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    KINGSBRIDGE 2019

    by Kevin Walsh June 9, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh June 9, 2019 7 comments

    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…

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  • AdsOne Shots

    KINGSBRIDGE ROAD ADS

    by Kevin Walsh September 8, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh September 8, 2017 5 comments

    ForgottenFan Ben Hagen passed along photos of a pair of decades-old ads that have been in view on West Kingsbridge Road west of University Avenue that have apparently been in…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    EAMES PLACE, Kingsbridge Heights

    by Kevin Walsh April 12, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh April 12, 2016 21 comments

    Tucked between the Bronx Community College campus, where the Hall of Fame of Great Americans is located, and the Jerome Park Reservoir is a little network of streets that seems…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    HAIR CARE, Kingsbridge Heights

    by Kevin Walsh April 11, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh April 11, 2016 0 comment

    While staggering aimlessly on West Kingsbridge Road one afternoon in October 2011, delirious from unseasonable heat, I encountered this redundant yet evocative half-handpainted sign just east of University Avenue. More…

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  • One Shots

    LITTLE HOUSE THAT COULD, Kingsbridge Heights

    by Kevin Walsh April 10, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh April 10, 2016 7 comments

    “Could,” as in survive. One of my perennial FNY favorites: this lilliputian amid two massive 7-story apartment towers on Webb Avenue between Reservoir Avenue and West 197th in Kingsbridge Heights.…

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  • One Shots

    50TH PRECINCT, Kingsbridge Heights

    by Kevin Walsh February 14, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh February 14, 2014 8 comments

    At Summit Place and Kingsbridge Terrace, in the heart of Kingsbridge Heights in the Bronx, you will find the imposing former NYPD 50th Precinct station house, built by architects Arthur…

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  • One Shots

    ALBANY CRESCENT, Kingsbridge Heights

    by Kevin Walsh April 7, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh April 7, 2013 1 comment

    Albany Crescent is a C-shaped road that runs from Kingsbridge Terrace southwest, west and finally northeast to Bailey Avenue and West 233rd Street, in fact curving right over the Major…

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  • Neighborhoods

    KINGSBRIDGE HTS./VAN CORTLANDT VILLAGE, Bronx

    by Kevin Walsh September 27, 2009
    by Kevin Walsh September 27, 2009 0 comment

    I became so enamoured of the Van Cortlandt Village/Kingsbridge Heights area while doing ForgottenTour 37 around the (temporarily dry) Jerome Park Reservoir that I resolved to return and explore these…

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  • CobblestonesForgotten Slices

    WEST 230TH BRICKS

    by Kevin Walsh April 13, 2009
    by Kevin Walsh April 13, 2009 5 comments

    According to the late, legendary Bronx historian John McNamara, writing in History in Asphalt, West 230th Street in KIngsbridge Heights and Riverdale has had an active history. It once led to an…

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  • Alleys

    SHADY SHRADY and other Bronx lanes

    by Kevin Walsh June 10, 1999
    by Kevin Walsh June 10, 1999 0 comment

    The Bronx is not to be outdone when it comes to obscure alleys and lanes. Some are in leaf-filled enclaves like Riverdale and others are to be found in teeming…

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