Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917) has been in the news recently. The Catholic saint, born in Lodi on the Italian peninsula (then a part of the Austrian empire) became a nun…
Washington Heights
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I haven’t been to the Hudson River waterfront in Washington Heights of late, and I had no idea that a new pedestrian bridge had opened in September 2017. I hustled over…
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It was a gorgeous day when I did a reconnaissance walk for a since-completed Forgotten NY tour of Uptown Trinity Cemetery. So much so that when I was finished, I…
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At the end of yet another ForgottenTour some of the faithful and I were making our way to the traditional diner stop (in this case, the Coral, at Broadway and West 158th)…
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Edward M. Morgan Place is one of the busiest one-block streets in Manhattan, running northwest from Broadway and West 157th Street one block to West 158th Street, where its route…
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Mitchel Square, a triangle formed by Broadway, St. Nicholas Avenue and West 167th Street, honors NYC mayor John Purroy Mitchel, known as the Boy Mayor because he was, and remains, the…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent When driving north on the Henry Hudson Parkway past Riverbank State Park , it is easy to not notice a tunnel in the…
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Since the early 1950s, thick-shafted, massive guy wired stoplights have guarded busier NYC intersections. They now number in the thousands since their introduction. However, very occasionally around town, you would…
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Continued from Part 1 Remembering once again that I don’t do enough Bronx posts, I set off on one of the most brain-meltingly humid days of the summer to parade…
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I’ll admit, I messed up a bit on this particular walk. For much of the tour, I had the camera at the wrong setting and many of the photos are…
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Reynold’s, the longtime Irish bar on Broadway and West 180th Street in Washington Heights, has decided to call it a career after several decades. The cause, according to DNA Info,…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 On a crystal clear day in September, I took the A train like Ellington uptown to the 145th Street station and started idly milling about the…