Category: Riverside Park
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NY- The Science Barge Arrives Back to the 70th Street Pier
Like an an environmentalist jetting off to Switzerland on her Gulfstream to attend a conference about getting people to reduce their carbon footprint, the Science Barge arrived at the West 70th street Pier. Pushed in by a diesel tug and locked in to place by a diesel crane, the science barge managed to offset it’s…
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NY- Cherry Blossoms Are Set To Explode in Riverside Park
Riverside Park should hit its blooming peak this weekend. The flowering trees are all puffed up and ready to blow.
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NY- Riverside Park South at Trump Place
The first time I laid eyes on the plot that is now Riverside Park South, it was covered in illegally dumped cars and trash. Anyone who is a fan of Law and Order series will remember in the early episodes this is where they always seemed to find the dead prostitute or heroin junkie’s body.…
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NY- The Tomb of an Amiable Child Monument- Riverside Park
When St. Clair Pollock lived in Morningside Heights it was still a rural outpost of New York City. In 1797, the year he died at five, metropolitan life was still concentrated at the bottom of the island. The boy’s father buried him near the cliffs that he is rumored to have fallen to his death…
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NY- Fall in Riverside Park- Autumn Colors
With the collapse of the sub-prime mortgage market spilling blood throughout the great banking halls of Wall Street, the only place that you don’t see red in the city is in the parks. It is a very yellow-orange Autumn this year.
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NY- Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument- Riverside Park
In 1897 New York City held a design competition for a memorial to the soldiers and sailors from New York State killed in the Civil War. The brothers Charles and Arthur Stoughton won with their design, “Temple of Fame.†Paul E. M. DuBoy, who also planned the Ansonia Hotel, designed the sculptures in and around…
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NY- Firemen’s Memorial- Riverside Park
There is a memorial to firefighters who died on duty in Riverside Park that is home to one of the most moving September 11th remembrances. All of the names of the FDNY that were killed in the attack on the World Trade Center are read. It is a much more somber occasion without the media…
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NY- James Johnson’s Freedom of Movement at W 70th Pier
I was walking down Columbus avenue the other day when I saw this group of people wheeling a giant metallic shark fin down the middle of 72nd Street. Never without my camera I grabbed it out of my backpack and powered up for a once in a lifetime shot only to find that I left…
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NY- O’Neal’s West 79th Street Boat Basin Cafe
One of the signs that summer is officially over is that there is no wait for a weekday lunch at O”Neal”s West 79th Street Boat Basin Café.
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NY- Grant’s Tomb
At the corner of 122nd and Riverside Drive is General Grants National Memorial Tomb, the largest mausoleum in the United States. After retiring from government work Grant returned and settled in New York City a rich man. He was given quite the heroes welcome and became a celebrity on the social circuit of high society.…
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NY- Mosaic Tile Benches at Grant’s Tomb
Lining the exterior of the General Grant National Memorial at 122nd and Riverside Drive are handmade mosaic tile benches that make this memorial truly unique.
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NY- Tug Boat Race on the Hudson River
Every Labor Day weekend there is a big tug boat race that goes down the Hudson River. This year they raced from the 70th street pier to 42nd Street. I was at the starting line so I don’t know who won, sorry.