Riverdale

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…

Continued from Part 1 I’ve done pages on Riverdale before (notably, here), it’s one of my favorite Bronx sites, albeit a little hilly. Strike that, it’s a lot hilly. But…

I’ve done pages on Riverdale before (notably, here), it’s one of my favorite Bronx sites, albeit a little hilly. Strike that, it’s a lot hilly. But I have been on…

Issuing north from West 251st Street west of Broadway is a dirt trace that can be mistaken for a driveway, which is its modern-day chief function. It is actually a…

Back in the summer of 2012 I was wandering about in northern Riverdale at the Bronx-Westchester County city line. Hilly Spencer Avenue — named for Herbert Spencer, the British philosopher and…

At one point in the 1970s it seemed that every corner in NYC controlled by traffic signals also had these devices (Mosholu Avenue and Fieldston Road), which were mounted on…

I was shuffling about on Broadway and West 262nd Street in Riverdale waiting for the Bx9 bus (a third of my life is asleep, and another third is waiting for…

I’m continuing my “Under the El” series, which recently visited 31st Street in Astoria, with a walk under Manhattan’s last remaining el, which continues on as far as Van Cortlandt…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent The neighborhood of Kingsbridge lost its namesake crossing more than a century ago when the Spuyten Duyvil Creek was straightened, but in a way…

Once again, I’m risking disaster. The last of New York City’s old-style scrolled telephone pole lamppost shafts sits here at the remote (for New York City) corner of West 254th…

The MTA’s Michael J. Quill Bus Depot sits at 11th Avenue and West 41st Street at the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel. Labor leader Quill (1905-1966) was the founder of the Transport Workers Union (TWU).…

When I first started photography for Forgotten New York in 1998 there were still a number of these small mailboxes mounted on telephone poles, or even proprietary concrete posts, scattered…