While puttering around in Pelham Cemetery in City Island last May on ForgottenTour #53, we found a human skull. Apropos. Anything can happen on a ForgottenTour.®. The fun begins in late March. 2/26/13
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FORGOTTENTOUR 53 IN CITY ISLAND
May 23, 2012Continuing the 2012 tradition of beautiful weather for ForgottenTours (unlike previous years) ForgottenTour 53 met at the end of the line of the #6 train, Pelham Bay Park, and 30 ForgottenFans took the BX29 bus to the first stop in City Island, a spit of land in Eastchester Bay off the coast of Orchard Beach, [...]
Categorized in: Tours Tagged with: Bronx City Island
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CITY ISLAND NAUTICAL MUSEUM
May 19, 2012I’ve been asked to cover locales selected by Partners in Preservation, an organization sponsored by American Express that, in a partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, awards preservation grants to historic locales across the country. After six years in existence, Partners in Preservation has selected New York as its focus in 2012. Through the partnership, American [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Bronx City Island
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TORCHED! City Island Museum vows to rebuild front porch
August 2, 2007Your webmaster has written and spoken often about the sad state of affairs that overdevelopment has left us in, especially in Flushing. Every historic property in the city not under the protection of the somewhat flighty Landmarks Preservation Commission is under the gun from rapacious and greedy builders who, it seems, wish to erect a [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: City Island
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Forgotten Tour 9, City Island, Bronx
May 23, 2002City Island, NY was the site of Forgottoners Tour #9. Located on a spit of an island in Eastchester Bay in the extreme northeast Bronx, City Island is a transplanted New England fishing village seemingly beamed into the New York Metropolitan area. Originally a part of Pelham, in Westchester County, City Island looks east to Long [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tours Tagged with: Bronx City Island
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CITY ISLAND
May 28, 2000City Island resembles a New England seaside town transplanted into the five boroughs. Since it was first settled in 1761 its lifeblood has been the sea, with shipyards, sailmakers and oystermen predominating. It played a large part in New York City’s coastal defense until the early 20th Century. City Island was privately owned, first [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods You'd Never Believe You're in NYC Tagged with: Bronx City Island
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SHADY SHRADY and other Bronx lanes
June 10, 1999The Bronx is not to be outdone when it comes to obscure alleys and lanes. Some are in leaf-filled enclaves like Riverdale and others are to be found in teeming districts like Fordham. Wherever in the Bronx they are, each has its own story to tell. Shrady Place Doctor George Shrady, editor of the New [...]
Categorized in: Alleys Tagged with: Baychester Bronx City Island Eastchester Fordham Kingsbridge Heights Morris Park Morrisania Norwood Riverdale Wakefield Westchester Square