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…
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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…