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    AL HORN, Westchester Square

    by Kevin Walsh December 21, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh December 21, 2021 10 comments

    I cannot tell you if Al Horn Baking Equipment, a wholesaler in the Westchester Square area, is still in business. I can tell you that the ghosts of its plastic…

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  • MAP ROOMOne Shots

    WESTCHESTER SQUARE 1900

    by Kevin Walsh September 9, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh September 9, 2019 4 comments

    The FNY Tour of September 8, 2019 took us once again to the Westchester Square area, the site of two previous tours. There’s a lot of history concentrated in the…

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  • Walks

    WALKING TREMONT AVENUE

    by Kevin Walsh June 17, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh June 17, 2018 23 comments

    In March 2018, I marched from the Tremont Ave. IND subway station at the Grand Concourse east on its titular avenue all the way to the Bruckner Expressway, where I…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    7-UP, Westchester Square

    by Kevin Walsh June 30, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh June 30, 2017 5 comments

    A sharp-eyed Gary Fonville found an old 7-Up sign, as well as the word “Midget,” in back of a newer vinyl awning on East Tremont Avenue in Westchester Square recently.…

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  • One Shots

    OWEN DOLAN CENTER, Westchester

    by Kevin Walsh June 15, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh June 15, 2016 0 comment

    Westchester Square, even to the present day, appears to be a small town hub, clustering around the triangle formed by Westchester, East Tremont and Lane Avenues. The “town” has recently…

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  • Tours

    FORGOTTENTOUR #82, Westchester Square to Parkchester

    by Kevin Walsh August 12, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh August 12, 2014 10 comments

    On yet another perfect weather day ForgottenTour #82 assembled at “The Chair” sculpture in Westchester Square, the intersection of Westchester, East Tremont and Lane Avenues in the Bronx, on Saturday,…

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  • Neighborhoods

    AROUND WESTCHESTER SQUARE, Bronx

    by Kevin Walsh April 28, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh April 28, 2013 25 comments

    Though this was the first time in awhile, while writing Forgotten New York the past 15 years I have frequently found myself in Westchester Square in the Bronx. The neighborhood…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    WESTCHESTER SQUARE, BRONX, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh January 20, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh January 20, 2010 8 comments

    After our earlier ramble on Westchester Square’s southern edge, it’s time now to explore the northern end of Westchester Square, formerly the town center of the Dutch village of Oostdorp, renamed by…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    WESTCHESTER SQUARE, Bronx, Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh January 19, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh January 19, 2010 15 comments

    Just as you can’t swing a dead cat (sorry, PETA) without hitting something called “Richmond” in Staten Island, The Bronx is filled with place names ending in “-chester,” as in Westchester,…

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  • Cemeteries

    Forever BRONXITES

    by Kevin Walsh February 5, 2002
    by Kevin Walsh February 5, 2002 1 comment

    ST. PETER’S CEMETERY St. Peter’s Episcopal Church on 2500 Westchester Avenue is a venerable church, but the actual building is not that elderly, as far as churches go…it was built…

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  • Alleys

    YZNAGA SAGA Cuban sugar plantations & ancient colonial post roads.

    by Kevin Walsh November 17, 2001
    by Kevin Walsh November 17, 2001 0 comment

      Yznaga Place Quite possibly the only place name in the United States that begins with “yz”. I’ve looked at USA and world atlases and can’t find anymore initial Yz’s.…

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  • Alleys

    SHADY SHRADY and other Bronx lanes

    by Kevin Walsh June 10, 1999
    by Kevin Walsh June 10, 1999 0 comment

    The Bronx is not to be outdone when it comes to obscure alleys and lanes. Some are in leaf-filled enclaves like Riverdale and others are to be found in teeming…

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