GRAND CONCOURSE, Bronx
Forgotten New York - On two separate trips, in the summers of 1999 and 2000, I walked the Grand Boulevard and Concourse, which marches north from the Major Deegan Expressway to Mosholu Parkway through...
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Forgotten New York - Title card: 910 Grand Concourse at East 163 St I FIRST WALKED the Bronx’s Grand Concourse on July 18, 1999, on ForgottenTour 2. It was 100 degrees, the tour split up into two...
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Forgotten New York - PHOTOS BY GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent It’s the most natural thing in the world. We all have to go sometime. NYC, though, would pretty much not acknowledge that fact....
View ArticleWASHINGTON HEIGHTS TO YANKEE STADIUM, via THE HIGH BRIDGE, Part 2
Forgotten New York - Continued from Part 1 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… Forgotten New York -
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Forgotten New York - Plenty of archaeologists look for arrowheads, remnants of Native American populations of centuries before our own. At Forgotten New York I seek arrowheads as well — by which I...
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Forgotten New York - It’s a fact of life… we all have to go sometimes. New York City is short on public bathrooms. You wind up going in a bar, gas station, department store,… Forgotten New York -
View ArticleCROTONA PARK TO HIGH BRIDGE, Bronx, Part 1
Forgotten New York - 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 around the near geographical… Forgotten...
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Forgotten New York - 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… Forgotten New York -
View ArticleARCHES OF THE CONCOURSE
Forgotten New York - I am a fan of infrastructural elements in street layouts that aren’t shown on maps and consequently, I was unaware of until I bumped into them myself when out for… Forgotten New...
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