Even on his earliest singles, Scott displayed a magpie-eyed awareness of how to cobble together disparate elements into a diamond-played smash: Don’t Play, a song from 2014, builds a gothic fantasy around the hook of the 1975’s Money, an unlikely but winning combination. Sicko Mode may just be a Travis Scott song stitched on to an entirely separate Drake song, but it’s an exceedingly high-quality Drake song even if 2016’s Pick Up the Phone was “stolen” from Young Thug, as some suggest it was, Scott’s anarchic, serrated additions still make the track. I may be in the minority on this one, but I actually don’t think that’s such a toxic strategy: Scott’s skills as an A&R have yielded some of his generation’s most walloping hits. He may not possess West’s nervy charisma, or his Wonkaesque production talent, but he certainly learned one thing from him: sometimes, being a pop star is as much about getting the right people in the room with you as it is about having the best idea possible. Instead, Scott is a bricolage artist who seems content to make hits with prefab components, pulling together proven ingredients in the hope of alchemising them into something intoxicating. But unlike his collaborator Drake or longtime mentor Kanye West, or indeed any of the other rappers who have achieved a similar level of superstardom, Scott doesn’t seem driven by a spiritual need to prove his artistry to the world, or a desire to reshape art in his own image, or even an urge to understand his experience through music. The 32-year-old rapper and producer is a profoundly uncomplicated star with a complicated public persona – owing mainly to the 2021 tragedy that saw 10 people die during his headlining performance at Astroworld, the festival he put on in his home town of Houston. The thing to know about Travis Scott? There doesn’t seem to be very much to know about Travis Scott.
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The first Puerto Rican settlements came in the late 1940s along the length of Brook Avenue. By the early 20th century, the population density of the area supported the construction of many tenement-style apartment buildings.įrom the end of the 19th century through the 1940s, Mott Haven was a mixed German-American (north of East 145th Street) and Irish-American neighborhood (south of East 145th Street), with an Italian enclave west of Lincoln Ave. Soon after, the Bronx grew more quickly, especially with public transit into the area, including the Third Avenue Elevated Line. A series of brownstones on East 134th Street, east of Willis Avenue., was known as Judges' Row. At the same time, an upper-middle class residential area, marked by brownstones built in an elaborate and architecturally daring fashion, started to grow along Alexander Avenue by the 1890s (Doctors' Row, aka the Irish Fifth Avenue). Ann's Avenue is the resting place of Lewis Morris, Gouverneur Morris and other members of that powerful colonial family, and a Registered Historic Place.Īs the city below grew, the area quickly developed residentially. A vestige of the iron works can be seen just west of the Third Avenue Bridge on East 134th Street. A small part of the larger swath of land known as Morrisania, it was purchased by Jordan Lawrence Mott for his iron works in 1849. The area that is now called Mott Haven was sold to the Morris family in 1670. The first time the spelling "Bronx land" was used, was in 1697 in the First Legislature outlined the County of West Chester. Įven though Bronck only lived in the area for four years, the land became known as "Broncksland" and the river that bordered his land kept the name Bronck's River. This event is portrayed in a painting by the American artist John Ward Dunsmore (1856–1945). The peace treaty between Dutch authorities and the Wecquaesgeek chiefs Ranaqua and Tackamuckwas was signed in Bronck's house. The house was located close to what is today the corner of Willis Avenue and 132nd Street. Bronck built his farm on this land and named it "Emmanus". In 1639, the Dutch West India Company purchased the land of today's Mott Haven from the Wecquaesgeek (groups of Lenape tribe). The Bronx was named after the Swedish sea captain Jonas Bronck. History Settlement by Jonas Bronck Mott Haven station of New York Central, 138th St Mott Haven Canal in 1893 The closest Metro-North Railroad stops are Harlem – 125th Street and Yankees – East 153rd Street. Mott Haven is served by the Triborough Bridge, the Third Avenue Bridge, the Madison Avenue Bridge, the 145th Street Bridge, and the Willis Avenue Bridge. The local subway line is the IRT Pelham Line ( 6 and trains), operating along East 138th Street. Mott Haven is patrolled by the New York City Police Department's 40th Precinct. The neighborhood is part of Bronx Community Board 1, and is located within ZIP Codes 10451, 10454, and 10455. East 138th Street is the primary east–west thoroughfare through Mott Haven. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are East 149th Street to the north, the Bruckner Expressway to the east, the Major Deegan Expressway to the south, and the Harlem River to the west. Mott Haven is an American primarily residential neighborhood in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of the Bronx. The park has become famous for being the crash site of an alleged UFO in 1992.An irregular pattern along Alexander Ave. Segments of the Long Island Expressway and the Main Line of the Long Island Rail Road runs through the park, though it is accessible from neither the LIE nor the railroad. The territory of the parkland reaches as far north as East Main Street and Yaphank Avenue in Yaphank, which contains the historic Homan-Gerard House and Mills as well as the Mary Louise Booth Girlhood Home. In the 1960s, it became one of Suffolk County’s first parks opened to the public. It is located between Sunrise Highway ( Route 27) just west of William Floyd Parkway, off of Victory Avenue ( Suffolk CR 56/North Sunrise Service Road), and crossed by the Carmans River. Southaven County Park is located in South Haven and Yaphank, New York in central Long Island. The entrance to Southaven County Park on Victory Avenue. ( April 2009) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. |
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