WESTCHESTER Square, even to the present day, appears to be a small town hub, clustering around the triangle formed by Westchester, East Tremont and Lane Avenues. The “town” has recently…
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I have to admit, this one caught me by surprise after almost 25 years doing Forgotten New York. I was doing some Google Maps reconnaissance of Edgewater Park, a private…
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WHAT I have today is possibly the last specimen of what lamppost aficionados (all 14 of us) call the Cuplight, as it’s shaped like an inverted coffee cup with a…
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A short lane abutting Bridge Park connects Undercliff and University Avenues near the spaghetti ramps connecting the Cross Bronx and Major Deegan Expressways just south of Washington Bridge spanning the…
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NONPAVED roads are now quite rare in NYC, but I have one all the way in the north end of Riverdale in the Bronx, between Spender and Huxley Avenues south…
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DEVOE Park occupies an uneven plot surrounded by West Fordham Road, Webb Avenue, Father Zeiser Place and University Avenue. Curving Fr. Zeiser Place, once a part of West 188th Street, follows…
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THE Bronx’ very own Hall of Fame predates the sports halls of fame in Cooperstown, NY, Canton, OH and Springfield, MA. There are halls of fame for rock and roll,…
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IT’S wrong to say that the Eastchester Bridge on Boston Road in the Bronx’s extreme northeast crosses over into Westchester County as the Hutchinson River does not form the city…
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THE story of Van Cortlandt Park begins in 1699, when future NYC mayor Jacobus Van Cortlandt bought a large tract of the Frederick Philipse holdings in the northern Bronx. The…
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NEW York City has weeded out most of its more colorful names over the decades, such as the Bronx’ Bear Swamp Road, Staten Island’s Skunks Misery and Gun Factory Roads…
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Continued from Part 1 I feel varying amounts of home in whatever neighborhood I find myself in in New York City. But there are some in which I feel more…
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A few Fourths of July ago I took the #4 train to the end of the line at Jerome and Bainbridge Avenues to Woodlawn Cemetery. (A couple of years later,…