Here’s a grand old awning sign on East 149th Street west of Prospect Avenue that’s two ancient signs in one, and three if you count the vertical sign. I’d say…
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Aymar Embury’s Orchard Beach Bathhouse is marvelously preserved since 1936, when the entire Orchard Beach complex was created in Pelham Bay Park by BYC Parks Commissioner Robert Moses. The new…
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High Bridge, which spans the Harlem River between High Bridge Park at about West 174th Street and University Avenue (MLK Boulevard) and West 170th Street in the Bronx, is hard…
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One of the more curious aspects of the Metropolitan Transit Authority is that it will preserve archaic street names for no apparent reason. There was a rationale for preserving older…
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Apologies for the fuzzy photo — it was taken in 2002, during ForgottenTour #9 (we’re now up to #82) and originally scanned at a smaller size. One of City Island’s…
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A clear view of High Island is seen from Orchard Beach. This is a small, uninhabited island northeast of City Island that is owned by CBS Radio; its most prominent…
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This mostly obliterated painted sign can be seen traveling south on the Grand Concourse from Kingsbridge Road. It appears that there are a variety of signs here, painted on top…
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Continued from Part One MTA employee and former bus driver Gary Fonville has assisted FNY in finding odd stuff around town almost since FNY’s beginning in 1999. Here, he turns…
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On yet another perfect weather day ForgottenTour #82 assembled at “The Chair” sculpture in Westchester Square, the intersection of Westchester, East Tremont and Lane Avenues in the Bronx, on Saturday,…
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MTA employee and former bus driver Gary Fonville has assisted FNY in finding odd stuff around town almost since FNY’s beginning in 1999. Here, he turns his attention to bank…
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A statue of Major General Franz Sigel (1824-1902) overlooks Riverside Drive at West 106th Street. Sigel, born in Baden, Germany, served in the German military until 1852, when he emigrated…
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This is the first of a series of five in which I try to explicate as best I can the names of the neighborhoods of each borough. Some of them…