THERE’S relics aplenty at the very same corner in Bronxdale where I highlit the NYW&B RR’s symbolic caduceus. I love NYC’s remaining curved-mast and bracketed streetlamps. This specimen at Matthews…
Bronxdale
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THE former New York, Westchester & Boston Railway celebrated its centennial in 2012. When conceived, it was assumed that it would eventually reach Boston, but instead at its lengthiest, it ran…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 The Bronx and Pelham Parkway (such is its official name) was constructed in the early 20th Century between Bronx and Pelham Bay Parks and bears close…
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In January 2008 I was perusing an old Hagstrom map (yes, I do that for fun). The old Hagstrom, before the company digitized the entire NYC map, preserved some archaisms…