This mostly obliterated painted sign can be seen traveling south on the Grand Concourse from Kingsbridge Road. It appears that there are a variety of signs here, painted on top…
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A statue of Major General Franz Sigel (1824-1902) overlooks Riverside Drive at West 106th Street. Sigel, born in Baden, Germany, served in the German military until 1852, when he emigrated…
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Continuing my halting, wavering, and occasionally incoherent way up the Grand Boulevard and Concourse, the spine of the western Bronx broached in Grand Concourse Part 1, my first stop was…
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The Grand Concourse runs up the western end of the Bronx like a zipper. Unzip it and you will find Bronx past, present and future: the grand visions of a…
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On two separate trips, in the summers of 1999 and 2000, I walked the Grand Boulevard and Concourse, which marches north from the Major Deegan Expressway to Mosholu Parkway through…
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Title card: 910 Grand Concourse at East 163 St I FIRST WALKED the Bronx’s Grand Concourse on July 18, 1999, on ForgottenTour 2. It was 100 degrees, the tour split…
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TRAVELING north on the Major Deegan Expressway, the H. W. Wilson lighthouse has been documented by many urban historians. In this century, new residential towers rose along the highway in…
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After 25 years now it’s obvious that Forgotten New York, besides a chronicler of a NYC the guidebooks won’t tell you about, is also enthusiastic about NYC’s infrastructure. To that…
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GRAND Central Madison, the new Long Island Rail Road terminal beneath the main terminal serving Metro-North rains, opened in early 2023 after about 20 years of construction. It’s truly vast,…
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THE first Pennsylvania Station, which allowed passenger trains to arrive in NYC from across the Hudson and East Rivers, opened to the public in 1910. Prior to that, passengers needed…
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KNOWN as the Castle on the Concourse, the former PS 31 at the Grand Concourse and East 144th Street, south of Hostos Community College, was designed by NYC school architect…
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Continued from Part 1 In the late winters and springs of 2021-2022 I found I was walking through Soho and its bordering neighborhoods, Chinatown and the Lower East Side. Already,…