Bronx

In 2019 Louie & Ernie’s Pizzeria celebrated 60 years in the business at Crosby and Waterbury Avenues. Founder Ernie Ottuso was honored by having the intersection named for him several…

PRECIOUS and few are the streets in New York City that begin with Z, and fewer still are subway stations that begin with the 26th letter. Westchester Square can claim…

SINCE I haven’t been able to get out much, I have decided to continue my recently minted series Where It All Begins, that employs the magic of Google Street View…

BEGINNING a series here that I will return to from time to time about where NYC’s longest roads originate. My aim here is to show the “sources” of roads and…

THERE’S relics aplenty at the very same corner in Bronxdale where I highlit the NYW&B RR’s symbolic caduceus. I love NYC’s remaining curved-mast and bracketed streetlamps. This specimen at Matthews…

THE former New York, Westchester & Boston Railway celebrated its centennial in 2012. When conceived, it was assumed that it would eventually reach Boston, but instead at its lengthiest, it ran…

JUMPING into my H.G. Wells time machine once again, I set the controls for Riverdale, way up in the Bronx, and the year 1920, where, under the 16-year-old Broadway elevated…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent HOE Avenue does not have the most attractive name for a road in the South Bronx. Perhaps a farming tool or a woman of ill…

WHEELER Reflector Co. primarily produced traditional style pendant street lamps. When NYC introduced the finned telephone pole streetlamp masts in the 1950s, the flat radial wave incandescent lamps in use…

THIS is one of the many Irish-themed pubs on Katonah Avenue in Woodlawn Heights, though every persuasion is welcome. In fact the Irish inscription on the sign means “1,000 100,000…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent THE northwestern tip of New York City offers majestic views of the Hudson River and the Palisades. The Sisters of Charity have their convent here,…

HUNT’S Point in the Bronx, an enclave relatively cut off from Longwood by the Amtrak railroad cut and Bruckner Expressway, is where auto glass, auto parts, light industry and manufacturing are…