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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THERE are some parts of town I’m in but rarely, and Port Morris in the Bronx, located east of the Triboro Bridge/Bruckner Expressway from East 132nd to East 141st, is…
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MANY of the Harlem River bridges have been lost over the years, including the Third Avenue and Willis Avenue bridges, which were replaced with new bridges several years ago. Before…
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YOU can be forgiven if you completely overlook Shrady Place, a dead end on Kingsbridge Terrace just south of Fort Independence Street in Kingsbridge Heights. The Terrace runs atop a…
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THE lots of 2744 Kingsbridge Terrace and neighboring 2748 were owned in the early 20th Century by German immigrant, piano factory superintendent Frederick Schill. In 1911, Schill filed plans for…
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MANY of the world’s great cities mark their borders with walls and gates, but New York knocked down Wall Street’s ramparts by 1699 and expanded its territory north until reaching…
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As a rule, NYC streets are given designations, seemingly arbitrarily, by the engineer who is plotting the map years before buildings on the streets are actually constructed. In Manhattan, with…
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THE city’s many transportation options include bikes, boats, buses, subways, railroads, and the Roosevelt Island Tramway. The last item is the only aerial cable car in the city but not…
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YOU may think the engineer of the Grand Concourse would be remembered by more than a very short street connecting the Grand Concourse and Mosholu Parkway. The Grand Concourse runs up the…
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In January 1777, skirmishes occurred between the patriots and the British at Fort Washington Independence, located then where Giles Place and Sedgwick Avenue in Kingsbridge Heights would be, and then…
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THE Bronx’ Kingsbridge Road runs from Marble Hill at the Bronx-Manhattan line (it’s called West 225th Street in Marble Hill) east and southeast to Fordham Road, following a meandering path defined…
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LONG before subway “countdown clocks” that foretold, with varying amounts of accuracy, when the next train would appear, these simply designed analog clocks, here seen at Fordham Road in 2016,…