Mott Haven: the southern tip of the Bronx, rowhouses and a gallery scene
The Bronx's southernmost neighborhood, on the 6 — 19th-century rowhouses that drew the gallery scene locals call the Piano District.
Mott Haven is as far south as the Bronx goes, and the 6 train's Third Avenue-138th Street station — the first stop the Pelham Line opened in the borough, back in 1918 — is how most people arrive. It's a short ride from Manhattan and reads like a different city the moment you're up the stairs.
The draw is the building stock. Its 19th-century rowhouses, largely intact, gave the neighborhood the bones for a gallery scene that locals took to calling the Piano District. Whether the name sticks is anyone's guess; the rowhouses were here first and will outlast it.
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