MANY of the world’s great cities mark their borders with walls and gates, but New York knocked down Wall Street’s ramparts by 1699 and expanded its territory north until reaching…
Wakefield
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THERE is a curious-looking “ghost street” in Wakefield, a curved dirt pedestrian path along the stone wall that marks the south end of the 239th Street subway yard serving #2…
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By HOWARD FEIN Special to Forgotten New York A NYC lamppost ‘wearing’ a Yonkers light fixture on the northeast corner of what appears to be a simple crossroads of four…
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Continued from Part 1 Where was I? On one of the strangest city borderlines you’ll ever encounter… For this January lidlifter on the 2016 exploring season I took the IRT…
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For this January lidlifter on the 2016 exploring season I took the IRT #2 train, easily accessible from Penn Station, north to the Nereid Avenue station (mispronounced NAIR-eed by the…
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The Coca-Cola script logo is virtually unchanged for over 110 years — there are variances in the stroke and swash widths in the lettering but that’s about it. When I…
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“Oil heats best for less,” White Plains Road north of the Nereid Avenue el station up north in Wakefield. A similar ad commissioned by the same firm can also be…
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Bruner and Barnes Avenues meet each other just north of 239th Street. At the point where the they meet, the entrance to the 239th Street/Wakefield yard awaits you. The location…
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Years ago, when FNY was just getting started back in 1999, I got word that there was a hidden street in the Bronx, unmarked on maps and by the Department…
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By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent This well preserved ad on 233rd Street, near Paulding Ave in Wakefield, the Bronx that extols the virtues of oil heat proclaims a…
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FNY Correspondent Gary Fonville: This is what I believe to be a sign that dates from the White Plains Road line’s construction around 1915. The only other extant vintage IRT…
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There’s a little corner of the Emerald Island in the far flung northern reaches of the Bronx, past the rolling hills of Woodlawn Cemetery, the duffers in Mosholu and Van…