 1997, President Clinton visited Charlotte Street, once the most notorious slum in the Bronx, and saw a suburban landscape of single-family housing.

Demographics

Singles / Families: Families are moving into this area.
Types of Housing: The New Settlement apartments in Mount Eden are in high demand but vacancies are rare.
Typical Price Range: Studios: $600+, 1 Bedroom: $750+, 2 Bedrooms: $950+
Transportation to Midtown/Downtown: The 4 stops are 170th St & Jerome Ave, and Mount Eden Ave & Jerome Ave. The B and D stop at 170th St & Grand Concourse, and 174th/175th St & Grand Concourse.
Estimated Commuter time to arrival in NYC: To midtown: 40 mins, To downtown: 30 mins

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