It had been a good 6 years or so since I took a walk around Spuyten Duyvil, the hilly, almost mountainous, Bronx enclave tucked in its southwest enclave just above…
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This week’s FNY page takes its name from the classic Hank Williams country song and the 1997 David Lynch film noir. The idea came in a flash of inspiration —…
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March 2019 marks Forgotten New York’s 20th anniversary. To mark the occasion, I’ve re-scanned about 150 key images from the early days of FNY from 35MM prints. In the early…
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A short time ago I did an article for StreetEasy about six American presidents who had streets named for them in New York City. Actually, I’ve researched all 45 presidents,…
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BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent On a recent return to Mosholu Parkway in search of the long-buried Schuil Kill stream, I noticed a red-colored garage building on East Mosholu Parkway…
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I hadn’t sallied up Morris Park Avenue in the Bronx for some time — not since 2006-7 or so, and on this sort of hangdog afternoon on either side of…
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I took a quick stroll east on 125th Street, crossing the 3rd Avenue Bridge into Mott Haven, west across the Madison Avenue Bridge back into Harlem again. Got some air…
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As Mr. Spock would say, I was “in pursuit of a feral waterfowl.” In August I went tearing about the extreme northeast Bronx because I saw a singular item on…
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Continued from Part 2 I had an interregnum of work this past spring (2018), the better part of two months for a financial printer in Midtown. The hours were overnights…
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There’s an unmarked dead end on the east side of Eagle Avenue south of Westchester Avenue in Melrose in the Bronx. Though it’s gated off now, it certainly appears as…
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Continued from Part 1 I had an interregnum of work this past spring (2018), the better part of two months for a financial printer in Midtown. The hours were overnights…
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Forgotten Fan Rolando Pujol provided this shot of a small shack on East 180th Street just east of Crotona Avenue and the ancient neon Crotona TV sign. The neon has…