This is a junior high school? Intermediate School 98, Herman Ridder Junior High, 1619 Boston Road at East 173rd Street, is a massive stone fortress for learning built from 1929…
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It’s been over seventeen years since the very first Forgotten NY post (which concerned a repurposed trolley depot on Northern Boulevard and Woodside Avenue) and while I’ve covered a lot…
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Westchester Square, even to the present day, appears to be a small town hub, clustering around the triangle formed by Westchester, East Tremont and Lane Avenues. The “town” has recently…
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By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent There have been many signs chronicled in FNY over the years. Many can still be read, despite their vintage Some have even faded to…
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It’s a fact of life… we all have to go sometimes. New York City is short on public bathrooms. You wind up going in a bar, gas station, department store,…
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I’ll translate. A good decade after they first appeared on other wide thoroughfares like West Street (Joe DiMaggio Highway) and Jericho Turnpike in eastern Queens, the Grand Concourse, which roars…
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Tucked between the Bronx Community College campus, where the Hall of Fame of Great Americans is located, and the Jerome Park Reservoir is a little network of streets that seems…
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While staggering aimlessly on West Kingsbridge Road one afternoon in October 2011, delirious from unseasonable heat, I encountered this redundant yet evocative half-handpainted sign just east of University Avenue. More…
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By HOWARD FEIN Special to Forgotten New York A NYC lamppost ‘wearing’ a Yonkers light fixture on the northeast corner of what appears to be a simple crossroads of four…
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“Could,” as in survive. One of my perennial FNY favorites: this lilliputian amid two massive 7-story apartment towers on Webb Avenue between Reservoir Avenue and West 197th in Kingsbridge Heights.…
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Continued from Part One During the waning light of November 2015, we had a spectacular midweek day — it could have been the day after Thanksgiving — and word had…
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During the waning light of November 2015, we had a spectacular midweek day — it could have been the day after Thanksgiving — and word had come about a brand…