A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the directional signs pointing to a nonexistent NY Central Railroad station at the East 149th Street station in the Bronx, where the…
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the tile directional sign at the East 149th Street station in the Bronx pointing to a nonexistent stop on the NY Central…
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There’s an admission fee for most events at Gaelic Park on West 240th near Broadway, but I was able to sneak in for a couple of photos. Named in honor…
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The East 149th Street station serves #2, 4 and 5 trains on their way to midtown Manhattan or north to Wakefield, Woodlawn Cemetery, or Dyre Avenue, in two separate trackways…
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Angry clouds set off the Church of the Immaculate Conception, East Gun Hill Road and Holland Avenue. The church was founded in 1902, with the original building on Briggs Avenue…
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I had no idea I would be writing about either Donald Byrd or Teasdale Place in the Bronx today, since I was scouring Google Street View looking for something else,…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent With the Coronavirus compelling New Yorkers into a springtime quarantine, my hometown borough has two small parks with “Health” in their names. Their locations take…
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A short while ago I wrote a piece that showed you all the streets that carry presidential names in NYC, whether or not they were actually named for presidents. This…
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I had a request for some Bronx material, so here’s a classic example from the Borough of Apartments. There’s more from the Bronx on the way but this should tide…
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Sometimes my most productive walks are when I’m scouting Forgotten NY tours. I’m especially attuned to my surroundings and noticing anything I can talk about on the tour that will…
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The website I’ve run for 20 years, Forgotten New York, is sometimes like the NFL. I’ll explain. The NFL is divided into two conferences, the AFC and the NFC, which…
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by SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent Kevin Walsh has been to the Bronx neighborhood of Bedford Park in 2008, but his observations were limited to the sidewalk. With historical maps and…