1589 Unionport Rd

The point where Unionport Road intersects with Metropolitan Avenue is articulated by a large roundabout park named Metropolitan Oval. Since those are the main thoroughfares of the Complex, and were designed to have heavier traffic, the Oval also acts as a speed regulator for vehicles. The two-acre park features a large decorative wading pool with a fountain named "Fantasia", created in 1939 by renowned sculptor Raymond G. Barger for the New York World's Fair, and installed at The Oval in 1941. Seating areas and landscaped flower beds surround the pool, and on the southwest section there is a memorial for servicemen who died in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. It was recently renamed the Aileen B. Ryan Oval after a former resident and prominent New York State Assemblymember and Bronx Council Member-at-Large.