1/29 Brooklyn's City Reliquary: endangered?
2/4 Brooklyn's new travel travesty
2/8. Edgar Allan Poe is remembered, not by an avenue, but by a dead-end alley issuing from a little-remembered lane in Fordham, not far from the small cottage where he lived beginning in 1846 with his cousin-wife, Virginia, and her mother, Maria, until 1849; Virginia died of tuberculosis in 1847. I cannot but feel that Poe would have chuckled at the inconsequential lane that bears his name in the Bronx, while his contemporaries received much longer thoroughfares; Poe once accused Longfellow of plagiarism. A longer Poe Avenue was mapped in Hunts Point in the 1800s, but has either disappeared or was never built.
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2/1. Inwood is located in a fairly well-defined area: Manhattan is so narrow at its northern end that you can say that anything north of Dyckman Street is in Inwood. On a map, that works out just fine. By walking around, though, you can detect three separate sub-neighborhoods: anything east of the el on 10th Avenue is gas stations, auto repairs, and supermarket wholesalers; between 10th and Broadway are apartment houses, mom and pop shops, and bodegas; west of Broadway you find standalone single and two-family homes ...
10/19. Tour 38 in Ridgewood and the Onderdonk House. ForgottenTour 39 is in the works -- check back here soon.
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