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Parkchester is a planned community and neighborhood originally developed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and located in the central Bronx, New York City. The immediate surrounding area also takes its name from the complex. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are East Tremont Avenue to the north, Castle Hill Avenue to the east, Westchester Avenue to the south, East 177th Street/Cross Bronx Expressway to the southwest, and the Bronx River Parkway to the west. Metropolitan Avenue, Unionport Road, and White Plains Road are the primary thoroughfares through Parkchester.

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  • Parkchester is a planned community and neighborhood originally developed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and located in the central Bronx, New York City. The immediate surrounding area also takes its name from the complex. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are East Tremont Avenue to the north, Castle Hill Avenue to the east, Westchester Avenue to the south, East 177th Street/Cross Bronx Expressway to the southwest, and the Bronx River Parkway to the west. Metropolitan Avenue, Unionport Road, and White Plains Road are the primary thoroughfares through Parkchester. (en)
  • Parkchester is een wijk in de Amerikaanse stad New York. Parkchester ligt centraal in de noordelijke borough The Bronx. Parkchester is een planned community. Het werd als woningbouwproject ontwikkeld door de Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (vooral gekend als MetLife). Deze presenteerde het project met een tot in de kleinste details uitgewerkt schaalmodel op de Wereldtentoonstelling van 1939. Het ging om 51 gebouwen die plaats zouden gaan bieden aan 12.000 gezinnen. Het project was ontworpen en werd geëxploiteerd als een op zichzelf staand woningverhuurbedrijf gericht op een publiek van gezinnen uit de middenklasse. De wijk was voorzien als whites only woongebied. In het project was voorzien in alle faciliteiten gewenst door werknemers en hun gezinnen, waaronder goede toegang tot openba (nl)
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