Photo Credit: Roving Rube. Viewpoint: Riverside Park South, near 70th St. and Riverside Blvd by the Hudson River, looking north; 2/28/02 4:37 PM.

Notes (Roving Rube): NYC's master builder, Robert Moses, cut off Manhattanites from their rivers with girdling highways, and the current redevelopment plan is reopening up the waterfronts to pedestrians. Whether it was done here by lifting the highway up or just cleaning up the area, the Rube is not sure. You are supposed to able to walk/bike/skateboard from Battery Park to Fort Tryon park (the length of Manhattan) along the Hudson, sometimes along the river (silver railings on left), sometimes the path has to go underneath the highway -- shown in Alternate View.

The Detail shows the old structure at the right of Alternate View -- it makes a good sculpture now!

This section of the new Riverside Park South was partly funded by Donald Trump -- it's behind his latest development, some of which can be seen on the left of In Context.