BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent SWING drawbridges used to be very common across this city, appearing not only on the Harlem River, but also at Newtown Creek, Flushing Creek, and…
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GROTE Street twists and turns through Belmont, the section of the Bronx most famed for the restaurants of Arthur Avenue and Dion DeMucci, who racked up hits in the 1960s…
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“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy” — Hamlet In nearly a quarter century of wandering around New York City photographing…
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BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent OVERSHADOWED by the tangle of ramps on the Bronx side of the Whitestone Bridge is a historic Catholic school bypassed by millions of drivers with…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent I recently had the pleasure of meeting Kevin C. Fitzpatrick, author of the book 111 Places in the Bronx That You Must Not Miss, who…
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BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent AMONG the important north-south routes in the Bronx is Webster Avenue, which was not named for the early American politician Daniel Webster, nor the linguist…
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THE Donald Deskey lamppost, introduced in 1958, was a very adaptable and modular beast. Its most frequent use was the single-arm mast, and though SLECO stopped producing them around 1980,…
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YELLOW brick roads are hard to find in New York City, as brick paved roads have been relentlessly asphalted the past few decades. To find one, it helps if the…
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As a rule, painted signs that have been around for several years mark businesses that have long since departed, but in today’s case we have two painted signs close to…
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ODDLY enough, both The Bronx and Queens have Rainey Parks, named for two separate Raineys. The Bronx Rainey Park, pictured here, is by far the newer one as it was…
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As a kid, I was a parishioner at St. Anselm Church in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, named for an 11th-Century bishop originally from Burgundy in what is now Italy, but immigrated…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent THE largest historic mansion in the Bronx is the Van Cortlandt House in Riverdale, namesake of the 1146-acre park in which it stands. Every time…