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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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…