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…
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I am taking the July 4 weekend off and doing minimal website activity (and even pausing from “real” job activities; I usually do a couple of hours on Saturday and…
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NEW York’s first water system was built between 1837 and 1842. Prior to those years, water was obtained from cisterns, wells and barrels from rain. Construction began in 1837 on…
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FINALLY! Your webmaster has come back to the Bronx! It had not been since November 2021 I had set foot in the mainland borough. As many of you know, I…
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PUGSLEY Creek, an inlet of the East River, forms a fork with the much longer and deeper Westchester Creek in Clason Point, Bronx, with Castle Hill Park at the foot…
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Your boy is laid up with sciatica this week, so it’s Sergey Time as FNY’s correspondent checks in with some Bronx Art Deco buildings. By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent HAVING…
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A pair of streets called Magenta and Bartholdi can be found south of East Gun Hill Road and east of White Plains Road in Williamsbridge. On the face of it,…
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BRONX’S Park Avenue is a northern extension of Manhattan’s (much like Broadway and Third Avenue) and its house numbers follow the sequence that started all the way south at East…