By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent The Bronx is an urban explorer’s dream. Its mix of colliding street grids results in oddly-angled buildings and alleys. Its challenging topography means that…
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By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent This well preserved ad on 233rd Street, near Paulding Ave in Wakefield, the Bronx that extols the virtues of oil heat proclaims a…
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Enough asphalt has worn away on East 151st Street between Melrose and Third Avenues to allow some of the old red bricked pavement to show through. Belgian blocks used to…
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By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent In 1963 or so, Studebaker joined a long list of automotive names that no longer exist. Names such as Edsel, Pinto, Corvair, LaSalle, Desoto…
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Continued from Part 1 I’ll admit, I messed up a bit on this particular walk. For much of the tour, I had the camera at the wrong setting and many…
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FNY Correspondent Gary Fonville: This is what I believe to be a sign that dates from the White Plains Road line’s construction around 1915. The only other extant vintage IRT…
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I’ll admit, I messed up a bit on this particular walk. For much of the tour, I had the camera at the wrong setting and many of the photos are…
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For over ten years, my MTA bus dispatcher compadre Gary Fonville has been providing photos and stories behind buildings and signs he has seen along his former routes. He has…
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I was going to hold off on this till I wrote a High Bridge page (I walked across the newly reopened span) but here’s one I’ve overlooked till now, a…
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On May 31st, fourteen Forgotten Fans toured with me in Norwood, a small but historic neighborhood nestles west of Bronx Park and south of Woodlawn Cemetery. Conditions were sticky and…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent So longtime Forgotten-NY fans may have noticed, there are two things that attract e in particular when it comes to the city’s geography, waterway…
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On the FNY Norwood tour on May 31st, 2014, we ran across this tall, iron post at Webster Avenue and East 204th. My feeling is that it used to hold…