Kinda Interesting Things #220: The Old Westchester Ave. Station If you’re walking on Westchester Avenue in the Longwood section of the Bronx, you’ll come across this hauntingly beautiful ruin — a terra-cotta station draped in vines that looks like it’s been abandoned and left to rot. This is the old Westchester Avenue Station. Built around 1908 for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, it was one of several Bronx stations designed by Cass Gilbert — the same architect behind the Woolwort