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…
Bronx
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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Tenney Place may be the shortest street in the Bronx that isn’t a dead end, and there may be dead ends longer than Tenney Place. The street runs for a…
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By a route obscure and lonely,    Haunted by ill angels only,    Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,    On a black throne reigns upright,    I have reached these lands but newly    From an ultimate dim Thule —    From a wild weird…
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Little did I know that my February 2020 foray into the mid-Bronx (Morris Park, Allerton, and Williamsbridge) would be my final Bronx walk for what appears will be at least…
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There are three Independence Avenues in New York City, a lengthy one and two short ones. The first one, depicted above, runs through the far northern Bronx in Spuyten Duyvil…
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Wheeler Avenue was the scene of one of the most infamous incidents in the history of the New York Police Department, as Guinea, West African immigrant Amadou Diallo was shot and…
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The following is a transfer of a page written in 2010; the original photo galleries weren’t functioning. Therefore, some info may be outdated. Some of the photos were imported at…