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    SUBWAY CLOCK, FORDHAM

    by Kevin Walsh May 13, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh May 13, 2025 10 comments

    LONG before subway “countdown clocks” that foretold, with varying amounts of accuracy, when the next train would appear, these simply designed analog clocks, here seen at Fordham Road in 2016,…

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  • One Shots

    AQUEDUCT WALK, FORDHAM

    by Kevin Walsh May 20, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh May 20, 2024 1 comment

    NEW York’s first water system was built between 1837 and 1842. Prior to those years, water was obtained from cisterns, wells and barrels from rain. Construction began in 1837 on…

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  • Alleys

    YELLOW BRICK ROAD, Fordham

    by Kevin Walsh February 1, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh February 1, 2023 1 comment

    YELLOW brick roads are hard to find in New York City, as brick paved roads have been relentlessly asphalted the past few decades. To find one, it helps if the…

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  • One Shots

    ST. JAMES CHURCH, Fordham

    by Kevin Walsh June 12, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh June 12, 2018 2 comments

    You would not expect to find an English country church smack in the middle of bustling “boogiedown” Bronx under an elevated train, but here’s one in Fordham, at Jerome Avenue…

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  • Walks

    FORDHAM and BELMONT, Bronx, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh July 23, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh July 23, 2017 6 comments

    Continued from Part 1 Fordham, a bustling shopping district in center-west Bronx, was named for a small settlement along the Harlem River begun in 1669 but later devastated by the…

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  • Walks

    FORDHAM and BELMONT, Bronx, Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh July 16, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh July 16, 2017 11 comments

    Fordham, a bustling shopping district in center-west Bronx, was named for a small settlement along the Harlem River begun in 1669 but later devastated by the Revolutionary War. Belmont takes…

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  • AdsOne ShotsSigns

    HIRSCH HATTER, Fordham

    by Kevin Walsh July 15, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh July 15, 2017 6 comments

    By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent On my way, going southbound on the Grand Concourse, I got caught by a red light at E. 188th Street.  While waiting for it…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    CALDOR, Fordham, 1999

    by Kevin Walsh March 31, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh March 31, 2017 11 comments

    At Fordham Road and the Grand Concourse in 1999, I passed two dead stores in the same building. For decades this was the flagship location of Alexander’s, the department store…

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  • Neighborhoods

    POE PARK, Fordham

    by Kevin Walsh October 5, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh October 5, 2016 1 comment

    Edgar Allan Poe was a man about town in New York in the 1840s: he lived in several different locales, and while during his Bronx tenure he wasn’t officially a…

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  • One Shots

    DOLLAR SAVINGS BANK BUILDING, Fordham

    by Kevin Walsh October 1, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh October 1, 2015 19 comments

    One of my favorites in Fordham is the Dollar Savings Bank tower on the east side of the Grand Concourse north of Fordham Road.  This Bronx landmark was built by…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    BRONX ARROWHEADS

    by Kevin Walsh September 29, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh September 29, 2015 1 comment

    Plenty of archaeologists look for arrowheads, remnants of Native American populations of centuries before our own. At Forgotten New York I seek arrowheads as well — by which I mean…

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  • Walks

    MARBLE HILL TO NORWOOD, Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh October 5, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh October 5, 2014 13 comments

    I got off the #1 uptown at 225th Street and wasn’t sure where I was going, which some say has been my problem all these years. I would up lollygagging…

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