TALES OF THE T-POLES. NYC’s variety of telephone pole lighting fixtures over...
Forgotten New York - Heavy snow in NYC winters is unpredictable. A series of winters with little snow can be followed by years of blizzardy winters. But a fearsome, freak blizzard in early March 1888...
View ArticleTHE NY CENTRAL PUTNAM BRANCH in the Bronx
Forgotten New York - In Country Days in New York City, author Divya Summers describes this old commuter line that is now used for another purpose: The Old Putnam Railroad Track, a defunct railroad bad…...
View ArticleTHE 13 PILLARS OF VAN CORTLANDT PARK
Forgotten New York - There’s a park trail in Van Cortlandt Park that was once a railroad. It can be reached by walking east through the park directly from the W 242nd Street stop on… Forgotten New York -
View ArticleWHO IS THAT GUY? Algernon Sydney Sullivan, Van Cortlandt Park
Forgotten New York - Only a few horse troughs, or drinking fountains, remain around town. I’ve noted ones placed by The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and funded by Edith…...
View ArticleBRONX BROADWAY EL, Kingsbridge, Part 2
Forgotten New York - Continued from Part 1 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...
View ArticlePLATFORM LAMP, Van Cortlandt Park
Forgotten New York - I have begun to pay more attention to platform lighting on elevated subway stations, which comes in a variety of posts from the earliest ornate ones, to the purely functional…...
View ArticleAMALGAMATED HOUSES, Kingsbridge
Forgotten New York - THE Amalgamated Houses, seen here on Van Cortlandt Park South and Hillman Avenue, was the first union-sponsored housing cooperative in the United States, sponsored by the...
View ArticleOLD CROTON TRAIL, VAN CORTLANDT PARK
Forgotten New York - NEW York’s first water system was built between 1837 and 1842. Prior to those years, water was obtained from cisterns, wells and barrels from rain. Construction began in 1837 on…...
View ArticleWHEELER CRESCENT MOON
Forgotten New York - WHEELER Reflector Co. primarily produced traditional style pendant street lamps. When NYC introduced the finned telephone pole streetlamp masts in the 1950s, the flat radial wave...
View ArticleVAULT HILL, VAN CORTLANDT PARK
Forgotten New York - THE story of Van Cortlandt Park begins in 1699, when future NYC mayor Jacobus Van Cortlandt bought a large tract of the Frederick Philipse holdings in the northern Bronx. The…...
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