Forgotten New York
  • Home
  • About
    • Advertise with FNY
    • Contributors
    • Contact Us
  • Book
  • Forgotten Tours/Tour Schedule
    • FNY 2025 Tour Schedule
  • Gift Shop
  • JOBS
  • COMMUNITY

Forgotten New York

  • Home
  • About
    • Advertise with FNY
    • Contributors
    • Contact Us
  • Book
  • Forgotten Tours/Tour Schedule
    • FNY 2025 Tour Schedule
  • Gift Shop
  • JOBS
  • COMMUNITY
Social Links

Bronx

  • 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…

    Read more
  • Street Lamps

    WESTINGHOUSE WHITEWAYS, The Hub

    by Kevin Walsh October 30, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh October 30, 2021 9 comments

    THERE”S a lot going on in this scene in The Hub region of the Bronx, looking south on Elton Avenue toward where it meets Third Avenue (in the Bronx, 3rd…

    Read more
  • Forgotten Slices

    BRONX RIVER PARKWAY SURPRISE

    by Kevin Walsh October 21, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh October 21, 2021 15 comments

    Today Sergey yet again has found something I was completely unaware of… –ed. By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent ACROSS the city there are numerous barriers to pedestrian connectivity that…

    Read more
  • Subways & Trains

    MONUMENTAL ELS

    by Kevin Walsh September 19, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh September 19, 2021 19 comments

    I have written often about the stationhouses found on the NYC subway’s old BMT division, mostly along the Sea Beach line (for younger readers, the N train between 59th Street…

    Read more
  • One ShotsSigns

    FIELDSTON-RIVERDALE STREET SIGNS

    by Kevin Walsh July 13, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh July 13, 2021 4 comments

    I stalked around in Riverdale and Fieldston, in the northwest Bronx, on two separate hikes last year, both in early November, and I intend to go back the same time…

    Read more
  • One Shots

    ELMO HOPE WAY, Morrisania

    by Kevin Walsh July 8, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh July 8, 2021 2 comments

    LYMAN Place is a rather obscure (except for local residents) one-bock street running between East 169th Street and Freeman Street east of Prospect Avenue. It was laid out in the…

    Read more
  • Forgotten Slices

    THE BEGINNINGS OF PELHAM GARDENS, Bronx

    by Kevin Walsh June 1, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh June 1, 2021 1 comment

    By DONALD GILLIGANSpecial guest post In the beginning there was salt marsh as the hatched area in the accompanying map (Ca. 1890) indicates.  The area outlined in red is where…

    Read more
  • One ShotsStreet LampsSubways & Trains

    DYRE AVENUE 2012

    by Kevin Walsh May 14, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh May 14, 2021 13 comments

    When conceived, it was assumed that the former New York, Westchester and Boston RR would eventually reach Boston, but instead at its lengthiest, it ran from southern Mott Haven in…

    Read more
  • Street Scenes

    STREETS NAMED FOR OTHER STREETS, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh March 15, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh March 15, 2021 12 comments

    In what I first imagined would be my only post on the subject, I wrote about a few streets around town named for other streets, Broadway in most cases. Since…

    Read more
  • Alleys

    BONNER PLACE, Morrisania

    by Kevin Walsh February 28, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 28, 2021 5 comments

    Bonner Place is a true dead end, on the east side of Morris Avenue between East 163rd and 164th Streets. Older maps going back to the early 20th Century show…

    Read more
  • Forgotten Slices

    CONCRETE PLANT PARK, Bronx River

    by Kevin Walsh February 9, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 9, 2021 6 comments

    Concrete Plant Park, built along the Bronx River between 2004 and 2009 for about 10 million dollars (much of which was spent in removing petroleum-tainted soil from the site), runs…

    Read more
  • One Shots

    CONCOURSE PLAZA HOTEL, Melrose

    by Kevin Walsh January 30, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 30, 2021 7 comments

    In the early days of Forgotten New York I would amble up Grand Concourse all the way from East 138th to Mosholu Parkway and take in all the magnificent apartment…

    Read more
Load More Posts

Explore by Category

Search by Category

FORGOTTEN ARTICLES

Nearest Faraway Place [SpliceToday]

Dyker Hiker [SpliceToday]

The Haight [SpliceToday]

Around Yankee Stadium [SpliceToday]

More Glenmore [SpliceToday]

The Bronx North Woods [SpliceToday]

 

 

FNY ON THE RADIO AND MEDIA

Karol Markowicz, 2024

Frank Morano, WABC, 2022

Mike and Judy Show, 2011

Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC, 2006

Support Forgotten NY

Thank you to all our donors that continue to support Forgotten NY. To make a donation, please use the button below.

 

FNY the Book

Archives

Award-Winning!

Forgotten New York was the first-ever recipient of Outstanding New York City Website by the Guides Association of New York City!
Forgotten New York is associated with the Greater Astoria Historical Society

Links

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

40-01 Little Neck Parkway 24A
Little Neck, NY 11363

@2019 - Forgotten New York. All Right Reserved.


Back To Top
Forgotten New York
  • Home
  • About
    • Advertise with FNY
    • Contributors
    • Contact Us
  • Book
  • Forgotten Tours/Tour Schedule
    • FNY 2025 Tour Schedule
  • Gift Shop
  • JOBS
  • COMMUNITY

40-01 Little Neck Parkway 24A
Little Neck, NY 11363

@2019 - Forgotten New York. All Right Reserved.