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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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BOSTON may be known as the “Hub of the Universe” but the south Bronx has its very own Hub where four roads converge: East 149th Street and Willis, Melrose and Third Avenues, while…
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BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent SWING drawbridges used to be very common across this city, appearing not only on the Harlem River, but also at Newtown Creek, Flushing Creek, and…
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GROTE Street twists and turns through Belmont, the section of the Bronx most famed for the restaurants of Arthur Avenue and Dion DeMucci, who racked up hits in the 1960s…
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“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy” — Hamlet In nearly a quarter century of wandering around New York City photographing…
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BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent OVERSHADOWED by the tangle of ramps on the Bronx side of the Whitestone Bridge is a historic Catholic school bypassed by millions of drivers with…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent I recently had the pleasure of meeting Kevin C. Fitzpatrick, author of the book 111 Places in the Bronx That You Must Not Miss, who…
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BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent AMONG the important north-south routes in the Bronx is Webster Avenue, which was not named for the early American politician Daniel Webster, nor the linguist…
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THE Donald Deskey lamppost, introduced in 1958, was a very adaptable and modular beast. Its most frequent use was the single-arm mast, and though SLECO stopped producing them around 1980,…