my parents had an apartment in the bronx, the building bore a placque, noting that 'Poe's cottage' now located across the street in a park, was orginally located there. (i know poe's cottage very well, too!)
the site was about a half mile away from the fordham chapel-as the crow flys-- (i know all the bronx well, but especially that area, and the FU campus. i actually met my ex husband at a service held in the chapel!) Fordham U is in valley/edge of small plain, (the eastern end is less than a half mile from the bronx river) Poe's cottage was on the beginning of the 'kingsbridge cresant' a cresant shaped highland, that marks the highest point of the land. (the highest point of the cresant is the now the site of a VA hospital)
as a child, i could here the chapel bells, (especially in the winter) even though, at that point in time, there was an elevated train between our house and the Fordham campus! I didn't hear them all the time, but then they didn't chime on the hour, as the local church(Our Lady of Mercy) bells did, but only on special occations.
As kids,we commonly cut through the campus (there was a passenger tressel bridge over the metro north tracks that mark the western edge of the campus) to get to the botanical gardens.(the wrought iron fencing of the RR station was bent, to allow student quick access to the station the northern end of the station was quite close to the quad and dorms.)
i am not surprized Poe would have heard the chapel bells.
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