Comments on: Today in history: Guns on Pascha, 1905 http://orthodoxhistory.org/2010/04/30/today-in-history-guns-on-pascha-1905/ The Society for Orthodox Christian History in the Americas Wed, 08 May 2013 13:30:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Matthew Namee http://orthodoxhistory.org/2010/04/30/today-in-history-guns-on-pascha-1905/comment-page-1/#comment-793 Matthew Namee Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:32:44 +0000 http://orthodoxhistory.org/?p=2416#comment-793 Very interesting; thanks for sharing this. Do you happen to have a photo of the neighborhood sign?

]]> By: orrologion http://orthodoxhistory.org/2010/04/30/today-in-history-guns-on-pascha-1905/comment-page-1/#comment-792 orrologion Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:31:47 +0000 http://orthodoxhistory.org/?p=2416#comment-792 On one of the historic neighborhood signs on Manhattan’s Upper East Side – the location of “Holy Trinity Hellenic Orthodox Church, in Seventy-second Street, between Lexington and Third Avenues” – notes that the area east of Park Avenue was the origin of the term “wrong side of the tracks”. I have not been able to verify this derivation elsewhere, so perhaps it is a Gotham-specific memory.

“Park Avenue was originally known as Fourth Avenue and carried the tracks of the New York and Harlem Railroad starting in the 1830s…. When Grand Central Depot was opened in the 1870s, the railroad tracks between 56th and 96th Streets were sunk out of sight.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Avenue_%28Manhattan%29)

This area of the Upper East Side was not the high highfalutin neighborhood we think of today.

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