TAKE a look at this section of a vintage 1922 Hagstrom Bronx map … I isolated Hunts Point. There is an entire section of streets that has been completely wiped…
Hunts Point
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HOW many painted ads on buildings do you see around town for hospitals? There was one painted a long time ago at #710 Hunts Point Avenue at Spofford Avenue in…
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Continued from Part 2 I had an interregnum of work this past spring (2018), the better part of two months for a financial printer in Midtown. The hours were overnights…
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Since I began this thing of mine in 1998 I believe I have visited Hunt’s Point in the Bronx only about three or four times. Most of its southernmost section…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent While traveling to the scenic Barretto Point Park in Hunts Point, Bronx, I experienced an unexpected Redbird sighting on Tiffany Street. This beloved subway…
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It looks like I’ll be spending some time in the Port Morris-Hunt’s Point areas in the Bronx, since a new pedestrian/bike bridge has opened spanning the Bronx Kill between the…
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Most of the grand Hunts Point, Bronx, estates disappeared in the early 20th Century. Peter Hoe’s magnificent Sunnyslope on Faile Street and Lafayette Avenue, a Gothic Revival extravaganza built in…
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Hunt’s Point in the Bronx, an enclave relatively cut off from Longwood by the Amtrak railroad cut and Bruckner Expressway, is where auto glass, auto parts, light industry and manufacturing are…
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ST. PETER’S CEMETERY St. Peter’s Episcopal Church on 2500 Westchester Avenue is a venerable church, but the actual building is not that elderly, as far as churches go…it was built…
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The Bronx is the only mainland borough in New York City, and in the golden age of railroads it had plenty of freight and passenger routes that served upstate New…