Bronx

THIS sliver of a park at Webster Avenue and East Fordham Road carries a historic name. This small park is a vestige of a far larger estate once called “Rose…

WALTON High School, 2790 Reservoir Avenue, was founded as an all-girls high school in 1923, became “co-ed” in 1977 and closed in June 2008. Today the building that housed Walton is…

By PATRICK O’CONNORForgotten NY Contributor CONTINUED FROM PART 1 My first visit to Hart Island occurred in February 2025 through a tour offered by the Parks Department Urban Park Rangers. In…

ACCORDING to NYC subway and railroad historian Joe Brennan, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad made its entry to New York via the Harlem Line in 1849, but the…

HEY, I get it. Verveelen Place is nothing special; issuing from Broadway south of West 231st Street, it hits a dead end at what was once an active branch of…

A recent walk in Morris Park (May 2026) produced 121 photos, which will make up a post eventually. I like the Morris Park and Westchester Square Bronx regions and always…

PENNYFIELD Avenue, the road to Fort Schuyler in Throg(g)s Neck (the DOT has one “g,” residents have two “g”‘s) runs from the Cross Bronx Expressway south to the fort, which…

Time for another entry in Sergey Kadinsky’s ongoing series featuring ethnic parks and monuments, following Irish Town, Latino Town and Italian Town. Once again, listings are not presented in strict…

I am a “recovered” bowler. I bowled frequently between 1967 and the mid-1980s. I have mentioned my adventures from time to time in Forgotten New York. I doggedly pursued the…

PROBABLY the obscurest and shortest street that is traversed by a NYC elevated subway is Birchall Avenue, which runs from White Plains Road south beyond Sagamore Street to a dead…

AFTER having the list of city parks named after Irish-Americans deleted on Wikipedia for stupid reasons, I brought it back to life on this website. Following on that example, I…

BY DAVID MELTZERForgotten New York guest post THERE are three parks in the southeast Bronx – Soundview Park, Pugsley Creek Park, and Ferry Point Park. But if you exit the…