How a former country road in the Bronx called Featherbed Lane got its evocative name

🫧 Open on Bubbles Finding your way to Featherbed Lane (below photo, 1910), in the Morris Heights neighborhood of the Bronx, means passing some seen-better-days streets that offer a history lesson about the borough’s early years. Jerome Avenue, where Featherbed Lane begins, was named for flashy Gilded Age financier Leonard Jerome , who built the Jerome Park Racetrack here in 1866. (Jerome’s striking daughter, Jennie, was Winston Churchill’s mother.) Macombs Road stems from the nearby Macombs Dam Bridge, an 1