Continued from Part 1 Where was I? On one of the strangest city borderlines you’ll ever encounter… For this January lidlifter on the 2016 exploring season I took the IRT…
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Once again, I’m risking disaster. The last of New York City’s old-style scrolled telephone pole lamppost shafts sits here at the remote (for New York City) corner of West 254th…
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Although it was a short war with a questionable mission, the sacrifice of American troops during the Spanish-American War is commemorated by several memorials across the city. A column erected…
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For this January lidlifter on the 2016 exploring season I took the IRT #2 train, easily accessible from Penn Station, north to the Nereid Avenue station (mispronounced NAIR-eed by the…
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Nothing fancy in Forgotten New York for this week’s feature. Just a presentation of some photos of Manhattan and Bronx’ classic navy blue and white street signs, first installed in…
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The Coca-Cola script logo is virtually unchanged for over 110 years — there are variances in the stroke and swash widths in the lettering but that’s about it. When I…
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“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…