LIKE the hands on a clock, or the sun and moon in the sky, New York is under constant movement not always apparent to the naked eye. In the nearly…
Bronx
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WAY back at the Dawn of Forgotten New York around 1999-2000, one of my Bronx contacts, Jon Halabi, supplied me with a photo of a slot mailbox on Palisade avenue…
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WELL, it’s only taken 25 years, but I finally have a pair of remaining iron trolley poles to talk about in the Bronx. During my Bronx presentation for the Bronx…
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Continued from Part Two 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…
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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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WEIHER Court is a narrow alley just south of East 165th between Washington and Third Avenues in Morrisania. Though a Bromley 1911 atlas shows a number of small brick residences…
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“ONE shot” just doesn’t do justice to the Noonan Plaza Apartments in hilly Highbridge Heights. Noonan Plaza, West 168th from Nelson west to Ogden, is architect Horace Ginsbern creation second…
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TWO vast cemeteries are associated with St. Raymond’s Church in Westchester Square and are operated by the Catholic Diocese of New York. Old St. Raymond’s, located roughly between Waterbury Avenue, Bruckner Expressway,…
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NOT that I would know, but one comment on the Flickr page where I got this image of the Golden Lady strip club at Bruckner Boulevard and East 133rd in…
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In May 2024 I walked the length of Bailey Avenue in Kingsbridge Heights, named for late 1800s landowner Nathaniel Platt Bailey. I never photograph 3072 Bailey Avenue at West 231st…
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OLD West Farms Soldiers Cemetery, on Bryant Avenue and East 180th Street, is a designated Bronx landmark and has occupied this space since 1815. There are just 40 soldiers buried here…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent HAVING documented post-millennial changes to the streetscapes of Melrose and Mott Haven, one would not expect much to change on the Grand Concourse, the boulevard…