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    STATES OF THE CITY

    by Kevin Walsh February 6, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh February 6, 2022 20 comments

    I hadn’t thought of mentioning them before, but New York City streets feature states’ names. Not in concentrated blocs, like signers of the Declaration of Independence (Brooklyn), vestrymen of Trinity…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    UNEXPECTED BRIDGES

    by Kevin Walsh January 19, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh January 19, 2022 14 comments

    AWHILE back, Forgotten NY noted some unexpected vehicular tunnels around town on a page that got good response. It got me to thinking about some unexpected traffic bridges around town…

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  • One Shots

    LEBANON STREET, Morris Park

    by Kevin Walsh January 10, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh January 10, 2022 7 comments

    THE country of Lebanon, wedged along the Mediterranean Sea between Israel and Syria, pops up here and there on New York city maps. There had been a Lebanon Terrace in…

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  • Roads

    UNEXPECTED TUNNELS

    by Kevin Walsh January 1, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh January 1, 2022 47 comments

    I have mentioned NYC’s major tunnels only tangentially in Forgotten New York. Over more than 20 years, the site has become about NYC’s built infrastructure (at least the parts I…

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  • Signs

    FTELEY, Soundview

    by Kevin Walsh December 26, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh December 26, 2021 8 comments

    I was recently sent this image of a Fteley / Watson Avenues sign from the Soundview Bronx neighborhood. These navy and white signs were employed in Manhattan and the Bronx…

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    AL HORN, Westchester Square

    by Kevin Walsh December 21, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh December 21, 2021 10 comments

    I cannot tell you if Al Horn Baking Equipment, a wholesaler in the Westchester Square area, is still in business. I can tell you that the ghosts of its plastic…

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  • One Shots

    AMALGAMATED HOUSES, Kingsbridge

    by Kevin Walsh December 18, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh December 18, 2021 22 comments

    THE Amalgamated Houses, seen here on Van Cortlandt Park South and Hillman Avenue, was the first union-sponsored housing cooperative in the United States, sponsored by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union…

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  • One Shots

    UNION RAILWAY COMPANY, Morrisania

    by Kevin Walsh November 29, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh November 29, 2021 2 comments

    If you look a street map of the southern Bronx, Brook Avenue seems to act oddly, running in a straight line north out of Mott Haven, but then curving northwest…

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  • One ShotsStreet LampsSubways & Trains

    PLATFORM LAMP, Van Cortlandt Park

    by Kevin Walsh November 17, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh November 17, 2021 5 comments

    I have begun to pay more attention to platform lighting on elevated subway stations, which comes in a variety of posts from the earliest ornate ones, to the purely functional…

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  • Forgotten SlicesSubways & Trains

    ARCHES OF THE CONCOURSE

    by Kevin Walsh November 16, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh November 16, 2021 7 comments

    I am a fan of infrastructural elements in street layouts that aren’t shown on maps and consequently, I was unaware of until I bumped into them myself when out for…

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    SPACES ALONG THE CROSS-BRONX

    by Kevin Walsh November 14, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh November 14, 2021 18 comments

    Once again I have a weekend “off” when I turn things over to Sergey Kadinsky, who is ubiquitous. –Editor By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent THE Bronx has a history…

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  • One Shots

    INDIAN POND, Fieldston

    by Kevin Walsh November 10, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh November 10, 2021 6 comments

    It was about a year ago that I made two separate trips to trot around Fieldston, a semiprivate neighborhood adjacent to Riverdale in the Bronx, sitting west of the vast…

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