CONVENT Avenue in Manhattanville is named for the former campus of the Catholic Society of the Sacred Heart, which once stood between Convent Avenue and St. Nicholas Terrace between West…
Manhattanville
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Continued from Part 1 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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The Episcopal St. Mary’s Church, West 126th Street between Old Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, is in many ways the heart of Manhattanville. It was first organized in 1823 as a branch church of…
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You’re looking at part of Manhattan’s only stretch of elevated train track south of Dyckman Street. For approximately 70 years, between the 1870s and 1940s, the island was chockablock with…
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What are we looking at here? In 1900, when the IRT subway was designed and began construction, engineers had to make a decision about what to do with Manhattan Valley:…
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Saturday, September 7th was yet one more in a string of sunny days for ForgottenTours –throughout 2010 and much of 2011 we couldn’t avoid the raindrops, but the past two…
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Breaking our one-tour losing streak with the weather (The Tottenville tour was completed but through mainly rain) FNY’s Riverside Drive tour on Sunday, June 2nd, featured mostly sunshine with the…
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A sign on the east side of Broadway, just south of West 125th and in front of the General Grant Houses, advertises the presence of a Moylan Place. However, there’s…
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Long Island University has a campaign (in 2013) called “Find Out How Good You Really Are.” When I went to college, I found out I wasn’t all that good. I…
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Before the 1820s or so, New York City was pretty much confined to the area south of City Hall and indeed, City Hall was left unfinished on its north side since…
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It’s not who you think. The last resting place of the 18th President, Ulysses S. Grant, and his wife on Riverside Drive on the Upper West Side has been the…