Bronx

In the early days of Forgotten New York I would amble up Grand Concourse all the way from East 138th to Mosholu Parkway and take in all the magnificent apartment…

During the summer, I did something a bit different — I took NYC Ferry to DUMBO in Brooklyn, which I had always accessed with the F train. I think I…

Charlotte Street, a three-block thoroughfare running from Crotona Park east across Boston Road to Jennings Street and Minford Place, was briefly the best-known, and most infamous, street in the Bronx…

2020 has been a strange year to say the least. I haven’t been in Staten Island at all for the first time since I began initial site photography in 1998,…

Bronx Park was acquired by the city in late 1888 and early 1889. By 1891, the city had allocated fully 250 acres to be used as a botanical garden, which…

I have written about Manhattan between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges previously, and way uptown there is also a pair of bridges fairly close to each other that connect two…

I’m happy to be an East Coast guy. Wherever I go in the NYC area, I’m not far from water. I’m happy about that, even though I have never swum…

Nobody asked me, but… Do the Jerome Avenues in the Bronx and Brooklyn have anything to do with each other? The Bronx Jerome Avenue runs for miles from the Major…

The railroad tracks running along Manhattan and the Bronx’s Hudson River frontage are on what is among the oldest railroad right-of-way in the country. The New York and Hudson River…

Last November (2019) I was staggering around in the South Bronx, through Mott Haven, Morrisania, and Longwood, enjoying myself thoroughly since I don’t get into the Bronx as often as…

Located on a small island in Eastchester Bay in the extreme northeast Bronx, City Island is a transplanted New England fishing village seemingly beamed into the New York Metropolitan area.…

I write this the day I turn 63. I feel terrific! Except some mornings, when my back is sore and only walking around will ease it. An affliction tailor-made for…