THE first president was famous for his humility, eschewing titles of nobility, retiring after a second term, and initially buried in a modest tomb on his plantation. Posthumously, his name…
Morrisania
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WEIHER Court is a narrow alley just south of East 165th between Washington and Third Avenues in Morrisania. Though a Bromley 1911 atlas shows a number of small brick residences…
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If you look a street map of the southern Bronx, Brook Avenue seems to act oddly, running in a straight line north out of Mott Haven, but then curving northwest…
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LYMAN Place is a rather obscure (except for local residents) one-bock street running between East 169th Street and Freeman Street east of Prospect Avenue. It was laid out in the…
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Bonner Place is a true dead end, on the east side of Morris Avenue between East 163rd and 164th Streets. Older maps going back to the early 20th Century show…
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Last November (2019) I was staggering around in the South Bronx, through Mott Haven, Morrisania, and Longwood, enjoying myself thoroughly since I don’t get into the Bronx as often as…
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I had no idea I would be writing about either Donald Byrd or Teasdale Place in the Bronx today, since I was scouring Google Street View looking for something else,…
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Though the Grand Concourse in the Bronx is filled, top to bottom, with Art Deco and Moderne masterpieces, one of its most intriguing buildings is sedately set back from the…
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Hegney Place is one of those “ghost streets” that has never quite been expunged. The Department of Transportation chooses to mark it at both Westchester Avenue and at East 157th…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent The Bronx is an urban explorer’s dream. Its mix of colliding street grids results in oddly-angled buildings and alleys. Its challenging topography means that…
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It’s about time I finished my Westchester Avenue walk, which I began in the summer of 2009 from Parkchester, the 1942 apartment complex created by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company…
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Much of the southern Bronx was owned in the colonial era by the Morris family. Richard Morris, originally from Wales, purchased a large estate called Broncksland from a Samuel Edsall…