“Oil heats best for less,” White Plains Road north of the Nereid Avenue el station up north in Wakefield. A similar ad commissioned by the same firm can also be…
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When the Third Avenue El was extended into the Bronx in the 1890s, Manhattan’s 3rd Avenue was as well, taking over the routes of several separate streets over which the…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten New York correspondent A nondescript row of auto repair shops located on East 138th Street stands on the former site of a South Bronx ship canal…
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As most FNY fans know I have been an aficionado of old street and road maps, and have been ever since I obtained my first Hagstrom street map of Brooklyn…
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It looks like I’ll be spending some time in the Port Morris-Hunt’s Point areas in the Bronx, since a new pedestrian/bike bridge has opened spanning the Bronx Kill between the…
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One of my favorites in Fordham is the Dollar Savings Bank tower on the east side of the Grand Concourse north of Fordham Road. This Bronx landmark was built by…
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Plenty of archaeologists look for arrowheads, remnants of Native American populations of centuries before our own. At Forgotten New York I seek arrowheads as well — by which I mean…
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Bruner and Barnes Avenues meet each other just north of 239th Street. At the point where the they meet, the entrance to the 239th Street/Wakefield yard awaits you. The location…
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Years ago, when FNY was just getting started back in 1999, I got word that there was a hidden street in the Bronx, unmarked on maps and by the Department…
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The MTA’s Michael J. Quill Bus Depot sits at 11th Avenue and West 41st Street at the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel. Labor leader Quill (1905-1966) was the founder of the Transport Workers Union (TWU).…
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Students, teachers and administrators on PS 36, on Castle Hill Avenue south of the Cross Bronx Expressway, if they even notice them, may be mystified about the carven street names…
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In mid-July 2015 I had just attended a show at Poe Park in Fordham, at the Grand Concourse and East Kingsbridge Road, featuring photographs taken on and around the recently…