I was knocking around Woodlawn (some call it Woodlawn Heights) in the dead dog 76-dew point heat on the 4th of July when, instead of indulging at a Carvel, I…
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The late great Tommy Keene had a great song called “Places that Are Gone,” about what you’d expect. Periodically I go over my stash of Forgotten New York images between…
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This section of a Hyde map of the northeast Bronx shows a small area called The Kernels. Its pedigree goes back to the colonial era when a Cornelius Jones, known as…
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In March 2018, I marched from the Tremont Ave. IND subway station at the Grand Concourse east on its titular avenue all the way to the Bruckner Expressway, where I…
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You would not expect to find an English country church smack in the middle of bustling “boogiedown” Bronx under an elevated train, but here’s one in Fordham, at Jerome Avenue…
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Virtually nothing today is as it was in 1957 in this photo taken from the 155th Street Viaduct looking north on 8th Avenue toward the Harlem River. In the foreground…
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The other Sunday I walked a good 6 miles on East Tremont Avenue between the Grand Concourse and the Bruckner Expressway (where there is a bus back to Flushing) and…
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I was looking through some photos in my IPhoto collection (I rarely discard any photos from Forgotten NY missions) from the summer of 2011, one of the relatively few times…
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In the summer of 2011 I was walking in Bedford Park, Bronx when I spied an especially large schist outcropping at Creston Avenue and Minerva place, wedged between Jerome Avenue…
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Though the Grand Concourse in the Bronx is filled, top to bottom, with Art Deco and Moderne masterpieces, one of its most intriguing buildings is sedately set back from the…
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The City Island Historical Nautical Museum at 190 Fordham Street, in City Island’s old PS17, with artwork and exhibits chronicling the island’s near-250-year old history of shipbuilders, fishermen and America’s…
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Since I began this thing of mine in 1998 I believe I have visited Hunt’s Point in the Bronx only about three or four times. Most of its southernmost section…