Greenwich Village’s, Perry Street, as well as Norwood’s Perry Avenue, are named for US naval hero Commodore Oliver H. Perry, who, after winning the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of…
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Like “orthopaedic”/”orthopedic”, Throgs Neck in the Bronx can be spelled differently depending on where you’re from. The neighborhood in the southeast Bronx was named for a very early British settler,…
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When I first started photography for Forgotten New York in 1998 there were still a number of these small mailboxes mounted on telephone poles, or even proprietary concrete posts, scattered…
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There’s an unusual frame house on Mickle Avenue between Adee and Arnow Avenues that faces diagonally to the street on which it has an address. Usually, that’s a tipoff to…
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Forgotten New York, as of March 2014, has been around 16 years, and I’m glad I’m still alive, well, and contributing. Since I’m almost discussing the site in terms of…
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Late November 2014. I decided to walk most of the length of one of those Bronx roads with classic names I hadn’t paid all that much attention to, yet its…
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The Hadley House, on Post Road between West 251st and West 252nd Street, isn’t mentioned in most of the guidebooks, but it’s centuries old and plays a part in Bronx…
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I’m happy to say I “discovered” this remaining Type G Corvington post, one of the lettered series of NYC lampposts in the early 20th Century, as early as the mid…
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I was finishing up a Forgotten NY voyage of discovery in the Bronx last week when I again noted with delight the survival of the original railings and signage holders…
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At the present time, Fort Independence Park represents the only public green space that is directly adjacent to the Jerome Park Reservoir in Van Cortlandt Village in the Bronx, running along…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 I got off the #1 uptown at 225th Street and wasn’t sure where I was going, which some say has been my problem all these years.…
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I got off the #1 uptown at 225th Street and wasn’t sure where I was going, which some say has been my problem all these years. I would up lollygagging…