Stone and half-timbered fronts line the business blocks around a commuter rail station, with a civic square of brick and stone buildings.
What Bronxville looks like
Stone and half-timbered Tudor-style fronts stand in the business blocks, two and three storeys high under steep slate roofs. Stucco and red brick buildings sit among them.
Pondfield and Midland Roads cross at the Four Corners. The is a red brick building with a columned portico, and the library across from it is Georgian-style brick under a slate roof. The Bronxville School is brick and stone in collegiate Gothic, and the Reformed Church is a stone building with a tall tower across Pondfield Road.
Under a red tile roof, the station is one storey of white stucco with arched openings along its front. It dates from 1916 and is in the Spanish Mission style, and the platform runs alongside it.
Brick with stone trim, the post office at 119 Pondfield Road has the name of the village cut into the stone above the entrance. It dates from 1937 and has tall multi-pane windows along the front.
Some streets hold half-timbered houses set behind boxwood hedges and granite outcrops. Their roofs are steep slate with complex planes and paired chimneys.
Shot in Bronxville
The Bronxville School at 177 Pondfield Road played a school in Stepmom (1998). Firstborn (1984) also shot scenes at the school.
Stepmom, 1998
Played Anna's school, New York
Luke and Jackie meet Anna's school counselor in one of the earlier scenes, shot at the school. The collegiate Gothic front in the photograph, with its arched windows and central doorway, is the building at 177 Pondfield Road.
Germantown Avenue, the main street of Chestnut Hill, runs through shopping blocks of two and three storey brick storefronts close to the pavement. The neighborhood is a National Register historic district with a wide variety of 19th and early 20th century buildings. Belgian block paving and trolley rails give it away in any wide shot, so keep the frame on the storefronts and off the street. Try searching brick storefronts on Belgian block now.
Forest Hills Gardens in Queens, New York
Forest Hills Gardens is a planned district of Tudor Revival houses, many with stucco walls and red clay tile roofs, mostly built between 1910 and 1917. Its LIRR station has a brick courtyard, a clock tower and arched underpasses. Red clay tile and stucco show against Bronxville's slate and stone, so keep the roofline out of frame and shoot the garden fronts. Try searching Tudor houses with tile roofs now.
