In 2000, Mr. Trump, The Donald himself, opened up a stretch of Riverside Park between 59th and 74th Street, alongside a recent development of his where the old West Side Rail Yards used to be. Amtrak tracks still run underground here, but freight tracks used to be right at grade here and this was, as most [...]
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Monthly Archives: May 2013
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WEST SIDE FREIGHTYARDS
March 23, 2001Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Manhattan Upper West Side
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HARLEM NOCTURNE. Some extremely old posts in Harlem have survived.
March 18, 2001
They used to light an underpass that brought traffic from Adam Clayton Powell Blvd (formerly 7th Avenue) under the Harlem River Drive. They’re a New York City lamppost with no other related genus or species–they’re in a class of their own. They sort of represent an evolutionary midway point between the Beaux Arts twinlamps and the [...]
Categorized in: Street Lamps Tagged with: Harlem Manhattan Westinghouse
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THE NEW YORK ISLANDS
March 17, 2001Woody Guthrie had it wrong. What’s that? Folk music devotees and labor union activists would say that Woody Guthrie hardly got anything wrong. But, in his most famous song, “This Land Is Your Land,” the Coney Islander (he lived on Mermaid Avenue for awhile) sang “from California to the New York island…” But, New York [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Manhattan
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THE BLOCKHOUSE AND THE BENCH
March 12, 2001On the northern edge of Central Park, near Warrior’s Gate at Powell Blvd. (7th Avenue) the hills are steep, and rough hewn staircases ascend as high as a two or three story building. This part of the park is known as the Cliff and is one of the natural aspects that the Park’s creators, Frederick Olmsted [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Central Park Manhattan
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ABANDONED RAILROAD STATIONS of the Bronx
March 1, 2001The Bronx is the only mainland borough in New York City, and in the golden age of railroads it had plenty of freight and passenger routes that served upstate New York and New England. On this page, we’ll take a peek at one of those lines, the Harlem River Branch, which still has station houses [...]
Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: Hunts Point Morris Park Pelham Bay