LYMAN Place is a rather obscure (except for local residents) one-bock street running between East 169th Street and Freeman Street east of Prospect Avenue. It was laid out in the…
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By DONALD GILLIGANSpecial guest post In the beginning there was salt marsh as the hatched area in the accompanying map (Ca. 1890) indicates. The area outlined in red is where…
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When conceived, it was assumed that the former New York, Westchester and Boston RR would eventually reach Boston, but instead at its lengthiest, it ran from southern Mott Haven in…
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In what I first imagined would be my only post on the subject, I wrote about a few streets around town named for other streets, Broadway in most cases. Since…
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Bonner Place is a true dead end, on the east side of Morris Avenue between East 163rd and 164th Streets. Older maps going back to the early 20th Century show…
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Concrete Plant Park, built along the Bronx River between 2004 and 2009 for about 10 million dollars (much of which was spent in removing petroleum-tainted soil from the site), runs…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…