PROBABLY the obscurest and shortest street that is traversed by a NYC elevated subway is Birchall Avenue, which runs from White Plains Road south beyond Sagamore Street to a dead…
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AFTER having the list of city parks named after Irish-Americans deleted on Wikipedia for stupid reasons, I brought it back to life on this website. Following on that example, I…
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BY DAVID MELTZERForgotten New York guest post THERE are three parks in the southeast Bronx – Soundview Park, Pugsley Creek Park, and Ferry Point Park. But if you exit the…
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AFTER having the list of city parks named after Irish-Americans deleted on Wikipedia for stupid reasons, I brought it back to life on this website. Following on that example, here…
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THERE are over a dozen streets in NYC named “Mill,” and I have always been interested in them because they point to waterside mills, most of which were torn down…
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MOUNT Eden and Mount Hope are two communities in western Bronx along the Grand Concourse, which is built on a natural ridge. Mount Eden is an old name driving from…
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AQUEDUCT Walk in Fordham is seen here on West Fordham Road between University and Grand avenues. Back in June 2018 I walked a good deal of the walk, which in…
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THE first president was famous for his humility, eschewing titles of nobility, retiring after a second term, and initially buried in a modest tomb on his plantation. Posthumously, his name…
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In the northeast corner of the Bronx, Pelham Bay Park takes up nearly 2776 acres, the city’s largest park. Its namesake is the Pell family, which had a colonial period…
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AMONG Forgotten New York’s many influences are the photographs produced by early 20th Century street photographers/archivists/authors Percy Loomis Spehr, Eugene Armbruster and E.E. Rutter, whose work chronicling the rapidly changing…
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YET another neighborhood I haven’t been in lately, but with the magic of Google Street View, I can visit anyway. Spuyten Duyvil is the very hilly corner of the Bronx…
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PHOTOGRAPHERS talk about the “golden hour” before sunset when, in pleasant weather, the light seems suffused with a golden aura. For me the first week of November is the “golden…