NEW York City is marked by clusters of streets with a theme-based naming scheme. Many of the northeast Bronx streets are named for early NYC mayors beginning in the 1600s;…
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KNOWN as the Castle on the Concourse, the former PS 31 at the Grand Concourse and East 144th Street, south of Hostos Community College, was designed by NYC school architect…
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YOU’RE looking at what is probably the most well-kept and wide-open section of Boston Road in the Bronx. That’s because regular traffic isn’t permitted onto it, as it runs through…
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WHILE poking around in Google Street View, as I do for fun (somebody has to do it) I chanced upon the remnants of colonial-era roads at the intersection of Barnes…
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TAKE a look at this section of a vintage 1922 Hagstrom Bronx map … I isolated Hunts Point. There is an entire section of streets that has been completely wiped…
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In a borough with the city’s lengthiest “step street,” West 230th Street between Irwin and Netherland Avenues in Spuyten Duyvil, here’s what has to be the shortest, on Throgmorton Avenue…
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HOW many painted ads on buildings do you see around town for hospitals? There was one painted a long time ago at #710 Hunts Point Avenue at Spofford Avenue in…
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THE Huntington Free Library in Westchester Square, Bronx (where Westchester and East Tremont Avenues get together) is a small, dark brownstone building with an arched front door with a chiseled…
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THERE is a very short street in Pelham Bay, a few blocks west of Pelham Bay Park, called Libby Place. It still retains touches from a previous era, such as…
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I feel like a holiday weekend off to rest, so I’ll employ some unused photos from my last trip to Wave Hill on Independence Avenue in Riverdale, Bronx, which happened…
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WITHOUT a doubt, one of the most obscure alleys in the Bronx, with the exception of Garden Place in Wakefield, can be found in Morris Park. Many passersby who live…
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FOR an unknown reason, New York City has been cagy about assigning a 200th Street. In Inwood, one of the main east-west streets is Dyckman, which runs from the Hudson…