BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent SWING drawbridges used to be very common across this city, appearing not only on the Harlem River, but also at Newtown Creek, Flushing Creek, and…
City Island
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Located on a small island in Eastchester Bay in the extreme northeast Bronx, City Island is a transplanted New England fishing village seemingly beamed into the New York Metropolitan area.…
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The City Island Historical Nautical Museum at 190 Fordham Street, in City Island’s old PS17, with artwork and exhibits chronicling the island’s near-250-year old history of shipbuilders, fishermen and America’s…
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City Island was the venue of another well-attended tour on September 10, 2016, repeating the venue of two earlier tours in 2002 and 2014. The air was thick as pea…
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I’m a relatively frequent visitor to City Island…as much as a Little Neck resident with no wheels can be, I suppose. Actually I find it fairly easy to get to…
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Technically in Nassau County, this Victorian-era lighthouse is visible from the south end of City Island Avenue (officially known as Belden Point), especially from the seagull-frequented deck of Johnny’s Reef Restaurant.…
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Apologies for the fuzzy photo — it was taken in 2002, during ForgottenTour #9 (we’re now up to #82) and originally scanned at a smaller size. One of City Island’s…
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While puttering around in Pelham Cemetery in City Island last May on ForgottenTour #53, we found a human skull. Apropos. Anything can happen on a ForgottenTour.®. The fun begins in…
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Continuing the 2012 tradition of beautiful weather for ForgottenTours (unlike previous years) ForgottenTour 53 met at the end of the line of the #6 train, Pelham Bay Park, and 30…
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I’ve been asked to cover locales selected by Partners in Preservation, an organization sponsored by American Express that, in a partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, awards preservation grants to…
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Your webmaster has written and spoken often about the sad state of affairs that overdevelopment has left us in, especially in Flushing. Every historic property in the city not under…
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City Island, NY was the site of Forgottoners Tour #9. Located on a spit of an island in Eastchester Bay in the extreme northeast Bronx, City Island is a transplanted New…