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…
Fordham
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Continuing my halting, wavering, and occasionally incoherent way up the Grand Boulevard and Concourse, the spine of the western Bronx broached in Grand Concourse Part 1, my first stop was…
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From the ForgottenBook: Mosholu Parkway is among the many Native American place names that have been woven into the city’s fabric. Mo-sho-lu, or “smooth stones” was the Algonquin name of…