Kingsbridge

GROTE Street twists and turns through Belmont, the section of the Bronx most famed for the restaurants of Arthur Avenue and Dion DeMucci, who racked up hits in the 1960s…

I was surfing through a clutch of photographs taken in the early 20th Century by Robert Bracklow when this item caught my eye, “Plaque on the Modern Kings Bridge commemorating…

THE Amalgamated Houses, seen here on Van Cortlandt Park South and Hillman Avenue, was the first union-sponsored housing cooperative in the United States, sponsored by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union…

Nobody asked me, but… Do the Jerome Avenues in the Bronx and Brooklyn have anything to do with each other? The Bronx Jerome Avenue runs for miles from the Major…

The following is a transfer of a page written in 2010; the original photo galleries weren’t functioning. Therefore, some info may be outdated. Some of the photos were imported at…

It had been a good 6 years or so since I took a walk around Spuyten Duyvil, the hilly, almost mountainous, Bronx enclave tucked in its southwest enclave just above…

Continued from Part 1 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…

At the present time, Fort Independence Park represents the only public green space that is directly adjacent to the Jerome Park Reservoir in Van Cortlandt Village in the Bronx, running along…

This mostly obliterated painted sign can be seen traveling south on the Grand Concourse from Kingsbridge Road. It appears that there are a variety of signs here, painted on top…