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Forgotten New York is your passport to more than 300 years of history, architecture, and memories hidden in plain sight.

Houses dating to the first Dutch settlers on Staten Island; yellow brick roads in Brooklyn; clocks embedded in the sidewalk in Manhattan; bishop's crook lampposts in Queens; a white elephant in the Bronx&#8212this is New York and this is your guide to seeing it all. Forgotten New York ...

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Overview

Forgotten New York is your passport to more than 300 years of history, architecture, and memories hidden in plain sight.

Houses dating to the first Dutch settlers on Staten Island; yellow brick roads in Brooklyn; clocks embedded in the sidewalk in Manhattan; bishop's crook lampposts in Queens; a white elephant in the Bronx&#8212this is New York and this is your guide to seeing it all. Forgotten New York covers all five boroughs with easy-to-use maps and suggested routes to hundreds of out-of-the-way places, antiquated monuments, streets to nowhere, and buildings from a time lost.

Forgotten New York features:

  • Quiet Places
  • Truly Forgotten
  • History Happened Here
  • What is this Thing?
  • Forgotten People
  • And so much more.

No matter if you are a lifelong New Yorker, recent resident, or weekend visitor, this magical book is the only guide to true New York.

Editorial Reviews

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In New York City, history is omnipresent: frozen in architecture, captured in signs, lingering in little-known bypaths. With strong ties to several boroughs, native New Yorker Kevin Walsh has been tracking down hidden NY history for decades. His web site, forgotten-ny.com, has become a popular destination for city dwellers curious about memorable nooks and crannies in all five boroughs. His Forgotten New York goes a step further, putting history in your hands with its carefully researched descriptions of Gotham landmarks, quiet places, and oddities. Easy-to-use maps and suggested routes enhance the utility of this delightful guide.
Library Journal
These two titles provide interesting perspectives on New York City that complement the standard travel guide. Walsh has spent years documenting the historical oddities and artifacts around all boroughs of the city. Forgotten New York is the book version of his web site of the same name (http://www.forgotten-ny.com). Organized by borough and neighborhood, it provides subway directions and walking tours not only to historic buildings, parks, memorials, and obscure streets but also to other remnants of the old city, such as old commercial rail tracks or streets with gaslight. Certainly of interest to those who are fans of New York and those who enjoy history and the unusual in their travels, this is a necessary addition to New York libraries and optional for those elsewhere. A lovely gem of a book, The Curious Shopper's Guide presents Manhattan in its entire specialty-shopping glory. Need kitchenware? Go to the Bowery. Need underwear? The Lower East Side. It's 47th Street for a day or afternoon exploring the Diamond District. Keech (The Civilized Shopper's Guide to Rome) details each shopping area, showing how to walk it and including select restaurant suggestions to complement the excursion. A welcome addition to libraries with large travel collections and those in and around Manhattan and the outer boroughs. Louise Feldmann, Colorado State Univ. Lib., Fort Collins Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780060754006
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 9/26/2006
  • Pages: 384
  • Sales rank: 393,492
  • Product dimensions: 6.50 (w) x 10.00 (h) x 0.88 (d)

Meet the Author

Kevin Walsh, an urban explorer extraordinaire and creator of www.forgotten-ny.com, provides a window into a world that few even know exists. He hosts sold out Forgotten-NY Tours throughout the boroughs and is a much sought-after expert on little-known facts about New York City. He grew up in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, watching the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge being built and presently lives in Flushing, Queens.

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Forgotten New York



Views of a Lost Metropolis


By Kevin Walsh


HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.



Copyright © 2006
Kevin Walsh

All right reserved.


ISBN: 0060754001

Chapter One


The Bronx, as a borough and county, is a relatively new political entity. As New York City's only mainland outpost (except for Marble Hill, still a part of Manhattan), the Bronx has been a part of Westchester County and then New York County (Manhattan) for much of its history. In 1874, the western portion of the Bronx, consisting of the towns of Kingsbridge, West Farms, and Morrisania, was annexed by New York County, making them part of New York City proper. In 1895, the rest of the present-day Bronx east of the Bronx River joined. The following year, City Island voted to secede from Westchester County and join the Bronx. Finally, in 1914, the Bronx became its own county, separate from Manhattan. Traces of this former Bronx-Manhattan marriage can be seen in the street numbering system, which stretches across the Harlem River.

Much of the borough's persona over the years, unfortunately, has been shaped by the presence of crime and urban decay. Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan visited then-empty and desolate Charlotte Street, near Crotona Park, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, respectively, with promises of federal aid. During a World Series game in 1977, the camera panned over to an out-of-control conflagration and Howard Cosell intoned, "The Bronx is burning."

Though drugs andcrime remain, as they always will in any urban area, much of the Bronx has been transformed by the construction of new housing and a diminution of crime beginning in the early 90s. Charlotte Street is now a pleasant, tree-lined stretch with detached homes, as is much of the surrounding area; disparate regions like Longwood and Wakefield have also enjoyed comebacks since their nadirs.

There's plenty to interest the urban explorer in the Bronx: the Grand Concourse, with its miles of magnificent apartment buildings and a revitalized Loew's Paradise Theatre; the hills of Morris Heights hold secrets like High Bridge and a lighthouse-shaped tower; Riverdale doesn't resemble the rest of the Bronx, but is a riverside village on the Hudson; and Westchester Square is also a small-town village, complete with a pair of colonial cemeteries. City Island is a fishing village, seemingly airlifted onto Long Island Sound from New England; and Pelham Bay and Van Cortlandt Parks offer hundreds of acres of wild and uncultivated woods, with the occasional abandoned rail line or colonial mansion tossed in.

Mott Haven, The Hub, Melrose, and Concourse Village

Squeezed in between the Harlem River and Yankee Stadium in the southernmost Bronx is a small neighborhood known as Mott Haven, named after Jordan Mott, who built a large ironworks in 1828 (in business until 1906), centered along the Harlem River from about Third Avenue to East 138th Street. His handiwork can be still seen all over town on airshafts and manhole covers built by the J.L. Mott Iron Works. Mott had bought the original property from Gouverneur Morris in 1849; the ironworks produced practical and ornamental metalwork used worldwide.

Port Morris is the easternmost region of Mott Haven, cut off by the Bruckner Expressway. It has never been a major port, but was originally touted as such by Gouverneur Morris, who owned all the property here in the colonial era.

The Hub is where many of the Bronx's major roads meet: East 149th Street, Willis Avenue, and Third Avenue, with Westchester Avenue beginning its long journey to Pelham Bay Park one block to the north. It was also formerly a nexus of some of the Bronx's old trolley routes. Until 1973, the Third Avenue El passed overhead; the IRT subway still roars below under 149th Street. The area naturally became a major shopping district and entertainment center, with silent film and vaudeville theaters and the now-defunct Alexander's and Hearn's department stores.

Patience and Fortitude, the two marble lions guarding the New York Public Library entrance at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, were sculpted right here in Mott Haven at St. Ann's Avenue and East 142nd Street, by Piccirilli Brothers Monument Sculptors, whose family had migrated here from Massa Carrara, Italy, in 1888.

Subway: 4 or 5 to 138th Street-Grand Concourse; 6 to Third Avenue, Brook Avenue, or Cypress Avenue; 2, 4, or 5 to 149th Street-Grand Concourse; 2 or 5 to Third Avenue-149th Street

Bus: Bx19 on East 149th Street; Bx33 on East 138th Street; Bx21 on Third Avenue

1 Piano Row

East 132nd Street, between Lincoln and Alexander Avenues


The Steinway piano factory across the East River may be better chronicled, but Mott Haven certainly had the greater number of pianoforte manufacturers, enough so that the South Bronx was known as "The Piano Capital of the United States" prior to World War I. The buildings belonging to the Krakauer, Kroger, and Estey piano works at East 132nd Street between Lincoln and Alexander Avenues are still standing.

2 Bertine Block

East 136th Street, between Willis and Brook Avenues


Developer Edward Bertine built several three-story yellow-faced brick townhouses between 1891 and 1895 at 414-440 and 415-425 East 136th Street, between Willis Avenue and Brown Place, joining a number of earlier brownstone buildings. The handsome 'Bertine Block' is one of a number of Mott Haven streets given over to eclectic residential architecture, most notably on East 139th, East 140th, and East 142nd Streets between Willis and Brook Avenues, many in Dutch/Flemish styles. East 139th and East 140th Streets are in especially good shape, with distinctive stained glass and sculptural elements on some of the houses.

3 Alexander Avenue

Alexander Avenue, between East 137th and East 140th Streets


After opening in 1891, Alexander Avenue became known as Doctors' Row and "Irish Fifth Avenue." Some of the handsome buildings from its early days still stand, such as St. Jerome's Church and attendant school, constructed in 1898 between East 137th and 138th Streets, the row between East 138th and 139th Streets, and the neo-Renaissance Mott Haven branch of the New York Public Library, built in 1905 by Babb, Cook & Willard.


Continues...



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by Kevin Walsh
Copyright © 2006 by Kevin Walsh.
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