NONPAVED roads are now quite rare in NYC, but I have one all the way in the north end of Riverdale in the Bronx, between Spender and Huxley Avenues south…
Riverdale
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THE story of Van Cortlandt Park begins in 1699, when future NYC mayor Jacobus Van Cortlandt bought a large tract of the Frederick Philipse holdings in the northern Bronx. The…
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JUMPING into my H.G. Wells time machine once again, I set the controls for Riverdale, way up in the Bronx, and the year 1920, where, under the 16-year-old Broadway elevated…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent THE northwestern tip of New York City offers majestic views of the Hudson River and the Palisades. The Sisters of Charity have their convent here,…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent THE largest historic mansion in the Bronx is the Van Cortlandt House in Riverdale, namesake of the 1146-acre park in which it stands. Every time…
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I feel like a holiday weekend off to rest, so I’ll employ some unused photos from my last trip to Wave Hill on Independence Avenue in Riverdale, Bronx, which happened…
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I stalked around in Riverdale and Fieldston, in the northwest Bronx, on two separate hikes last year, both in early November, and I intend to go back the same time…
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I’m happy to be an East Coast guy. Wherever I go in the NYC area, I’m not far from water. I’m happy about that, even though I have never swum…
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There are three Independence Avenues in New York City, a lengthy one and two short ones. The first one, depicted above, runs through the far northern Bronx in Spuyten Duyvil…
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There’s an admission fee for most events at Gaelic Park on West 240th near Broadway, but I was able to sneak in for a couple of photos. Named in honor…
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Now that my latest 20th Anniversary presentation has come and gone (at SoHo’s Museum of Interesting Things) I can post some vintage images again from the Dawn of Forgotten NY,…
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March 2019 marks Forgotten New York’s 20th anniversary. To mark the occasion, I’ve re-scanned about 150 key images from the early days of FNY from 35MM prints. In the early…