ACCORDING to NYC subway and railroad historian Joe Brennan, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad made its entry to New York via the Harlem Line in 1849, but the…
Morris Park
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A recent walk in Morris Park (May 2026) produced 121 photos, which will make up a post eventually. I like the Morris Park and Westchester Square Bronx regions and always…
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I am a “recovered” bowler. I bowled frequently between 1967 and the mid-1980s. I have mentioned my adventures from time to time in Forgotten New York. I doggedly pursued the…
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WITHOUT a doubt, one of the most obscure alleys in the Bronx, with the exception of Garden Place in Wakefield, can be found in Morris Park. Many passersby who live…
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THE country of Lebanon, wedged along the Mediterranean Sea between Israel and Syria, pops up here and there on New York city maps. There had been a Lebanon Terrace in…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent A great avenue deserves a great gateway and some of New York’s famous roads have iconic monuments or parks at their starting points. But most…
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Little did I know that my February 2020 foray into the mid-Bronx (Morris Park, Allerton, and Williamsbridge) would be my final Bronx walk for what appears will be at least…
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I hadn’t sallied up Morris Park Avenue in the Bronx for some time — not since 2006-7 or so, and on this sort of hangdog afternoon on either side of…
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I decided to check out the new East 180th Street subway stop on the White Plains/Dyre Avenue Line (#2/#5 lines in the Bronx — after a couple of years’ construction,…
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US Representative Paul Fino (1913-2009) was elected to the State Senate from 1946-1950 and elected to Congress in 1952, where he served 8 terms, and then the State Supreme Court in…
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Since the Corvington Longarm Type 24M — and other old forms such as the bishop crook and Type F lights — were reintroduced to NYC streets beginning in the 1980s,…
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As a neighborhood, Morris Park, located in what’s about the exact center of the Bronx, appears to be one of the borough’s most stable and long-standing, but it’s actually only a…