Back in the summer of 2012 I was wandering about in northern Riverdale at the Bronx-Westchester County city line. Hilly Spencer Avenue — named for Herbert Spencer, the British philosopher and…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent When the Bronx was annexed by New York City, the street grid of Manhattan was extended north and found itself facing topographical obstacles. In…
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Continued from Part 1 Fordham, a bustling shopping district in center-west Bronx, was named for a small settlement along the Harlem River begun in 1669 but later devastated by the…
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Fordham, a bustling shopping district in center-west Bronx, was named for a small settlement along the Harlem River begun in 1669 but later devastated by the Revolutionary War. Belmont takes…
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By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent On my way, going southbound on the Grand Concourse, I got caught by a red light at E. 188th Street. While waiting for it…
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At one point in the 1970s it seemed that every corner in NYC controlled by traffic signals also had these devices (Mosholu Avenue and Fieldston Road), which were mounted on…
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I was shuffling about on Broadway and West 262nd Street in Riverdale waiting for the Bx9 bus (a third of my life is asleep, and another third is waiting for…
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A sharp-eyed Gary Fonville found an old 7-Up sign, as well as the word “Midget,” in back of a newer vinyl awning on East Tremont Avenue in Westchester Square recently.…
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Unlike the IRT Flushing Line, which celebrated its centennial with some fanfare this year, the IRT Woodlawn Line, which goes above an el up Jerome Avenue most of its route,…
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Boston Road in the Bronx roars from Third (not 3rd, in the Bronx) Avenue in Morrisania northeast to the city line with Westchester County, and as Boston Post Road and…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten New York correspondent At the southern tip of the ridge that is the Highbridge Heights neighborhood of the Bronx, there is an abandoned subway tunnel that…
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At Fordham Road and the Grand Concourse in 1999, I passed two dead stores in the same building. For decades this was the flagship location of Alexander’s, the department store…