Inwood

Continued from Part 2 GETTING tired of the One and Done series yet? I’m not, I’m having fun with it. My thinking is I’ll wrap up Manhattan, then wait a…

IT’S been awhile since I’ve mentioned the Seaman Estate Arch in Inwood, or even been in Inwood, so I’ll just feature it today for those who are some what new…

FOR an unknown reason, New York City has been cagy about assigning a 200th Street. In Inwood, one of the main east-west streets is Dyckman, which runs from the Hudson…

Although NYC divested most of its colonial-era “royal” names after defeating the British in the Revolutionary War, there are a few that doggedly hang on, such as Prince St. in…

Matty Alou (1938-2011) was a National League batting champion from the Dominican Republic. Though he never resided in New York City, Dominicans in Washington Heights and Inwood point with pride…

Forgotten New York’s Inwood and Marble Hill tour was so successful this past June (2019) I thought I’d recap it here… Inwood was the last part of Manhattan to develop…

March 2019 marks Forgotten New York’s 20th anniversary. To celebrate the occasion, I’ve re-scanned about 150 key images from the early days of FNY from 35MM prints. In the early…

The Packard showroom at Broadway and Sherman Avenue, across the street from Fort Tryon Park,  was designed in 1926 by architect Albert Kahn, who designed Packard showrooms across the country and,…

I’m continuing my “Under the El” series, which recently visited 31st Street in Astoria, with a walk under Manhattan’s last remaining el, which continues on as far as Van Cortlandt…

I’ll say right off the bat: there’s no such thing as a 200th Street, East or West, in Manhattan or the Bronx, but I hope here to indicate why there…

At Dyckman Street The IRT emerges from, and enters, a tunnel under High Bridge Park inscribed with the title “Fort George” and the dates 1776 and 1905. Fort George, originally…

The blue and white 60-foot by 60-foot Columbia University “C” has been painted and repainted on the gneiss rock facing the Harlem River in Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx, since 1952. Originally…