<P> Mt . Eden Avenue intersects in Morris Heights and the Cross Bronx Expressway does soon after . West 176th Street becomes concurrent with Jerome for a short time . The roads soon split, West 176th now known as East 176th . North the intersection with Tremont Avenue, Burnside Avenue intersects as Jerome Avenue leaves Morris Heights . 183rd street is the next major intersection, in University Heights . Fordham Road, both East and West intersect in University Heights . Saint James Park is passed to the east of Jerome, south of the intersection with Kingsbridge Road . As Jerome passes Lehman College, Bedford Park Boulevard (200th Street) intersects . Jerome Avenue then crosses the Mosholu Parkway on an overpass, after passing the train yard for the Avenue's IRT line . </P> <P> Jerome Avenue intersects with Gun Hill Road as it enters Woodlawn . Here, Van Cortlandt Park is to the west . The final station on the IRT line is located in Woodlawn, just before intersecting Bainbridge Avenue . Jerome Avenue continues, cuts between Van Cortlandt Park and Woodlawn Cemetery, and comes to an end at the Major Deegan and 233rd Street . The road continues as a service road for the Major Deegan, until it reaches the Bronx - Westchester border, where it becomes Central Park Avenue (NY 100), one of the main streets of the city of Yonkers . </P> <P> Jerome Avenue was put together as a plank road in 1874 for $375,000 . It appeared on maps as Central Avenue, because it started from Macombs Dam Bridge to Jerome Park Racetrack . Borough President Louis F. Haffen selected contractors in 1897 to pave Jerome Avenue . Three sections of the road were to be remodeled, costing the Bronx about $136,505 . The street was to be renamed after an unknown city alderman . Kate Hall Jerome, wife of Lawrence Jerome, was furious, replacing all the signs with the name Jerome Avenue in honor of Jerome Park Racetrack opened by her husband's financier brother, Leonard Jerome in 1866 . When the subway line was commissioned, Jerome went from rural road to commercial artery . </P> <P> The southern part of the avenue, from the intersection with 161st Street, formed the western edge of Macombs Dam Park . The parkland was alienated by the state legislature to enable construction of a new Yankee Stadium . Lower portions of the thoroughfare were demapped by the City Planning Commission, followed by the Department of City Planning's 2006 release of the Bronx Harlem River Waterfront Bicycle and Pedestrian Study . The Park Plaza Apartments at 1005 Jerome Avenue, one of the borough's first and most prominent Art Deco apartment houses and a New York City landmark since 1981, was overlooked in the environmental impact statement and is now in the shadow of the completed new stadium . </P>

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